Sentences with phrase «less electricity and gas»

That means you'd have to use # 56 - worth less electricity and gas every month to make the loan worthwhile — or # 672 a year.

In a time of a developing energy gap, they have a clear interest and a clear responsibility to help their customers to use less electricity and gas, but the link between the energy companies and fuel poverty is less clear.

Not exact matches

Right now, they live in Ecuador and their utility bills... water, gas, electricity, everything... amounts to less than $ 40 per month.

GREG WARREN: With coal fired and natural gas plants continuing to generate around two thirds of the nation's electricity and renewables accounting to less than 10 percent, there remains plenty of room for growth.

At the end of the day, being a sustainable company by using less electricity, gas, water and recycling makes good business sense.

«Energy efficient lighting uses significantly less electricity, which equals less fuel burned, and less greenhouse gases.»

I figure it will take less time and save some gas / electricity.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

Gas bills for heat typically total $ 150 for the year, meaning the owners» total annual outlay for heating, cooling and electricity is less than $ 600 — some $ 1,000 less than traditional homes in the same zip code are paying, according to data from the U.S. Department of Energy.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

It produces less carbon dioxide emissions than coal for electricity or gasoline and diesel for fuel, but even a small amount of natural gas release — which is essentially methane — packs a greenhouse gas punch about 30 times more powerful than the same amount of carbon dioxide.

Though the federal government is doubling down on coal, electric power companies are embracing less - polluting natural gas, wind and solar power as the cost of generating electricity from those sources falls.

The assessments shall reflect the relative carbon dioxide emission rates of different fossil fuel - based electricity, and initially shall be not less than the following amounts for coal, natural gas, and oil:

In other words, we would need to grow crops that suck CO2 from the air, then burn them to generate electricity and store the resulting gases so there is less CO2 in the atmosphere overall.

Certainly, it does have to get local regulatory approval for price hikes, however, a 10 % increase in water rates is much more digestible (and therefore much less protested) than a similar increase in electricity and gas rates.

The smaller the house is, the less you can expect to spend on things like electricity, natural gas and water.

Presently a electric car plugged into the grid is only around 40 % efficient overall due to the generation of grid electricity from coal, nuclear and gas mainly (here in the UK) and that makes them a lot less efficient than you say.

This proven technology has helped shift more electricity generation to natural gas, which emits less nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, mercury and more than 50 percent less carbon dioxide than coal.

Electricity from new installations — which are being erected at a pace of roughly one turbine every two and a half hours around the country — sells for less than 6 cents per kWh, a price competitive with natural gas.

Coal now generates less than 2 % of New England electricity, and it is increasingly being replaced by much cleaner natural gas.

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

The assumption undergirding EP's analysis was that cheap natural gas, heavily - subsidized solar and wind, and flattening electricity demand, make nuclear plants less economical everywhere, not just in deregulated markets.

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 particulatgas 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 particulatGas 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.

As I've explained, there are in effect many buyers and many sellers in CO2E pricing, even if there is a government - enforced standard of delivering equal share equitably to all sellers per capita as there are different carbon intensities of essentially the same energy: electricity need not be produced from fossil fuels, and where it is, the fossil fuels may be less carbon intensive natural gas, or enriched through geothermal or solar hydrotreating to become less carbon intensive, or the CO2 emissions can be directly sequestered or used in coproduction to reduce net influx of CO2.

The Pacific Institute has just completed and released a report that evaluates how diminished river flows have resulted in less hydroelectricity, more expensive electricity from the combustion of natural gas, and increased

Costs of generating electricity from coal and natural gas are rising as renewables penetrate the market and fossil fuel plants run less, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

By the 2030s, offshore investment in this scenario — currently heavily weighted towards oil — is split into three roughly equal parts as oil and (to a lesser extent) gas output growth is lower than in our main scenario, while offshore electricity generation grows twice as fast and provides 4 % of global power generation by 2040.

And finally, the demand for natural gas, and for the pipelines themselves, may simply not be there; Americans are using less electricity, and generating more of it themselves through rooftop solar systeAnd finally, the demand for natural gas, and for the pipelines themselves, may simply not be there; Americans are using less electricity, and generating more of it themselves through rooftop solar systeand for the pipelines themselves, may simply not be there; Americans are using less electricity, and generating more of it themselves through rooftop solar systeand generating more of it themselves through rooftop solar systems.

Of course, lower wholesale electricity prices hurt gas - fired power plants as well, but the low prices are «most harmful to coal - based generators and to a lesser extent nuclear - based generators.»

If the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per day.

