Sentences with phrase «of home energy use»

And since heating can account for a significant percentage of home energy use (according to Lancey CEO Raphaël Meyer, up to 67 % in Europe, whereas the US puts it at about 42 % in the United States, and the IEA says that almost 80 % of energy demand in the buildings sector is from heating), this represents a great opportunity for both homeowners and rental property owners alike to reduce both their costs and their environmental impact.

Heating and cooling is the largest energy expenditure for most homes in the United States, making up some 40 % of home energy use.

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Each home can be self - sustaining for its energy uses, and can contribute to the commerce and success of the whole town at the same time, solving a myriad of issues that these remote areas face on a daily basis.

«There is a change going on globally,» says Niraj Bhargava, co-founder and CEO of Energate, which makes smart thermostats and mobile apps that homeowners can use to monitor and control their home energy use.

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.

Programming when electric car chargers start charging and how home devices make use of energy from solar panels versus the grid are two examples he mentioned.

For example, we are used to the idea of retrofitting homes not built for energy efficiency with solar panels installed on their rooftops.

Le Duc cites companies like Tesla, which made electric cars fashionable; Nest Labs, which is revolutionizing home temperature control and energy use; and Solar City, which scaled up industrial solar panels, all of which are taking revenue from companies with older business models.

This means home owners will be able to maximize the use of their stored energy and have a more efficient storage system.

The company has invested billions of dollars in a massive factory in Nevada to produce batteries that could be used for cars, or homes that produce solar power and need to store unused energy.

Factors impacting natural gas value include seasonal variations (since natural gas is used to generate electricity and heat / cool homes), severe weather disruptions (such as hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, a key natural gas - producing region in the world), and alternative energy developments.

Using a high - capacity lithium - ion battery and proprietary technology, the Powerwall is a major step towards Tesla achieving its major goal of integrating energy generation and storage in the home.

Tesla's shipment will help homes, businesses, schools and hospitals on the island make use of their existing solar panel installations by providing energy storage.

Using a high - capacity lithium - ion battery and proprietary technology — the Powerwall is a major step towards Tesla achieving its major end goal of integrating energy generation and storage in the home.

Through energy subsidies and cheap loans, Beijing has encouraged the growth of far more aluminum and steel production than it can use at home.

Same thing for the amount of energy to form a universe, it's beyond anything I can imagine, I'm blind to anything outside the realm of energy I'm used to dealing with or seeing in use in typical daily settings, cars, homes, cities, states, etc...

But already we know that we can accomplish our purposes with far less energy than we now use and that other means of fueling cars and heating homes are being developed.

Reducing the total amount of energy used in the manufacturing and transporting of goods, and in the transporting of people and the heating and cooling of homes and offices is helpful in itself.

Are we using most of our energies to protect ourselves from the real world, hiding within the sanctuaries of our middle - class homes and suburban shopping centers?

The recipe and photographs for «Gluten - Free Vegan Dried Blueberry Protein Energy Balls» by Karielyn Tillman of The Healthy Family and Home website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International License and can not be used without my written permission.

Behind each blue label is a product, building, or home that is independently certified to use less energy and cause fewer of the emissions that contribute to climate change.

Diaper services are also an eco friendly diaper alternative to home laundering; while most parents find this service more expensive than the costs of buying and laundering their own cloth diapers, diaper services use less water and energy per diaper, and most use green detergents such as oxygen bleach rather than chlorine bleach.

The efficacy of centrally produced ready - to - use therapeutic food (RUTF - C) or locally prepared RUTF (RUTF - L) for home - based management of uncomplicated SAM was compared with micronutrient - enriched, energy - dense home - prepared foods (A-HPF, the comparison group).

Lower environmental footprint - due to economies of scale, less water and energy used than cloth diapers laundered at home, no impact to landfill when compared to disposable diapers

Equally, energy efficiency must move up the political agenda, with solutions ranging from home insulation to greater use of community heating.

