Sentences with phrase «reduced use of electricity»

Lately, I've heard that it's a way to save energy by reduced use of electricity.

This reduces the use of electricity and cost of bills as compared with PSUs that are less efficient.

The event is geared toward helping the public learn about how they can reduce their use of electricity or convert to clean fuels like solar power.

We have talked about the need to reduce our use of electricity.

LED lights and motion sensors in each classroom would help reduce the use of electricity, and a geothermal system below the fields surrounding the school would provide heating and cooling.

Not exact matches

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

Liska agrees that using some of the residue to make electricity, or planting cover crops, would reduce carbon emissions.

Solar power, which now generates almost 2 percent of the nation's electricity, has become popular among Democrats and Republicans alike, as people consider ways to have more control over their energy use and to reduce pollution as well as create jobs.

(In case you're curious, it is the invention that puts a little wind generator on the top of a car to create electricity off the forward motion of the car to reduce the amount of energy the car uses.

All of these practices have reduced the farm's electricity use by 50 percent and generated significant savings on fertilizer and water.

What I liked best about this format for presenting information was the «360 degree» perspective it offered: Casey gave the issue a framework, with useful advice on how to persuade principals and administrators to implement in - classroom breakfast programs; Nora followed, sharing her personal story with using free / reduced programs when her children were young, and stressing the importance of taking care of «the whole child»; Rosario charmed the crowd with her experiences implementing in - classroom breakfast in her district, sharing a story about how excited her kids got about breakfast after a power outage — not how excited they were about the return of electricity, but about getting breakfast; Barry inspired the group by explaining how he took his successes as a school food director as a springboard to a new career as a consultant, replicating and spreading that success in other classrooms.

«The residential user still uses a lot of incandescent bulbs and has the greatest opportunity to reduce electricity costs and consumption,» said Christopher Blansett, an analyst at J.P. Morgan.

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

In a recent test by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, simply giving employees wireless control of the three lights closest to their workstation, and allowing them to turn them on or off individually, reduced the electricity used by the building's lights by up to 72 per cent.

Many institutions in the region, including the University of Tokyo and some RIKEN institutes, have been forced to drastically reduce electricity use and shut down large facilities such as supercomputers.

That Senate bill sets a goal to reduce emissions by 83 percent from 2005 levels by 2050 and requires electricity suppliers to use renewables and electricity - saving measures for 20 percent of their demand by 2020.

The researchers used Beijing in summer of 2012 to calculate that switching vehicles from gas to electricity could reduce the heat island intensity by nearly 1 degree Celsius.

Reducing the amount of fossil fuels (such as gasoline for cars and coal burned for electricity) that we use can help slow how quickly the ice is melting (by slowing the rise in average temperatures).

The use of smart grids delivers electricity more efficiently and at the same time helps reduce the environmental impact of the system.

If all those pig feces were collected in lined ponds to let anaerobic bacteria thrive, they could become a renewable source of 1600 tons of biogas, which can be used to generate heat and electricity on site while simultaneously reducing Israel's greenhouse - gas emissions.

They made comparisons within the five sectors they studied — power plants, furnaces, exports for electricity generation overseas, buses and cars — and across sectors to see which use of natural gas pays the greatest dividend for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Treated excrement from turkeys, chickens and other poultry, when converted to combustible solid biomass fuel, could replace approximately 10 percent of coal used in electricity generation, reducing greenhouse gases and providing an alternative energy source, according to a new study by Ben - Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers.

In July last year, in an attempt to reduce demand for elec - tricity, a group of power companies offered the prize to the first company to build a prototype fridge that would use at least 25 per cent less electricity than current standards demand while using no ozone - depleting CFCs.

As electricity use spikes across the country in the summertime when more people use air conditioning, electric power companies turn to more coal and natural gas power plants to help meet the demand, reducing renewables» share of total U.S. power generation, Comstock said.

Thus, the IPCC argues the answer lies in a portfolio approach to reducing emissions from the energy supply sector, including replacing inefficient power plants, cutting down on the use of electricity in general and potentially moving from large, centralized power plants to small distributed ones.

Co-generation of electricity and use of industrial waste heat to reduce per capita energy consumption.

