Sentences with phrase «much higher electricity»

That said, in either case, the EPA Clean Power Plan will result in much higher electricity prices for American consumers and gain less than a.02 degree Centigrade benefit in temperature based on EPA models.

For example, it won't suprise anyone that an investigation of the internet's energy use by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity sees much higher electricity consumption than a report written by the information and communication technology industry itself.

And in Germany it seems to be primarily industries that are worried about being non-competitive internationally because of much higher electricity rates.

The prospects of much higher electricity rates could grievously harm Taiwan's semiconductor industry, independent experts warn.

Americans will have to pay much higher electricity prices despite the minuscule benefits of the Clean Power Plan, which reduces global carbon dioxide emissions by less than 1 percent and global temperatures by 0.02 degrees Celsius by 2100, according to EPA's own models.

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The International Energy Agency, a Paris - based think tank, said in its annual review of long - term megatrends in global energy that soaring electricity demand around the world will ensure that CO2 levels keep rising unless ambitions are ratcheted much higher.

The reason Bitcoin mining consumes so much electricity is that producing each new Bitcoin requires solving a complex mathematical puzzle, through a cryptographic process performed by high - powered computers.

Mining, a process by which individuals or groups get paid in new Bitcoins to run complex mathematical equations on high - powered computers in order to confirm the validity of transactions, has drawn scrutiny from environmentalists who say it's sucking up too much electricity.

As a result, Bitcoin's electricity consumption could rise as high as 120 terawatt - hours by the end of the year, about as much as Norway and more than double its current appetite.

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.

Electricity is expensive, but they prorate the fees according to how much you use — the higher the use, the higher the cost per unit — and also what month it is.

The risk of artificial infant feeding is considered much higher for babies in developing countries or disadvantaged communities, where clean water and electricity are not always available.

Silicon carbide is one of the most durable of materials and can help the industry shrink such chips while making their tolerances for heat and electricity much higher.

In fact, taxes are a much larger contributor to high electricity bills than the Lower Hudson Valley capacity zone.

LED TVs offer brighter and more vibrant picture quality, have a much better higher dynamic range, and also consume less electricity.

«The reduction in demand that has to occur has to be driven by price signals — a much higher cost for electricity,» James said.

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.

Electricity production from biomass, coal, gas and hydropower for instance induces much higher indirect greenhouse gas emissions than nuclear electricity, or wind and solar - based power supElectricity production from biomass, coal, gas and hydropower for instance induces much higher indirect greenhouse gas emissions than nuclear electricity, or wind and solar - based power supelectricity, or wind and solar - based power supply.»

And unlike incandescents, which generate a lot of waste heat, LEDs don't get especially hot and use a much higher percentage of electricity for directly generating light.

Chances are much higher for countries to agree to cooperate on a menu of climate - friendly initiatives, say, within particular sectors like electricity generation or manufacturing aluminum.

And that's great for keeping our gadgets charged, but considering that our daily personal power needs are much higher than just that of our gizmos, and that if the electricity goes out, we have no way to keep essential appliances running, so while we'll be able to have a fully charged phone, we'll also have our own little global warming event in our freezer.

You might not give your electricity bill much thought — except perhaps to lament how high it is — but electricity bills actually provide a lot of valuable information to inform the process of installing solar.

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.

Electricity generation shows 66 % of energy lost — mostly in heat from coal and natural gas, and including up to 10 % in transmission lines (refuting common assumptions that «wheeling losses» are much higher).

The demand for electricity, however, is much higher in the eastern part of the country.

If Taiwan goes forward with its planned phase - out of nuclear energy by 2025, electricity prices will rise at least 10 percent percent and more likely much higher.

These higher costs eventually transfer to other products that most of us consider essential: food because it uses much oil in growing and transport; electricity because it is associated with pollution controls; and metals for basic manufacturing, because they also use oil in extraction and transport.

Clarification from http://www.eosenergystorage.com/technology-and-products/ With a 30 - year life, Eos is can provide peak electricity at a levelized cost of $ 0.12 - 0.17 per kWh which is much more reasonable, although still rather high, suitable only for peak shaving.

