Sentences with phrase «reduce heating demand»

At the same time, in northern latitudes, warmer winter temperatures as a result of climate change will reduce heating demand.

Learn how to integrate more insulation, airtightness strategies, strategically placed windows, and other common - sense measures to reduce the heating demand required for your next project by 80 %.

U.S. carbon emissions dropped 1.7 percent due to a rise in natural gas over coal energy, a decline in oil use, and a warm winter, which reduced heating demands.

Passivhaus reduces the heating demand to a practical and economic minimum, whilst preserving the highest of comfort standards for people to enjoy and be healthy.

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According to Lowell Ungar, director of the Alliance to Save Energy in Washington, D.C., stronger building codes that would improve insulation, heating and cooling, and lighting could reduce building energy demand by 6 to 7 percent by 2030.

Although daylight time reduces demand for household lighting, the researchers suggest that it increased demand for cooling on summer evenings and heating in early spring and late fall mornings.

In addition to reduced energy intensity, carbon dioxide emissions reflected lower residential sector demand for heating after a warmer - than - usual winter in 2012.

To reduce the demand for storage space, a sustainable nuclear fuel cycle would separate the short - lived, high - heat - producing fission products, particularly cesium 137 and strontium 90.

We developed these Kombucha heating mats in response to client demand and they are excellent at reducing fermentation time required for a batch to complete.

LLumar automotive window films are engineered to enhance your vehicle's appearance, reduce heat and glare to provide a more comfortable interior, and offer valuable protection against the unexpected for the performance you demand, and it help protect your investment.

Some of those elements include: - Light - colored roofing that reflects heat and saves energy; - 70 percent ENERGY STAR ® certified appliances including refrigerators, TVs, computers and kitchen equipment; - Water - efficient toilets and aerated bathroom faucets; - 10 percent of the building materials used contain recycled content; - «On Demand» ventilation that provides fresh air for occupied spaces without wasting energy on unoccupied areas of the property; - LED lighting - controls that turn off the lights; - Incorporates high - tech daylight sensors to reduce electrical lighting with natural sunlight and - Uses renewable energy sources such as solar or wind.

Mild weather in the first three months of 2012, which reduced demand for heating, accounted for about 22 percent of last year's carbon cuts, according to their calculations.

Passive House is a recognized international standard for a building's energy efficiency to reduce heating and cooling requirements by up to 90 percent and overall energy demand by up to 75 percent compared to conventional buildings, while also providing the most comfortable and healthy interior environment.

Commentary: Clean and efficient heat for industry There is no single solution for reducing energy demand and emissions from industrial heat use 23 January 2018

Designing to the Passive House standard reduces a building's energy demand for heating and cooling by 90 percent.

Energy efficiency works hand in hand with coordinated improvements in the energy system: by reducing overall demand for energy, energy efficiency allows renewable energy resources to ramp up and offsets the additional electricity that will be used by electric vehicles and heat pumps.

Energy efficiency works hand in hand with coordinated improvements in the energy system: by reducing overall demand for energy, energy efficiency allows renewable energy resources to ramp up and offsets increased electricity demand from electric vehicles and heat pumps.

«We conclude that wind generation is likely to have significantly reduced the price impact brought about by sharply rising demand during the heat wave period.

Reduced demand for fossil fuels will improve the environment by reducing air and water pollution as well as the heat - trapping gases that cause global warming.

The Northeast must decrease electric consumption 36 % by 2030 to reduce emissions from electricity generation and offset additional demand from EVs and heat pumps.

Achieving 100 % renewable «total energy» — for power, transport and heat — will require us to reduce unsustainable demand (overconsumption), as well as increasing energy efficiency, and shifting our transport and heating systems from liquid and gas fuels to electrical power.

As an example, one multifamily Passive House retrofit project Duncan Architect consulted on in Brooklyn had the majority of its solar gain from north - facing windows, but we were still able to reduce the annual heat demand by 90 percent.

