Sentences with phrase «reduce peak energy»

All of which begs the question: if solar power can reduce peak energy costs, strengthen the grid, create jobs and make our communities healthier and cleaner, why aren't we seeing a whole lot more of it?

EMS for offices and commercial buildings to control and reduce peak energy consumption by 20 percent.

Not exact matches

But solar benefits the grid as well: cutting demand during peak use, reducing transmission and distribution costs, cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and generating energy without polluting the air.

Such exports hit a peak of 874,260 barrels in total in July, before falling back to 346,921 in August... The re-exports have become a relief valve for both countries by reducing some congestion of supplies within the U.S. «We've got so much rail capacity now and pipe capacity is really starting to come on line, especially heading down to the U.S. Gulf,» said Martin King, analyst at FirstEnergy Capital Corp. «One way or another, the market's figured out a way to get Canadian crude to a country other than the U.S.» Tidal Energy Marketing Inc., a unit of Enbridge Inc., is one company that has shipped Canadian crude from the Gulf Coast, sending a cargo to Spain in May.

With a contract now in place between Tesla and the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), the battery «will help solve power outages, reduce intermittencies, and manage summertime peak load to support the reliability of South Australia's electrical infrastructure, providing enough power for more than 30,000 homes — approximately equal to the amount of homes that lost power during the blackout period last year,» Tesla said in a statement.

If in the 1970s we had begun a program of efficient use and switching gradually to other sources of energy, «peak oil» would remain quite far in the future and there might still be some chance to reduce global warming.

Solar energy storage reduces peak grid demand by 8 to 32 percent and the magnitude of solar power injections to the grid by 5 to 42 percent.

Maximizing the proportion of household - produced energy consumed helps unburden the public power grid while reducing household feed - in peaks to the grid.

In other words, drinking coffee at peak cortisol times of the day, such as the early morning, reduces the energy - boosting effects of caffeine and increases your body's tolerance to it.

As well as reaching peak levels in each of these situations, oxytocin is secreted in large amounts in pregnancy, when it acts to enhance nutrient absorption, reduce stress, and conserve energy by making us more sleepy.

Major transit investments contribute to the livability of communities by reducing air pollution, offering additional travel capacity during periods of congestion (including peak commuting hours), and promoting compact urban land use patterns that reduce energy use.

Investment in transit infrastructure also contributes to the livability of our cities and communities by reducing air pollution, reducing congestion (during peak commuting periods) and promoting urban land use patterns (that reduce energy use).

Net energy gain is going down (it's more energy intensive to pump oil out of deep water than out of a ground - based well under pressure) coupled with peak oil that is either here or near in time, and global warming mandates reducing carbon emissions.

I doubt that politicians truely understand the problem at hand, it is not as if we have a new energy technology ready to fill in for fossil fusl at the present time and whilst I am sure than energy efficiency can reduce carbon emissions by around 25 % it will be left to the markets to decide this and that means awaiting the onset of peak fossil fuels to push up the price of it that will make other energy sources more viable.

(note there is some energy demand management that is is / has been already used to reduce the need for peak power supply; I don't know offhand how much there is and what it would look like if this were simply reshifted to reduce the need for backup power supply, which would be like peaking and load - following plants now.

Main findings are: (1) energy consumption will peak at 5200 — 5400 million tons coal equivalent (Mtce) in 2035 — 2040; (2) CO2 emissions will peak at 9200 — 9400milliontons (Mt) in 2030 — 2035, whilst it can be potentially reduced by 200 — 300Mt; (3) China ׳ s per capita energy consumption and per capita CO2 emission are projected to peak at 4tce and 6.8 t respectively in 2020 — 2030, soon after China steps into the high income group.

OhmConnect is a free service that acts somewhat like a virtual power plant, except that instead of generating energy, it works with the user's devices to reduce demand at times when electricity consumption is at a peak, which can help utilities to avoid having to bring a «peaker plant» online to cover the extra demand.

Climate and energy policies are well connected — reducing oil depletion and dependency should be achieved through deploying renewable sources and in effect will bring reducing of carbon dioxide — thus what climate policies were (yet) not able to bring, peak oil and high oil prices (however with more negative impacts, like social unrest and geo - political instability) certainly will.

EPA also set basic criteria to highlight on the ENERGY STAR product finder products capable of supporting demand response; this «connected» functionality allows products to reduce their electricity usage during peak periods and shift charging to non-peak times.

Installed alongside Axiom's System Integrator (SI) control unit, the «batteries» can lower the cost of energy for the company that chooses to host them, reducing their peak use of electricity.

For instance, if the customer is billed under Time of Use rates, in order to understand how much a solar installation will reduce their utility bill, it is essential to understand how much energy they consume during peak demand times when energy is more expensive, and how those usage patterns intersect with the amount of energy their solar array is likely to be producing at different times.

