Sentences with phrase «national electricity use»

In Germany, where wind covers 8 percent of national electricity use, four northern states each boast impressive wind power shares of more than 40 percent.

Within the United States, the Rocky Mountain Institute calculates that if the 40 least efficient states were to achieve the electrical efficiency of the 10 most efficient ones, national electricity use would be cut by one third.

The Rocky Mountain Institute calculates that if the 40 least - efficient states were to reach the electrical efficiency of the 10 most - efficient ones, national electricity use would be reduced by one third.

Not exact matches

As Igwebike Dominic, assistant general secretary of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), which has been fighting the privatisation programme, puts it: «Can you imagine a landlord sells their property to someone else, and then uses the money from the sale to paint, furnish and upgrade the house for the new owner?

The 30 - second ad highlights Ms. Teachout's opposition to New York's property tax cap, which in 2015 saved taxpayers $ 4.5 billion, and her support of a national energy tax — something she flippantly calls a «fee» — that would cost New York families roughly $ 1,761 a year for using propane, electricity or fueling up their automobiles.

It revolves around investing # 1 billion in a «hi - tech National Grid» which would see «smart meters» being installed in every home - meaning that energy companies would be able to tell consumers when it is cheapest to use electricity.

In a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers calculate that U.S. wind turbines could produce 16 times the electricity we now use.

The series, produced by Detroit Public Television, will explore how transformation is coming to how we use and produce electricity, impacting the environment, national security and the economy.

If they were, gaming computers worldwide might well be consuming billions of dollars less in electricity use annually, with no loss in performance, according to new research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory hope that piped - in sunlight will put a serious dent in the amount of energy used to light commercial buildings, which accounts for about 10 percent of all electricity consumption in the United States.

AN ARTICLE about the world's top 500 supercomputers on The Inquirer website informed reader George Neil: «The Chinese National University of Defence Technology houses the 3.12 million core Tianhe - 2 cluster, which has 1 petabyte of RAM, uses a proprietary interconnect dubbed the TH Express 2 and consumes 17.8 GWatt [gigawatts] of electricity.»

«The electro - chemical stability of the electrolyte we are using here can withstand three volts, whereas many solid electrolytes previously studied are damaged at the same voltage,» says Arndt Remhof, a researcher at Empa and leader of the project, which is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Swiss Competence Centre for Energy Research on Heat and Electricity Storage (SCCER - HaE).

CONVERTING sunlight into electricity, rather than using it to heat water directly, could lead to cheaper domestic solar energy, say engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland.

The series, produced by Detroit Public Television, will continue to explore how transformation is coming to how we use and produce electricity, impacting the economy, the environment and national security.

Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories, along with partner institutions Georgia Tech, Bucknell University, King Saud University and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), are using a falling particle receiver to more efficiently convert the sun's energy to electricity in large - scale, concentrating solar power plants.

This electricity can be converted to alternating current (AC) power for use in the building or if more power is generated, the surplus will be exported to the National Grid.

[166][167] A 2010 study conducted at Argonne National Laboratory reached similar findings, concluding that PHEVs will reduce oil consumption but could produce very different greenhouse gas emissions for each region depending on the energy mix used to generate the electricity to recharge the plug - in hybrids.

In another sign that things are changing fast back in Blightey, the National Grid just announced that it had its first 100 % coal - free day since coal use for electricity began:

A new National Research Council report finds that by the year 2050, the U.S. may be able to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent for light - duty vehicles — cars and small trucks — via a combination of more efficient vehicles; the use of alternative fuels like biofuels, electricity, and hydrogen; and strong government policies to overcome high costs and influence consumer choices.

The US household average electricity consumption is roughly 11,000 kWh per year, so I'm using roughly a quarter of the national average.

A future hydrogen economy could use the gas as an energy carrier As this method doesn't produce oxygen which needs to be kept separate from hydrogen, safety from explosion of the two gases is much less of a problem with electricity in the national grids carried by ageing cables, it would be useful to replace them by passing the hydrogen along gas pipes used currently for natural methane gas.

For this analysis, we compared estimates of the technical potential for rooftop solar systems in each state (as estimated in a GIS - based analysis by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory) with residential electricity use (from the most recent EIA Residential Energy Consumption Survey or RECS).

Using the latest available national data on power generation, this most recent look at data on annual and quarterly electricity generation nationwide from the Energy Democracy Initiative at ILSR illustrates how small - scale, distributed solar energy stacks up against its big, fossil fuel and utility - scale renewable energy competitors.

Electricity emissions factors were used from the National Inventory Report Canada (2011): Part 3.

The report's wider appeal is the techniques and methods used to model the Australian National Electricity Market's (NEM) demand and wholesale spot prices for the lifetime of the proposed plant.

Many people living in remote areas are not linked to the national electricity grid, and use batteries or run their own generators to supply their power needs.

Because energy - rich California used to have electricity costs that were below the 1960 national average of 1.8 cents per kilowatt hour, the state was a large electricity exporter.

