Sentences with phrase «reduced electricity needs»

Metrolight - an Israeli company that manufacturers electronic ballasts for decreasing lighting costs (and reducing electricity needs) without compromising lighting needs.

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By 2030, California aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 40 % below 1990 levels, a plan that includes deriving at least 50 % of its electricity needs from renewable energy.

The system will store solar energy created during the day and feed it to the grid during the evening hours to help reduce the amount of diesel power generation needed to meet the island's electricity demand.

Mr Bambridge says this the plant indirectly reduces the brewery's carbon footprint by reducing the brewery's demands on fossil fuels and the electricity needs for wastewater treatment by using energy - friendly anaerobic pre-treatment technology in which GWE is a world leader.

In addition to no longer needing dryer sheets and fabric softener, the wooldryer balls eliminate static and help to reduce the amount of time the laundry is in the dryer therefore saving you time and money on your electricity bill.

The decision has one down - side that the electricity market reform will have to resolve: by dropping the CCS levy on consumers and committing to taxpayer funding, it reduces the incentive of the existing power companies to engage with CCS, and reinforces the need for a strong emissions performance standard to ensure they have clarity about the low carbon direction of the electricity market.

If better use could be made of solar energy, with less need for storage capacity, residents» electricity bills would be reduced considerably.

And perhaps most impressive of all, before the telegraph could even be considered a means of interpersonal communication, somebody — Samuel Morse — needed to think up a system by which the infinite variety of concrete, abstract, and usually self - serving statements that a human being might wish to share with a species - mate could be reduced to pulses of electricity.

The predictions also assume that the rising contribution of gas - fired and nuclear plants will reduce coal's contribution to 20 per cent of Britain's electricity needs by the end of the decade.

But this has proven challenging, because transparency in solar cells reduces their efficiency in absorbing the sunlight they need to generate electricity.

The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that this switch would reduce electricity demand for lighting by 62 percent and avoid the need for at least 133 new power plants.

Before such batteries can become a reality, Strano needs to find a safe, reliable way to ignite the reaction and figure out how to reduce the amount of energy that comes out as heat or light rather than electricity.

Light and Bright: Atrium «sreception area, also a multiuse space, allows an abundance of natural light, reducing the need for electricity.

Regenerative braking that converts kinetic energy to electricity while you're driving lets you recharge on the go and reduces the need to revert to the gas engine if the battery runs dry.

These devices reduce the electricity production of desktop computers and other office machinery needed to transfer and store these types of documents.

I am amazed that hundreds of wind turbines and wind turbine farms are being discussed before any serious studies have been done on how electricity demand could be reduced, which in turn of course would reduce the number of wind turbines needed!

If I understand the above calculation correctly, it would seem that, in the electricity sector, we could mostly concentrate on meeting additional demand with efficiency and carbon neutral generation (and avoid some of the fights associated with replacing existing coal generation plants); but if we need to reduce emissions by 80 % by 2050, then I am not sure whether this makes sense.

I am not convinced that that is true, but in any case intermittent distributed electricity production from wind and photovoltaics can dramatically reduce the «need» for baseline generation capacity.

But because a shift to electricity (or fuel cells technology) is not going to happen overnight, the government needs to get busy in establishing programs that will bring about massive energy conservation now, to reduce the annual amount of GHG emissions.

And again, my position is that (1) nuclear power is not needed, since we can get all the electricity we need, and more, from renewables; (2) nuclear can not possibly be expanded enough, quickly enough to have any significant impact on reducing GHG emissions in the time frame that's needed, while renewables can be (and already are); and (3) resources invested in expanding nuclear power would be far more effectively invested in renewables and / or efficiency, and the opportunity costs of nuclear therefore mean that putting resources into nuclear power hinders rather than helps the effort to quickly reduce CO2 emissions from generating electricity.

We need to price emissions so that its price advantage (due to currently unpriced impacts) is reduced, we need to be willing as a country to pay more for electricity and be honest about it.

Moreover, widespread implementation of distributed, local electricity generation — especially low - cost, high - efficiency thin - film photovoltaics like those now being manufactured by Nanosolar for the municipal utility market, and other innovative PV technologies like the cylindrical PV modules being manufactured by Solyndra for commercial rooftop applications — will greatly reduce the need for large - scale, centralized baseload generation.

This would greatly reduce the need to build new electricity infrastructure to meet rising demand.

And hot weather can make water supplies too warm for cooling, forcing power plants to reduce their electricity production when it's needed most (hot days are also peak electricity usage days).

Increased energy efficiency in homes and business led to lower electricity demand growth, reducing the need to generate electricity.

