Sentences with phrase «inefficient use of electricity»

In conjunction with detecting possible equipment failure, identifying and correcting minor and intermediate faults can save the company money from the inefficient use of electricity.

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While Alberta has promised to end coal - fired electricity by 2030, and is building 5,000 megawatts of renewable energy capacity, it will also allow some of those coal units to convert to using inefficient fracked natural gas.

Light - emitting diodes (LEDs) made from semiconductor materials are already used in traffic lights because they last for years and use a fifth of the electricity of normal light bulbs, but they tend to emit blue light that must be converted to white, an inefficient process.

Extracting hydrogen from water using electricity is a fairly straightforward process, but it is inefficient and usually takes a lot of energy.

Thus, the IPCC argues the answer lies in a portfolio approach to reducing emissions from the energy supply sector, including replacing inefficient power plants, cutting down on the use of electricity in general and potentially moving from large, centralized power plants to small distributed ones.

On February 20, 2007, Australia announced it would phase out the sale of inefficient incandescent light bulbs by 2010, replacing them with highly efficient compact fluorescent bulbs that use one fourth as much electricity.

While a worldwide phase out of the inefficient incandescents would reduce world electricity use by more than 3 percent, shifting to more - efficient street lighting and replacing older fluorescent tubes with newer, more - efficient ones might double this reduction in power use.

Or to point out that when Britain privatised its electricity industry it suddenly found that had to heavily subsidise its nuclear industry because it was so inefficient compared with all other forms of electricity generation that were in use, and its costs had previously been hidden.