Sentences with phrase «reduces electricity demand»

Alice McKeown, «Strong Growth in Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Reduces Electricity Demand,» Vital Signs Online (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 27 October 2008); «Alliance Calls for Only Energy - Efficient Lighting in U.S. Market by 2016, Joins Coalition Dedicated to Achieving Goal,» press release (Washington, DC: Alliance to Save Energy, 14 March 2007); DOE, Big Results, Bigger Potential: CFL Market Profile (Washington, DC: Energy Star, March 2009).

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.

If power demand spiked, the device would automatically adjust the air - conditioning temperature to reduce electricity demand and not overload the power grid.

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).

By reducing electricity demand during peak hours, OhmConnect and smart home devices can put money back in your pocket.

Savings from the bill could have been much improved by strengthening the combined efficiency and renewable electricity standard to require utilities to reduce electricity demand by 10 % by 2020.

In 2030, these policies would save 600 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions, save over 925 million MWh of electricity, reduce electricity demand by 25 %, and avoid the need for 494 power plants.

The U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005 included a rise in efficiency standards that will reduce electricity demand enough to avoid building 29 coal - fired power plants.

By reducing our electricity demand and our reliance on older power plants, we're reducing emissions that way.

More Energy Efficiency These Smart Clothes Dryers Could Reduce Electricity Demand by the Equivalent of 6 Coal Power Plants Waste Reduction and Recycling Can Cut CO2 by 345 Million Tons Year A Greener Internet with Energy - Aware Data Routing Algorithms

By also making the effort to change lights to LEDs, install a smart thermostat, use more energy efficient appliances, unplug your old beater beer fridge and eliminate phantom power, you could dramatically reduce your electricity demand by 20 to 50 per cent, which would reduce the size of the solar system you require, saving even more money.

Not exact matches

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.

This level of electricity reduced the metered demand on the grid by about the same amount, suggesting that the total solar share of gross demand probably exceeded 50 % during the mid-day hours.

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.

«Our new consultation is actually quite exciting — we're trying to help the whole of the UK reduce its demand for electricity,» energy secretary Ed Davey told BBC Breakfast.

Their demand comes despite assurances from the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to reduce electricity tariff, in particular.

The goal is to turn scientific advances into deployable technology, like better batteries for the electric cars that could further reduce U.S. demand for oil and cheaper photovoltaics to produce the electricity that would go into those batteries.

Given the right financial incentives, though, many households may accept smart grid strategies that let utilities reduce power consumption in homes at peak periods of demand, when wholesale electricity prices are highest, some analysts conclude.

In addition, this year, delayed monsoon rains increased farmers» demand for irrigation - related electricity while reducing the water available for hydroelectricity, which accounts for 20 percent of India's grid, according to Businessweek and Reuters.

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.

Utilities can substantially reduce their disruption costs, as well as social costs, by continuing to supply at least a small amount of electricity to serve HP demands during outages.

The International Energy Agency estimated last year that both the decline in China's coal use and falling electricity demand reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5 percent in 2014, leading to a 0.2 percent reduction in global emissions.

That way, homeowners will be able to install smaller and cheaper solar power systems while being able to use electricity from the grid only as backup, reducing the electric power demand, or load, on the utility's grid.

How it works: When demand is low, electricity is sent to a motor that accelerates a cylinder spinning in a case, which is vacuum - sealed to reduce friction.

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.

During the 494th Brookhaven Lecture, Matthew Eisaman explained solar cells» important role in meeting the world's energy demands, the U.S. Department of Energy's SunShot Initiative to reduce the cost of solar cell - generated electricity by 2020, and solar cell research at Brookhaven Lab.

In addition, rising requirements for renewable energy will shift demand away from coal, reducing investment in this source of electricity.

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.

Finally, the third step I will take is to call on businesses, government, and the American people to meet the goal of reducing our demand for electricity 15 percent by the end of the next decade.

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.

Users can sign up and connect their smart home devices through the platform, and then during peak demand events, which can happen several times per week, and which the company calls «OhmHours,» users are directed to reduce their electricity consumption, in exchange for which they earn points that can be cashed in for money.

System - Wide Programs in Place to Reduce Demand for Electricity as Temperatures Climb; State Agencies Directed to Reduce Power Usage

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.

The CO2 Scorecard report, by contrast, examined changes in electricity at the regional level using data from grid operators, which showed researchers greater detail about where natural gas had replaced coal or renewables; where renewables replaced coal; and where electricity consumption simply declined because of reduced demand.

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

Introducing new or expanded demand - side energy efficiency programs that reduce electricity sales

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

Investments that encourage the construction of new renewable resources will cut the demand for fossil fuel - based electricity, reducing air pollution and global warming emissions.

Combining more - efficient lights and appliances with a smart grid that uses time - of - day pricing, peak demand sensors, and the many other technologies described in this chapter shows a huge potential for reducing both overall electricity use and peak demand.

Utility energy efficiency programs generate significant financial benefits to Ohio's customers in four primary ways: (1) they help reduce customer demand for electricity, thereby directly reducing monthly electricity bills for participants; (2) they reduce customer demand, or load, which...

SaskPower expects demand for electricity to continue to grow as the province grows and has set a goal of reducing electricity sector greenhouse emissions 40 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

If solar power capacity is tailored to match demand during even the shortest and darkest winter days, and wind power capacity is matched to the lowest wind speeds, the risk of electricity shortages could be reduced significantly.

[A] s a result of basic supply - and - demand dynamics, solar capacity systematically reduces electricity prices during the very hours when solar generators produce the most electricity.

Apologises if anyone has posted this before (the talk was March 2016) but it seems quite hopeful in suggesting that electricity demand can be reduced and production transition to renewables in a short timescale.

Smart - grid technologies could reduce overall electricity consumption by 6 percent and peak demand by as much as 27 percent.

Demand - side response can significantly reduce such outcomes by shifting and shaping electricity demand to match the availability of renewables - based electricity generDemand - side response can significantly reduce such outcomes by shifting and shaping electricity demand to match the availability of renewables - based electricity generdemand to match the availability of renewables - based electricity generation.

In other countries in the EU where governments have made fewer direct interventions in the market but still adopted the EU - wide regulations, this has still reduced demand for electricity, to the surprise of some governments.

Wholesale electricity prices this week in Queensland have fallen below $ 30 / MWh — see graph below — far below the levels of other states as mild weather and sunny condition reduced demand and generated a large amount of solar electricity.