Sentences with phrase «put kilowatt hours»

Even if you do put kilowatt hours in, other assumptions are made, as some sites add in seasonal usage weightings and more slight variances due to how the calculations are done.

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Put simply, for every kilowatt hour of electricity the company used in 2017, it bought a kilowatt hour of renewable energy from a solar or wind farm built specifically for Google.

To put things in perspective, the average U.S. home consumes about 10,656 kilowatt - hours (kWh) of electricity a year.

The average cost of generating nuclear energy in the United States was less than two cents per kilowatt - hour in 2006, according to the Atlanta - based utility data provider Ventyx, which puts it on par with coal.

A downside of fuel cells, however, is that they have a capital cost in the thousands of dollars per kilowatt of capacity, and the round - trip efficiency through the electrolyzer to the fuel cell and then back into current is less than 50 percent — meaning that for every two kilowatt - hours put in the bank, only one comes back out again.

It costs $ 500 to $ 600 to store a kilowatt - hour, and the round - trip efficiency is 65 to 75 percent — meaning the battery loses 25 to 35 percent of the electricity put into it.

Those inefficiencies meant that it cost $ 64,000 for the space shuttle to put one kilogram into low - earth orbit (LEO); an elevator, Laubscher calculates, could do it with 17.2 kilowatt - hours of electricity — about two dollars» worth.

Smart chose the latter course, putting a 41 - horsepower motor and 16.5 kilowatt - hour lithium ion battery pack underneath the cargo area, where the gas engine would normally go.

Barton, put aside your wishful thinking and get serious about the 4 trillion kilowatt - hour US 2006 electric power demand (minus the 10 - 20 percent of high end efficiency capability) being replaced by:

To put it another way for each kWh (kilowatt hour) of solar power that you export to the grid in the day you get to use another kWh of power for free at another time (say night time) when your solar is not producing enough energy to run your home.

To put this into context, estimates of life - cycle global warming emissions for natural gas generated electricity are between 0.6 and 2 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour and estimates for coal - generated electricity are 1.4 and 3.6 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour [14].

To change the generation mix, we should set a cap in terms of CO2 emitted per kilowatt hour, and distribute allowances to any entity that puts power on the grid, based on the kilowatt hours supplied.

If so, the 16 kilowatt - hours (kWh) worth of energy in the GM battery pack would put the price at $ 625 per kwh of capacity.

So, what happens is — it's a bit of a fudge at the moment — but the utility companies, for every Kilowatt - hour that's taken out and used to charge the car, they'll put a Kilowatt - hour of clean energy in, wind energy into the system.

Re 290 Edward Greisch The federal way to regulate is to put a legal limit on the CO2 into the air per kilowatt hour and allow the electric companies figure out how to do it.