Sentences with phrase «just higher electricity»

This is about more than just higher electricity rates.

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If you just charge people a lower price when there's a lot of wind and sun (when the supply of electricity is abundant and cheap) and a higher price at times when there's not, they'll reduce consumption when electricity is scarce.

Plattsburgh's Mayor Colin Read also detailed back in February that he would rather see high electricity consuming businesses pay real employees, rather than warehouses filled with just machines.

Dear Mr High Commissioner, it won't probably occur to you that what you call corruption or SOLI is just a way to survive in a country where the media is not financed by Government or by a Stock Exchange floating shares, but by individuals trying to balance poor revenues from advertising in a Country declared HIPC until some few months ago and with a very high operating cost (think about the electricity for exampHigh Commissioner, it won't probably occur to you that what you call corruption or SOLI is just a way to survive in a country where the media is not financed by Government or by a Stock Exchange floating shares, but by individuals trying to balance poor revenues from advertising in a Country declared HIPC until some few months ago and with a very high operating cost (think about the electricity for examphigh operating cost (think about the electricity for example).

The facility just outside the town of New Haven boasts a single 65 - meter - high boiler capable of generating enough steam to pump out 1,300 megawatts of electricity — enough to power nearly one million average American homes a month — continuously.

«The high electron density within this plasma makes it an excellent conductor of electricity, just like metal,» Anderson says.

The study shows how higher temperatures will raise not just the average annual electricity demand, but more importantly, the peak demand.

For example, on a hot summer evening when electricity is in high demand for air - conditioning, the system could drop the amount of power going to an individual car from 3.3 kilowatts to just 1.2 kW or even less, explains Paul Pebbles, GM's global manager of Electric Vehicle and Smart Grid Services.

Mazda isn't hedging its bets on electric power just yet, believing that until the worldwide electrical grid is predominantly powered by renewable energy, an electric vehicle's tailpipe emissions are too far offset by the dirtiness and high CO2 values of the fossil - fuelled coal, oil, and gas power plants that supply their electricity.

Even without seeing the mantas, just savouring this location as a viewpoint is reason enough to scooter along the bone - jarring road to get here — we came via the highest point of the island, where nine wind turbines help supply some of the island's electricity grid.

Radio waves are actually just a high frequency type of alternating current (AC), which is the type of electricity in our power grids, but devices need DC power to operate.

Even amid this prolonged recession and depressingly high unemployment (9.5 % in PA), families and businesses in the Keystone State are still paying just 9.4 cents a kilowatt hour for electricity.

And that's great for keeping our gadgets charged, but considering that our daily personal power needs are much higher than just that of our gizmos, and that if the electricity goes out, we have no way to keep essential appliances running, so while we'll be able to have a fully charged phone, we'll also have our own little global warming event in our freezer.

«It's taken Ontario from having the lowest cost electricity to the highest in North America in just a couple of years.»

Here's something that makes Palo Alto just a little more fabulous, smug, and high - level - of - being: The town of 65,000 boasts that, since last year, it is officially the first city in America whose electricity supply is 100 percent carbon - neutral.

Estimates show an annual investment of $ 45 billion is needed to meet universal electrification, but the latest data shows that finance commitments for electricity in these 20 «high - impact» countries that represent 80 percent of those without electricity access is less than half that number, averaging just $ 19.4 billion a year.

And even though the state's residential home electricity consumption ranks among the lowest (due in part to those high prices and generally lower air conditioning needs in summer and the use of gas and oil for heating loads in the winter rather than electricity), the average monthly electric bill in 2016 was just over $ 142 per month, third highest in the nation.

Just over a quarter of development finance commitments for electricity access, or 28 percent, reached the 20 high - impact countries over 2011 - 15, with delays and under - disbursements being very common, especially for large grid - based energy infrastructure projects.

Not allowing facts to get in the way of its agenda, the Obama EPA just released its new power plant regulations, which will effectively end the use of coal in new power plants and force consumers to pay higher electricity rates, predicated on coal's contribution to climate change.

There is abundant insolation and unutilized land available for collecting it but it just isn't cost effective doing it with mechanical concentrators to generate high quality heat or PV to generate electricity.

(This is part of a class of issues surrounding the health risks of various electronic technologies — electromagnetic fields, «dirty» electricity, high - voltage power lines, etc.) It's possible to work up irrational fear over just about anything.

Just about a year ago, our home in Westwood began a march towards zero Carbon consumption, with heating, hot water heating, and even lawn mowing all converted to high efficiency electricity.

In 2014, 80 percent of people without access to electricity were living in just 20 high impact countries, all of them in Sub - Saharan Africa and Asia.

If you do n`t understand how the cost of energy hurts the poor just look at the demonstrations in Bulgaria last summer where the high cost of electricity brought down the government.

* The «Losers» include: * Electricity consumers who are forced to bear higher costs of electricity when the use of wind energy and other renewables is mandated by a state - imposed «Renewable Portfolio Standard» or who must pay «public benefits charges» (which is really just another tax added to taxpayer utility bills) imposed on electElectricity consumers who are forced to bear higher costs of electricity when the use of wind energy and other renewables is mandated by a state - imposed «Renewable Portfolio Standard» or who must pay «public benefits charges» (which is really just another tax added to taxpayer utility bills) imposed on electelectricity when the use of wind energy and other renewables is mandated by a state - imposed «Renewable Portfolio Standard» or who must pay «public benefits charges» (which is really just another tax added to taxpayer utility bills) imposed on electricityelectricity use.

Germany has already started a subsidy for fossil - fueled plants bankrupted by the plunge in electricity prices — a subsidy that will just add to the very high surcharges levied on captive German rate - payers to reimburse renewable sources for costs they can't recover from market.

A simpler 2008 National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimate came in at just 22 percent of electricity — the new estimate shows a higher percentage partly because solar panel efficiency has improved but also because new sources of data made a more accurate estimate possible.

The annual average investment needed over 2010 - 30 to ensure everyone has access to electricity in the 17 high - impact countries covered by the Access Investment Model (AIM) ranges from just over $ 1 billion to provide everyone with access to 24 hours of electricity a day on very low - powered appliances (i.e tier 1) to around $ 40 billion to provide everyone with access to 23 hours of electricity a day on very high - powered appliances (i.e. tier 5).

CSP and offshore wind had cumulative installed capacity of just 5 GW and 13 GW respectively at the end of 2016, while the cost of electricity from recently commissioned projects for these technologies is higher than for other renewable power generation technologies.

aren't using more or less electricity just because Texas has lower electric rates (we don't — ours are pretty high.

Choosing a future with similar cost but far lower risk, while fitting and speeding powerful market trends, can restore American energy leadership and security by building the electricity system of the 21st century with high skill and ambition, just as we did with the technology of more than a century ago.»

In the case of solar power, while utility - scale solar is just becoming cheaper than fossil fuels on the wholesale electricity market, rooftop solar panels have long competed with much - higher retail electricity prices.

The upward skew in carbon use over the income range comes about because higher - income households don't just drive more, they also fly more (burning jet fuel), they tend to own bigger (and sometimes multiple) houses to heat and cool, and they buy and use more products that require electricity or industrial fuels to manufacture, deliver and use.