This post http://bravenewclimate.com/2009/08/16/solar-power-realities-supply-demand-storage-and-costs/ provides a limit analysis of the cost to supply the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) with electricity to meet the demand using either nuclear only or solar PV and energy stElectricity Market (NEM) with electricity to meet the demand using either nuclear only or solar PV and energy stelectricity to meet the demand using either nuclear only or solar PV and energy storage only.

Less than 2 % of U.S. electricity is generated from oil, so using electricity as a transportation fuel would greatly reduce dependence on imported petroleum, thus contributing to our national security.»

National GHG emissions from industrial sources (electricity generation, transportation, buildings, etc) and Land Use, Land - Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) 2000

The Wind Vision report updates the Department of Energy's 2008 20 % Wind Energy by 2030 through analysis of scenarios of wind power supplying 10 % of national end - use electricity demand by 2020, 20 % by 2030, and 35 % by 2050.

This grid would not only aid in realizing Europe's huge offshore wind potential, it would link national grids with each other, thus facilitating more - efficient electricity use throughout the continent.

In reality, Ohio uses less natural gas (5 percent) for electricity generation and more coal (82 percent) compared to the national average according to data from the Energy Information Administration.

5 % of total funds must be used to create a clean national transportation low emissions plan, which would establish an electric vehicle strategic deployment goal for 2020 and project the near - and long - term infrastructure and standardization needs for EVs, electricity providers, vehicle manufacturers, and electricity purchasers.

A study by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory found that the U.S. can generate 80 percent of its electricity from renewable energy by 2050, using available technology.

The NAS National Research Council calculates that the health costs from fossil fuel combustion are in the billions: «WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Research Council examines and, when possible, estimates «hidden» costs of energy production and use — such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health — that are not reflected in market prices of coal, oil, other energy sources, or the electricity and gasoline produced from them.

Like the proposed U.S. national grid, the Europe - wide grid would use high - voltage direct - current lines that transmit electricity far more efficiently than existing lines do.

It is based on national average electricity use per square foot of U.S. homes in general.

It is based on the national average electricity use per square foot for each housing type listed.

The National Center for Public Policy Research released a report that tells us Al Gore's swimming pool uses the same electricity as six average US homes.

For example, wind and hydro can be very complementary so having a more national approach to our planning and our use of electricity will benefit the country and help us reduce our greenhouse gas emissions as a whole.

Modeling low - carbon US electricity futures to explore impacts on national and regional water use.

The manager of the energy portfolio for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discusses the benefits of evening out our day's use of electricity and how future appliances will decide when they can spark up most cheaply.

Global Wind Energy Council, Global Wind 2008 Report (Brussels: 2009), pp. 3, 56; Erik Shuster, Tracking New Coal - Fired Power Plants (Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory, January 2009); «Nuclear Dips in 2008,» World Nuclear News, 29 May 2009; 1 megawatt of installed wind capacity produces enough electricity to supply 300 homes from American Wind Energy Association, «U.S. Wind Energy Installations Reach New Milestone,» press release (Washington, DC: 14 August 2006); number of homes calculated using average U.S. household size from U.S. Census Bureau, «2005 — 2007 American Community Survey 3 - Year Estimates — Data Profile Highlights,» at factfinder.census.gov / servlet / ACSSAFFFacts, viewed 9 April 2009, and population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & Country QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 February 2009.

For example, Daniel Schwartz of Carnegie Mellon University and co-authors reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that residents used considerably less electricity when told they were participating in a study of household electricity consumption.

In the traditional model of a national electricity system — widely used for more than 50 years — large conventional gas, coal and nuclear generation plants supply large centres of demand.

On behalf of the Quadrennial Energy Review (QER) Task Force, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a workshop on February 8 - 9, 2016, titled «Electricity Use in Rural and Islanded Communities.»

According to the authors, the U.S.'s spare nighttime electricity capacity could power a large fleet of PHEVs; since they require about 10 hours of nightly charging, Joe Sullivan of the Argonne National Laboratory, one of the authors, nighttime electricity could allow PHEVs to replace up to 34 % of today's light - duty fleet - and only consume 13 % of the fuel used nationally for electricity generation in the process.Michael Kintner - Meyer of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - in a separate study - found that 43 % of the fleet could be replaced by PHEVs with existing nighttime capacity.

More than a quarter of US commercial and industrial (C&I) electricity users could potentially use energy storage to lower premium rates they are charged during periods of high demand, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has found.

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA), Crude Oil Production, electronic database, at tonto.eia.doe.gov, updated 28 July 2008; American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), «Installed U.S. Wind Power Capacity Surged 45 % in 2007: American Wind Energy Association Market Report,» press release (Washington, DC: 17 January 2008); AWEA, U.S. Wind Energy Projects, electronic database, at www.awea.org/projects, updated 31 March 2009; future capacity calculated from Emerging Energy Research (EER), «US Wind Markets Surge to New Heights,» press release (Cambridge, MA: 14 August 2008); coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; residential consumption calculated using «Residential Sector Energy Consumption Estimates, 2005,» in DOE, EIA, Residential Energy Consumption Survey 2005 Status Report (Washington, DC: 2007), with capacity factor from DOE, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Power Technologies Energy Data Book (Golden, CO: August 2006); population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 February 2009.