Sentences with phrase «kilowatt hours because»

Note that there are NO charges for kilowatt hours because our solar arrays generated more than we used, even late in the Vermont winter.

Not exact matches

Making the economics worse, the traditional solar system will generate 13,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) in a year, but the solar roof will only generate 10,000 kWh because it packs fewer solar cells onto the same roof.

The CEO, Hyde said, was extremely impressed, especially because Hyde could offer power at just 3.5 cents per kilowatt hour from nearby hydropower plants.

Energy efficiency is not a primary concern, because operation is inexpensive — a typical ceiling fan running 24 hours a day consumes about 60 kilowatt - hours a month, for an average electricity cost of about six dollars.

Until advanced coal - combustion technologies become widely available that allow CO2 to be captured and stored safely underground, the shift to coal is bad news for climate change because coal plants usually emit about twice the CO2 per kilowatt - hour of electricity that gas plants do.

Because there is no combustion, fuel cells run extremely cleanly: Their emissions are just water and carbon dioxide, and they produce less than half as much CO2 per kilowatt - hour as do traditional power plants.

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.»

Back in 2010 the Department of Energy set a cost goal of $ 125 per kilowatt hour for an EV battery pack by 2022, because that would make electric - propulsion systems equal to the cost of an internal - combustion engine.

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 peBecause 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 pebecause 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.

And even some of the people who think it's easy to be solved can be frustrating to me, because then the idea of oh no we don't need to invent anything, we just need to get rid of evil utilities that aren't paying 50 cents a kilowatt - hour for rooftop solar, and as soon as we get them to just realize they should go bankrupt, you know, boom, this thing is solved.

Wind turbines and solar collectors of any type actually require a lot more concrete per kilowatt hour delivered because so many of them are needed.

Because it's a true flat monthly fee, and not just a flat per kilowatt - hour charge, Inspire's incentives are aligned with the customer's, said Maloney.

This was because we were utilizing an estimate in Huber and Mills that «Burning $ 2 - a-gallon gasoline, the power generated by current hybrid - car engines runs about 35 cents per kilowatt - hour (kWh).»

Because energy - rich California used to have electricity costs that were below the 1960 national average of 1.8 cents per kilowatt hour, the state was a large electricity exporter.

It is important that we know which utility you are with because we have the residential electricity rates for each of the utility companies in our database and this means if you tell us your average monthly bill we can work out how many kilowatt hours of power you need your solar panels to produce.

«Saving a unit of electricity in China has even greater benefit than in the U.S. because they emit more pollution per kilowatt hour,» he said.

It will be a way to truly get the masses on board since it doesn't revolve around saving a kilowatt hour here or there because it's green, but rather because it's useful to be able to turn on the washing machine when it is easiest and cheapest, even if that's at 11 am when you're away at the office.