Sentences with phrase «household energy consumption»

Cooking alone is responsible for 90 % of household energy consumption, and demand is increasing annually at a rate of 8.1 %.

Meanwhile, solar technology advances are making systems more energy efficient and resistant to shade from trees and buildings, allowing them to produce a larger percentage of overall household energy consumption.

By monitoring the screen, users can see household energy consumption and make changes in what appliances and devices they're using, and when.

In 2008, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District tried to reduce household energy consumption by issuing bills that compared customer's energy use to their neighbors.

The project has reduced household energy consumption by up to 15.2 % and office building consumption by up to 22.8 % through demand response (DR) testing during peak times of electricity usage.

According to Deutsche Bank's Joe LaVogna, every penny that's saved at the pump equates to a billion dollars in household energy consumption that can be put back into the economy in other ways.

The HEMS system helps consumers use data on driving times, solar intensity forecasts and current household energy consumption to synchronize electric vehicle charging times with rooftop energy production, so they can maximize the proportion of household - produced energy they use.

Home: Calculated from the average UK home emitting 4.8 tonnes of CO2, based on 2015 typical household energy consumption from Ofgem and 2015 DEFRA conversion factors.

Cutting household energy consumption by 5.4 % by 2027 is seen as a worthwhile end — the real priority in the environmentalists» conception of efficiency.

In another experiment, Schultz and colleagues looked at the influence of social norms on household energy consumption.

This in turn, will push the entire «shelter industry» (from builders to appraisers to real estate agents to lenders) to focus more on homes» energy efficiency, an awareness that will inevitably reduce household energy consumption and make housing more affordable.

Dietz led a study of household energy consumption, published online August 31, 2010, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, that looked at the effects of programs trying to influence energy use, many of which were very effective.

Participants were informed about a fictional study — unrelated to the emission reduction preference question — in which 800 Australians were asked how much they would be willing to reduce their household energy consumption, either 5 %, 10 %, 15 %, or 25 %.