Sentences with phrase «power during peak times»

This allows utilities to reliably scale their output to follow demand, generating more power during peak times.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

According to Nest, powering air conditioners during peak times accounts for just 1 percent of all energy usage — but can often take up the lion's share of an individual energy bill.

If they can use battery energy during peak grid times, instead of turning to this expensive so - called speaker power plants, they can save money in the long run.

Utilities can use batteries to make the grid more stable, and to avoid building new expensive and dirty power plants that they only operate during times of peak power demand.

This relieves some of the stress on the power grid during peak times.

Cook: We charge the batteries at night when more power is available and it's cheaper, and then discharge them during during peak times.

Ghanaians have battled severe power cuts over the last three years with the nation's power distributors sometimes shedding as much 650 megawatts during peak times.

During this time, the brain is on its way to peak power and is constantly craving new ideas.

This plant covers 74 acres and sucks up at least 300 megawatts of electricity most of the time, peaking at as much as 2,000 megawatts (much of it from a coal - fired power plant nearby), to heat uranium hexafluoride until it gasifies and then force it through 1,760 porous membranes that gradually concentrate the level of the fissile isotope — a method invented during World War II.

A 6 - 2 ruling upholds a regulation that requires utilities to pay more to customers who conserve power during times of peak demand

This gives a more direct throttle response feeling during spirited driving with peak power available more of the time.

During peak hours, when the grid experiences a surge in usage, it's forced to use energy from outdated power plants that release far more carbon emissions than regular plants (sometimes up to 10 times more).

During this time, France reached a peak of political power and cultural richness.

During a peak viewing time when most sets are on, such as the Super Bowl, TVs in the state collectively suck up the equivalent of 40 % of the power generated by the San Onofre nuclear power station running at full capacity.

In explaining the value of BrightSource Energy's concentrating solar power (CSP) plants with thermal energy storage (TES) capability, the company's Vice President for Government Affairs and Communications Joe Desmond described a 2006 California «heat storm» during which «the California ISO reached its all - time maximum demand» and had «about 3,000 megawatts of wind available,» but «the amount of wind delivering electricity into the system when it hit its peak demand was 1 percent.»

The logic is this will save utilities money by keeping dirty gas - fired power plants offline during peak energy demand times because it is expensive to fire them up daily for just a few hours of additional energy.

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.

Because solar generates during the day and the morning and early afternoon are usually considered off peak times then the value of exported solar power is usually less on a time of use tariff.

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.

One is «dispatchable load,» i.e., power consumption that can be scheduled, drawing more energy in times of peak production and in some cases releasing clean power back to the grid during the valleys.

But they don't tell you just how little power is produced during winter months, at the time when demand is at its peak.

As well as selling the Leaf, we've seen residential energy storage using recycled EV batteries, while a trial is currently underway allowing Leaf owners to charge their cars using cheaper off - peak power before feeding it back into the grid during peak times.

Each of these 84 instances was for ICE's off - peak product for power delivered during the periods of time when electricity demand is lowest (including a block of eight hours overnight as well as all day Sunday).

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.

Conventional pumped hydro systems use vertically separated reservoirs to utilize the power of water and gravity; during times of low demand (off peak), water is pumped using excess energy from the lower to the upper reservoir.

In California in particular, this creates a situation where there is way more electricity being produced by renewables than can actually be used during the day; but there is still a requirement for peaker power plants to generate power needed at the peak evening times when people come home and crank up the air conditioning.

This will allow the college to utilize stored solar power during emergencies and times of peak energy demand.

Britain's 8,000 megawatts of solar panel capacity would also have produced no power during the peak, because it was dark at the time.

French consumer fraud group DGCCRF, part of the country's economy ministry, last week launched a preliminary investigation into Apple over «alleged deception» and «planned obsolescence» of Apple products, reports Reuters.The investigation follows Apple's admission that it slows down some older iPhones with degraded batteries during times of peak power usage in order to prevent unexpected shutdowns.Apple introduced the power management feature in iOS 10.2.1 following complaints of unexpected shutdowns in the iPhone 6s, but Apple did not make it clear to consumers that it was due to battery deterioration nor did Apple inform customers that it could cause occasional performance slowdowns.Apple has since apologized for its lack of communication and introduced a new policy that

In other words, when an iPhone's battery gets older, it becomes less capable of delivering enough power to the processor during peak performance times, and when that happens, it has to spread out the power requests over a few processor cycles.