Sentences with phrase «on high electricity»

Assuming a $ 30 / tonne CO2 tax and all of this is passed onto consumers, households below mean are fully compensated, households above mean would be paying less 2 % of income mainly on higher electricity, vehicle fuel and gas heat.

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The main reason the US ranks so poorly on carbon dioxide emissions is because its per - person consumption rate of electricity is so high; all of that energy comes primarily from fossil fuels.

The new Sidewalk project would make way for self - driving cars on its streets, more efficient electricity and water delivery systems, and high - tech housing units for tens of thousands of people and workers.

Mining, a process by which individuals or groups get paid in new Bitcoins to run complex mathematical equations on high - powered computers in order to confirm the validity of transactions, has drawn scrutiny from environmentalists who say it's sucking up too much electricity.

My January and April posts on the Ontario electricity sector described how decisions by different Ontario governments gave rise to excess electricity generation with an inflated cost structure, leading to higher electricity prices.

At one point, the wholesale cost of electricity went into the negative at mid-day — the point on the 24 - hour clock where prices are supposed to be higher.

IEA holds high - level workshop on the future of electricity Large gathering is part of agency - wide effort on next World Energy Outlook special electricity focus 24 April 2018

«Alberta could cut its reliance on high - polluting energy dramatically,» said Ben Thibault, electricity program director at Pembina and co-author of the report.

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

In addition to reducing the truck body's weight to save on fuel, the GuardianLT's high thermal performance also reduces fuel and electricity consumption without skimming on performance, which means the body helps maintain desired temperatures using less energy.

Investment in energy - efficient practices including insulating wine tanks, installing an on - demand Gylycol system, replacing air compressors with on - demand VFD units, new more efficient pond aerators, and retrofitting high - efficient replacement lights in the winery resulting in electricity use decreasing by about 22 %.

She would explain all the things that went along with it, like when you leave the refrigerator door open too long it uses more electricity so the bill is higher, and so on.

«It's terrifying to think that each month, one million families turn to high - cost, short - term credit, like payday loans each month and 400,000 are using them for essentials, such as putting food on the table or preventing the gas and electricity from being cut off,» Reed added.

And it has only grown more hostile to business under Cuomo, with far - higher minimum wages, mandates on sick leave, a ban on fracking and surcharges on electricity.

Not sure what your motives are but you're way off on the replacement electricity and by your standards we should all brace for blackouts and higher utility bills.

«In fact, she's already called for higher taxes on individuals and small businesses; she supports an energy plan that would increase our electricity costs; she promises a single - payer health care system that would further destroy our health care and economy; and she wants to force federal gun restrictions that would take away the Second Amendment rights of law - abiding citizens.»

Rochester, NY — With the possibility of heavy rain and flooding as Tropical Storm Lee bears down on the Northeast, NYSEG encourages customers in flood - prone areas — and even customers who experience persistent basement flooding — to consider how their electricity and natural gas services could be affected by high water.

Speaking on the issue, Kushal Dutta, managing director of Jovago Nigeria expressed, «One of the highest cost e-commerce companies in Nigeria cover is electricity.

A little over a year ago, then Candidate Akufo Addo called for immediate reduction in electricity tariffs.In a statement published on myjoyonline.com and captured below, he attributed the «high» tariffs to what he described as «the insatiable appetite for taxes» of the previous government.

Also, Fitch forecasts that, «a high inflation could have a fiscal impact if it keeps domestic funding costs elevated (yields can be as high as 20 % on short - term instruments), although we think the Bank of Ghana may have scope to ease monetary policy in 2017, as the impact of electricity tariff adjustments drops out of CPI calculations, lowering headline inflation.»

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman criticized on Friday a proposal by the Trump administration that would allow coal - burning power plans to be paid higher prices for electricity.

And let's not forget our electricity rates are already among the highest in the nation and we have the balls to charge sales tax on top.

No Fewer than 300 protesters on Monday besieged the premises of the Federal High Court in Lagos to challenge increase in electricity tariff.

They say there are «enough resources to maintain reliability,» Cuomo is ordering state agencies to cut back on their electricity use and he's ordered the Department of Public Service to monitor power usage as the state heads into a week's worth of high temperatures and humidity.

«New York households pay some of the highest electric bills in the nation, and the wholesale electricity market overseen by NYISO has a major impact on prices,» said Beth Finkel, state director for AARP in New York state.

