Sentences with phrase «kilowatt hour of electricity generated»

The Government's independent climate advisers, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), have stated that the low carbon grid of 2030 should produce no more than 50g of CO2 for every kilowatt hour of electricity generated.

The cost per kilowatt hour of electricity generated by wind in 2010 was 14 cents and in 2016 it had increased to 17.5 cents, despite downward adjustments to the contracted values between 2010 and 2016.

Solar customers would be credited 3.81 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity generated by their arrays.

The «well - to - wire» research showed new natural - gas power plants are responsible for less than half as much greenhouse gas per kilowatt hour of electricity generated as existing coal power plants.

The T factor is difficult to measure, but one index might be the grams of sulfur produced per kilowatt hour of electricity generated.

Net - metering customers are refunded for each kilowatt hour of electricity they generate themselves, which the utility says averages out to it paying 10.6 cents per kilowatt hour for customers» solar power.

«Even a small increase in a solar thermal power plant's efficiency and reliability can result in a large increase in kilowatt hours of electricity generated or a significant reduction in plant downtime or maintenance hours,» said Alex Marker, SCHOTT Solar Thermal Research Fellow.

Not exact matches

Rosatom is Russia's largest electricity generating business, and produced 196.37 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in 2016.

They find that coal accounts for 95 % of GED in this sector (though it also accounts for the largest percentage of total power generation), and coal power has the highest GED per kilowatt - hour (kWh) of electricity generated (though as noted in Table 2, petroleum has a higher GED / VA ratio).

A large part of the electricity gap should be met by energy saving measures: the National Audit Office recently found that efficiency schemes cost 1.8 pence to save a kilowatt hour of electricity, cheaper than all known means of generating electricity.

It currently estimated that Ghana imports about 185 megawatts of power from Cote d'Ivoire and according to the electricity sector players, Côte d'Ivoire generates thermal power at the cost of 9 cents per kilowatt hour and sells it to Ghana for 11 cents.

Thanks to a two cents per kilowatt - hour production incentive from the U.S. government, they are being built at a rate that will increase the amount of wind - generated electricity by nearly three gigawatts a year.

They show that 32 grams of carbon dioxide is emitted for each kilowatt - hour of electricity generated by the latest solar cells.

Engineers proposed dotting the island with 15 turbines, each capable of generating 750 kilowatts an hour, to meet all the native electricity needs.

When complete, the 410 - mile - long reservoir will generate 84.7 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year, the energy equivalent of 50 million tons of coal.

He estimates that electricity from the process would cost around 3 pence per kilowatt - hour, comparable to the price of generating it from coal, gas and nuclear stations.

The Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project, sealed off the river in June, creating a lake that will eventually stretch for 375 miles and generate 85 billion kilowatt hours of pollution - free electricity a year.

At the same time, Vermont Yankee provides as much as one third of that state's electricity at a cost of 5 cents per kilowatt - hour, well below any other generating source, and it provides 220 jobs to the region.

Davis — Besse is running again, generating 7.7 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity in 2007, with a new reactor head scavenged from an uncompleted nuclear power plant in Michigan.

A plant uses just 1 percent of the energy it receives from the sun to make glucose, whereas the artificial system achieved roughly 10 percent efficiency in converting carbon dioxide to fuel, the equivalent of pulling 180 grams of carbon dioxide from the air per kilowatt - hour of electricity generated.

The 500 kilowatt, 1,528 panel solar installation generates 845,000 kilowatt - hours of electricity per year, enough electricity to power...

The money would be generated by a carbon tax of 0.5 cents per kilowatt - hour, raising the cost of electricity (currently 6 - 10 cents per kWh) to 6.5 - 10.5 cents per kWh.

Paying 70 cents per kilowatt / hour for diesel - generated electricity — not at all uncommon on islands like Matinicus and Monhegan — is none of those things,» he said.

Located in Moerdijk, Zeeland and running at a capacity of 36.5 megawatts, the plant will generate more than 270 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year enough to power approximately 90,000 households.

When the per - kilowatt hour cost of electricity is below average, it is incredibly difficult to make the electricity generated by solar panels cost competitive.

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].

Right now, the price of electricity generated from PV solar is about 12.2 cents per kilowatt - hour in the U.S., only slightly higher than the average cost of retail electricity at 12 cents per kWh across the country.

