Sentences with phrase «kilowatt hours produced»

That reduces the greenhouse effect of leaked methane for electricity production down to a GWPfm of 3.3 for equal kilowatt hours produced by coal.

Natural gas is much more environmentally friendly than coal, which continues to be the mainstay of electricity production around the world and in the U.K. Gas emits less than half the CO2 per kilowatt hour produced, and it emits much lower amounts of other pollutants like nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, black carbon, carbon monoxide, mercury, and particulates.

Coal power kills 280,000 people for every trillion kilowatt hours it produces.

Not exact matches

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

A solar array and storage batteries on the island of Kauai is producing renewable energy for less per kilowatt hour than fossil fuel power stations.

The center in Maiden, N.C., produces 167 million kilowatt hours, the power equivalent of 17,600 homes for one year, from a 100 - acre solar farm and fuel cell installations provided by Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy.

The federal government offers a tax credit of 2.3 cents for every kilowatt - hour produced.

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

The 1.9 - megawatt array is anticipated to produce nearly 3 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually, avoiding the greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to burning 2.4 million pounds of coal or more than 5,000 barrels of oil each year.

But the ranges provided by most observers, within government and without, overlap in this range: $ 800 to $ 1,000 to produce a kilowatt - hour's worth of battery.

Cleaner coal will be more expensive, too, adding at least 4 cents per kilowatt - hour to the power Mountaineer produces at roughly 5 cents per kWh.

Those solar panels will produce 6.5 - million kilowatt - hours of electricity per year.

At a cost of less than 3 cents per kilowatt - hour, tornado energy is cheaper than burning coal (which rings up at 4 or 5 cents per kwh) and produces no additional greenhouse gases.

Power for the people takes on a whole new meaning, as the largest installation of Pavegen energy - harvesting tiles to date produces 4.7 kilowatt - hours of energy during the Paris marathon, enough to power a laptop for more than two days

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.

By looking at the plant's total annual utility use and the fraction of yearly operations needed to print a single issue of DISCOVER, David Hakenewerth, a manager at Quebecor's Jonesboro facility, determined that producing one month's edition of the magazine consumes 63,364 kilowatt - hours of electricity and 1,704 therms of natural gas.

NuScale claims it will be able to produce power at about seven to nine cents per kilowatt - hour — roughly the same as big nuclear plants, only a few cents more than the cheapest modern natural gas — fired or coal - fired plants, and one - third the cost of a typical diesel generator.

The East River site produced nearly 50,000 kilowatt - hours of energy from December 2006 to May 2007, and the testing spot has the potential to support as many as 300 turbines and nearly 10 megawatts of installed capacity.

The reforms, initiated in early 2015, reduced payments to turbine owners by roughly 3 cents per kilowatt - hour across the country's primary wind - energy - producing regions in the north and west of the country.

When the new battery factories open in 2012, we will be able to produce them for $ 500 a kilowatt - hour, with the eventual goal of reducing that to $ 100 a kilowatt - hour.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, electric power generation accounts for nearly half of the nation's water usage; it takes on average 21 gallons of water to produce one kilowatt hour of electricity.

A study of one hydroelectric reservoir, Cedar Lake in Manitoba, revealed a likely release of about one kilogram of carbon dioxide for every kilowatt - hour of electricity produced by the reservoir's power station.

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.

That is largely a result of one major trend: the Midwest and other regions are now producing a great deal of renewable energy — about 2.8 trillion kilowatt - hours in 2015 — and utility companies need a way to deliver it to faraway urban and industrial centers.

Dan W. Reicher, a former assistant secretary of energy for conservation and renewables, has complained repeatedly that companies will invest in solar plants that produce electricity at 20 or 30 cents per kilowatt - hour, while ignoring fixes that would save comparable energy at a cost of four cents per kilowatt - hour.

In the first twelve months, the array produced 1266 kilowatt - hours electricity per installed kilowatt, one third more than the average value of 950 kWh / kW in Germany.

