Sentences with phrase «peak use of electricity»

Installed alongside Axiom's System Integrator (SI) control unit, the «batteries» can lower the cost of energy for the company that chooses to host them, reducing their peak use of electricity.

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Thankfully, the time at which the eclipse is expected to hit California is not the time of peak electricity use.

A skeptic might argue that this does not necessitate peak coal, because other developing countries home to billions of people are still nowhere near the level of electricity use of the Western world.

As of December 1, 2009, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, for example, offered an off - peak discount of approximately 50 % off of the regular residential electricity rate for electricity used to charge electric vehicles.

«Tesla Powerpack will charge using renewable energy from the Hornsdale Wind Farm and then deliver electricity during peak hours to help maintain the reliable operation of South Australia's electrical infrastructure,» Tesla said in a press release.

This may be seen as especially positive since it is then that electricity use peaks and the cost of generating electricity is highest.

He notes that unlike electricity from many other renewable sources, power from the batteries could be held back and used at times of peak demand.

And California, he adds, «has held per - capita electricity use flat for 30 years — saving 65 peak GW and more than $ 100 billion of power - system investment — while per - capita real income rose 79 percent.»

Combining more - efficient lights and appliances with a smart grid that uses time - of - day pricing, peak demand sensors, and the many other technologies described in this chapter shows a huge potential for reducing both overall electricity use and peak demand.

Peak demand, or use of electricity during the hottest days of each year, is also expected to...

Businesses in the US are levied so - called demand charges, based on their monthly use of power during peak times that can constitute as much as 50 % of total electricity bill costs.

As has often been noted on this website, businesses in the US are levied monthly charges for their electricity based on their use of grid power during peak times, known as demand charges.

While it may seem like common sense to use the south - facing portion of the roof for a solar panel system (in the northern hemisphere), that may not necessarily hold true for every location, as facing the solar panels to the west may actually yield more electricity during peak demand.

As utilities continue to adopt mechanisms like time - of - use charges (where electricity costs more during certain parts of the day — usually during peak - use hours) your energy storage system can make sure you're using its power instead of the power from the grid.

Whereas battery storage is a relatively recent technology for large - scale applications, ways of storing thermal energy — such as using cheap off - peak electricity to freeze ice for daytime air conditioning — have been around for decades.

On the other hand, an industrial property whose electricity costs are mainly related to time - of - use would see the fastest return by investing in enough energy storage to achieve peak time self - sufficiency.

Also, since the average residential electricity cost is 8.5 cents / kwh (and in many areas, off - peak nighttime cost is 2 - 4 cents / kwh) this means that, after taking account of the differential efficiencies of electric and gasoline power, much of a plug - in hybrid's travel would be on electricity that is the equivalent of $ 1 / gallon gasoline (or, off - peak, 25 - 50 cents / gallon) as contrasted with the same vehicle's use of today's approximately $ 2.50 / gallon gasoline.

If customers were forced to pay the actual price at the time they use electricity, they would be motivated to shift some of their usage to lower - price hours, which would reduce the need for some expensive peaking capacity.

The tussle over prices in a decentralized electricity market continued last week, as David Roberts deconstructed the arcane world of demand response, in which utilities pay customers to cut their power use during times of peak demand.

Wind is not so useful for any kind of peak electricity use because those periods are usually calm.

Electricity sales are 25 percent lower than business - as - usual in 2040 as a result of savings from energy efficiency measures and standards, as well as demand response programs that pay participating consumers to curtail their energy use at times of peak demand.

and it can be used to store electricity generated off peak to reduce the amount of overcapacity needed and make all those intermittent alternative sources more economical.

While New England remains a summer peaking electricity system (with a forecasted 2018 summer peak around 25 percent higher than the forecasted 2018/2019 winter peak), winter peak forecasts are important for assessing the impacts of electric system reliability during a period when much of New England's energy infrastructure is dedicated to space heating (i.e., when interstate natural gas pipelines are used both for electricity generation and for heating homes and businesses).

(2) the goal described in paragraph (1) can be met or exceeded by lessening the difference between the periods of lowest and highest electricity demand, with particular focus on reducing the frequency and severity of peak demand periods, using smart grid and demand response technologies, practices, and activities, including --

Peak demand, or use of electricity during the hottest days of each year, is also expected to grow.

Usually used at time of peak demand or shortage Using river flow Uses the natural flow of water of a river to turn the turbine to generate electricity.

If successful, SMUD will use this demonstration project as a basis for using similar battery energy storage technologies to reduce the costs of serving peak electricity demand and the integration of more renewable energy.

Monthly data allow users to see seasonal patterns, such as periods of nuclear refueling outages in the shoulder seasons (spring and fall) and increased operation of peaking generators during the periods of highest electricity demand in the summer months (driven primarily by air conditioning use).

Other provisions in the act — such as tax incentives that encourage the adoption of energy - efficient technologies, a shift to more combined heat and power generation, and the adoption of real - time pricing of electricity (a measure that will discourage optional electricity use during peak demand periods)-- would cut electricity demand enough to avoid building an additional 37 coal - fired power plants.

More and more, electricity markets are purchasing the lack of electricity use as a commodity, as «demand response» options, in which companies lower their energy use at times of peak demand to reduce burdens on the grid, proliferate.

Titan is capable of a theoretical peak speed of 27 quadrillion calculations per second - 27 petaflops - while using approximately 9 megawatts of electricity, roughly the amount required for 9,000 homes.

Homeowners or businesses can then use the stored energy during times of peak demand and at night when the solar panels aren't producing electricity.

There is much interest in «smart demand» system, e.g. time - shifting electricity use by incentivising customers to run their energy consumption appliances off - peak, through time - of - use tariffs delivered through smart meters.

As you can see, Greenpeace is not used as a scientific reference as Laframboise implies, but instead as an example of the many different estimates of «current global installed peak capacity [of solar electricity]».

Avoid using appliances during peak hours: The peak hours of the day are typically during daily business hours when there is a very high demand of electricity.