Sentences with phrase «location than electricity»

Swiss HVDC cable manufacturer ABB has researched the cross-over point at which natural gas is cheaper to pipe to its final location than electricity generated nearer the upstream gas source.

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Firms mining bitcoin have also taken to moving to remote locations, not registering a company and engaging in the mildly illegal activity of purchasing electricity directly from power producers rather than grid operators.

In some locations in the U.S. that are target markets for EVs, it is actually less expensive to use gasoline than it is to use electricity to propel a plug - in hybrid car.

We need a new vision of the electric generation, transmission and distribution system rather than one that moves electricity generated at remote locations, arriving at the point of end use... with a loss of 67 percent of otherwise valuable thermal energy.

Furthermore, this consideration might influence the ideal location or orientation of a solar design (such as siting the design where it will get more afternoon light, and thus offset energy when electricity prices are higher, rather than where it would produce the most energy overall).

However, for several locations and technologies (especially for PV in Europe and islands), on - site generation now costs less than electricity purchased from the grid.

It introduced about 37 megawatts of solar PV generation spread over 265 locations across the city (enough to power more than 9 000 Japanese households) has deployed over 2,000 electric vehicles, and has seen great success in using incentives to limit electricity use.

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.

We expect to arrive at 95 cent / watt single - axis tracker utility - scale solar in 2019 - 2020 that is more efficient than solar today, resulting in 3 cent / kilowatt - hour utility - scale electricity, which will outcompete natural gas in many locations.

Wind is far cheaper than any other new source of electricity, and solar in proper location is next cheapest.

2 Small - scale solar photovoltaic systems are electricity generators with less than one megawatt of electricity generating capacity that are usually at or near the location where the electricity is consumed.