Sentences with phrase «of electricity charging»

This is a long and detailed study that looks at everything from the manufacture of batteries to the source of the electricity charging them.

It is entirely possible that a random triggering event or series of events (lightning or some form of electricity charging a primordial soup of methane, ammonia, etc.; bombardment by cosmic radiation and other hypothetically random occurrences) was the occasion through which a whole new dimension, that of the biosphere, flooded onto the terrestrial scene.

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Shell is building an offshore wind farm in the North Sea; it's part of consortia installing solar farms in Oman and California; and it has bought one of Europe's biggest electric - car - charging firms and a major British electricity provider.

For instance, the electrically charged abs on a full - size, 6 - foot -7-inch long eel can produce up to 600 volts of electricity.

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.

On concerns about power use, Bakken said his personal electricity bill had risen 5 percent from charging his car at home and fears of surge demand were overblown.

If you just charge people a lower price when there's a lot of wind and sun (when the supply of electricity is abundant and cheap) and a higher price at times when there's not, they'll reduce consumption when electricity is scarce.

The plan includes the installation of a charging station at the buyer's home and as much electricity as needed, based on a tiered service that depends on how much you want to drive.

Electricity is cheap, and so long as consumers have the option of charging at home there is a limit to how much stations can mark up the price of providing eElectricity is cheap, and so long as consumers have the option of charging at home there is a limit to how much stations can mark up the price of providing electricityelectricity.

In addition to the tax measures outlined in Chapter V: A Fair and Efficient Tax System, the 2014 Budget measures include net revenue gains of asset optimization (discussed in Chapter I, Section E: Making Every Dollar Count) totalling $ 0.9 billion in 2014 — 15 and $ 1.0 billion in 2015 — 16, and the revenue implications of the proposed removal of the electricity Debt Retirement Charge cost from residential users» bills (discussed in Chapter I, Section D: Fostering a Fair Society).

Municipal power authorities in upstate New York have received permission to charge certain cryptocurrency mining enterprises higher rates for the use of their electricity than they charge other customers.

I'm charging every single device we have, planning to go through them one at a time when we lose electricity and can't reach the rest of the world.

As of December 1, 2009, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, for example, offered an off - peak discount of approximately 50 % off of the regular residential electricity rate for electricity used to charge electric vehicles.

The threat, often referred to as the «utility death spiral,» goes like this: as customers choose to install solar panels or adopt energy efficiency measures, a utility will sell fewer units of energy and has to increase what it charges for electricity to ensure that it can still cover its fixed costs, such as grid maintenance and labor.

Plus, with Location - Based Charging, you can delay charging to take advantage of off - peak electricity rates when you're at home and begin charging immediately when you'Charging, you can delay charging to take advantage of off - peak electricity rates when you're at home and begin charging immediately when you'charging to take advantage of off - peak electricity rates when you're at home and begin charging immediately when you'charging immediately when you're away.

The New York State Public Service Commission today ruled that upstate municipal power authorities could charge higher electricity rates to cryptocurrency companies that require huge amounts of electricity to conduct business.

«Tesla Powerpack will charge using renewable energy from the Hornsdale Wind Farm and then deliver electricity during peak hours to help maintain the reliable operation of South Australia's electrical infrastructure,» Tesla said in a press release.

Russ» team is charged with the design of the advanced fuel assemblies and reactor cores for the power stations that provide about 7 % of U.S. electricity capacity and more internationally.

(E.g., compare the costs of administering the NSLP paperwork for the 80 % + of Houston's 200,000 students who qualify for free and reduced price lunch, or the significant overhead costs charged our Food Services by the district for things like garbage collection, electricity, insurance, payroll, human resources, etc..)

«We've reduced our network charges, which form part of domestic customers» bills from their chosen electricity supplier, by 14.3 %, funded a Citizens Advice Bureau fuel debt advice service and helped kick - start a number of projects through our # 50,000 community energy seed fund which we are launching this week for the second year running.

While consumers of power bemoan the instability and high cost of sourcing electricity, Sunday Oduntan, executive director of the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, ANED, said that the high charges were dismissible in view of the low payment habits ofelectricity, Sunday Oduntan, executive director of the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, ANED, said that the high charges were dismissible in view of the low payment habits ofElectricity Distributors, ANED, said that the high charges were dismissible in view of the low payment habits of Nigerians.

Costly electricity charges is a deterrent to investment and business development in Nigeria, operators of e-commerce companies have disclosed.

