Not exact matches
Energy experts have questioned government's decision to cap
electricity price, in terms
of power purchases negotiation, at 10 cents per
kilowatt hour, stressing that it will not attract investors
into the power sector.
It costs $ 500 to $ 600 to store a
kilowatt -
hour, and the round - trip efficiency is 65 to 75 percent — meaning the battery loses 25 to 35 percent
of the
electricity put
into it.
Those inefficiencies meant that it cost $ 64,000 for the space shuttle to put one kilogram
into low - earth orbit (LEO); an elevator, Laubscher calculates, could do it with 17.2
kilowatt -
hours of electricity — about two dollars» worth.
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.»
A feed - in tariff typically guarantees generators
of renewable
electricity a long - term purchase price for each
kilowatt -
hour they produce and «feed
into» the grid, providing a powerful incentive for installing such systems.
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].
For carbon - intensive
electricity, all suppliers
of electricity to end users would pay the fee, calculated based on the total number
of kilowatt -
hours sold to customers minus the
kilowatt -
hours for which the supplier has purchased renewable energy credits (RECs) or entered
into long - term contracts for clean energy.
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».
http://www.epa.gov/otaq/carlabel/420f11017.htm#4 under «Electric Vehicles (EVs)»: «Miles per gallon
of gasoline - equivalent converts
kilowatt -
hours of electricity into gallons
of gasoline (based on 33.7
kilowatt -
hours per gallon)»