Sentences with phrase «produce additional electricity»

Plants with the lowest marginal cost — that is, those that can produce additional electricity most cheaply — are selected first by the market.

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Gas from the project is expected to help generate 1,100 MW of additional electricity and once on stream, it will produce enough gas to increase the country's electricity supply by 50 percent.

It could produce about 1,570 billion kilowatts of additional electricity annually if used to harvest CO2 from power plants, industry and residences.

Like that dam and other hydroelectric power facilities, that massive additional amount of electricity would be produced without adding more CO2 to the atmosphere, Hamelers pointed out.

«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.

The FireBee Power Tower can make use of some of the heat produced for cooking food or warming a home to yield an additional harvest of clean electricity for keeping small electronics charged up, either for off - grid, home use, or both.

However, it does afford some additional advantages because it allows for the possibility that the electricity could be produced without CO2 emissions (by renewable resources like solar or wind) or that emissions from the electricity production could be more easily sequestered.

If wind system owners live in a state that permits net - metering, those owner will also receive additional income in the form of renewable energy credits (RECs)-- they will be paid to produce wind - produced electricity.

Some proponents of additional LNG exports argue that they would benefit the climate by replacing dirty coal - fueled electricity produced in Asia and Europe.

As the cost of producing electricity from solar panels and wind turbines continues to decline, every dollar invested today yields an additional 25 to 75 percent return in kilowatts, compared to five years ago.

Of course, wind energy offers additional benefits that are not currently reflected in our incentive structure, including the ability to generate electricity without producing carbon dioxide or consuming water.

So on top of getting the cash for the electricity they produce, onshore generators receive an additional # 50 / MWh, and offshore generators receive about # 75, adding between 50 - 75 % to the cost of the electricity.

While the space heating of the house is the sunspaces major contribution to energy saving, just consider that having a good, year round place to dry clothes saves an additional 1200 KWH of electricity and 2000 lbs of CO2 emissions a year — about the same as a 1000 watt PV array would produce.

If Oregon, and the Northwest, truly wants a domestic - as in local - and renewable fuel source, we should be looking to build a cellulosic ethanol industry using waste from the large Northwest forestry and agriculture sectors to produce our liquid fuels (and a bit of electricity) as well as additional electricity from the Northwest's diverse and abundant renewable energy sources to power the electric component of a plug - in hybrid flex fuel fleet.

Renewable power generators get roughly an additional 4 cents per kWh of electricity produced on top of the wholesale price.

[5] This suggests that society would be willing to spend at an additional $ 40 billion (i.e., 24,000 annual deaths x 14 years lost x $ 129,000 per year lost) for alternative ways of generating electricity that did not produce deadly pollution.

* Note that the $ 0.02 per kWh assumption does not take into account that fact that the use of wind turbines to produce electricity imposes additional costs.

After going solar, if you use more electricity than your system produces, you will need to pay for the additional electricity from your utility.

In a recent study of his prototype, Cheng found that a 250 - kW system would produce an additional 3,830 kWh of electricity per week or an additional 16,400 kWh per month based on historical wind data from Springview, Nebraska.