Benefits in kind: electric vehicles Commenting on the news that, from April 2018, there will be no benefit - in - kind charge on electricity that employers provide to charge employees» electric vehicles, Colin Ben - Nathan said: «If an employer provides electricity to an employee to charge their own car, a benefit in kind arises based on the cost of the electricity used for private mileage, but there is no clear guidance on how to calculate the cost of electricity and it is therefore necessary to estimate the cost.

It was US $ 40 under the original deal but we have negotiated it down to US $ 32... the capacity charge whether they produce electricity or not... under the old deal it was 6.275 cents, under the new one which they had already signed we have negotiated it downwards to 5.095 which is a reduction of over 20 percent and then the subsequent 10 years that we have given them I goes down to 4.0».

The head of Youth Evangelization in the Dioceses bemoaned the high electricity tariffs and high fuel charges.

What's the point of electing Dems if they go out of their way to put the people who have been screwing consumers since Pataki's «deregulation» of the electricity market back in charge of the PSC?

PLATTSBURGH Just hours after the PSC announced it would allow local authorities to charge cryptocurrency miners more for electricity, Plattsburgh Mayor Colin Read warned that the decision doesn't mark the end of the city's energy concerns.

Ever since electricity was discovered, researchers have focused on the motion of electric charges.

The infrastructure challenges include installing tens of millions of charging stations, strengthening the grid to handle electricity demand by plug - ins, and changing utility regulations to promote nighttime recharging

A plume also carries static electricity — the separation of positive and negative charges — so «these large ash clouds from eruptions like Puyehue - Cordón Caulle can generate their own lightning,» says Erik Klemetti, assistant professor of geosciences at Denison University.

MOST of us would find living without electricity almost impossible, but in the early universe electric charge was practically nonexistent.

«Polyaniline, because it can store more charge per unit of mass, could potentially store three times as much electricity as PEDOT for a given weight.»

With nowhere else to go, the charge on the electrode eventually conducts into the air around it as bolts of electricity.

The Juno spacecraft, launched Aug. 5, 2011, has blankets coated with germanium, a metalized material that conducts electricity; and Kapton, a high - temperature plastic film, to ensure that the surface of the blankets reflects sunlight and remains grounded while the probe gathers data from the highly charged environment around Jupiter.

In a December 2016 poll by the business newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun, one - third of respondents (the largest group) said that Tepco should bear all costs and no additional charges should be added to electricity rates.

«Biomass to liquid fuel, electricity for charging of a battery or generating hydrogen, [those are] really our options,» he says.

Catalysts that drive the oxygen reduction reaction that lets fuel cells turn chemical energy into electricity are usually made of platinum, which stands up to the acidic nature of the cell's charge - carrying electrolyte.

These charges initiate step leaders, branching veins of electricity propagating down, which subsequently lead to a main discharge channel.

At the same time, he added, the government's feed - in tariff, the costs of which are shared by the government and electricity customers, has resulted in «more and more consumers hav [ing] to pay higher electricity charges to utilities.»

Specifically, what is needed is a battery that can store enough energy to pull an entire power station through a rough patch, can be charged and discharged over and over, and can release large amounts of electricity at a moment's notice.

«If we charge the car from a clean source of electricity and combine this with the lowest possible carbon dioxide emissions during production, then the electric car will be revolutionary.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

Now Zhong Lin Wang and colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, have captured the electricity generated from bringing two differently charged surfaces into contact, then separating them.

The thermoelectric effect, in which charges are created by temperature differences, provides a way of transferring this heat into electricity — but only some of it.

Gases (such as air, which has an equal number of positive and negative charges) become plasma when energy (such as heat or electricity) causes some of the gas's atoms to lose their negatively charged electrons, creating atoms with a positive charge, or positive ions, surrounded by the newly detached electrons.

When Congress put the Federal Power Commission in charge of all wholesale interstate electricity sales in 1935, Texas opted out and stayed out.

One hope is to coordinate EV charging with the electricity pulled from the rooftop solar panels on many of the homes in the new development, although that would require the cars to be home during the day.

Such demand response is different from using electric vehicle batteries as a form of storage or backup for the electricity grid, which can put undue strain on batteries as they constantly cycle from fully charged to nearly drained.

Magnetism's answer to electricity's negatively charged electron, a monopole would be a free - floating carrier of either magnetic north or magnetic south — a yin unbound from its yang.

In fact, another agency is specifically tasked with leading that charge: the California Public Utilities Commission is responsible by law for ensuring that publicly owned utilities in the state get 20 percent of their electricity from renewable resources by the end of this year (although the utilities have until 2013 to prove that they have complied) and 33 percent by 2020.