The introduction of legislation to reduce the use of our resources and the steep rise in energy prices (wind and solar in need of conventional sources for back - up will double or even triple the electricity price compared to coal) will undermine our economies further.

A low - cost emissions - free source of electricity generation, wind energy will be essential if the province is to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent in 2050 as clean electricity will be needed to substitute for fossil fuels in transportation, industries and buildings.

Owners who, in addition to reducing the cost of their space and water heating needs, wish to also produce electricity, but whose homes are unsuitable for a photovoltaic array or small wind turbine.

As I've explained, there are in effect many buyers and many sellers in CO2E pricing, even if there is a government - enforced standard of delivering equal share equitably to all sellers per capita as there are different carbon intensities of essentially the same energy: electricity need not be produced from fossil fuels, and where it is, the fossil fuels may be less carbon intensive natural gas, or enriched through geothermal or solar hydrotreating to become less carbon intensive, or the CO2 emissions can be directly sequestered or used in coproduction to reduce net influx of CO2.

Wind energy will be an important player in cleaning electricity grids in Alberta and Saskatchewan and across Canada clean electricity grids will be needed for reducing fossil fuel use in other sectors through electrification and in the United States through clean energy exports.

But to fully capitalize on the potential of electric vehicles for reducing climate - altering carbon emissions from the transport sector, an analyst recently explained in Issues, new investments are needed in large - scale electricity storage and new public policies are needed to encourage recharging when renewable energy sources are providing the power.

Even with the sunk costs at Diablo Canyon, these challenges made it clear that cheaper options exist and «that California's new energy policies will significantly reduce the need for Diablo Canyon's electricity output.»

To effectively address climate change, how much do we need to reduce emissions from the electricity sector?

A price on carbon will create an economic incentive to reduce emissions from the electricity, heating, and transportation sectors, and will also create a revenue stream that can be used to fund programs needed to implement the Clean Energy DC Plan.

This found that renewable electricity reduces all forms of pollution, with this benefit trading off against the need for larger quantities of a range of raw materials, from iron to copper and cement.

When you use renewable solar energy to meet your energy needs, you reduce the demand for electricity from your utility.

Instead of getting my electricity cheaper I reduced my need for it instead.

Cape Windâ $ ™ s proposal to build Americaâ $ ™ s first offshore wind farm on Horseshoe Shoal would provide three - quarters of the electricity used on Cape Cod and the Islands from clean, renewable energy — reducing this regionâ $ ™ s need to import oil, coal and gas.

LDK Solar, the world's leading solar wafer manufacturer by volume, experienced a financial quarter to forget, but also reported significant energy efficiency breakthroughs, reducing the amount of electricity needed to produce 1 kilogram of silicon from 300 kilowatt hours to 100 kWh.

According to company officials, the hike is needed to «comply with EPA environmental improvements to reduce polluting emissions from coal - fired plants, make up for a decline in demand for electricity from commercial and industrial users, and cover rising costs of health care for the utility's employees.»

Canada needs a variety of reliable, clean and safe sources of new energy to meet our growing electricity demand and to help reduce the impact of greenhouse gas emissions from our electricity sector.

In addition to significantly offsetting the need for diesel - fueled electricity and reducing pollution, the solar system provides the «always on» power needed to protect sensitive medical equipment from regular power surges or outages that can be damaging.

In 2015, warm winter temperatures reduced the demand for electricity, lessened the need to bring marginal generators online, and lowered natural gas prices.

A combination of building - shell measures, heat pumps, solar heating and highly efficient appliances and lighting reduces energy needs in buildings as well as shifting fuel use to renewables and low - carbon electricity.

But even if the country can reduce the growth in electricity demand substantially, it will still need new generation capacity, much of it to replace old, inefficient plants.

There are good prospects of reducing the carbon intensity of the electricity for BEVs, but equally good ones of reducingn those of hyrogen, and much, much better prospects of its being usable winter and summer in areas north of San Diego, and so not needing massive fossil fuel «back up»

If customers were forced to pay the actual price at the time they use electricity, they would be motivated to shift some of their usage to lower - price hours, which would reduce the need for some expensive peaking capacity.

«If we meet this goal,» said Page, «and large - scale renewable deployments are cheaper than coal, the world will have the option to meet a substantial portion of electricity needs from renewable sources and significantly reduce carbon emissions.

They are a great way to reduce the need for electricity to manage home temperatures.

The study also does not account for increasing solar panel efficiency over time, something that is likely to reduce the amount of land needed to generate a megawatt of solar electricity.