Sentences with phrase «off electric grid»

Some Worldreader literacy programs are located off the electric grid entirely.

Some are American cabin owners who live off the electric grid.

«Improving AC efficiency pays a big bonus for climate, as well as taking pressure off electric grid and reducing AC operating cost for consumers.»

Taking FitzPatrick off our electric grid could force New York to rely on more expensive generators that create more pollution.

Not exact matches

Rossello highlighted how the island's electrical grid, which was severely dilapidated even prior to the storms, was obsolete and working off of a generation system that was 28 years older than the average electric power utility in the United States.

It loads up on energy from the sun and from the electric grid during off - peak hours.

Imagine a world in which most of the vehicles are electric and yet they are powered off the grid by natural gas and solar.

Climate - friendly investments will proceed through the government's green infrastructure fund and its forthcoming infrastructure bank — but the budget also allocates dollars specifically to clean energy priorities like smart grids, energy storage, electric vehicle charging, stronger building codes, and moving remote communities off diesel.

They see a market in servicing large electric utilities that want to incrementally expand their generation capacity, developing countries that can not afford or make good use of traditional reactors, and off - grid and hard - to - power sites.

Instead, the network switched off the show, despite spending more than a year negotiating the mass turn - off with the country's electric grid.

The newly unveiled Volt's lithium ion battery pack, which will power the four - seat compact for about 40 miles per charge, will also be able to be replenished with cheap off - peak power by plugging it into the nationwide electric grid overnight.

You may have the illusion that developing countries will survive well, because they have more people already off - grid, like the 600 million people in India without electric power.

When a German engineer gets off the plane in Los Angeles for the first time, he expects to be greeted by a vast forest of churning windmills powering the electric grid, plus an array of solar batteries on the roof of every Starbucks.

Whereas LCDs, LEDs and plasmas will strike horror into the hearts of signage integrators by turning dark as soon as power to them is cut off, an electronic paper screen will hold the last image displayed even if disconnected from the electric grid or if its battery runs out.

They normally try to run off the grid, most commonly will try to generate electric from renewable energy, collect rain water.

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Similarly, Al Gore's challenge to get an electric grid off coal in the same time frame looks pretty infeasible when you do the math.

There are people who live off - the - grid, yet run appliances having electric motors with no heat engine connected.

We saw a sketch of an electric car drawing power from the wind and storing energy from the grid, a photo of farmer taking off a hay crop while a wind turbine generates royalty income for his family from the same field, an illustration of wind energy at the centre of a clean and vibrant cityscape, and many more examples of how Canadians are becoming more conscious about where our electricity comes from, how we use it, and how our choices can contribute to a more prosperous and sustainable world.

Includes more and better rebates for electric vehicles (EVs) and EV chargers, municipal guidance for curbside EV charging, and a requirement that electric companies develop proposals for time - of - use EV charging to encourage off - peak use of the grid.

It may be electric, but let's face it, most will never go completely off grid.

Or is it just a electric sports car like the tesla roadster that gets its electricity from the grid that's run off wind turbines?

Dan Boyd from Lovango Cay recently penned an article about how his off - grid solar / wind / battery system has saved him about $ 9,000, compared to what his electric bills would have been without the clean energy system.

Affordable, efficient storage would enable volatile renewable energies to be better integrated into electricity systems, it would greatly improve the economics of home solar systems, even allowing people to go off - grid, and it could help catalyse a revolution in electric cars as well as helping to solve the problems of the grid going down or grid overload.

It should be noted that while all solar systems in the US can qualify for federal incentive programs like the Investment Tax Credit, you're more likely to get more incentive opportunities, like net - metering — allowing you to sell power back to the utility — with a grid - connected system than with an off - grid electric system, since most incentives are offered through utilities.

But electric grid operators basically pull this off, balancing supply and demand every few seconds by turning power plants on and off.

The country's energy policy has already forced it to pay wind farms $ 548 million to switch off last year to prevent damage to the electric grid, according to a survey of power companies by the German newspaper Wirtschaftswoche.

Since the system isn't tied to the utility and electric grid there aren't as many incentives offered for an off - grid system.

This can be an important decision for an off grid house as the electric load of an energy efficient fridge is high (our 18.1 cu.

Yes it is affordable compared to what it was, but the cars still pull off the grid anyway so I've always said the electric car is a bust until all renewable is being used.

For example, in 2010, Opportunity Green utilized electric generators that ran off of E-Fuel100 ethanol to supplement any additional energy requirements beyond what could be pulled from the grid.

Trade - offs include land availability and prices, wind resource quality, proximity of the site to the electric grid and service roads, and the level of available feed - in tariffs to guarantee revenue.

As thousands of electric vehicles charge off Oregon's electricity grid — half of which comes from hydropower and renewable resources — Oregon's transportation - related carbon footprint continues to shrink.

As batteries and residential renewable energy become cheaper, many residents may willfully follow Mr. Boyd's footsteps, and begin to fully opt - out of the Virgin Island electric system by going off grid.

The rooms are not off - grid; they are outfitted with municipal electric and sewer service.

Our grid connected and off grid wind turbine systems, which consist of our 2.4 kW and 10 kW devices and related equipment, are utilized for electrical power generation for applications and markets such as residential, micro-grid based rural electrification, agricultural, small business, rural electric utility systems, as well as other private, corporate infrastructure and government applications.

The reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide per new unit of non-hydro «renewable» capacity falls off rapidly as additional «renewable» capacity is added to an electric grid because additional fossil fuel sources must be kept in «spinning reserve» in case the wind dies or the sun goes under a cloud unless hydro is available.

As energy storage technologies come onto the market, more homeowners are thinking about going «off the grid» — completely severing their connection to their electric utility — with the use of solar batteries.

Rather than focusing on big - ticket solutions such as storm - surge barriers, Rosenzweig calls for a range of initiatives, from increasing redundancy in the electric grid to sealing off tunnels and making coastal areas more resilient to flooding.

[Note: In this article, we are only discussing «grid - tied» solar installations, in which the homeowner remains connected to the electric grid, as opposed to an «off - grid» solar installation, which would not be eligible for net metering.]

For one billion dollars they could secure America's electric grid with solar flare proof transformers, preventing every nuclear power plant in America from melting down during a Carrington level solar flare, which is overdue to happen and will cause a nuclear holocaust guaranteed due to the fact that they take years to cool off even after cold shutdown, they'll run out of deisel after a few days, the pumps don't work when there's no power.

I'd like to calculate the electric usage drawing from solar vs. cost of propane heat... wonder if this would kick up the power requirements to too high a strain on a solar system for off - grid living?

We covered a previous innovation that came out of the Billions in Change effort, the «Free Electric» bicycle that can generate electricity for home use, which looks like it will now only be available in India, but as of yesterday, there are now a few other off - grid energy products available.

It works off the grid with its fresh and grey water supply tanks that are embedded in the floor while power comes from a hybrid energy system combining electric batteries and generator.

Off grid systems definitely encourage people to be more frugal in their electric consumption.

In February this year, the electric bicycle got equipped with solar panels and runs now completely off the grid.

As China's wind power installations took off in the mid-2000s, electric grid and transmission infrastructure expansion could not keep pace.