Sentences with phrase «less electricity when»

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.

The user's thermostat will then try to use less electricity when it's more expensive by running preferred cooling or heating cycles strategically outside of those times.

In an experiment, we tried sending people a price signal, where they were paying more in those peaks, and we saw a significant response: People use less electricity when the price is high.

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That's the claim Tesla CEO Elon Musk made Friday when he announced plans to create Solar Roof tiles that will «look better than a normal roof, generate electricity, last longer, have better insulation, and actually have an installed cost that is less than a normal roof plus the cost of 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.

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.

Exxon Mobil also touted its status as the United States» No. 1 natural gas producer, noting that gas emits significantly less CO2 than coal when burned to generate electricity.

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.

When the device senses a lower frequency, signaling less available electricity on the grid, it reacts by turning off certain functions of the appliance: a dryer might keep tumbling clothes but switch the heating coil off; a fridge light could stay on while the cooling motor took a break.

It's less costly to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels than coal - fired power plants when climate change costs and other health impacts are factored in, according to a new study published in Springer's Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.

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 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.

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.

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).

Transforming the light from the Sun into electricity is a good means of generating energy when we are close to it; however, the further away, the less light there is to use.

Especially when it takes far less energy to deliver electricity to my home outlet than to deliver petrol to the corner convenience store.

The math for those without direct access to cheap electricity gets even less favorable when you compare the Niro plug - in to its plug-less equivalent.

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).

The theory goes that you'll be able to charge the Powerwall when electricity costs less, and use that power when electricity becomes expensive.

When used to generate electricity, the shale - gas footprint is still significantly greater than that of coal at decadal time scales but is less at the century scale.

According to NComputing, the access devices eliminate the need for air conditioning when there is a room full of the devices, since they create little heat, produce significantly less e-waste at the end of their extra long lifetimes, and according to their calculations, the company's current user base is right now saving 144 million kWh of electricity annually, 17,700 metric tons of coal, 112,300 metric tons of CO2, and about 8,100 metric tons of e-waste.

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Even when the plants do a Fukushima (an exceedingly rare occurrence and the frequency per unit of electricity produced is decreasing), the fatalities and health consequences are negligible and, properly normalised for the amount of electricity they supply, are less than any other electricity generation technology operating routinely.

«The study seems an outlier in saying that when «all known costs» are considered, the average U.S. cost of producing electricity from established coal - fired plants is far less than new wind - power generation,»

A detailed study by researchers from China and the US has concluded that Fischer - Tropsch synthetic liquid fuels (FTL) are typically less costly to produce when electricity is generated as a major coproduct than when the plants are designed to produce mainly liquid fuels.

«The study seems an outlier in saying that when «all known costs» are considered, the average U.S. cost of producing electricity from established coal - fired plants is far less than new wind - power generation,» PolitiFact found.

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

Moreover, even when emissions from the generation of electricity (upstream emissions) were considered, electric vehicles produced 21 times less carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per year than their gasoline - powered alternatives.

The reason for its large Footprint and less favorable results when compared with Germany overall is, in particular, the energy mix in North - Rhine Westphalia, or more specifically its carbon intensity of electricity.

And how would you propose to do this for the transport industry's energy needs when less than 1 % of them are being met by electricity?

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.

When solar electricity is being generated, less electricity from other sources such as natural gas or interstate electricity imports is required.

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When you participate in a community solar project, you are paying for access to less expensive solar electricity so that you don't have to buy electricity at standard utility rates.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 cars.

for a start the infrastructure required to supply our electricity would be far far less compared to when power is sent long distances from where it is produced, there are also quite substantial losses just getting the power to those living several hundred kilometers away, for instance I am told that they lose around 14 % of the power produced in the Latrobe Valley just getting it to Melbourne, Solar on the other hand is often far closer to where the power is required, therefore there are less distribution costs and also less losses involved.

This is less important when earnings / kWh is fixed, but as remuneration schemes evolve, project return on investment may be partially or fully dependent on a fluctuating electricity market.

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.

And because they are now 100 meters tall, instead of less than 40 meters, they harvest a far larger, stronger, and more reliable wind regime, generating 20 times as much electricity as the turbines installed in the early 1980s when modern wind power development began.

Coupled with the low and stable nature of electricity prices — which average $ 0.12 / kWh in the U.S. and can be significantly less for commercial and industrial users, falling to almost nothing when combined with local solar generation and storage — owners can expect to gain $ 200,000 or more in savings over a million miles based on fuel costs alone.

The authors find that when modeling assumptions closely mirror the actual requirements and flexibilities of the final MATS rule, the predicted impact on the electricity sector is less severe.

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.

This leaves them vulnerable in times of severe drought, when less water is available to generate electricity.

The amount of electricity generated in a power grid must always equal the amount being consumed, so when wind turbines put power into a grid other generators, often fossil - fuelled, generate less; so less fossil fuels are burned.

When South Australia's electricity supply is now more secure and less likely to suffer summertime blackouts thanks to solar.

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.