Sentences with phrase «means higher electricity»

Which means higher electricity rates — 8.1 per cent higher, according to BC Hydro's own calculations.

The retirement of the Beaver Valley, Davis - Besse, Perry and Three Mile Island plants will also mean higher electricity costs for residents, and the loss of thousands of jobs.

Not exact matches

There are always some marginal businesses for whom any higher cost — electricity or any other input, a legal dispute — will mean The End.

I assume that after you've finished insulting other posters, you will agree to be TAXED at a much HIGHER RATE in order to give all these poor people a dignified living, which I assume from your comments means free housing, free electricity, free hot water, a free bus pass or maybe even a car if public transporation is not available.

In addition to reducing the truck body's weight to save on fuel, the GuardianLT's high thermal performance also reduces fuel and electricity consumption without skimming on performance, which means the body helps maintain desired temperatures using less energy.

Benefits of the company's new wastewater and green energy plant mean that DMPI can replace fossil fuels with green energy, and given the high prices of electricity form the Grid and the sometimes erratic supply, the plant will achieve rapid ROI payback.

Despite efforts to reduce emissions, unusually high gas prices in 2006 meant more electricity was generated by coal, the environment secretary explained.

Supercapacitors have a much higher energy density than batteries, meaning they can charge and discharge extremely quickly; this is useful to meet quick spikes in electricity demand on the rail system.

Higher efficiency means more electricity produced for a given size of solar cell, which increases power output and lowers overall system costs.

It has been speculated that at high pressures hydrogen even transforms to a metal, which means it conducts electricity.

The higher temperature means the heat energy can be converted to electricity more efficiently.

You'll be doing more laundry, too — probably two to three extra loads per week — and that means higher water and electricity bills.

The hybrid system means official economy is higher than a conventionally powered Cayenne and enables you to drive on pure electricity in slow traffic or for short distances.

More remarkably, the company also says it can run on electricity at speeds up to 86 miles per hour — though that's slightly deceptive, since it means the engine may shut down for a while at speeds that high, leaving the electric motor to propel the car.

The newer electric motor can run up to 62 mph, meaning that it can run on electricity at higher speeds, saving more gas.

A high school dropout with an MFA from Columbia University, Banks is a spectacular oddball, one who makes haunting sculptures that reinvigorate played - out symbolism, using electricity, propane, salt, plywood, aluminum, and any means necessary.

Replacing existing capacity with new capacity means U.S. consumers will pay higher electricity prices, similar to what Ontario electricity consumers faced.

Tobin claims that NGS will increase reliability and «secure the grid,» but does not recognize the potential of high capacity factor concentrated solar thermal projects, like Arizona's Solana concentrated solar plant, or the innovative potential of batteries, wind - solar combinations and other means to generate electricity after the sun sets.

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«In the case of Eversource, this is all regulated generation so they're not benefiting from a higher wholesale electricity price,» Marks said, «though there are some indirect pathways that we think are really relevant which may mean higher prices may be good for them.»

This means that as Duke Energy and other providers that are doing the same thing — building generation facilities with high capital costs relative to their probable return using our tax dollars, more or less directly transporting those dollars into their pockets — sell the electricity built with the resources we helped them build, they will charge us more money for all the electricity they sell.

Overall Costs: High electricity rates mean a better return on increasing levels of self - consumption.

On hot summer afternoons, inefficient and expensive generators are turned on to satisfy the additional demand; they may run for only a few dozen hours in a year, but the cost of building and maintaining them means that the cost of that peak electricity is very high.

• Kyoto Protocol • EU ETS • Australian CO2 tax and ETS • Mandating and heavily subsidising ($ / TWh delivered) renewable energy • Masses of inappropriate regulations that have inhibited the development of nuclear power, made it perhaps five times more expensive now than it should be, slowed its development, slowed its roll out, caused global CO2 emissions to be 10 % to 20 % higher now than they would otherwise have been, meaning we are on a much slower trajectory to reduce emissions than we would be and, most importantly, we are locked in to fossil fuel electricity generation that causes 10 to 100 times more fatalities per TWh than would be the case if we allowed nuclear to develop (or perhaps 1000 times according to this: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html • Making building regulations that effectively prevent people from selling, refurbishing or updating their houses if they are close to sea level (the damage to property values and to property owners» life savings is enormous as many examples in Australia are already demonstrating.

Using a «high - resolution electricity system planning model» of the DOE's two - year - old SunShot Initiative (meant to knock down the cost of solar electricity to market prices by 2020) alongside likely carbon - limitation policies, Kammen and company found that it's not unrealistic for solar to capture a third of the Western U.S. electricity market within 40 years, displacing currently more - attractive technologies like nuclear and natural gas.

This means Queensland wind farms will produce most of their electricity at these times, which coincide with high network demand.

Success with ammonia means we will have developed and commercialized, at scale, with viable economics, infrastructure and supply chains, the following new technologies: CCS, SSAS, methane cracking, conventional and high temperature electrolysis and thermochemical water splitting for hydrogen production, nuclear heat sources and small modular reactors, and solar heat sources and renewable electricity of sufficient reliability to be integrated into high volume must - run industrial processes.

Since the 2011 earthquake and the subsequent Fukushima nuclear accident, Japan has had to contend with various challenges in its energy sector: shutdown of all nuclear power plants has meant that Japan has faced increased fuel imports coupled with higher electricity prices.

And as for the homeowner paying high gas bills:»... The U.S. currently burns about 13 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas for electricity generation, which means that by the end of the year wind power will be reducing natural gas use for power generation by 4 - 5 percent».

Proper use of gas and clean coal generation will be essential until renewables and other forms of generation are economical, but South Australia's ideological crusade (which has turned the state into the world's electricity crash test dummy, as I read somewhere) has meant that the lights will continue to go out during periods of high demand, with or without Elon Musk's Duracell.

The radiator from Lancey Energy Storage is described as a plug - and - play space heater, which means that even though it integrates a lithium battery and can allow users to charge it during times of cheaper electricity, and then use that electricity when grid prices are higher, no additional wiring is necessary to install it, and it can cost up to 75 % less than installing a gas heater.

Assuming a $ 30 / tonne CO2 tax and all of this is passed onto consumers, households below mean are fully compensated, households above mean would be paying less 2 % of income mainly on higher electricity, vehicle fuel and gas heat.

Phasing out this coal fired capacity will thus mean that higher order capacity will need to be used at an earlier stage, involving higher costs and thus leading to higher electricity prices.