Sentences with phrase «kilowatt hours if»

Creative Citizen estimates you'll save five pounds of waste, 1,000 pounds of emissions and 1,000 kilowatt hours if you forgo sending 50 cards or invites in a year.

Nuclear would produce even less CO2 per kilowatt hour if the safety were lowered to the same level as other sources of electricity.

They found the cost of wind power to be 15.1 cents per kilowatt hour if natural gas is used to back - up the wind energy or 19.2 cents per kilowatt hour if coal is used as the back - up fuel.

Not exact matches

If a customer paid $ 4 a kilowatt hour for electricity, they would get that $ 4 back for every kWh they gave back.

Its goodness can be measured even in pounds: «If I turn off the lights during afternoon hours, I will save x kilowatts of electricity and z pounds of greenhouse gases, thus contributing y to the common good.»

Even if we fail to find the miracles that allow us to make and then transport hundreds of gigawatts of power over 3,000 miles at pennies per kilowatt - hour, and even if we can never find photovoltaics that are as cheap as dirt, the enterprise of trying to do it will push our science and our engineering so far forward that we'll generate a cornucopia of unexpected new technologies that will be the basis of vast new industries.

This risk factor pushes the «levelized» or all - in price of nuclear power from new units to 8.4 cents per kilowatt - hour, the MIT study concludes, versus 6.2 cents for coal - fired plants and 6.5 cents for natural gas generation (if gas is priced at $ 7 per million British thermal units, or roughly 1,000 cubic feet of flowing gas).

If new plants can be built on time and on budget, the risk premium could fall, bringing the price of power from new plants down to 6.6 cents per kilowatt - hour — competitive with gas and coal — the report says.

He declines to reveal much, but when asked if his process could produce 1,000 gallons of water for 10 to 12 kilowatt - hours of energy — the rate to beat for any new technology — he nods and allows a rare silence to linger.

«If we start valuing carbon and force a coal plant to go carbon - free via sequestration then we're at or over 10 cents per kilowatt - hour from coal,» Mancini says.

Other countries that are counting on kilowatt - hours to cut infant mortality aren't so picky, nuclear advocates note, and it would behoove wealthier parts of the world to help them gain access to energy, even if it's not the cleanest available.

The price at which «everything becomes possible» If solar units could be installed for $ 1 per watt, the cost of solar energy would fall to 5 to 6 cents per kilowatt - hour, less than half the current average retail price in much of the country, according to DOE.

«If you look at cost per kilowatt - hour, renewables, in some parts of the country, are already cheaper [than fossil fuels].»

Granted, you won't see anywhere near that mpg figure if you're attempting to match the car's rated 3.2 - second 0 - to - 60 time, but if you make good use of the 20 miles of all - electric range offered by the 14.1 kilowatt - hour battery pack, you'll find this to be a surprisingly frugal companion.

Even if you do put kilowatt hours in, other assumptions are made, as some sites add in seasonal usage weightings and more slight variances due to how the calculations are done.

These sites make a number of assumptions If you haven't entered kilowatt hours, which is the most accurate way, then just giving a past bill can't actually tell the comparison sites your exact usage, so they each make some assumptions to work it out.

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.

According to NREL calculations, Helman noted, if a future gas price of $ 4.50 per MMBTU is assumed, a relative fuel savings benefit of CSP with TES over PV is about 0.5 cents per kilowatt - hour.

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

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.

Buying green energy is more environmentally effective if you live in a place like Alberta, where the electricity is fossil - intensive, and less effective in British Columbia, where each kilowatt - hour produces more than 100 times fewer emissions than a kilowatt hour in Alberta.

Looking at the 6 US cents a kilowatt - hour concentrated solar thermal power can now apparently cost under good conditions, solar thermal heat may be competitive and if the cost of renewable electricity falls low enough at times that can be used.

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».

The amount of this credit is equal to the participant's utility rates — for e.g., if someone pays 10 cents per unit (kilowatt - hour or kWh), they will receive a credit for 10 cents for each kWh of solar produced (the actual credit may vary slightly to account for transmission and distribution losses).

If the 2.2 cents per kilowatt - hour PTC is levelized over twenty years, he said, that is «about five cents per kilowatt - hour unsubsidized.»

Actually, if you properly do the math - and count if you count the whole nuclear fuel cycle, not just the power plant, not just the core of the reactor, but the occlusion zone, the uranium mining and so on, it turns out that wind power uses hundreds or thousands of times less land per kilowatt hour, then nuclear does.

Even if we consider transition charges from 1998 to 2006 to be subsidies for Illinois nuclear plants rather than partial compensation for stranded costs imposed by deregulation — a doubtful interpretation — they cost just 0.7 cents per kilowatt - hour, a fraction of the total subsidies wind and solar receive.

If you take the revenue requirement that in our public utilities commission regulation establishes how much money Diablo takes to run every year, it works out to about 5.6 cents per kilowatt hour.

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.

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

Thou shalt not heat or cool thy house mechanically, unless thy mechanical systems also provide fresh air or if thou canst do so whilst still consuming less than 15 kilowatt - hours per square meter per year of treated floor area and less than 120 kilowatt - hours per square meter per year excepting.

That cost rises to $ 3.56 per watt if financed via a loan and $ 0.156 per kilowatt - hour if installed as part of a solar lease or power purchase agreement (PPA).

Even if it is nominally replaced by renewable power, a kilowatt - hour of renewable electricity that replaces lost nuclear electricity is a kilowatt - hour that is not available to displace coal and gas from the grid.»

If we take the solar radiation rate from one of the most sunny spots in the U.S, Phoenix AZ, we would get, on average 6.57 kilowatt - hours / m ^ 2 per day of solar radiation.

I like this quote from the article: «Indeed, if maximum employment were the goal of energy policy then having humans push turbines, a la Conan the Barbarian, would create far more jobs per kilowatt hour.»

If so, the 16 kilowatt - hours (kWh) worth of energy in the GM battery pack would put the price at $ 625 per kwh of capacity.

Most groups seem happy with the pricing with the exception of large solar developers, who despite getting a 2 - cent increase to 44 cents per kilowatt - hour still argue it's not enough to make projects economical (especially if you factor in poor Canadian - U.S. exchange rate and persistently tight credit markets).

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.

If we combine this lower solar insolation with an expected lifetime of only 15 years, the worst case scenario becomes 207 grams of CO2 per kilowatt - hour — just 2 times better than gas.

Most utilities offer full net metering, which means that you receive a credit on your electric bill for every kilowatt - hour of electricity your solar panels produce (even if you don't use them immediately).

If they checked the box off, they were then charged an extra 2 cents a kilowatt hour.

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.

The rigs will use as much power as if a hairdryer were left on twenty - four hours a day, costing the company about four cents per kilowatt per hour.

Joe Riggins, an electrical engineer who lives outside Ithaca, N.Y., asks if the reader is sure she is looking at kilowatt hours?