There is a need for a great deal
more electricity over the next 50 years.
Not exact matches
The first six months of 2017 saw turbines send
more than 6.6 million megawatt hours of
electricity to the National Grid, enough to supply a little
over 3 million Scottish homes.
It's estimated wind can never supply
more than the 19 % of electrical needs it does in the world leader, Denmark, until someone comes up with a way of storing the wind power that blows when we don't need it (for the times when it doesn't), or a way of transmitting
electricity over huge distances with minimal line loss.
Horizon Power will trial a new method of charging residents and businesses in Port Hedland for
electricity, with the aim of giving customers
more control
over their power usage.
A
more powerful heater should run less, for an equal amount of
electricity used to hold an equal temperature under equal conditions
over time.
Just
over a decade ago, coal - fired power generated
more than 50 % of U.S.
electricity.
Certain matters discussed in this press release are forward ‐ looking statements, including that Everstream Energy Capital Partners, North Sky Capital and New Energy Capital are planning to invest
more than $ 67 million in a fund to support utility ‐ scale projects in Central and Southern California developed by SunEdison; that the projects will generate
over 320,000 MWh of
electricity annually, and create hundreds of jobs or up to 250,000 hours for California electrical and construction union workers.
Solar power, which now generates almost 2 percent of the nation's
electricity, has become popular among Democrats and Republicans alike, as people consider ways to have
more control
over their energy use and to reduce pollution as well as create jobs.
The equipment, which could cover
more than 20 percent of the county's
electricity use, could be turned
over or sold to the county at the end of the contract.
Plus, local generation is
more reliable than
electricity transported
over long transmission lines, a major plus on brutal winter days we often see in February.
More than 33 gigawatts of coal - fired
electricity generation will be retired
over the next couple decades, EIA said, pushing up demand for natural gas.
The superconducting wires shown in the photo above are capable of moving 5x the amount of
electricity as copper wires, with lower heat and energy losses, which make it possible to
more efficiently transmit
electricity over long distances.
«[F] or decades, she has fought a battle with many of her biochemist colleagues
over the properties of DNA and,
more recently, her unorthodox proposal about how the body repairs damage to this vital molecule» using
electricity, Service writes.
But small server rooms, or even closets, employed by smaller companies the world
over, typically do not have computers with the most efficient cooling and use up to twice as much
electricity per computation as the
more effective computers employed by many large computing companies.
The only thing that has kept servers from sucking up ever
more energy has been a little known corollary of Moore's law:
over the past 65 years, the number of computations that can be done per kilowatt - hour of
electricity used has doubled every 1.6 years, according to Koomey's research.
«As
more and
more renewable
electricity gets put on the grid
over time, you're going to have [surplus] issues.
But it doesn't add much to the cost of the resulting
electricity because it allows the turbines to be generating for longer periods and those costs can be spread out
over more hours of
electricity production.
It is
more efficient to transmit
electricity over long distances in the form of DC, rather than alternating current.
In sun - scorched Arizona a regulatory skirmish has broken out
over arrays of blue - black silicon panels on rooftops, threatening the local utilities that have ruled
electricity generation for a century or
more.
A new survey of consumer attitudes released today by Accenture indicates that U.S. consumers are
more interested in smart grid applications that save them money and automate the management of their
electricity use, rather than giving them direct control
over heating, cooling and appliances as prices fluctuate during the day.
While the number of
electricity - hungry transistors that can be squeezed onto a silicon chip has doubled about every two years
over the past few decades, it took
more than 20 years (from 1970 to 1990) to double the amount of energy that rechargeable batteries can store per pound.
Due to the ability of black cells to capture solar radiation from low angles, they generate
more electricity already
over the duration of one day as compared to the traditional cells.
Some brain scientists believe that our fear systems are prepared to learn about threats — snakes, spiders, or heights — that have been major obstacles to survival
over the millions of years it has taken the modern brain to evolve, which explains why it is easier to develop phobias about snakes than about threats that are statistically much
more likely to kill you, such as
electricity.
Natural gas might still have an advantage
over coal when burned to create
electricity, because gas - fired power plants tend to be newer and far
more efficient than older facilities that provide the bulk of the country's coal - fired generation.
Dr Peter Bagot, Research Associate in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, said: «Digital broadcasting is
more energy efficient than analogue broadcasting, and following digital switch
over, digital broadcast towers now use less
electricity than their analogue equivalents.
«Per capita use of
electricity is pretty much the same
over several decades in California, even though there are
more electrical appliances and gadgets around the house,» Kelly notes.
Concerns
over climate change have encouraged governments and consumers to demand that
electricity is decarbonised — which means no
more burning of coal and gas wherever possible.
