Sentences with phrase «making electricity the standard»

If electric cars could recharge while driving down a highway, it would virtually eliminate concerns about their range and lower their cost, perhaps making electricity the standard fuel for vehicles.

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The projects are part of the state's Clean Energy Standard, which hopes to make 50 percent of the electricity used in New York come from renewable resources by 2030.

It uses standard household electricity, making it simple to plug up and go.

Made from cheap, abundant components, these cells use a titanium dioxide dye to turn 11 percent of incoming light into electricity — close to the efficiency of standard solar cells used by homeowners today as shown in the photo.

Focus on everything going well in your life even if it's just appreciating your electricity, a warm bed to sleep in, food in your fridge because if you make this a standard practice each night you'll also sleep much better too and sleep will fix what's going on in your body.

Hybrid is the standard mode, making use of both gasoline and electric motors as needed, while E-mode keeps the GLE550e running on electricity as long as it has battery range.

There is a carbon cost of building homes, electric cars and electricity generation that makes low carbon living «a modern standard of living» — unless very, very soon we change lifestyles.

It's just that it's happening at the same time as a revolution in living standards, with billions of new consumers hooking up to the electricity grid and millions more buying the latest power - hungry flat - screen TVs, made in China.

The combination of industry standards, best practices and effective state and federal regulation is protecting communities and the environment — while making available increasing volumes of cleaner - burning natural gas that is allowing the U.S. to lead the world in reducing carbon emissions from electricity generation.

The whole point of the FIT program, IMHO, was to make electricity production in Ontario more accessible to communities, homeowners, schools, farmers, etc... by creating a standard, long - term contract and process for selling green electricity into the provincial grid.

And unlike cap - and - trade, which would also affect oil consumption, the electricity standards would make no contribution to energy security.

«(ii) additions of capacity made on or after January 1, 2001, or the effective commencement date of an existing applicable State renewable electricity standard program at an existing nonhydroelectric dam, if --

This would certainly make the 15 % easier to meet, what with China's aggressive plans to increase nuke capacity ten-fold by 2020, and suggest it would now need less new renewables - based electricity to meet this 15 % standard than originally thought.

Also, critics contended that the zero - emissions standard was erroneous, because while electric cars themselves don't pollute, the power plants that make electricity do — a fair point.

By making it easier for municipal governments to incorporate solar into local permitting, the guide supports Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) strategy to build a clean, resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers and the Clean Energy Standard commitment that 50 percent of New York State's electricity come from renewable energy sources by 2030.

Horner testified before the Kansas legislature on February 12 to encourage the false notion that the renewable energy portfolio standard is going to make consumer electricity bills skyrocket (again, there is no correlation between state RPS laws and electricity prices).

The team, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), claims the technology could slash the cost of generating electricity from sunlight, making it more competitive with standard grid power [The Guardian].

Obama made clear his animosity against America's high standard of living based on low - cost electricity.

Passage of the renewable electricity standard was a long time in the making.