Sentences with phrase «percent less electricity»

LED is popular because it uses about 80 percent less electricity than neon.

Sony hasn't posted official numbers for how much «greener» that makes the PlayStation 3 Slim, but the power supply goes from 280 watts to 250 watts, meaning it uses at least 10 percent less electricity at peak consumption.

In general, solar panels that are oriented directly east or directly west will produce about 20 percent less electricity than if they were facing south.

Germany added a whopping 10 percent more wind capacity and 2.5 percent more solar capacity between 2015 and 2016 and yet generated just one percent more electricity from wind — and one percent less electricity from solar.

Improved, but not new, the CFL uses 75 percent to 80 percent less electricity than the classic incandescent bulb and lasts for about five years.

According to a 2007 DOE report, dry - cooled CSP plants take up more space, cost almost 10 percent more to build and generate 5 percent less electricity.

Ye says the buses use 40 percent less electricity compared to an electric trolley bus, mainly because they're lighter and have the regenerative braking benefits.

The great attraction of this technology is that it can provide both heating and cooling and do so with 25 — 50 percent less electricity than would be needed with conventional systems.

ENERGY STAR certified dryers use 20 percent less electricity than a conventional model, which will save you $ 210 in electric bills over your energy - efficient dryer's lifetime.

The second major advance in lighting technology is the light - emitting diode, which uses up to 85 percent less electricity than incandescents.

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Not exact matches

But it was only in the last decade that the state began taking advantage of its vast wind - energy resources, growing from less than 1 percent of net electricity production in 2005 to nearly 30 percent in 2016.

GREG WARREN: With coal fired and natural gas plants continuing to generate around two thirds of the nation's electricity and renewables accounting to less than 10 percent, there remains plenty of room for growth.

The government aims to increase capacity to 350 MW by 2020, or about 5 percent of projected peak electricity demand, up from less than 1 percent now, according to EMA.

Residential consumers of electricity will from today [1st April 2018] pay 15 percent less than the tariff they previously paid.

Two weeks after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, less than six percent of citizens on the island have electricity, according to the Department of Defense.

This is coming as the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, ANED, reveals that less than 40 percent of electricity bills are paid by consumers and as a result higher tariffs are expected to be levied in a bid to plug the loss in powElectricity Distributors, ANED, reveals that less than 40 percent of electricity bills are paid by consumers and as a result higher tariffs are expected to be levied in a bid to plug the loss in powelectricity bills are paid by consumers and as a result higher tariffs are expected to be levied in a bid to plug the loss in power revenue.

Another 6 percent heat with electricity, and less than 2 percent apiece use fuel oil or propane.

In fact, much of the overall decrease in energy consumption can be traced to the shift from coal to gas, because modern gas - fired plants may use up to 46 percent less energy to produce the same amount of electricity.»

In the lab, such combinations turned as much as 20 percent of sunlight into electricity, although panels produced in a factory under less than ideal lab conditions only managed 13 percent at best — and Solyndra's averaged around 10 percent.

And even the most optimistic projections have wind power accounting for less than 3 percent of total electricity production by 2020 — more than the current U.S. share of 0.4 percent but far less than world leader, Denmark, which gets roughly 20 percent of its power from the wind.

Renewable energy, such as from photovoltaic electricity and ethanol, today supplies less than 7 percent of U.S. consumption.

But geothermal accounts for only about 16 terawatt - hours a year in the United States, less than half of 1 percent of total electricity consumption.

Less rain could affect agriculture, which currently generates $ 15 billion a year for Brazil's economy, and hydropower, which generates 65 percent of Brazil's electricity, he said.

Most photovoltaic panels on the market today convert less than 14 percent of the energy in sunlight into electricity, a number that has barely budged since the 1980s.

What is less clear is whether Japan's plan to increase its nuclear output to supply 50 percent of all its electricity within two decades as part of a larger effort to trim CO2 emissions will still be followed

In response APS and other utility companies across the country have launched a propaganda war against an energy source that still accounts for less than one quarter of 1 percent of U.S. electricity.

That is in part because you waste less making the electricity and also because electric engines convert as much as 75 percent of available energy into forward motion, compared with the 20 percent energy conversion rate of gasoline engines.

The advent of sanitation, electricity, and plumbing has increased the world's proportion of city dwellers from less than 10 percent at the time of the 1854 cholera outbreak to near 50 percent today.

The Qinshan addition is one of 20 new nuclear power plants undergoing construction or approved for construction in China today, part of a bid to increase the nuclear share of China's electricity - generating capacity from less than 2 percent to 5 percent.

Overall, about 7 percent of U.S. electricity comes from wind and solar annually, up from less than 1 percent a decade ago.

After decades of failed promise, photovoltaics remain expensive and inefficient and account for less than.03 percent of the electricity supply nationwide.

Under the Solar Community Initiative administered by the World Wildlife Fund and executed by solar firm Geostellar, employees of the four firms can install rooftop solar PV at prices that average 35 percent below the national average for solar and nearly 50 percent less expensive than average grid - delivered electricity, according to WWF and Geostellar.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

But if people were better at using less electricity, which accounts for 38 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States, the potential for reducing emissions would be huge.

The Good A completely electric powertrain marks the 2011 Nissan Leaf as the first of a new breed of car, and per mile, electricity costs about 70 percent less than gasoline.

A completely electric powertrain marks the 2011 Nissan Leaf as the first of a new breed of car, and per mile, electricity costs about 70 percent less than gasoline.

But currently nuclear generation is less than 20 percent of the national electricity pie.

This proven technology has helped shift more electricity generation to natural gas, which emits less nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, mercury and more than 50 percent less carbon dioxide than coal.

Americans will have to pay much higher electricity prices despite the minuscule benefits of the Clean Power Plan, which reduces global carbon dioxide emissions by less than 1 percent and global temperatures by 0.02 degrees Celsius by 2100, according to EPA's own models.

Solar and wind combined provide less than five percent of Taiwan's electricity last year.

The United States clearly is using less coal: Domestic consumption fell by about 114 million tons, or 11 percent, largely due to a decline in the use of coal for electricity.

Although solar often gets top billing in political announcements like Clinton's, it still represents less than 1 percent of our electricity generation, so it will take tremendous growth for many years for it to provide a meaningful offset to fossil fuels.

In 2016, Germany generated less electricity from the sun even after installing more solar panels, and generated just one percent more electricity from wind despite having increased wind capacity by 11 % (ref.

That simple change allows new plants to generate the same amount of electricity with 30 percent to 40 percent less coal.

During the summer when electricity demand in California is 50 percent higher than in the winter, less curtailments are needed.

Estimates show an annual investment of $ 45 billion is needed to meet universal electrification, but the latest data shows that finance commitments for electricity in these 20 «high - impact» countries that represent 80 percent of those without electricity access is less than half that number, averaging just $ 19.4 billion a year.

By some estimates, I - 732 would raise gasoline and electricity prices less than 15 percent by 2040 in Washington State — hardly enough to jumpstart an urgent, sweeping phase - out of fossil fuels.

According to the most recent EPA Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report (2014), transportation produces only four percent less GhGs than the largest emitter, electricity production.

In 2014 the group reported that electricity from new solar and wind facilities cost up to 50 percent less than that from new nuclear generation.