«However, a better measure is the total amount of electricity, measured in kilowatt - hours (kWh), that each country produces from wind and delivers to customers each year.»

The battery consists of 96 lithium - ion cells producing 65 kilowatts and 9.2 kilowatt - hours

The electric motor produces 270 hp, making it more powerful than the base 2.0 - liter turbo inline - four that pumps out 248 hp on the BMW X3 sold here in the U.S. With a battery capacity of 70 kilowatt - hours, BMW estimates a range of 249 miles on the global WLTP cycle, although it's unclear what this would translate to on the EPA scale.

The 187 - lb lithium - polymer battery pack produces up to 364 volts and has a storage capacity of 10.8 kilowatt - hours.

It uses a brushless electric motor mounted at the rear that produces 74 hp and 96 lb - ft of torque together with a 17.7 - kilowatt - hour lithium - ion battery that is charged via standard - mains electricity and on the run with energy recuperated during periods of trailing throttle and braking.

Based on the popular five - door, five - passenger Fit and Fit Sport, the 100 - percent electric Fit EV features a 20 - kilowatt - hour (kWh) Lithium - Ion (Li - Ion) battery and a compact 92 - kilowatt (123 horsepower) AC synchronous electric motor that produced 189 ft - lb of motor torque.

The electric motor produces 232 lb - ft (315 Nm) of torque and draws power from both the gasoline engine and a 17 - kilowatt - hour (kWh) battery pack with a recharge time of 2.5 hours at 240 volts.

Next is the Clarity Plug - In Hybrid that uses a more powerful electric motor (181 horsepower electric motor producing 232 pound - feet of torque) and a 17 - kilowatt hour (kWh) battery pack.

Short of radical advances in solar - power technology, the long - term prospect for true «grid parity» — the price at which it will be equally cheap to produce a kilowatt - hour of electricity... Read More

His system involves solar panels capable of producing 350 kilowatts per hour on a sunny day.

Image: Patrick Finnegan via flickr Boulder Wind Power has come up with a turbine design that it says can produce electricity at or below $ 0.04 per kilowatt - hour, allowing it to compete directly with fossil fuel - based power.

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

6 foot tall wind turbines are added to the top of Boston's Logan Airport, estimated to produce 100,000 kilowatt - hours of electricity each year, roughly 3 % of current energy use.

Among the proposals is the establishment of a Reduction Tax Credit (RTC), whereby eligible parties would receive a tax credit for every kilowatt hour (kWh) of electricity reduced, just as wind and other renewable resources receive a Production Tax Credit (PTC) for every kWh produced.

Biomass from crop waste, yard waste, pallets and other wood materials is produced in large quantities in Ohio, but most of that ends up in landfills instead of providing a potential 14 million kilowatt hours every year.

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.

In my opinion, let's be clear on that, otherwise eSolar would lose money on each kiloWatt - hour produced on a marginal generation cost basis.

The furniture company's 75,000 square - foot system will produce about one million kilowatt - hours of solar energy each year — enough to power about 90 average American homes annually.

A Fraunhofer study comparing annual energy yields per square meter has found that solar thermal collectors will produce on average about three times as many kilowatt hours from the same amount of space as photovoltaic solar.

The federal production tax credit (PTC), which offers wind energy developers 2.2 cents for every kilowatt - hour of electricity produced from grid - tied projects, was a key case in point at the conference.

At 1.9 megawatts (MW), the solar panel installation would be the largest such facility in the city and would produce around 2.6 million kilowatt - hours (kWh) in the first year of operation — enough to power roughly 235 typical American homes.

A tonne of coal can produce about 2000 kilowatt hours of electricity.

To put it another way for each kWh (kilowatt hour) of solar power that you export to the grid in the day you get to use another kWh of power for free at another time (say night time) when your solar is not producing enough energy to run your home.

In its response to a consultation, the government said it will legislate to limit power plants to 450 grams of carbon dioxide for each kilowatt hour of electricity produced — effectively ruling out coal power without technology that captures emissions.