The ENERGY STAR Certified Homes Program equips policy makers with a proven marketing platform and technical specifications to help reduce long - term energy use and peak demand in a community and contribute towards climate change mitigation ENERGY STAR Certified Homes Program equips policy makers with a proven marketing platform and technical specifications to help reduce long - term energy use and peak demand in a community and contribute towards climate change mitigation energy use and peak demand in a community and contribute towards climate change mitigation goals.

Protect energy retailers from energy price peaks by facilitating access to stored energy and interruptible loads through automatically discharging energy or removing demand, to reduce costs during peak price hours.

Optimizing energy usage allows us to reduce demand on the grid strategically, ultimately reducing the peak level of demand when the grid is most strained and expensive to run.

While often these two factors go hand - in - hand, aiming for complete self - sufficiency from the grid requires a much higher investment in energy storage than merely reduce peak time use.

The goal of these virtual power plants is to collectively reduce customers» energy demand at peak hours and provide renewable energy supplies in targeted areas.

(B) Megawatts subject to the ability of a load - serving entity to call on demand response programs, smart appliances, smart electricity or energy storage devices, distributed generation resources on the entity's customers» premises, or other measures directly capable of actively, controllably, reliably, and dynamically reducing peak demand («dynamic peak management control»).

By linking together networks of energy - efficient buildings, solar installations, and batteries, a growing number of companies in the U.S. and Europe are helping utilities reduce energy demand at peak hours and supply targeted areas with renewably generated electricity.

From providing flexible resources to enable widespread deployment of renewable energy resources, to improving grid resiliency and efficiency, to shifting peak loads and reducing harmful emissions, storage brings a multitude of benefits to the grid that are not being fully valued in our electric system today.

The project has reduced household energy consumption by up to 15.2 % and office building consumption by up to 22.8 % through demand response (DR) testing during peak times of electricity usage.

Earlier this year, Tesla opened a massive energy storage facility in Ontario, California that was designed to reduce the need for «peaker plants,» or pricey electricity generators that only run when demand is particularly high.

Stem's software - driven storage can enable businesses to reduce energy costs by reducing their peak demand.

Similarly, on the demand — or customer — side, the idea is that Californians, buildings, appliances and electric vehicles create an intricate, synergetic web that can be made more efficient and flexible with customer education and empowerment, customer - focused energy pricing policies and demand - response programs (which allows customers to voluntarily reduce peak electricity use in response to a signal from their electric utilities and receive a payment for doing so).

-- In accordance with paragraph (1), the Secretary shall identify options to reduce energy use by water treatment and delivery systems during peak electric demand periods, including through --

0.13 GW DSBR scheme contracts with large energy users, paying them to reduce their usage during peak demand.

Combining wind with the large amounts of solar generation expected to be added to the Queensland grid, will allow a higher penetration of renewable energy at lower costs while reducing the need for storage and other peaking capacity across the network.»

While the benefit - cost ratio «tends to increase as peak load is reduced, technical limits to the amount the peak load can be reduced with DR and energy efficiency resources limit how much of this benefit can be realized,» the report notes.

«Another example could be smart thermostats that optimize AC usage to reduce overall energy consumption and can be enrolled in AC cycling programs to target peak reduction,» Tolbert said.

The report is required to include the percentage net peak load energy from fossil fuel generation and the commission's efforts to reduce it.

The study also found that energy efficiency and demand response can reduce peak demand, which occurs during those days in the summer when electricity use is highest.

If successful, SMUD will use this demonstration project as a basis for using similar battery energy storage technologies to reduce the costs of serving peak electricity demand and the integration of more renewable energy.

While we can expect that PV will likely be cheaper in the future, solar updraft towers could provide an economically - viable alternative to «PV + energy storage» for peak load (as solar updraft towers can store thermal energy in the ground for night electricity production to greatly reduce intermittency at minimal additional cost).

«Zero - Carbon Buildings» do not reduce peak demand on the national electricity grid, building energy efficiency does.

No great mystery or conspiracy to genocide — but if we can shave a billion off peak population it reduces the food and energy targets.

A zero net energy building merges highly energy - efficient building construction, state - of - the - art appliances and lighting systems, and high performance windows to reduce a building's load and peak requirements and can include on - site solar water heating and renewable energy, such as solar photovoltaic, to meet remaining energy needs.

In addition, energy efficiency reduces the cost of meeting peak demand during periods of high temperatures and high prices.

How do you know that the warming of the stratosphere is caused by the ozone recovery and not by the reduced solar activity after the peak of cycle 23 reducing the rate of energy loss to space?

In contrast, customers who were charged more for electricity during peak - demand hours formed longer - term habits that reduced energy consumption during those times.

The Green New Deal includes policies and novel funding mechanisms that will reduce emissions contributing to climate change and allow us to cope better with the coming energy shortages caused by peak oil.

If the only problem were peak oil and there was no AGW, then we could go ahead and burn as much oil as we like, with the only challenge being to reduce our usage as supplies plateau and decline and we transition to other energy sources — including other fossil fuels.