Sentences with phrase «much electricity smart»

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I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.

Smart - grid technologies could reduce overall electricity consumption by 6 percent and peak demand by as much as 27 percent.

Once everybody is using the same connectors, what will matter most for electric car and plug - in hybrid owners will be how «smart» the chargers & cars will be; for example, you could set it to charge only certain times of the day or night, or to communicate with a smart meter to only charge when electricity is at a certain rate, or only when there's a surplus of renewable energy on the grid, or to charge in a way that extends the life of your battery pack as much as possible, etc..

There is much interest in «smart demand» system, e.g. time - shifting electricity use by incentivising customers to run their energy consumption appliances off - peak, through time - of - use tariffs delivered through smart meters.

Using my trusty Kill A Watt electricity usage monitor, I tested a Philips Hue White smart bulb (which uses Zigbee), a Eufy Lumos Wi - Fi smart bulb, and a GoControl Z - Wave smart bulb to see how much electricity each type of bulb pulled even when I had the light turned off.

We did a little bit of experimenting to find out, but spoiler alert: it's really not that much electricity at all, depending on which smart bulbs you use.