(2) Reducing wintertime demand for energy from residences and small office buildings by blocking cold winds from reaching such structures, which lowers interior temperatures and drives heating demand.

Energy conservation — insulation and airtight sealing and reclaiming heat energy can reduce waste by at least 75 % The ambient energy all around is SUSTAINABLE AND FREE — and more than sufficient to provide the remaining 25 % energy demand.

Thermal mass does very little, in most climates, to reduce the specific heating demand.

Meanwhile, if the end - use mix ultimately includes more vehicle charging and heating applications, seasonal low temperatures drive heating demand and reduce the efficiency of EVs.

In this instance, every negative psi - value entered into PHPP reduces the calculated annual heat demand and heat load.

Heading into the summer of 2017, California's energy markets witnessed unprecedented heat waves, resulting in a very high number of calls, which signaled a need for resources that could act quickly to increase energy supply or reduce demand in order to prevent widespread blackouts.

Demand is expected to spike the most in the South, and could actually slightly decrease in the Pacific Northwest, thanks to a reduced need for winter heating.

However, with so much solar and wind — what purists claim are the only «real» renewable energies — now coming online, can CHP projects find a stable space to provide a cleaner baseload power while simultaneously reducing demand for electrically generated heat?

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Prof Nick Eyre highlighted that in the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report, mitigation efforts to reduce energy demand made up 50 % of decarbonisation pathways, with a focus on energy efficiency and the electrification of transport and space heating using existing and emerging technologies.

Building to the Passive House standard reduces our buildings» operational energy demand to an optimized extent through passive measures and components such as insulation, airtightness, heat recovery, solar heat gains, solar shading and incidental internal heat gains.

Passive House is an affordable method of design and construction that results in unsurpassed thermal comfort, indoor air quality and resilience, while reducing heating and cooling energy demand by up to 90 % - meant to aggressively address the climate crisis.

Victoria experienced supply failures in February 2000 when a heat wave swept across south eastern Australia, causing extremely high peak demand at a time when an industrial dispute had reduced available capacity by 20 % and two generating plants were unexpectedly out of service.

The Climate Change Scoping Plan has a target of adding 4,000 megawatts of combined heat and power capacity to displace 30,000 gigawatt hours of demand, thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 6.7 million metric tons of carbon by 2020.

Essentially, your savings are the result of reduced energy demand: homeowners can either directly reduce electricity use by installing more efficient appliances, or prevent unnecessary energy waste lost as heat through improving insulation.

And since heating can account for a significant percentage of home energy use (according to Lancey CEO Raphaël Meyer, up to 67 % in Europe, whereas the US puts it at about 42 % in the United States, and the IEA says that almost 80 % of energy demand in the buildings sector is from heating), this represents a great opportunity for both homeowners and rental property owners alike to reduce both their costs and their environmental impact.

This shift, combined with unusually low heating demand last winter and reduced gasoline demand, meant the country emitted the smallest amount of energy - related carbon dioxide in a January - to - March stretch since 1992, according to a report out this month from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

An energy - saving demand tankless / instantaneous water heating system reduces energy output [sic; reduces energy input] and costs.

Turkey's industrial energy consumption could be reduced by 24 per cent and energy demand for residential space heating by over 40 per cent, at little or no extra cost.

On top of this, the report notes that solar thermal cooling technology - in which the sun's heat is used to power thermally driven absorption chillers or evaporation devices to cool air - can reduce the burden on electric grids at times of peak cooling demand by fully or partially replacing conventional electrically powered air conditioners in buildings.

Energy storage can save power generated from clean energy systems such as solar, wind and combined heat and power (CHP) for later use, enabling buildings to reduce their reliance on the power grid during peak demand periods when electricity rates are the highest.

The largest opportunity to reduce gas demand exists in industry, through improved energy efficiency as a result of reusing waste heat and upgrading boilers.