This is obviously a debatable assumption as one could for instance argue that a more rapid growth in renewable energy could allow for less energy efficiency gains and growing demand for electricity, or perhaps a prolonging of the coal industry at the cost of natural gas.

As generation from gas and to a lesser extent renewables has increased electricity consumption in the US has remained flat since 2005, due to the American economy becoming more efficient in its energy use.

In the short term gas - fired power stations could be used to «fill the gaps» when renewable energy was not available (gas has about half the greenhouse emissions of coal, and produces far less other air pollution); in the longer term Australia could change to 100 % renewables - generated electricity.

It also costs a lot less to charge an EV than it does to buy gas or diesel, and if you consider powering your EV with a home solar installation, you can even bring the costs down further — you can use Solar - Estimate's tools to learn more about that and work out the rates of return you would get from installing solar panels given your electricity usage and location.

Lesser is the author of numerous academic and trade - press articles and is an editorial board member of Natural Gas & Electricity.

Designating natural gas plants as the best available technology — essentially requiring utilities to generate less electricity from coal and more from gas instead of being limited solely to requiring that coal plants operate more efficiently — has allowed the administration to establish much more ambitious emissions reduction requirements and is one of the central provisions that legal opponents have challenged.

And unlike the electricity industry, in which market forces have pushed utilities toward cleaner energy, including natural gas and renewable sources, relatively low gasoline prices in recent years have led consumers to pay less attention to fuel economy when they buy new caAnd unlike the electricity industry, in which market forces have pushed utilities toward cleaner energy, including natural gas and renewable sources, relatively low gasoline prices in recent years have led consumers to pay less attention to fuel economy when they buy new caand renewable sources, relatively low gasoline prices in recent years have led consumers to pay less attention to fuel economy when they buy new cars.

Electricity generators have chosen natural gas for its affordability and reliability, often replacing coal - fired power plants and emitting up to 56 percent less greenhouse gases than coal for the same amount of eElectricity generators have chosen natural gas for its affordability and reliability, often replacing coal - fired power plants and emitting up to 56 percent less greenhouse gases than coal for the same amount of electricityelectricity.

What if a off shore wind power generates cheap electricity and innovators in selling heat pumps figure out how to replace gas heat with ground source heat pumps for less than natural gas connection and usage costs over the first ten year of the 20 year life of the heat pump and 50 - 100 year life of the ground source?

Two basic factors contributed to lower electricity generation carbon intensity (CO2 / kilowatthour) since 2005: substitution of coal - fired generation with the less - carbon - intensive and more efficient combined - cycle natural gas - fired generation, and growth in non-carbon electricity generation, especially wind and solar.

After decades of increases, U.S. CO2 emissions from energy use (which account for 97 % of total U.S. emissions) declined by around 9 % between 2008 and 2012, largely due to a shift from coal to less CO2 - intensive natural gas for electricity production.

IEEFA finds India's wind and solar energy costs have fallen 50 % to as low as $ 38 per megawatt hour (MWh) over the past two years, with renewable energy bids in new auctions costing 20 % less than the cost of wholesale electricity from existing Indian coal generation, and 30 - 50 % less than the required cost to justify new imported coal or liquefied natural gas capacity.

In reality, Ohio uses less natural gas (5 percent) for electricity generation and more coal (82 percent) compared to the national average according to data from the Energy Information Administration.

Furthermore, fossil fuel and utility interests that have a stake in coal or natural gas plants simply want to slow the growth of their competition: for every solar installation on a home, means approximately one less customer paying for the electricity produced from fossil fuel plants.

About 60 percent of Ontario's current generation capacity is already accounted for by low - emission hydro or nuclear - generated electricity, with the balance provided by natural - gas generation and to a lesser extent by renewables.

The burning of natural gas instead of coal to generate electricity does offer important and immediate benefits, including reduced air and water pollutants, fewer smokestack carbon emissions, less power plant water use, greater flexibility of the power grid, and an economic boost to some regions of the country.

Then again, to the extent that natural gas substitutes for coal in electricity generation (and fugitive methane emissions are low) and electric vehicles powered by relatively clean electricity substitute for gasoline and diesel, CO2 emissions over the next two decades could be far less than expected 10 years ago.

Also its fresh so no electricity and gas spent on freezing for months, transporting cross country, At home we usually do not own a deep fryer so when we cook our food is less greasy.

The difference is that a smidge more hydro, a smidge more wind, and a smidge more natural gas were used to make (2.5 % less) electricity — and coal was squeezed.

Research suggests that the most significant effect of a carbon tax on electricity generation technology would be less use of coal and greater use of natural gas.