Sentences with phrase «of electricity power»

Renewables such as wind and solar complicate the traditional operation of electricity power systems.

If you only care about the big birds then you'll have to get rid of electricity power lines and hunting, specifically with lead bullets and also get rid of DDT in Mexico.

He is the one that makes the heart of the boat continue to beat, assuring the engines are running at the top performance and the generators provide 24 hours of electricity power on board.

The state of electricity power all over Nigeria is a sad thing.

# 5 Major Nelson: «And here's the Brick» Yes, here's the power brick, that ancient source of electricity powering the Xbox One....

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The offer follows a string of power outages in the state of South Australia, including a blackout that left industry crippled for up to two weeks, and stoked fears of more outages across the national electricity market due to tight supplies.

The pair split the gas and electricity sectors so we got a monopoly, Western Power — the former SECWA's electricity transmission / distribution, generating and sales arms — and, initially, two separate publicly - owned monopolies, Alinta Gas, owners of the gas distribution across Perth, and the Dampier - to - Bunbury natural gas pipeline (DBNGP).

A similar electricity trade applies to all of Canada, where more than 60 % of power produced still comes from hydro.

The giant mining operations of Asia stack thousands of computers in dimly lit factory buildings powered by cheap electricity from coal - fed generating plants.

It is made up of 91 Siemens Gamesa turbines and can generate enough electricity to power 500,000 U.K. homes per year, the Denmark - headquartered business said.

It's estimated wind can never supply more than the 19 % of electrical needs it does in the world leader, Denmark, until someone comes up with a way of storing the wind power that blows when we don't need it (for the times when it doesn't), or a way of transmitting electricity over huge distances with minimal line loss.

Electricity can be described as «the flow of electrical power,» as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) puts it.

That day, total electricity consumption in Scotland — including homes, industry and businesses — was 41,866 megawatt hours, WWF Scotland said, meaning that wind power produced the equivalent of 206 percent of the nation's needs.

Wind turbines produced double the amount of power required to meet Scotland's electricity needs Monday, according to researchers.

Solar power has grown at a whopping 68 % average rate over the past 10 years, but still accounts for less than 2 % of total U.S. electricity generation.

The Prius was one of the first original cars powered by both gas and electricity.

Cryptocurrency mining consumes huge amounts of electricity to power servers which solve complex math equations, recently raising environmental concerns.

First, states must approve the construction of new electricity generation units and strong majorities in many states remain opposed to coal - fired power, irrespective of what the preferences of a Trump Administration might be.

When completed in 2023, it will generate 3.2 gigawatts of power — 7 % of the country's electricity needs for 35 years.

The renewable power will be used to supply a new office in Bangalore, India, and will meet 80 percent of the new building's projected electricity needs.

While wind and solar power have grown in recent years, renewable sources accounted for just 10 % of total U.S. energy consumption and about 13 % of electricity generation in 2015.

Building owners are also interested in buying batteries so that they can run buildings off of battery power when electricity rates from the power grid are high.

Microsoft has entered into an agreement to purchase three megawatts (MW) of solar - powered electricity in India.

Today, there are 13 solar plants, four wind farms and six geothermal plants online, generating about 3,500 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 573,000 homes.

«By purchasing local solar power to meet some of our local electricity needs, we're not only meeting our goals but also supporting the growth of local clean energy industries,» Bernard said.

These sorts of clocks keep time by counting the number of oscillations in the alternating current they receive, which also powers them; in other words, the number of times the flow of electricity changes directions every second.

The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO - E), which runs the grid powering 25 separate European countries, disclosed recently that «frequency deviations» in power supply have been experienced across the network since mid-January.

AFRIpads are produced in two workshops, one of which is without electricity, using treadle - powered sewing machines and sergers, in rural Uganda.

It's often said that cheap oil will not hurt the rise of renewables like solar because oil is used mainly to power things like automobiles, while renewables are mostly used for electricity generation.

The current electricity providers and the electricity grid have failed a number of times over the extremely hot summer, leaving the entire state without power.

The boxes, which cost about $ 750,000, provide 100 kilowatts of electricity by converting air and fuels like natural gas into power.

The state government will lay underground power lines in areas of the South West after the Yarloop bushfire racked up a $ 26 million damage bill to the region's electricity network.

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 uPower 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 upower usage.

Power consumption for all cryptocurrencies is on track to use more electricity in 2018 than the whole of Argentina, according to Bloomberg.

«This is a much - needed, pragmatic look at U.S. electricity reliability and resilience, including the priority of maintaining critical clean baseload power as electricity markets change,» said Rich Powell, director of ClearPath, which advocates for nuclear and hydropower.

Power supplier Enel said Monday it has signed a share swap deal with merchant bank Mediobanca to buy a further 2.98 % of sought - after Spanish electricity company Endesa.

At an energy summit meeting Monday, the EU yet again watered down an initiative to end the regulation of electricity prices and gave grid operators powers to stop new entrants encroaching on their businesses.

The darker the shade of red dot, the more electricity the ground will generate and conduct voltage into the power grid.

Beyond using this clean electricity to power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel - cell cars) on the road by 2020.

Another plus: the introduction of so - called net metering, unknown in the»70s, which allows power - generating home owners and businesses to feed unneeded electricity back into the grid and thus run their meters backward.

The cost of electricity from large - scale solar installations now is comparable to and sometimes cheaper than natural gas - fired power, even without incentives aimed at promoting environmentally friendly power, according to industry players and outside cost studies.

At the Department of Homeland Security's estimate of the wall's construction at $ 21.6 billion, a solar - powered barrier would eventually pay for itself (if it continues to produce over $ 106 million per year of electricity), Grieser says.

Another, broader, problem is that only a part of the electricity needed to power EVs will come from clean sources, and an even bigger one is that 280 million electric cars account for only a fraction of the total rise in electricity demand that the IEA expects through 2040.

Elder son Victor, 53, will take over a conglomerate that touches the lives of practically everyone in Hong Kong — the family's Power Assets Holdings Ltd. generates their electricity and ParknShop supermarkets sell their groceries.

Even with a system efficiency of 80 % the 1.4 GW array would generate about 7.28 GWh of electricity daily (or 2,657.2 GWh annually)-- worth over $ 106 million per year via a competitive utility - scale Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) at $ 40 / MWh (i.e. a contract between the electricity seller and buyer that sets the price of the solar energy from the grid).

Solar power is on pace for the first time this year to contribute more new electricity to the grid than will any other form of energy — a feat driven more by economics than green mandates.

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.

In 2016 hydroelectric power accounted for 39.9 percent of South Dakota's net electricity generation, allowing residents to enjoy electricity prices significantly lower than the national average.

Continental Europe boasts the world's largest synchronous electricity grid — energy flows freely across the borders of 25 countries, at a fixed frequency of 50 Hz that is maintained by close coordination between the region's power companies.

«Coal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thursday.