Sentences with phrase «only small amounts of electricity»

to serve customer demands when windmills are not producing or are producing only small amounts of electricity.

Because around 90 percent of the energy demand can be supplied by low - temperature heat, the process is relatively cheap — and only a small amount of electricity is needed for pumping and control purposes.

Not exact matches

«With thermoelectric materials, once you have the temperature differential, you only need a comparatively small amount of material to produce the electricity,» Delaire said.

However, the photovoltaic cells now used to turn sunlight into electricity can only absorb and use a small fraction of that light, and that means a significant amount of solar energy goes untapped.

There are some exceptions, and small overlapping fuel uses — direct industrial use of liquid fuel (a fairly significant quantity), some liquids burned to make electricity (this used to be a significant amount, but is now only a very small amount), and now a very small amount of electricity used to power electric vehicles («EVs»).