Sentences with phrase «selling kilowatt»

The shift to a more renewable, decentralised, and flexible power system is a massive threat to the established utilities» business model of selling kilowatt - hours produced in large conventional power plants.

In that world, no power plant will be able to make money selling kilowatt - hours.

Austin is the site of the one of the nation's primary federal smart grid experiments, the Pecan Street Project, testing whether utilities can profitably switch from selling kilowatts to conserving them.

Not exact matches

«Right now [hybrid] batteries are selling for $ 500 to $ 600 per kilowatt hour, but they should be $ 200,» Zhou says.

It currently estimated that Ghana imports about 185 megawatts of power from Cote d'Ivoire and according to the electricity sector players, Côte d'Ivoire generates thermal power at the cost of 9 cents per kilowatt hour and sells it to Ghana for 11 cents.

The plant has a tariff of 15 cents per kilowatt hour, but the same power is sold to the Electricity Company of Ghana at a cost of 5 cents per kilowatts hour, leaving a deficit of 10 cents per kilowatts.

High up - front expenses plus relatively low efficiency makes the cost of geothermal electricity about double that of coal, which sells for around five cents per kilowatt - hour.

SolarReserve will sell its power from the Nevada project for about 13 cents per kilowatt - hour, with annual adjustments for inflation, under a 25 - year power purchase contract with NV Energy.

Specifically, the utilities have to be paid not for kilowatts sold but for watts saved.

PPRT includes an additional state income tax on corporations and partnerships, a tax on businesses that sell gas or water, a 0.5 percent fee on all gross charges for telecommunications services excluding wireless services, and a per - kilowatt tax on electricity distributors.

The electric motor produces 270 hp, making it more powerful than the base 2.0 - liter turbo inline - four that pumps out 248 hp on the BMW X3 sold here in the U.S. With a battery capacity of 70 kilowatt - hours, BMW estimates a range of 249 miles on the global WLTP cycle, although it's unclear what this would translate to on the EPA scale.

But the price of oil never rose as was predicted, so the solar plant never became competitive with fossil fuel - based energy production (Carrizo sold its electricity to the local utility for between three and four cents a kilowatt - hour, while a minimum price of eight to ten cents a kilowatt - hour would be necessary in order for Carrizo to make a profit).»

At the same time, utilities are feeling the squeeze from distributed energy resources like rooftop solar, which further threatens to erode their ability to sell more kilowatt - hours of electricity to their customers and build more power plants.

Despite the sale of Bruce Power, in the prior year, for 2002 OPG managed to generate and sell 125.3 terawatts (TWh) of electricity at an average price of 4.3 cents per kilowatt (kWh).

If upwards of 100,000 new homes are built in 2020, and they all have a few kilowatts of solar, it won't sell out a gigafactory.

For carbon - intensive electricity, all suppliers of electricity to end users would pay the fee, calculated based on the total number of kilowatt - hours sold to customers minus the kilowatt - hours for which the supplier has purchased renewable energy credits (RECs) or entered into long - term contracts for clean energy.

We sell a lot of our solar electricity back to PG&E at $ 0.29 a kilowatt - hour during the summer (less in winter and at latitude 37 N there's a lot less sun as well so winter's a dead loss).

The country's enormous hydropower capacity allows for electricity export; Canada sells some 50 billion kilowatt - hours to the United States every year — enough to power more than 4 million American homes.

The Electricity Regulatory Commission (ERC) announced last week that citizens of one of the world's most fuel - deprived nations can sell energy generated with solar panels for 120 fils per kilowatt / hour (kw / h) and wind power -LSB-...]

Energy Northwest sells all of White Bluff's power to the Bonneville Power Administration for 4 cents per kilowatt - hour, less than the cost of production.

We sold it at an average of 2.36 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) and were paid $ 242 million, but it cost Ontario's ratepayers just over $ 1 billion.

For every kilowatt hour of green electricity that an electricity retailer sells, it is committed to buy a kilowatt from a an electrical generator that produces power by a greenhouse friendly method; that is, by a method that does not produce greenhouse gasses.

As every kilowatt - hour not consumed is one potentially sold to the grid an economic incentive kicks in which is equally important for energy efficient behavior.

(Just this month we learned that First Solar Inc. has contracted to sell solar electricity to Nevada Power for 3.87 cents per kilowatt - hour, a new low price record for solar.)

The utility wants to overhaul a pricing rule that allows owners of rooftop solar systems to sell the surplus electricity they generate to Duke at 11 cents per kilowatt - hour, the retail bundled rate.