«There's this virtuous cycle — whereas if you use more solar electricity, you can reduce your use of coal.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

For example, programs like OPOWER's that compare electricity use among neighbors have been shown to reduce electricity use by 2 percent at a cost of 2.5 cents per kilowatt - hour.

But if people were better at using less electricity, which accounts for 38 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States, the potential for reducing emissions would be huge.

To reduce the amount of electricity you use, shine a light on the Swedish way of doing things — and make maximum use of natural light.

Slow starts and feathering the accelerator pedal can keep the car running off electricity up to 30 mph, but I found there's a better strategy: use the gasoline motor to accelerate up to 25 mph (this reduces the amount of road rage you'll witness), lift - off the gas pedal to shut the engine off, and gingerly accelerate.

[15] The Delhi Metro reduced the amount of carbon dioxide (CO 2) released into the atmosphere by around 90,000 tons by regenerating 112,500 megawatt hours of electricity through the use of regenerative braking systems between 2004 and 2007.

The 4B11 2.0 - liter inline - 4 has been fitted with the Mitsubishi Innovative Valve timing Electronic Control system (MIVEC) to maximize power production, improve fuel efficiency and reduce exhaust emissions by continuously varying the timing of the intake valves according to engine speed when it operates in Parallel Hybrid mode (the engine functions solely to generate electricity in Series Hybrid mode and is mainly used to provide motive force in Parallel Hybrid mode).

The customer can also recharge the battery in the middle of the night, when prices are lowest in some markets, and then use the electricity during the day to reduce energy costs.

Using nuclear fuel of any type, on the scale where hundreds of thousands of megawatts in electricity are generated to significantly reduce CO2 emissions, human error will be inevitable, and statistically very, very relevant.

Making Hydrogen in these ways, and using it to run an automobile has to be less efficient than the direct use of hydrocarbon fuels and electricity to run a car, and can't reduce the total amount of CO2 emissions.

By purchasing RECs and other credible carbon offsets AFTER reducing electricity use as much as possible, consumers and corporations can support the additional development of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.

It's long been known that white roofs reflect more heat back into space, reducing the amount of electricity used for A / C and thus drastically cutting down on energy consumption.

«A tree planted on the west side of a house can reduce net carbon emissions from summertime electricity use by 30 percent over a 100 - year period.»

but they state the move will reduce the amount of paper used by the firm by a massive 8,500 tonnes (65pc per item) each year, saving 20 m megajoules of electricity, 1m l of water, 500,000 l of diesel used, 275 tonnes of plastic plus chemicals that have to be processed to dispose of them safely.

The Rocky Mountain Institute calculates that if the 40 least - efficient states were to reach the electrical efficiency of the 10 most - efficient ones, national electricity use would be reduced by one third.

A new National Research Council report finds that by the year 2050, the U.S. may be able to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent for light - duty vehicles — cars and small trucks — via a combination of more efficient vehicles; the use of alternative fuels like biofuels, electricity, and hydrogen; and strong government policies to overcome high costs and influence consumer choices.

Your blog should begin «assuming the average amount of energy used in a house can not be reduced and it can only be supplied with electricity»

And if we choose a model that is also rated higher in energy - efficiency, we can also reduce the amount of electricity we use for laundry.

I was sort of surprised when in the early 90s the Jewel food chain in the Chicago area went on the gov's Green Lights program, got a low interest loan to change all their conventional tube lights to ones with reflectors and electronic ballasts (reducing lighting electricity by 3/4 & saving the food chain $ 1 million per year, paying off the loan within the 1st year), that they didn't use that as a marketing strategy: «Jewel cares about the Earth!»

When we discovered our overnight outside lamps were causing a spike in electricity use, for example, we brain - stormed strategies to reduce this source of power consumption.

The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Using long - distance, high - voltage electricity transmission to deliver electricity from renewable resources to highly populated and polluted regions could increase the use of green energy, reduce carbon emissions, and maximize air quality and health benefits.

Having done all that was reasonably possible to reduce electrical usage through conservation and efficiency, my wife and I had our usage down to where we could afford the photovoltaics to create about the same amount of electricity we use on an annual basis.