For example, every unit (kilowatt - hour or kWh) of electricity generated by the community solar farm will effectively reduce the participant's power bill on a one - for - one basis; if the participant's share of the plant produces 5kWh of electricity on a given day, they will receive 5kWh of solar Net Metering credits on their power bill.

Measuring the size of a ceiling fan and priced a little more than the latest Apple iPhone, this wind turbine can generate three to five kilowatt hours of electricity daily — enough...

Also, since the lonely little 33 - foot high Midlands primary school wind turbine only generated 209 kilowatt - hours of electricity in its first year, the Thanet Wind Farm, consisting of one hundred 3 MW wind turbines, will be useless too.

While California's solar plants have generated billions of kilowatt hours of electricity for the past two decades, the Nevada Solar One plant will use new technologies to capture even more energy from the sun.

note 9; «Spanish Wind Power Industry Attacks New Rules,» Reuters, 2 February 2007; «EWEA Aims for 22 % of Europe's Electricity by 2030,» Wind Directions (November / December 2006), p. 34; a 1 - megawatt wind turbine operating 36 percent of the time generates 3.15 million kilowatt - hours and the average U.S. home consumes 10,000 kilowatt - hours per year; average energy consumption per U.S. home from DOE, EIA, Regional Energy Profile — U.S. Household Electricity Report (Washington, DC: July 2005); capacity factor from NREL, op.

He emphasized nuclear's anchor role in the US electricity mix, with 12 % of US generating capacity contributing around 20 % of the electricity supply at a cost of 2 cents per kilowatt - hour (kWh).

The Electricity Regulatory Commission (ERC) announced last week that citizens of one of the world's most fuel - deprived nations can sell energy generated with solar panels for 120 fils per kilowatt / hour (kw / h) and wind power -LSB-...]

A 2 - megawatt wind turbine operating 36 percent of the time generates 6.3 million kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; capacity factor from NREL, op.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

-- The term «efficiency» means the operating efficiency of an electric generation facility as determined by the average annual heat rate of the facility, measured in British thermal units required to generate a kilowatt - hour of electricity from the facility.

Assuming that our photovoltaic cells had a 100 % conversion rate, and we had unlimited, uniform Phoenix AZ sunshine everywhere in the U.S. we would need (3.9 × 10 ^ 12 kilowatt - hours / year) / (2389 kilowatt - hours / m ^ 2 / year) = 1.6 x10 ^ 6 km ^ 2 of photovoltaic cells to generate the electricity used in the U.S in 2008.

A 2 - megawatt wind turbine operating 36 percent of the time generates 6.3 million kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; capacity factor from DOE, NREL, op.

With US coal plants generating about 2 billion Gigawatt hours annually, the expenditure of an additional $ 40 billion would raise the cost of electricity by about two cents per kilowatt hour.

IKEA's newest system comprises 1,260 solar panels and, according to store spokesperson Mary Ann Barroso, is expected to generate around 421,000 kilowatt - hours of electricity in its first year — roughly equivalent to the annual electricity needs of 37 homes.

The solar installation will generate an estimated 3.55 million kilowatt - hours of electricity in the first year of operation, the equivalent of powering 500 average - sized homes in New York.

The average roof - top solar power system in Australia in 2011 was about 2.7 kilowatts (figures from the Australian Renewable Energy Regulator) and an installation of this size will generate about 4.3 megawatt - hours of electricity each year.

Just over a decade ago, a typical wind farm with 2.5 megawatts of wind turbines generated less than 4 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year.

The average roof - top solar power system in Australia is 2.043 kilowatts (Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator) and will generate about 3.2 megawatt - hours of electricity each year.

RenewableEnergyWorld.com took a look at the numbers and found that solar panels installed on residential rooftops in Los Angeles as part of the Open Neighborhoods community solar program will generate a cheaper cost per kilowatt - hour of electricity delivered than the most cost - effective, utility - scale concentrating solar power plant in the world.

note 2; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year.

Checking different sources, this claim is confirmed: 1 kilowatt - hour of electricity generated by fossil fuels indeed emits 10 times as much CO2 (around 450 grams of CO2 per kWh for gas and 850 for coal).

Teaming up with the New York's RenewableNY program, they engaged with Solar Energy Systems to install 15.12 kW of photovolatics above their 50 people factory in Queens.This solar system should generate over 600,000 kilowatt - hours over its 40 - year expected lifetime and reduce Worksman's monthly electricity bill by more than 20 %.

It is expected to generate 3.5 million kilowatt - hours (kWh) of clean electricity annually.»