Sentences with phrase «less electricity for»

So, you'd think that we'd use less electricity for refrigeration now, right?

In summary, the ultrasonic humidifier is perfectly made for babies since they are very quiet and consume less electricity for the whole night.

Not exact matches

It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

Solar power has grown at a whopping 68 % average rate over the past 10 years, but still accounts for less than 2 % of total U.S. electricity generation.

By comparison, all the Tesla (tsla) cars on the road (about 280,000 at the end of 2017, according to company statistics) likely used less than 1.3 terawatt hours of electricity combined for the year, a Fortune analysis found.

A more powerful heater should run less, for an equal amount of electricity used to hold an equal temperature under equal conditions over time.

Let's think worst case — should the currency collapse in your home country... and should a bank run ensue... and should the government mandate that all banks then close for no less than a week... and should subsequent food shortages take place... and should no clean water be available... and should the electricity and heat not work... and should violent protests, riots, and widespread looting erupt...

Customers earn rewards for using less electricity.

The arrangement is made possible by a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the project's developer where the customer pays an electricity rate equal to or less than what other customers pay for their existing power.

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.

Musk says the new solar roofs will cost less than a traditional roof plus the cost of electricity and last longer than traditional roofs which, according to the National Roofing Contractors Association, «are designed to provide useful service for about 20 years.

As a result of this likely lessening of competition, the proposed acquisition is likely to mean that consumers will pay more for electricity, receive lower quality service and be offered less choice.

Telling people how much their neighbours pay for electricity only produces a 1 % change in usage less effective than more traditional policies.

To qualify for additional assistance, a household must meet income eligibility requirements; have exhausted both regular and first emergency benefits during the 2010 - 11 HEAP season; and have a current shut - off notice on either heat or «heat - related» electricity or an oil, propane, wood or other fuel supply with less than 1/4 tank remaining.

Central New York, however, is less dependent on FitzPatrick for electricity than Rochester is on Ginna.

«The Ghanaian used to pay less for electricity and fuel under the NDC than they do today.

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.

When they were told of the comparatively meagre potential savings the Kill A Watt might reveal — for example, that a computer consumes 25 cents - worth of electricity per day — they became even less interested in turning off appliances.

If better use could be made of solar energy, with less need for storage capacity, residents» electricity bills would be reduced considerably.

Using a simple alternator, six hours of pedaling can create and store enough electrical energy in batteries to light about six homes for 30 days (in areas where people use less electricity than in the U.S.).

And even the most optimistic projections have wind power accounting for less than 3 percent of total electricity production by 2020 — more than the current U.S. share of 0.4 percent but far less than world leader, Denmark, which gets roughly 20 percent of its power from the wind.

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.

Less rain could affect agriculture, which currently generates $ 15 billion a year for Brazil's economy, and hydropower, which generates 65 percent of Brazil's electricity, he said.

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.

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

For example, he points out that the proportion of electricity to be generated by nuclear power plants in the year 2000 will, at 34 per cent, be almost double the previous forecast made less than three years ago.

«Right now our electricity system is very much a command - and - control centralized system,» says David Crane, CEO of Princeton, N.J. — headquartered national energy company NRG, which is attempting to reinvent itself for the less centralized future Crane foresees.

In response APS and other utility companies across the country have launched a propaganda war against an energy source that still accounts for less than one quarter of 1 percent of U.S. electricity.

Here's what happened: For the first century of the electricity business, the power plants were costlier and less reliable than the grid, so it made sense to build a bunch of big power plants backing each other up through the grid.

In a fossil fuel - fired generator, this means less carbon dioxide emissions for the same unit of electricity produced.

But for most of the shows people watch, LCD screens use significantly less electricity.

The Qinshan addition is one of 20 new nuclear power plants undergoing construction or approved for construction in China today, part of a bid to increase the nuclear share of China's electricity - generating capacity from less than 2 percent to 5 percent.

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).

In their defence of wind power, Jérôme Guillet and John Evans state: «You end up paying less for your electricity when wind power is part of the mix» (24 July, p 24).

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.

The «well - to - wire» research showed new natural - gas power plants are responsible for less than half as much greenhouse gas per kilowatt hour of electricity generated as existing coal power plants.

In their defence of wind power, Jérôme Guillet and John Evans state: «You end up paying less for your electricity...

These properties make the cells ideal for things like windows or roofs, although they are probably less suitable for large - scale commercial applications, such as solar farms, because they need more area to produce the same amount of electricity as more typical silicon - based solar cells.

It produces no carbon dioxide exhaust emissions, and even when the CO2 released in generating the electricity used to charge its batteries is factored in, it is responsible for less than half the amount emitted by the «greenest» petrol cars.

The change, if implemented, could make natural gas a less attractive option for generating electricity in power plants.

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 ServicFor 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 Servicfor 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.

After decades of failed promise, photovoltaics remain expensive and inefficient and account for less than.03 percent of the electricity supply nationwide.

Under the Solar Community Initiative administered by the World Wildlife Fund and executed by solar firm Geostellar, employees of the four firms can install rooftop solar PV at prices that average 35 percent below the national average for solar and nearly 50 percent less expensive than average grid - delivered electricity, according to WWF and Geostellar.

In the meantime many contracts are being signed for electricity from solar energy at less than half the price of electricity from fossil fuels, even on an unsubsidized basis.

One of the problems with previous methods was that the amount of energy produced in, for example, a system using salty and less salty water to generate electricity, was too small relative to the amount of water used.

For example, a study by Vasilis Fthenakis and Hung Chul Kim of Columbia University (2009) found that, on a life - cycle electricity - output basis — including direct and indirect land transformation — utility - scale PV in the U.S. Southwest requires less land than the average U.S. power plant using surface - mined coal.

Due to its brain - inspired design, it can look for the complex patterns that indicate specific «bad apples,» all while using less electricity than a standard 60 - watt light bulb.

While there is a growing market for organic solar cells ¬ ¬ - they contain materials that are cheaper, more abundant, and more environmentally friendly than those used in typical solar panels — they also tend to be less efficient in converting sunlight to electricity than conventional solar cells.

But if people were better at using less electricity, which accounts for 38 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States, the potential for reducing emissions would be huge.