Sentences with phrase «local electricity plant»

The facility will also have green roofs featuring flowering plants that will help to keep the buildings cool and during the summer when the heat rises, excess steam from the local electricity plant will be used as an additional power source for running machines that keep the equipment cool.

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That flexible - fueling advantage has, however, enabled Sunnyvale, Calif. - based Bloom Energy to sell some 120 natural gas — fuel SOFCs, stand - alone heat and power units that produce both electricity and heat for a local site, to green - minded Fortune 500 corporate plants and state university facilities — notably, subsidized distributed power demonstration projects in California.

The researchers also noted that long - distance transmission could lead to other local environmental impacts from power plants in the electricity exporting regions.

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For example, after transporting its owner to the airport, the IMx can park itself in a spot where the vehicle can connect to the local power grid and act as a «virtual» power plant by returning electricity to the grid, an extension of its vehicle - to - home and vehicle - to - building features.

There is a small hydel plant located near the base that generates electricity for local use.

But the price of oil never rose as was predicted, so the solar plant never became competitive with fossil fuel - based energy production (Carrizo sold its electricity to the local utility for between three and four cents a kilowatt - hour, while a minimum price of eight to ten cents a kilowatt - hour would be necessary in order for Carrizo to make a profit).»

[31] According to The Guardian, «The reports, claiming the power plant rules would lead to rolling blackouts, send electricity prices skyrocketing, and devastate local economies, are being published in 16 states by a network of pro-corporate and ultra-conservative thinktanks.»

Electricity generation typically occurs in plants that hold local or regional monopolies, with vast profit potential.

As for the breakdown of electricity rates, more detailed information needs to be disclosed, such as (1) «wheeling charges» (cost of transmitting electricity); (2) the cost of generated electricity equivalent to the amount of expenses shared to cover the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, etc. (included in the wheeling charges; legislation requires all electricity users to pay a share of this cost); and (3) the amount of a «promotion of power - resources development tax,» which is used to subsidize local governments hosting nuclear power plants.

The local utility either owns power plants or buys electricity they need from the wholesale market.

Last March, Brewer launched a solar energy task force — a group of local solar executives, industry advocates and city officials — to develop strategies to lower solar installation costs, open up public lands to large - scale solar plants and build new transmission lines to connect green electricity to communities.

To increase electricity supply on the local grid, it has built and now operates two mini-hydro plants.

When residents of the Turkish village of Büyükeceli decided to install a set of solar panels to demonstrate how renewable energy could be a viable alternative to the proposed nuclear power plant they are fighting, they first thought to use the green electricity to power a local school.

There are efforts underway now to shift more electricity demand to times when renewables are most abundant, build more energy storage and local distributed resources to reduce congestion, make the grid more resilient, and reduce the need to rely on natural gas peaker plants, especially ones in disadvantaged communities.

Moving from firewood to electricity generated in coal - fired plants is a genuine improvement, a technical remedy that separates cooking and heating from deforestation and severe indoor air pollution, even though the new source of energy contributes to local smog and global warming.

Non-contentious environment and health and safety expert Elizabeth Shepherd advised a French environmental services company and a Polish waste company on their joint tender to the City of Belgrade to operate a new energy from waste plant, supplying electricity and heat to the local utility companies.