We can be a beacon, a light to show the rest of the country how we can literally make our home grown energy, bio-fuel, using switch grass and algae based bio fuels.

Launching the campaign, environment secretary Hilary Benn said 40 per cent of the UK's emissions come from homes and travel, but too few people are making real changes to cut their energy use.

Energy mogul Catsimatidis stands to make a killing — estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars a year — as the City Council and the de Blasio administration move to approve legislation to dramatically boost the use of biodiesel fuel in home heating oil, The Post has learned.

We had a land grab threat if new homes weren't built, while vowing to use the muscle of the state to freeze energy bills up to 2017 can only prove popular on the doorstep.

He said the new - look Energy Saving Trust would act as a one - stop shop to extend the use of renewable energy at home and improve efficEnergy Saving Trust would act as a one - stop shop to extend the use of renewable energy at home and improve efficenergy at home and improve efficiency.

«There is a lot of momentum to change and radically re-think how we track our energy use and refurbish our homes and buildings for the future,» housing minister John Healey said.

Many people, worried about rising energy costs, choose to ration their energy use, unaware that living in a cold home can actually cause or exacerbate a range of serious health conditions such as strokes, heart attacks and bronchitis.

I know I still use gas in my home, so everyone needs time to convert to a changing infrastructure including me, but I'm doing everything I can to tell the children of the future we knew and tried to stop the death profiteering energy monopolies in NY.

In fact British energy is among the cheapest in Europe, though we have high bills because we use more gas central heating and because of our inefficient homes.

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said ministers should change their mind and use the cash specifically for projects such as improving energy efficiency of homes, investing in low - carbon technologies and helping poorer countries cope with climate change.

The curriculum outline encourages the adoption of sustainable practices such as reducing wasteful energy use, behaviors that Project 2061 envisions that students can bring home.

What use is it to those homeowners, who have installed a modest solar panel system on their roofs, when the sun is heating the pavement in the middle of the day and no one at home to use the energy?

Majorities of the alarmed, concerned, cautious and disengaged say that they support requiring new homes to be more energy efficient, and changing zoning rules to reduce car use, for example.

Using a simple alternator, six hours of pedaling can create and store enough electrical energy in batteries to light about six homes for 30 days (in areas where people use less electricity than in the U.S.).

The idea is to expand the grid from the top down by adding thousands of miles of robust new transmission lines, while enhancing communication from the bottom up with electronics enabling millions of homes and businesses to optimize their energy use.

Webber and co-author Robert Fares, a Cockrell School alumnus who is now an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, analyzed the impact of home energy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT AEnergy, analyzed the impact of home energy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT Aenergy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT Aenergy and smart technology company housed at UT Austin.

In 2003, when we wrote about the Los Olivos Pilot Zero Energy House in Livermore, Calif., it stood as a beacon, promising a new age of homes that could produce as much energy as theyEnergy House in Livermore, Calif., it stood as a beacon, promising a new age of homes that could produce as much energy as theyenergy as they used.

However, a more efficient use of the energy might be to use it directly to heat homes, he adds.

OPOWER found this in neighborhoods where each month, they sent every resident a letter with two bits of information: the average energy use of her neighbors and where her home stood by comparison.

Architectural inventor Michael Sykes coined the term «Enertia» in the 1980s to describe the innovative homes he was designing that would store solar and geothermal energy and make use of it for most if not all heating and cooling needs.

The head of business development at Enervee, a California company that calculates and scores the energy efficiency of electronic and home appliance products, Katzman said he uses the CARMA utility data to help calculate the costs of running certain devices.

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Punjab is also home to an intricate network of irrigation and water management systems designed for crop use, energy production and flood control.

Heating typically accounts for about 28 percent of the average American home's energy use, but this year staying warm might occupy a larger slice of the household expenditure pie.

Perhaps someday homeowners could purchase rooftop shingles made of the material, which would clean the air in their neighborhood while producing energy that could be used to power their homes.