Sentences with phrase «home electricity use»

In the smaller scale, electronic devices are said to account for 15 percent of home electricity use.

Electricity rates are lower during the daytime when home electricity use is lower and solar panels are at their most productive.

Before sizing your solar system, look for ways to cut your home electricity use.

Not exact matches

Beyond using this clean electricity to power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel - cell cars) on the road by 2020.

On concerns about power use, Bakken said his personal electricity bill had risen 5 percent from charging his car at home and fears of surge demand were overblown.

Despite a rapidly developing economy in Kenya, widespread use of cell phones, and the home to one of the most successful mobile payment systems in the world, more than three quarters of Kenyans don't have regular access to electricity.

It is important that employees shut down everything using electricity in their office space the day prior to them working at home to ensure that the space is actually saving the business money.

The Ohmpilot is a consumption regulator that can utilize solar electricity not used in the home to heat water in boilers or buffer storage tanks.

They can no longer administer it at home since they don't have electricity but drive to her father's house to use his generator, powered by gasoline, which is now in short supply on the island.

A skeptic might argue that this does not necessitate peak coal, because other developing countries home to billions of people are still nowhere near the level of electricity use of the Western world.

Today, Kuby is also certified to install Tesla's Powerwall (a rechargeable battery used to store electricity in homes) in Western Canada, a relationship forged when one of Kuby's solar customers wanted to install a Powerwall in Inuvik, N.W.T. «Only one per cent of solar installers ever get that [Powerwall] contract [with Tesla].

(Our rough estimate assumes our hypothetical Solar Roof homes generate exactly as much electricity as they use.)

Sales of electricity, natural or artificial gas and home heating fuels for residential use are taxed at a 4 % rate.

Factors impacting natural gas value include seasonal variations (since natural gas is used to generate electricity and heat / cool homes), severe weather disruptions (such as hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, a key natural gas - producing region in the world), and alternative energy developments.

This new appliance, best suited for oil and electrically heated homes, uses Time - of - Day electricity rates to lower heating costs by up to 50 percent.

Zack Korman is co-founder at Awesome Power Inc, a startup that uses smart meter electricity usage data to find the cheapest electricity plan for a person's home.

According to the Bureau of Land Management, one out of every five homes and business in the US use electricity made from Wyoming coal.

Rather than just using gasoline or diesel generators, the program for the first time is installing battery packs and rooftop solar panels on homes that don't have electricity.

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

Due to economies of scale, less water and electricity is used than cloth diapers laundered at home and no impact to landfill in comparison to disposable diapers;

The pump uses electricity to function and can be used at home.

These food mills don't use batteries or electricity — so they're not just great to use at home, they're also ideal for travel, allowing you to prepare meals for your baby wherever you go.

People could be given meters in their homes to show exactly how much electricity they use, in new proposals aimed at tackling climate change.

It revolves around investing # 1 billion in a «hi - tech National Grid» which would see «smart meters» being installed in every home - meaning that energy companies would be able to tell consumers when it is cheapest to use electricity.

An inverter converts direct current (DC) electricity into the alternating current (AC) used by the lights, appliances and devices in a home.

Using a simple alternator, six hours of pedaling can create and store enough electrical energy in batteries to light about six homes for 30 days (in areas where people use less electricity than in the U.S.).

Recent studies conclude that while some tech - savvy consumers will line up for smart grid applications for the home, most residential customers are not eager to manage their daily energy use, particularly with electricity prices at relatively low levels.

Webber and co-author Robert Fares, a Cockrell School alumnus who is now an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, analyzed the impact of home energy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT Austin.

«Using the battery of mobile phones in small solar home systems becomes obvious in order to make access to electricity easier to those who live without.»

The system consumes about 40 per cent less electricity than current compressor - based air - conditioners used in homes and commercial buildings.

Philadelphia's mass transit system used more than 500,000 megawatt - hours (pdf) of electricity in 2011, equivalent to the annual consumption of around 46,000 average U.S. homes.

We looked up a month's electricity and natural gas usage for the entire building where we lease our offices and estimated our respective portions to be 9,091 kilowatt - hours (the average single - family home uses 1,000 kilowatt - hours per month) and 589 therms, the equivalent of burning about 58,900 cubic feet of natural gas.

Simple induction motors in industry and the home consume 43 per cent of the electricity used in Britain, so small gains in efficiency promise substantial cuts in the country's electricity bill.

A fuel - cell power unit that can use natural gas, propane or diesel may in a couple of years provide on - site electricity to factories, computer - server farms and even your home.

On the other hand, the money Samsø spends on electricity — about $ 5 million a year — now stays at home instead of being used to import energy from the larger neighboring islands.

On average, idle machines use 11 percent of a home's electricity.

He argues that if Google ever launched a device that gathered data on electricity use in a home, they could theoretically surmise a great deal about the people that live there.

Co-author Dr Iain Staffell, from the Centre for Environmental Policy, said: «This tool allows us to combat one of the biggest uncertainties in the future energy system, and use real data to answer questions such as how electricity storage could revolutionise the electricity generation sector, or when high - capacity home storage batteries linked to personal solar panels might become cost - effective.»

At the beginning of the 20th century, Nikola Tesla proposed using huge coils to transmit electricity through the troposphere to power homes.

Working in his lab in UD's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rosenthal and doctoral student John DiMeglio have developed an inexpensive catalyst that uses the electricity generated from solar energy to convert carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, into synthetic fuels for powering cars, homes and businesses.

Monster GreenPower Surge Protector MDP 900 In the average home 75 percent of the electricity used to power electronics is consumed while they are turned off, says the U.S. Department of Energy.

Thanks to these regulations, automakers have prevented emissions of 130 million metric tons of carbon dioxide — equivalent to a year's worth of electricity use for 20 million homes.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

Natural gas from oil wells is one of the cheapest and cleanest fossil fuels today, used widely to heat homes as well as in manufacturing and to produce electricity.

(C) Cost - effective energy efficiency programs for end - use consumers of electricity, natural gas, home heating oil, or propane, including, where appropriate, programs or mechanisms administered by local governments and entities other than the State.

-- Cost - effective energy efficiency programs for end - use consumers of electricity, natural gas, home heating oil, or propane.

Methane also is a primary ingredient in natural gas used to heat homes, and it can be converted into many useful products including electricity.

It's relatively easy to live a low - impact life at home by doing things like recycling, using nontoxic cleaners, and monitoring water and electricity use.

«It doesn't matter if you heat your home using oil, wood, or electricity.

After all, electricity hasn't been around forever and before then, people used candles functionally around their homes.