Sentences with phrase «into using less electricity»

iDSM posits that utility companies will make use of tiered pricing and other monetary incentives in order to coax customers into using less electricity.

Not exact matches

Cells can be made more cheaply using noncrystalline, amorphous semiconductors, but they are much less efficient at turning sunlight into electricity.

Transforming the light from the Sun into electricity is a good means of generating energy when we are close to it; however, the further away, the less light there is to use.

For green conscious schools who invest a lot of time and effort into teaching students to use less electricity, walk to school instead of driving, and take shorter showers (all great initiatives), this information may come as a surprise.

This means that as Duke Energy and other providers that are doing the same thing — building generation facilities with high capital costs relative to their probable return using our tax dollars, more or less directly transporting those dollars into their pockets — sell the electricity built with the resources we helped them build, they will charge us more money for all the electricity they sell.

«The efficiency of converting coal into electricity matters: more efficient power plants use less fuel and emit less climate - damaging carbon dioxide,» wrote the authors of the International Energy Agency report on measuring coal plant performance.

«Gross Revenues» means the total monies received by Grantee from a utility company or other power purchaser (provided, however, that if electricity is sold to a subsidiary or affiliate of Grantee, then, and only then, the gross receipts from the sale of electricity under such contract shall be calculated using a sale of not less than the arithmetical average of the prices quoted by market sources of information, which information may be based upon the price paid by any purchaser or purchasers, including Grantee or any subsidiary or affiliate of Grantee, for electricity produced in the Iowa region of the Midwest Independent System Operator («MISO») from operation of wind turbines during the calendar year immediate!y preceding the year in which such electricity production from the Wind Energy Project occurs, taking into account the aggregate terms associated with such transaction) derived from the sale of electric energy and capacity produced and sold from the WTG's installed on the Premises, net of proportional energy losses associated with the power collection system or utility interconnection.

That doesn't sound green until you take into count that without cable there is very little to watch and the tv stays turned off and we go to bed earlier... less electricity used!