On a larger scale, the Fresno Unified School District — the fourth - largest school district in California, with
more than 73,000 students — recently completed a large retrofit project in 984 portable classrooms at 84 school sites, designed to save the district
over $ 365,000 in annual
electricity costs.
Five months after Puerto Rico's worst natural disaster in nearly a century,
more than 30 percent of the island —
over 900,000 people — still live without
electricity.
Based on data generated by
more than 23,000 MyFord ® Mobile plug - in hybrid customers
over several years, Ford estimates the 2019 Fusion Energi will potentially allow up to 80 percent of plug - in customers to drive their typical daily commute on
electricity alone, with the support of both home and workplace charging, assuming the vehicle is fully charged daily at home and at work.
If / when oil gets
over $ 100 / barrel and stays there, a combination of coal, nuclear, solar and wind will be used to generate
electricity, and electric cars will become
more common.
To summarise,
electricity retailers will need
more renewable capacity
over the next nine years (see graph below).
What's
more, it's all powered by solar - generated
electricity, so you don't have to worry about flipping on the artisanal shell chandelier
over the dining table.
More than 4 months without
electricity, without water — a crisis caused by a natural disaster, but made possible by
over a century of U.S. colonialism.
After crunching some numbers, running some tests and making some (fairly safe) assumptions, user SanDiegoDave100
over at Motley Fool is able to make a pretty good case for using a solar power system to provide
electricity for his home and an all - electric car like the forthcoming Tesla Roadster or the company's
more affordable second and third models.
For example, an «energy security fee» of $ 3.50 per barrel of imported oil would raise approximately $ 15 billion annually; reduced fossil fuel subsidies as proposed by the administration could generate upwards of $ 35 billion
over ten years; a utilities
electricity fee could raise at least $ 2 billion annually, as included in the Kerry - Lieberman American Power Act; and royalties on new offshore continental shelf drilling could raise
more than $ 100 billion
over twenty years.
Due to the ability of black cells to capture solar radiation from low angles, they generate
more electricity already
over the duration of one day as compared to the traditional cells.
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They've caused
electricity to be far
more expensive than it could and should be, caused global GHG emissions to be 10 - 20 % higher than it could have been and caused the rate of emissions reductions
over the coming decades to be very much slower than it would be of not for their irrational, ideologically driven scare mongering.
Most solar panels produce
electricity for
over 20 years or
more as their parts do not wear out easily.
«Nevertheless, generating a very large amount of
electricity over the next period, the role of
electricity storage is going to become
more and
more central to making sure the system is balanced, it's working well and we get the best out of whatever the mix is.
ENERGY STAR Certified ventilation fans 60 % less energy on average than standard models, saving
more than $ 60 in
electricity over the life of the fan.
More significantly, as the 115th member of RE100, the company joins a group which now generates demand for over 153TWh of renewable electricity annually — more than it takes to power Pol
More significantly, as the 115th member of RE100, the company joins a group which now generates demand for
over 153TWh of renewable
electricity annually —
more than it takes to power Pol
more than it takes to power Poland.
The coal industry, which last year created the American Coalition for Clean Coal
Electricity, has been equally busy priming Americans over the indispensability of coal (about half of all the U.S,'s domestic electricity comes from it) and its evolution over time as clean - er than it once was («emissions have been reduced by more than one - third» s
Electricity, has been equally busy priming Americans
over the indispensability of coal (about half of all the U.S,'s domestic
electricity comes from it) and its evolution over time as clean - er than it once was («emissions have been reduced by more than one - third» s
electricity comes from it) and its evolution
over time as clean - er than it once was («emissions have been reduced by
more than one - third» since 1970).
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More wind energy capacity has been installed in Canada
over the last decade than any other form of
electricity generation.
As a result, a TPO solar lease customer in some instances could wind up paying
more over the 10 - or 20 - year term of a residential solar lease than they would have paid a utility for
electricity over the same period of time, pointed out Stanley Fishbein, the co-founder and one of two managing partners of CleanView Capital, a solar energy finance company focused primarily on the commercial and industrial segments of the solar energy market.
The computer chip maker also announced it will increase the amount of clean power it purchases in the form of renewable energy credits (RECs) to
more than 1.4 billion kilowatt hours — an amount equal to
over half its 2010
electricity needs.
The members of GWEC represent
over 1,500 companies, organisations and institutions in
more than 80 countries, including manufacturers, developers, component suppliers, research institutes, national wind and renewables associations,
electricity providers, finance and insurance companies.
Backing out fossil fuels begins with the
electricity sector, where the development of 5,153 gigawatts of new renewable generating capacity by 2020,
over half of it from wind, would be
more than enough to replace all the coal and oil and 70 percent of the natural gas now used to generate
electricity.
Norway gets
over 99 percent of its
electricity from renewable sources, often producing
more than it requires and exporting the energy to other countries.