Sentences with phrase «less electricity demand»

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The government aims to increase capacity to 350 MW by 2020, or about 5 percent of projected peak electricity demand, up from less than 1 percent now, according to EMA.

Demanding plans for power cuts: In the US, electricity companies make money helping their customers to use less power.

When generators fail, as they did last winter in Texas, controllers lean on «demand - response customers» — large electricity users, like factories, that are paid to be on call, ready to use a little less or even shut everything off at a moment's notice.

For example, on a hot summer evening when electricity is in high demand for air - conditioning, the system could drop the amount of power going to an individual car from 3.3 kilowatts to just 1.2 kW or even less, explains Paul Pebbles, GM's global manager of Electric Vehicle and Smart Grid Services.

In July last year, in an attempt to reduce demand for elec - tricity, a group of power companies offered the prize to the first company to build a prototype fridge that would use at least 25 per cent less electricity than current standards demand while using no ozone - depleting CFCs.

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).

I did agree, but additionally made the point that this is something that will become less and less true over the coming years; in responding you've shifted the argument to electricity generation not being able to keep up with demand.

The purpose of the HV battery is to use electricity when the gas engine is not efficient — when power demand is very low (less than 15hp).

And what also matters is the fact that Visionect's platform is less demanding expense-wise, since it can be mounted without cables, and consumes much less electricity than traditional LCD - based signage.

On Sunday, peak electricity demand was 9,124 MW, about 13 % less than the all time peak of 10,496 MW in 2009.

Moderating electric sector demand, but a continuing trend towards natural gas: Natural gas accounted for slightly less than 32 % of total electricity generation in 2017, down from nearly 34 % in 2016.

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.

During the summer when electricity demand in California is 50 percent higher than in the winter, less curtailments are needed.

According to Pentland, increasing demand is unlikely to be the cause of rising electricity rates, due to the simple fact that «many if not most utilities are selling less — not more — electricity than they used to sell.»

It meant at peak times that India needed 6,000 megawatts less electricity to satisfy demand than if ordinary bulbs had been used.

Electricity demand also varies throughout the day and the seasons, but these changes are more predictable and much less extreme.

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 systems.

It can be both costly and difficult to meet demand when it's high — such as hot summer afternoons when homeowners and businesses are running their air conditioning on full blast — but not doing so will result in less reliable electricity service for everyone.

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.

On sunny days in Germany in 2012, solar oftentimes met 35 percent of the demand for electricity, driving the wholesale cost of electricity to $ 2.5 cents per kWh, less than the average cost at night when loads are very low.

The UK Government has already committed the country to meeting 15 per cent of all energy and 30 per cent electricity demand via renewable sources by 2020 but at the moment energy crops are responsible for less than 0.1 per cent of UK electricity.

THE Gillard government will demand the states curb expensive feed - in tariffs that pay households to generate electricity from roof - top solar panels, and review other green schemes that threaten to make the carbon market less efficient.

During extreme heat events, nighttime temperatures in the region's big cities are generally several degrees higher28 than surrounding regions, leading to increased heat - related death among those less able to recover from the heat of the day.36 Since the hottest days in the Northeast are often associated with high concentrations of ground - level ozone and other pollutants, 37 the combination of heat stress and poor air quality can pose a major health risk to vulnerable groups: young children, the elderly, and those with pre-existing health conditions including asthma.29 Vulnerability is further increased as key infrastructure, including electricity for potentially life - saving air conditioning, is more likely to fail precisely when it is most needed — when demand exceeds available supply.

Wind energy is now as or less expensive than all other sources of new electricity generation and supplies approximately six per cent of Canada's electricity demand with enough power to meet the needs of over three million homes.

While some of these facilities may be able to adjust their output to a limited degree, these manoeuvres typically take place when total demand for electricity is forecast to be less than the usual output from these baseload generators.

For example, if the forecast predicts an afternoon heat wave, e5 may pre-cool the home earlier that morning when energy demand is low and less electricity is needed to maintain a comfortable temperature.

The fact that wind power is not available on demand makes wind - generated electricity less valuable than electricity that can be generated on demand.

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.

These state - level initiatives, along with fluctuations in the supply and demand of natural gas and oil, may also lead to electricity price increases in the future — although it is worth noting these increases would be less significant than if the CPP is implemented.

All the hand waiving and admonitions of less - is - beautiful advocates will not change the direction of the increasing demand for electricity and oil throughout the world.

You might still have to import electricity from other regions or fire up backup power plants, but that'll happen a lot less often than if you didn't have a smart grid that could do «demand response».

They note global electricity demand has grown much less than expected (thanks in part to energy efficiency).

And this is especially important during the winter, when the demand for natural gas for home heating spikes in some parts of the country, leading to higher prices and less natural gas available for electricity generation (since home heating takes priority over electricity generation in terms of natural gas pipeline delivery contracts).

UK wind farms have a theoretical maximum capacity of more than 13,000 megawatts, but produced less than 400 megawatts of power for much of the peak demand period — meeting less than one per cent of the UK's electricity needs, published data suggests.

Peak times also are when electricity costs the most, and less demand for a utility's electricity during those periods will allow Equity Office to negotiate for lower rates from utilities.

A study at the Florida Solar Energy Center at the University of Central Florida states that while an unvented HPCD uses less electricity than a standard resistance dryer, it was found to release significantly more heat than a conventional dryer during operation, demanding additional cooling energy that may compromise overall savings.