You can replace with combined cycle gas, but that does not cut emissions as much as nuclear and the risk of gas price increases cause a high risk of increases in cost of electricity in the future.

Arizona receives the highest amount of solar irradiation in the country, a solar system in Arizona will make nearly twice as much electricity that one for example in Rhode - Island.

• 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.

As an example I gave the case of Denmark where although having the highest wind energy proportion of electricity generation in the world, the consumption within Denmark is much less than is generated; Denmark has the highest cost electricity in Europe and near the highest CO2 emissions from electricity generation in Europe.

And they are projecting that you look out 10 years from now and it's basically going to be about the same electricity demand in the state that we have right now, but with a much higher percentage of solar, bit higher percentage of wind.

While New England remains a summer peaking electricity system (with a forecasted 2018 summer peak around 25 percent higher than the forecasted 2018/2019 winter peak), winter peak forecasts are important for assessing the impacts of electric system reliability during a period when much of New England's energy infrastructure is dedicated to space heating (i.e., when interstate natural gas pipelines are used both for electricity generation and for heating homes and businesses).

Grid operators predict that in ten years, we'll have «about the same electricity demand in the state that we have right now, but with a much higher percentage of solar, bit higher percentage of wind.

Renewable electricity standards or clean energy standards would accomplish considerably less and would impose much higher costs per ton of emissions reduction than cap - and - trade would.

This could be done through building much higher capacity electricity transmission capacity between the Mekong States and China's southern electricity grid nexus in the city of Kunming.

Dishwashers may not use as much power as a constantly - running refrigerator or a high - heat clothes dryer, but the electricity and water that is needed to run a dishwasher cycle adds up.

Small wind turbines remain more expensive than large turbines, especially if the objective is to produce electricity for the grid, since the electrical connection and maintenance are a much higher proportion of the capital value of a distributed system.

Electricity demand in the PJM region is not constant year round, but fluctuates throughout the year, with the summer peak as much as 26 gigawatts higher than the winter peak, Chen said.

Their citizens will be forced to pay greatly increased rates for less reliable electricity, probably three to four times higher in current prices under the new EPA «Clean Power Plan» (CPP) regulations (much more accurately described as the Skyrocketing Rates Power Plan or SRPP), and their manufacturing industries may be forced to move to states that do not succumb to the intimidation or to foreign countries in order to survive economically.

The fee might depend on how much electricity you buy during peak hours when electricity demand is the highest.

Solar can't produce electricity at night, but as we've seen in Germany and Australia it doesn't take a lot of solar capacity to start pushing down electricty prices during the day and that is very bad for the economics of nuclear power as it's a high capital cost, low fuel cost source of energy and reducing output during periods of low demand doesn't do much to reduce costs.

To accommodate this variability, electricity grid operators use a variety of tools to maintain a reliable electricity supply — and can easily handle a much higher percentage of electricity from renewable sources.

This is true, but per average kilowatt of output, solar is much better at meeting demand than nuclear as it is load following, producing electricity during the day when demand is higher, while nuclear output is as constant as possible and is not dispatchable.

Since May 2012, a combination of higher prices for natural gas and increased demand for electricity during the summer months led electric systems across much of the country to increase their use of coal - fired units.

Because using heat directly is more much efficient that first converting heat to electricity, the overall efficiency of the high - temperature system is much higher.

«While some of the billions of cubic feet of natural gas planned for export from the United States will certainly be used in generating electricity in CFE's Mexico facilities, much of that natural gas appears to be subject to temporary storage, and redirection into Pemex liquefaction LNG facilities for export to higher - priced markets in Asia / Oceania,» the document continues.

Critics blame the kind of short - sightedness that sent Brookman to the exit and often results in too much focus on present high electric rates instead of long - term electricity costs paired with climate change benefits.

In the case of solar power, while utility - scale solar is just becoming cheaper than fossil fuels on the wholesale electricity market, rooftop solar panels have long competed with much - higher retail electricity prices.