Sentences with phrase «less electricity if»

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But the Lovins have shown electric utility companies that they can make a better profit if their customers use less electricity.

When you start using it you can worry less about your electricity bills hiking, on the other hand, you can save the money you would have used if you turned to another wipe warmer that uses a lot of electricity.

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

If they were, gaming computers worldwide might well be consuming billions of dollars less in electricity use annually, with no loss in performance, according to new research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

Electricity Transmission Intermittent sources are less troublesome if they feed a bigger grid; a region with 100 scattered installations of wind and solar could count on some average level of input.

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

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).

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.

Supporters admit that rates will rise, but they believe rates will actually rise less if coal - fired electricity is eliminated from Oregon's energy mix.

I wonder if it creates any more / less static electricity than my cloth seats do.

If the cost of your personal loan ends up being less than your projected electricity savings and you can't line up any cheaper financing, you could still be saving money.

And don't forget, the new LED lights consume less electricity than standard fluorescent bulbs if you decide to go that route.

Ponying up tens of thousands of dollars for a rooftop solar installation simply isn't an option for many of us, and if you don't own your roof, or your roof is less than optimal for producing solar energy, there really isn't a simple way to purchase solar electricity for your home otherwise.

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

And, of course, if your electricity is wind - generated (which is available in many states for a bit more, or even less, as in Texas), then GHGs for transportation go way way down.

Even if electricity in the UK only becomes slightly less CO2 intensive, they are set to overtake gas hobs in the coming years.

The wind - farm, even if it functions at its «maximum efficiency», would produce far less than 1 % of the electricity needed in Toronto.

If you want to get polluting sources of electricity out of your generating portfolio, it helps to have a lot of hydroelectric power: It's cheap and it's less intermittent than the wind and the sun.

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 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.

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.

If we start using electric cars in large numbers (and I hope we do soon), then solar towers and various other forms of large scale clean electricity generation may supply a substantial fraction of our transport energy, especially for short local runs less than 100 klms a day.

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 daIf 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 daif 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 daif 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.

Buying green energy is more environmentally effective if you live in a place like Alberta, where the electricity is fossil - intensive, and less effective in British Columbia, where each kilowatt - hour produces more than 100 times fewer emissions than a kilowatt hour in Alberta.

In many states, the homeowner pays less for the solar electricity than if they were purchasing it from the power grid, but some solar shoppers may be leaving money on the table.

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

The point is that IF / WHEN the adoption of nuclear power for Australia is put to the electorate, the majority (who don't have the financial luxury to agree to it at any price) will ultimately be influenced by the price being equal to, or less than, coal fired electricity generation or renewables.

If you're on our New Energy Plus we spend the same amount building each year, and you're paying a # 20 per year premium for 100 % green electricity — still # 80 a year less than with Good Energy — on average.

For example, if wind supplied 15 % of the electricity, it would save less than 15 % of fuel because other generators backing up the wind must often run at idle even when the wind is blowing and because their fuel economy suffers when they have to ramp up and slow down to compensate for variability in wind.

If they want to use less electricity, by all means, may they do so, but forcing this upon them is inhumane and selfish.

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.

If the retail rate for electricity from the grid without net metering fees is less than that, solar is a poor investment; if it is more, solar is a good investmenIf the retail rate for electricity from the grid without net metering fees is less than that, solar is a poor investment; if it is more, solar is a good investmenif it is more, solar is a good investment.

However, I disagree with you if you are saying you agree with the premise that nuclear is less safe than other types of electricity generation.

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?

«Gross Revenues» means the total monies received by Grantee from a utility company or other power purchaser (provided, however, that if electricity is sold to a subsidiary or affiliate of Grantee, then, and only then, the gross receipts from the sale of electricity under such contract shall be calculated using a sale of not less than the arithmetical average of the prices quoted by market sources of information, which information may be based upon the price paid by any purchaser or purchasers, including Grantee or any subsidiary or affiliate of Grantee, for electricity produced in the Iowa region of the Midwest Independent System Operator («MISO») from operation of wind turbines during the calendar year immediate!y preceding the year in which such electricity production from the Wind Energy Project occurs, taking into account the aggregate terms associated with such transaction) derived from the sale of electric energy and capacity produced and sold from the WTG's installed on the Premises, net of proportional energy losses associated with the power collection system or utility interconnection.

If renewable technologies such as a wind turbine and / or photovoltaic cells are used to generate electricity, then it is possible to have a «net - zero carbon» home (where the amount of energy that you consume per year is equal to (or less than) the amount of energy that you produce on - site).

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.

If we can get another megawatt - hour of electricity out of every tonne of coal we burn, that means we need burn less coal to get the same amount of electricity.

As an example, if you pay $ 0.11 per kWh for electricity from your utility but your utility only offers a $ 0.04 credit for electricity sent back to the grid, your solar electricity will be worth $ 0.07 less if you don't use it at home.

«If the proposal is approved by the state's Public Utilities Commission,» I wrote, «California's carbon dioxide emissions will either increase or decline far less than if Diablo Canyon's two reactors, which generated about 9 percent of the state's electricity last year, remained in operatioIf the proposal is approved by the state's Public Utilities Commission,» I wrote, «California's carbon dioxide emissions will either increase or decline far less than if Diablo Canyon's two reactors, which generated about 9 percent of the state's electricity last year, remained in operatioif Diablo Canyon's two reactors, which generated about 9 percent of the state's electricity last year, remained in operation.

«The evidence in this study suggests that effectiveness in the national electricity market would fall to less than 70 per cent if the proportion of energy provided by wind is doubled from 2014 levels,» the report says.

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.

If Kumari Batachargee installs a solar PV system on her roof just how does that make India's electricity supply less secure?

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.

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.

If we're stuck with coal power plants, capture and storage technology makes the electricity generator a bit less harmful to the environment.

This Is the Biggest News in Electricity Since the Light Bulb — Seriously If the world can generate and store energy from the sun for less than the cost of fossil fuels, it literally changes everything about the energy industry.

If those homeowners live in a place where there is time - of - use pricing (the cost of electricity varying by time of day), they already are paying less than homeowners without solar power.

But what if our devices and homes and businesses could operate exactly as they do today, while using less electricity?