Electricity costs are frustratingly high in New York State, so it is important that our valuable hydropower resource be used here to aid these businesses and the workers, families and communities that depend on them.»

Shortly after Cuomo announced the Ambit refunds, the AARP called on New York to hold hearings to investigate why New Yorkers are paying higher rates for electricity to independent energy service companies, or ESCOs, than they would pay to utilities.

Other impacts, according to the researchers: Households in the lowest income bracket spend twice the proportion of their income on electricity than those in the highest income bracket.

The Grid We Have When electricity leaves a power plant today, it is shuttled from place to place over high - voltage lines, those cables on steel pylons that cut across landscapes and run virtually contiguously from coast to coast.

«We plan on expanding this on our own,» explained Randall, because the university is interested in saving money by cutting higher electricity prices charged during peak demand times.

One experiment tested the effects of electricity harnessed from mechanical vibrations on a New Mexican — grown chili pepper (not enough to cook it thoroughly, it turned out); another examined how high up a cell phone and a satellite phone could go before they stopped receiving text messages.

Supercapacitors have a much higher energy density than batteries, meaning they can charge and discharge extremely quickly; this is useful to meet quick spikes in electricity demand on the rail system.

Australia relies heavily on coal for its own electricity as well, emitting more CO2 per person than any other developed country, and its agricultural emissions are among the highest per capita in the world, mainly because of the large numbers of sheep and cattle.

A key part of the prototype's design is the use of a custom optical bandpass filter to capture sunlight that is normally wasted by commercial solar cells on towers and convert it to electricity at a higher efficiency than the solar cells themselves ever could.

«Maybe we can have the best of both worlds: a price on carbon to create an innovative environment for clean technology in California and keep businesses within state lines and not cause an adverse impact on consumers through radically higher prices for transportation fuels or electricity.»

That high energy density makes OTEC a more attractive option than wave or tidal power, Cable says, especially for distant outposts like those on Guam, where a cost analysis suggests that OTEC could provide electricity slightly more cheaply than existing oil - fired plants.

As the tubes» sections rise up and down on the passing waves they tug on the hinges, which are resisted by hydraulic rams that pump high - pressure fluid through hydraulic motors and turn electrical generators to produce electricity.

Shocks to ratepayers In fact, Japan's electricity prices are now among the highest in Asia, a condition created partly by high - priced renewables, but also by its heavy reliance on imported energy fuels following the closure of its nuclear plants, which provided 26 percent of the country's power before 2011.

A new wrinkle on an old technology — solid - state thermophotovoltaics (TPV)-- could provide a high - efficiency alternative for directly converting high - temperature heat from concentrated solar thermal to utility - scale electricity.

For example, on a hot summer evening when electricity is in high demand for air - conditioning, the system could drop the amount of power going to an individual car from 3.3 kilowatts to just 1.2 kW or even less, explains Paul Pebbles, GM's global manager of Electric Vehicle and Smart Grid Services.

If the price on carbon is high enough to penalize coal consumption, the theory is it creates economic incentives to retrofit coal plants or use gas or wind power to generate electricity.

Based on ceramic oxides, these materials had the astonishing property of conducting electricity with zero resistance at temperatures that, for the first time, were high enough to hint at practical applications.

Meanwhile, the fuel cell variant would feature a smaller battery for energy - storage purposes, as GM's next - generation, high - energy density fuel cell stack will be able to provide sufficient quantities of electricity to the motor on its own.

A perovskite layer on top of silicon would absorb higher - energy photons and turn them into electricity.

They are popular during the peak electricity demand hours of between 4 pm and 8 pm (when carbon emissions due to generation on UK National Grid are highest), but watching is particularly popular in the late hours before bedtime.

In a 2014 paper in Nature, they concluded that atomic vibrations in the STO travel up into the iron selenide and give electrons the additional energy they need to pair up and carry electricity with zero loss at higher temperatures than they would on their own.

A power plant, on the other hand, produces steam at high temperature and pressure for generating electricity.

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

«For the first time, we were able to apply data at a high enough resolution to be relevant,» said ORNL's Melissa Allen, co-author of «Impacts of Climate Change on Sub-regional Electricity Demand and Distribution in the Southern United States,» published in Nature Energy.

During the day, electricity on the island shuts off as temperatures climb to staggering highs.