Sentences with phrase «into kilowatt hours»

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But analysts also failed to accurately gauge the impact of the recession on energy use, and feed - in tariffs [long - term contracts for renewable energy at a fixed price per kilowatt - hour] did not take into account falling demand.

Energy experts have questioned government's decision to cap electricity price, in terms of power purchases negotiation, at 10 cents per kilowatt hour, stressing that it will not attract investors into the power sector.

With 1 kilowatt - hour of energy powering the system, Liu calculated, it could recycle all the carbon dioxide in more than 85,000 liters of air into other molecules that could be turned into fuel.

A downside of fuel cells, however, is that they have a capital cost in the thousands of dollars per kilowatt of capacity, and the round - trip efficiency through the electrolyzer to the fuel cell and then back into current is less than 50 percent — meaning that for every two kilowatt - hours put in the bank, only one comes back out again.

It costs $ 500 to $ 600 to store a kilowatt - hour, and the round - trip efficiency is 65 to 75 percent — meaning the battery loses 25 to 35 percent of the electricity put into it.

The world's first large - scale vanadium battery went into operation in 1995, able to deliver 200 kilowatts for four hours — enough to power about 100 homes.

Those inefficiencies meant that it cost $ 64,000 for the space shuttle to put one kilogram into low - earth orbit (LEO); an elevator, Laubscher calculates, could do it with 17.2 kilowatt - hours of electricity — about two dollars» worth.

What I'd like to know is, taking all of these factors into account, how much extra we, the consumers, will have to pay for a kilowatt - hour of coal - fired electricity 5, 10, 20 and 30 years from now (a point in time which even WV's own Nick Rahall says will be when the most productive coal seams have been mined out) because our leaders today decided to facilitate an increase in the consumption of coal through the laughably mis - named «climate bill.»

The Electric Drive's 28 - kilowatt - hour lithium - ion battery pack and 177 - horsepower electric motor are both assembled at Elon Musk's Fremont, Calif., factory, after which they are constructed into complete cars in Germany.

Ford's first foray into modern mass - market electric vehicles arrives in late spring, sporting 23 kilowatt - hours of battery and an EPA range of 76 miles.

The electric drivetrain uses a 20 - kilowatt hour lithium - ion battery pack that can be charged inductively without a cable and feed electricity into the grid when not in use.

The automaker adds a larger battery, a 6.7 - kilowatt - hour lithium ion battery pack in the case of the Accord Plug - in, which can be plugged into a wall outlet or charging station.

Because I ride a bicycle and limit my car trips, and I've curtailed my airplane travel, and wear sweaters (I know when I've set the thermostat too low when I can see the dog's breath in the living room), and because I've opted into our electric utility's «Pure Power» wind power program (they pledge to buy 75 % of your power from wind farms in exchange for raising your rate a few cents per kilowatt hour), my personal «Carbon Footprint» comes out at less than 4 tons per year.

The plants will emit about 23 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, according to the I.F.C., but using technology that is 40 percent more efficient at turning coal into kilowatt - hours than the average for India.

The NREL research, according to Dr. Helman, breaks those values into four categories: 1) The energy shifting value is ~ 0.5 cents to 1.0 cents per kilowatt - hour; 2) The increased capacity factor value is ~ 0.7 cents to 2.0 cents per kilowatt - hour; 3) if PV is 6 cents per kilowatt - hour, the value of reduction in curtailment is estimated at ~ 0.3 cents per kilowatt - hour; and 4) the reserve and integration value is 0.1 cents to 0.7 cents per kilowatt - hour.

Coal is usually figured to generate electricity at 5 cents a kilowatt hour, though if you took into account the environmental damage it does that would be more like 45 cents a kilowatt hour.

eSolar is required to submit reports to the Treasury Department annually for five years after the property is placed into service including annual production in kiloWatt - hours.

A feed - in tariff typically guarantees generators of renewable electricity a long - term purchase price for each kilowatt - hour they produce and «feed into» the grid, providing a powerful incentive for installing such systems.

To put this into context, estimates of life - cycle global warming emissions for natural gas generated electricity are between 0.6 and 2 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour and estimates for coal - generated electricity are 1.4 and 3.6 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour [14].

For carbon - intensive electricity, all suppliers of electricity to end users would pay the fee, calculated based on the total number of kilowatt - hours sold to customers minus the kilowatt - hours for which the supplier has purchased renewable energy credits (RECs) or entered into long - term contracts for clean energy.

Excess generated Kilowatt hours or credits can be rolled over into the next month billing period.

Incorporating the federal investment tax credit (ITC) could drop those prices down into the 3 - 4 cents per kilowatt hour range ($ 30 - $ 40 / MWh).

If you take into account what that does to electricity prices, that would see a price rise based on our models of about 6.5 cents per kilowatt hour which equates to about roughly A$ 8 per household per week».

So if you have generated surplus kWh (kilowatt hours) they will turn into $ $ at the end of each 12 monthly cycle.

Enhanced geothermal systems, which require energy to drill and pump water into hot rock reservoirs, have life - cycle global warming emission of approximately 0.2 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour [11].

A guaranteed per kilowatt - hour payment to renewable energy developers for renewable electricity produced and «fed» into the grid — These payments are established in long - term purchase agreements that provide market certainty for developers.

So, what happens is — it's a bit of a fudge at the moment — but the utility companies, for every Kilowatt - hour that's taken out and used to charge the car, they'll put a Kilowatt - hour of clean energy in, wind energy into the system.

Re 290 Edward Greisch The federal way to regulate is to put a legal limit on the CO2 into the air per kilowatt hour and allow the electric companies figure out how to do it.

Wired Science's Alexis Madrigal calculates that the plant's kilowatt hour rate should therefore correspond to about 20 cents per kWh - taking into account the consumer markup - or roughly twice the kilowatt hour rate of coal - based alternatives.Regardless of the exact figures, such large - scale installations will help lower the kilowatt hour rate over time and bring them in line with conventional energy sources, as Woody explains:

http://www.epa.gov/otaq/carlabel/420f11017.htm#4 under «Electric Vehicles (EVs)»: «Miles per gallon of gasoline - equivalent converts kilowatt - hours of electricity into gallons of gasoline (based on 33.7 kilowatt - hours per gallon)»

Electric Bike Beats Electric Scooter on Emissions, Easily When all the conversions are completed, from amp hours to kilowatt - hours, divided by average distance travelled per charge, and converted into pounds of CO2 using that average figure, the Ecobike Elagance emits about 0.02 pounds of CO2 per mile travelled; and the ZAP Zapfino emits 0.10 pounds of CO2 per mile.

By taking that number and plugging back into the formula from earlier in this guide (the conversion of watts to killowatt hours) we can calculate that the device we were measuring will consume 1.728 kilowatts per hour if it maintains that level of power draw and will cost us 21.6 cents per hour to operate.