Sentences with word «negawatt»

There would, of course, be little need for negawatts if it weren't for unreliable wind and solar power plants being added to the grid.

There is no need to pay negawatt aggregators to do the job.

Larger communities, such as the city of Richland, which was cited in a Wall Street Journal article promoting negawatts, can be enlisted in any such program sponsored by the utility.

The reason FERC has endorsed negawatts is because wind and solar are unreliable, and can result in the sudden interruption of supply.

Chasing negawatts, the energy that you don't use, is a popular pursuit these days for cash - strapped states, and California is turning out to be excellent at it.

And smart grid companies want federal grants for projects to modernize the nation's electricity grid, as well as tax credits for companies that use so - called smart meters or devices and software to reduce power use (see Smart Grid Coalition Seeks Tax Breaks for Negawatts).

Obviously the grid operator is only interested if the aggregator can deliver Megawatts of negawatts.

OhmConnect is creating «negawatts»: units of energy saved by people turning off their appliances.

Negawatts, hypercars and soft paths are the inventions of a controversial academic turned campaigner.

The power industry and government both know that the cheapest source of electricity is «negawatts», i.e. energy efficiency.

A «negawatt,» as Lovins would point out, is cheaper to find than a megawatt is to produce.

However, there is no need for us to understand it as a problem to see the backwards thinking that has produced the climate and energy policies that now put expensive «negawatts» further up the political agenda than cheaper megawatts.

The company can offer those «negawatts» of reduced energy use to grid operators, which in turn pay EnerNOC for the service.

A federal court threw out a rule that establishes a favorable rate for these «negawatts.»

Lovins opened by noting the global decline in nuclear power plants, a trend he attributed to two powerful market forces: energy efficiency (i.e. «negawatts») and supply competition.

(This is the equivalent to the concept of «negawatts» promoted by Amory Lovins: a watt saved from conservation is the cheapest, cleanest energy source.)

Smart Grid: The Demand Response Smart Grid Coalition has 21 policy recommendations, including tax credits for companies that use so - called smart meters or devices and software to reduce power use (see Smart Grid Coalition Seeks Tax Breaks for Negawatts).

Alex, another similar quote comes from Amory Lovins, godfather of renewable energy and «negawatts»:

The next few years will also be rosier for negawatts.

The cost of a negawatt is still considerably cheaper than building new generation.

Grunwald resoundingly endorses starting with efficiency, including incentives to utilities for «negawatts;» a different path for the developing world; and he says, «In the medium term, the world needs plug - in electric cars, the only plausible answer to humanity's oil addiction that isn't decades away.»)

Negawatts are watts that don't exist, but an overzealous approach to demand response has turned them into gold for negawatt accumulators.

If the aggregator can get 1,000 customers to each turn off a 100 watt light bulb, it creates 100,000 Negawatts or 100 negative KW.

Negawatts are watts that don't exist, but an overzealous approach Continue reading Paying Money for Nothing →

And, Salzman said, the other important consideration is negawatts, or not having to replace capacity.

The supposed allure of negawatts, is the idea that homeowners and small businesses can join the Demand Response team.

Negawatts are supposed to achieve the same effect by having a multitude of small customers cut back on their usage.

Grid operators are paying for negawatts.

Adding the complexity of paying aggregators, and embellishing the concept of DR with a new politically correct term, negawatts, makes little sense.

These negawatts have the effect of lowering demand, which reduces the need for bringing spinning reserves online.

Negawatts (a term Amory Lovins came up

Amory Lovins (advocate of wind, solar and conservation, enemy of nuclear energy and the person who coined the term «negawatts») is actually a highly - paid lackey of oil and gas interests.