Sentences with phrase «less electricity consumption»

With less electricity consumption and increasing wind and solar power, coal - generation will tend to be pushed out of the Australian market.

Not exact matches

As with carbon dioxide emission rankings, less developed nations tend to score better on electricity consumption because access to electrical power is not as widely available.

I don't trust government - reported statistics, thus I'd watch numbers that the Chinese government is less likely to fudge: electricity consumption, which was down during the global recession, same - store sales of American fast food restaurants in China, tonnage of goods shipped through railroads, and, though they may lag, sales by American and European companies in China.

In addition to reducing the truck body's weight to save on fuel, the GuardianLT's high thermal performance also reduces fuel and electricity consumption without skimming on performance, which means the body helps maintain desired temperatures using less energy.

In fact, much of the overall decrease in energy consumption can be traced to the shift from coal to gas, because modern gas - fired plants may use up to 46 percent less energy to produce the same amount of electricity.»

Renewable energy, such as from photovoltaic electricity and ethanol, today supplies less than 7 percent of U.S. consumption.

But geothermal accounts for only about 16 terawatt - hours a year in the United States, less than half of 1 percent of total electricity consumption.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

The United States clearly is using less coal: Domestic consumption fell by about 114 million tons, or 11 percent, largely due to a decline in the use of coal for electricity.

Small - scale solar PV installations, defined by EIA as having capacity of less than 1 megawatt (MW), are usually located at the customer's site of electricity consumption.

Since North Carolina does not have any laws requiring virtual net metering for cooperatives or investor - owned utilities, these bill credits are nearly always based on the utility's avoided cost of energy as opposed to a credit calculated at the full retail rate of electricity (in other words, the per kWh credits are less than the per kWh price customers pay for their electricity consumption).

If electricity consumption in coming years stays at 2017 levels, subsidies for nuclear allowed under this new legislation will be $ 300 million or less per year.

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.

As an example I gave the case of Denmark where although having the highest wind energy proportion of electricity generation in the world, the consumption within Denmark is much less than is generated; Denmark has the highest cost electricity in Europe and near the highest CO2 emissions from electricity generation in Europe.

For the beasts of consumption that we are, incentives work — whether the goal is to get people to drive less and use more transit, or recycle more and conserve electricity.

«The underlying energy consumption trends that resulted in these changes — mainly because more electricity has been generated from natural gas than from other fossil fuels — have helped to lower the U.S. emissions level since 2005 because natural gas is a less carbon - intensive fuel than either coal or petroleum.»

Just as I stated a few comments earlier with BaustinB, the WHOLE point of driving hybrid and alternative vehicles is to reduce pollution in addition to less consumption of fuel whether it be petroleum or electricity.

Natural gas vehicles have great potential, but even if consumption doubled that total market would be less than 1 % of the gas used for electricity.

While this is a less accurate estimation than selecting your specific housing type above, it is a good option to choose if you do not know your exact electricity consumption and your housing type is not listed in our drop - down menu.

Reducing energy consumption should be a very high priority, but people demand cheap energy and wind farms are less problematic than most other methods of generating electricity.

Australia has a carbon tax, essentially a tax on production and consumption of electricity, that cost business and consumers $ 6 billion for less than 0.1 % emissions reduction since its introduction.

For example, Daniel Schwartz of Carnegie Mellon University and co-authors reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that residents used considerably less electricity when told they were participating in a study of household electricity consumption.

* 90 % of the energy going to the data center will power the servers (most data centers use 50 % or less of their total electricity consumption on servers, with the rest going to the facility for things like cooling; Yahoo! will be using 100 % outside air to cool the servers)

The more we reduce our electricity consumption, the less coal we need to burn.

The building is now eligible for LEED certification thanks to all of the upgrades, which include reducing water consumption by 30 %, using 15 % less electricity and using 20 % recycled content in building materials.

Sony hasn't posted official numbers for how much «greener» that makes the PlayStation 3 Slim, but the power supply goes from 280 watts to 250 watts, meaning it uses at least 10 percent less electricity at peak consumption.

The Pew Internet report, in conjunction with Elon University, found that 51 percent of survey participants agreed that by 2020, the connected household will have «become a model of efficiency, as people are able to manage consumption of resources (electricity, water, food, even bandwidth) in ways that place less of a burden on the environment while saving households money.»