Sentences with phrase «of electricity generated»

This means that homeowners can use more of the electricity generated by their solar panels, with less waste, and potentially save hundreds on their energy bills.

IKEA says that the average home uses about 40 per cent of the electricity generated from solar panels, with the remaining 60 per cent being sent back to the grid.

The availability of electricity generated from clean energy sources provides businesses with powerful tools to control a significant component of their cost structure, thereby helping them be more competitive on a global scale.»

Iceland, with 27 percent of its electricity needs met by harnessing the earth's heat, is number one in the world in the share of its electricity generated from geothermal energy.

We know that the energy for manufacturing and construction has to occur at the beginning of the project, and we know it takes 2 - 4 years to payback this energy (when considering the consumption of the energy by employees of the wind farm) in the form of electricity generated by the turbine.

CO2 emissions per unit of electricity generated are currently at the level the world needs to reach by 2045 in the Energy Technology Perspectives global 2 - degree scenario.

The price published by the Renewable Energy Regulator to the present (2013/04/11) for 2013 was $ 38.69 per megawatt - hour (MWh; this is equal to $ 0.039 / kWh) of electricity generated.

It follows that almost all of the electricity generated by wind (and solar) sources in Australia will displace polluting fossil fuel - fired power.

However, burning trees releases carbon into the atmosphere immediately — more per unit of electricity generated than coal — and any new trees planted won't reach maturity and absorb the same amount of carbon for decades, if ever.

The Lancet paper mentioned above stated that air pollution from coal fired power stations result in 24 deaths and 225 serious illnesses per Terrawatt - hour (TWh) of electricity generated (see Table 2 of the paper).

Coal - fired power plants produce almost 95 % of the electricity generated in Wyoming.

Power plants can make heat rate improvements to reduce the amount of CO2 they emit per megawatt - hour of electricity generated.

Five years ago, of 100 units of electricity generated using slightly enriched uranium, over 98 units were net of the enrichment process.

The top states for installed wind capacity all set records in 2013 for the amount of electricity generated.

• Every unit of electricity generated by wind power will avoid pollution from an existing power station.

Checking different sources, this claim is confirmed: 1 kilowatt - hour of electricity generated by fossil fuels indeed emits 10 times as much CO2 (around 450 grams of CO2 per kWh for gas and 850 for coal).

States with RPS policies have seen an increase in the amount of electricity generated from eligible renewable resources.

Amount of electricity generated per unit electricity consumed at my house (basically transmission losses)

The heat generated is more than enough to gently set the dyes, avoiding the use of electricity generated from non-renewable, dirty sources.

The Government's independent climate advisers, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), have stated that the low carbon grid of 2030 should produce no more than 50g of CO2 for every kilowatt hour of electricity generated.

But wait, electricity from nuclear or wind is 2 - 3 times more useful than coal on a BTU basis, x2 more useful than natural gas, so it makes more sense to compare proportion of electricity generated from renewables and nuclear (ie low carbon energy) with whats generated by coal and NG.

In share of electricity generated from wind, Iowa and South Dakota lead at 20 percent each.

The take home message from this is that, in an efficient grid with 17 % of electricity generated by wind and 53 % by relatively new combined cycle gas turbines, the wind generation is only 53 % effective at avoiding CO2 emissions.

That amount of electricity generated by a wet - cooled coal - fired power station would require about 480ML of water.

South Australia has, on average, about 33 % of its electricity generated by wind farms (as of 2015).

John West — Also, do you not realize that with a few pounds of each fuel used one could determine CO2 Emissions / Unit of Electricity Generated in a lab or with a pilot study?

The figure below shows a 25 - month history of electricity generated from coal and natural gas.

With the most recent deal, approved this month by the Public Service Commission, the utility eventually will be bringing in 404 megawatts of electricity generated at wind farms in Oklahoma and Kansas.

For comparison I believe that a typical Australian wet - cooled coal - fired power station uses around 1.5 kL per MWh of electricity generated.

That means (roughly) 20,000 times less coal ship and coal train movements and correspondingly less fuel used to drive those ships and trains per unit of electricity generated.

About 13.5 percent of electricity generated in New Mexico comes from wind energy.

They become less effective the higher the proportion of electricity generated by wind and solar.

One of the most damaging legacies of the Obama administration's «war on coal» was the creation of a 2015 rule that limits carbon - dioxide emissions on new coal - fired stations to 1,400 pounds per megawatt - hour of electricity generated.

In some regions of Brazil, Mexico, Sweden, and the United States, the cost of electricity generated by wind farms is on par with coal - fired power, the report said.

Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)-- A Renewable Energy Certificate, or REC, is a tradable, legal mechanism that represents the environmental benefits associated with one megawatt - hour of electricity generated from a renewable energy resource.

Washington Governor Christine Gregoire signs a bill that prevents new power plants from exceeding 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt hour of electricity generated, creating a de facto moratorium on building new coal - fired power plants in the state.

Solar represented more than 13 % of the electricity generated in California in 2016 — the highest portion of any U.S. state — with another 7 % coming from wind.

[5] The German Offshore Wind Act is a part of Germany's broader Renewable Energy Act (EEG 2017), which provides for technology - specific (including OSW - specific) energy auctions aimed at driving down the cost of electricity generated by OSW and other renewable generation methods (Kilgus and Bader 2016).

The amount of electricity generated from renewable sources such as wind and solar power increased nearly four-fold in the United States from 2007 to 2012.

The project received funding through Governor Cuomo's $ 1 billion NY - Sun initiative, which is designed to build a self - sustaining solar industry in New York and help achieve strategic energy goals under REV and the Clean Energy Standard, which requires that 50 percent of electricity generated in New York come from renewable sources by 2030.

The contribution of uranium price to the cost of electricity generated by fast reactors, even if its price were the same as that of gold at US$ 14,000 / kg, would be US$ 0.003 / kWh of electricity generated.

The amount of electricity generated in a power grid must always equal the amount being consumed, so when wind turbines put power into a grid other generators, often fossil - fuelled, generate less; so less fossil fuels are burned.

On Monday, the California Legislature will vote on a bill to raise California's Renewable Portfolio Standard, potentially requiring 33 percent of electricity generated by the state's utilities to come from renewable resources by 2020.

But Iceland has long harnessed that power to supply its own energy needs, with nearly a third of its electricity generated from geothermal power plants.

This means that, on average, more jobs are created for each unit of electricity generated from renewable sources than from fossil fuels.

The cost per kilowatt hour of electricity generated by wind in 2010 was 14 cents and in 2016 it had increased to 17.5 cents, despite downward adjustments to the contracted values between 2010 and 2016.

To calculate the amount of electricity generated in a year by a typical Australian wind farm one multiplies the installed capacity by the capacity factor then by the number of hours in a day and the number of days in a year.

EPRI's members represent over 90 % of the electricity generated in the United States.

The researchers say that they arrive at that figure without including the value of the electricity generated by photovoltaics.

For example, to give one example, back in 2000, 90 per cent of the electricity generated by utility American Electric Power (AEP) was from coal.