Sentences with phrase «purchased grid electricity»

This is despite an increase in emissions from several other sources, including an increase in the use of specialty research gases, increases in the carbon - intensity of purchased grid electricity, more severe weather, and new campus buildings added to the academic building portfolio.

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Even with a system efficiency of 80 % the 1.4 GW array would generate about 7.28 GWh of electricity daily (or 2,657.2 GWh annually)-- worth over $ 106 million per year via a competitive utility - scale Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) at $ 40 / MWh (i.e. a contract between the electricity seller and buyer that sets the price of the solar energy from the grid).

Under existing VOS program designs, solar customers continue to purchase all of their electricity from the grid at the utility's retail rate and receive credit for the solar electricity exported to the grid at the approved VOS rate.

Firms mining bitcoin have also taken to moving to remote locations, not registering a company and engaging in the mildly illegal activity of purchasing electricity directly from power producers rather than grid operators.

For every kilowatt hour of electricity purchased, renewable energy goes onto the power grid and displaces fossil fuel production.

Enron helped pioneer the trade in «physical» electricity, actual power available for purchase on the grid and only physical in the sense that the infrastructure to transport it is more visible than an odorless, colorless greenhouse gas.

The school pays nothing upfront and buys the electricity generated by the system from the investment company more cheaply than grid electricity through a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA).

For example, if you assume that you are purchasing power from the grid at around # 100 MWh, a solar system with a Power Purchase Agreement — where you contract to buy the power from a third party installer — might be able to supply you with electricity at # 70 - 80 MWh.

We traveled from Brussels to Copenhagen powered entirely by renewable energy (additional renewably - generated electricity equal to that consumed by the journey) was purchased and fed into the German national grid.

Off - grid solar is already providing electricity to communities in rural Africa, India, the Caribbean and elsewhere who will never get access to grid power from nuclear or any other form of large, centralized generation, because the resources to build either the grids or the giant power plants do not exist, nor do those communities have the wealth to purchase grid power.

To operate the plant, Northland plans to purchase electricity from Ontario's grid at night when prices are low and use it to pump water from the mine pit up to a newly constructed reservoir.

The same amount of electricity can be purchased from the grid for under $ 5.

A feed - in tariff typically guarantees generators of renewable electricity a long - term purchase price for each kilowatt - hour they produce and «feed into» the grid, providing a powerful incentive for installing such systems.

When we put solar on a home, much of the energy it produces ends up back on the power grid, earning credits that offset electricity purchased from the utility at other times of day.

However, for several locations and technologies (especially for PV in Europe and islands), on - site generation now costs less than electricity purchased from the grid.

In many states, the homeowner pays less for the solar electricity than if they were purchasing it from the power grid, but some solar shoppers may be leaving money on the table.

As of 2016/06/27 the 56 MW project has a power purchase agreement with Origin Energy in place and it had begun feeding electricity into the Australian national electricity grid.

For every kWh of electricity you purchase, a kWh from a pollution - free, renewable source is produced and put on the grid on your behalf.

When you choose renewable energy with Bullfrog Power, you make sure that for every kWh of electricity you purchase, a kWh from a pollution - free, renewable source is produced and put on the grid on your behalf.

California's RPS increases electricity costs in part by requiring the purchase of renewables even when they can not be relied on to power the grid, requiring undiminished capacity from the combination of natural gas, hydro, and nuclear power.

You see, it works like this, because of an unreliability of grid power, because it saves money on electricity bills, or because there is no electricity grid, people purchase point of use solar.

(Feed - in tariffs are renewable energy payments that electric grid utilities obligate themselves to pay to purchase electricity generated from renewable sources.)

A guaranteed per kilowatt - hour payment to renewable energy developers for renewable electricity produced and «fed» into the grid — These payments are established in long - term purchase agreements that provide market certainty for developers.

Since 2010 all of our electricity we purchase from the grid in the UK & Ireland is 100 % renewable.

When we put solar on a home, much of the energy it produces ends up back on the power grid, earning credits that offset electricity purchased from...

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.

CEC based its definition of net - zero - energy performance, and many of its recommendations, on a report by the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC), which states that a goal of «no net purchases from the electricity or gas grid» may be met with energy - efficient design and «onsite clean distributed generation.»

When a customer purchases electricity from the grid, some of it is designated as an energy charge, which can be offset by future energy credits, and another portion is set aside as non-bypassable meaning that those charges can't be reversed.

Electricity figure used is as purchased from the grid.