Sentences with phrase «than electricity»

That still leaves solar power more expensive than electricity from a large coal plant, but it would help the industry close the gap with wind turbines and other rival sources of clean power.

Solar power, for example, still generates less than 1 percent of our nation's electricity and, under most circumstances, remains much more expensive than electricity generated from fossil fuels.

New wind generated electricity is cheaper than electricity generated from new coal plants.

Limits the trading of allowances with facilities other than electricity generating facilities to certain carbon dioxide emission control programs.

To a utility company, electricity produced during the day has a far greater value than electricity produced late at night on a weekend.

This illustrates the fact that transportation is much more oil - dependent than electricity generation, and existing technologies offer few fundamental solutions for alternatives in the transportation sector.

Heat demand in industrial processes is much greater than electricity demand (74 % vs 26 % respectively).

Heat is much easier to store than electricity and heat stores could be used as a way to balance variable renewables.

But gas market reform was begun later than electricity market reform when, in 1997 all seven states signed a binding commitment to introduce competition into the gas market.

While electricity from natural gas is generally regarded as better for the climate than electricity from coal, the more the natural gas system leaks, the less climate benefit it has.

I guess you can shoot more than electricity out of your hands, huh?

The fact that wind power is not available on demand makes wind - generated electricity less valuable than electricity that can be generated on demand.

Solar power there is much cheaper than electricity from any other source.

Such electricity is almost always higher in cost (and lower in value) than electricity produced by existing conventional energy sources.

Solar energy was more expensive than electricity from the power grid in most markets, and solar energy prices were much higher than today.

By automating the process of designing optical interconnects, they feel that they have set the stage for the next generation of even faster and far more energy - efficient computers that use light rather than electricity for internal data transport.

Bio-SNG (Synthetic Natural Gas) delivered via the gas grid offers CO2 lifecycle savings of up to 90 % compared with fossil fuel alternatives, and offer sa more cost - effective solution than electricity for carbon abatement in transport applications, according to a new... Read more →

The key challenges are to restructure existing energy tax systems to directly target the source of environmental harm (e.g., by taxing emissions or driving on busy roads rather than electricity consumption or vehicle sales), to better align tax levels with the scale of environmental harm, and to overcome practical challenges of higher energy and transportation costs.

Electricity in Texas is cheaper than electricity in Hawaii, for instance.

Once you strip away the econ jargon, the paper finds that, on the margin, electricity from coal imposes more damages on the U.S. economy than the electricity is worth.

«The danger is that this continues to send the message that solar power is worth less than electricity sourced from a distant coal - fired generator,» he wrote in a note to clients.

It has pledged to sell the energy at 20 percent lower prices than electricity bought from state power utility Comision Federal de Electricidad.

Bio-SNG (Synthetic Natural Gas) delivered via the gas grid offers CO2 lifecycle savings of up to 90 % compared with fossil fuel alternatives, and offer sa more cost - effective solution than electricity for carbon abatement in transport applications, according to a new feasibility study published by National Grid (UK), the North East Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) and Centrica.

But coal generation also makes it into California's power supply by way of unspecified market purchases for bundles of electricity, which is different than electricity purchases from specific plants.

Cisco's annual report on mobile traffic growth reported that by 2020, more people will have a cell phone than electricity.

It feels warmer too than electricity or gas.

Plus, local generation is more reliable than electricity transported over long transmission lines, a major plus on brutal winter days we often see in February.

A: In photocatalysis the driving force is sunlight [rather than electricity].

«The energy we don't consume is more important than the electricity we might produce,» says environmental engineer Bruce Logan of Pennsylvania State University, an Emefcy advisor.

A quick ride on the autobahn sees the numbers pile on quicker than the electricity meter at an AC / DC gig.

The result is the same; a customers» home is decked out with solar panels and powered by the sun, and thanks to lucrative tax credits, the electricity agreement is cheaper than electricity bills from the local utility.

«There's a lot more to the carbon budget than electricity and cars,» said Cohan.

Propane is far more efficient than electricity for any heating element and in most cases leads a better cooking experience.

It found that the use of highly efficient technologies such as USC would provide better economic returns in any coal price scenario (US$ 60 / tonne, US$ 80 / tonne, and US$ 100 / tonne), and that the electricity produced by USC plants is cheaper and more affordable than the electricity produced with other conventional technologies.

A U.S. Energy Department study found that liquefied natural gas from the U.S., used for power generation in Asia and Europe, will emit fewer greenhouse gas emissions from a lifecycle perspective than electricity generated by regional coal.

I use 13 times more (in kWh terms) gas than electricity pa; 32000 kWh v 25oo kWh

The hydrogen economy can be got off the ground and running just fine with reformed natural gas, which is no more carbon intensive than electricity for battery cars is at the moment.

Swiss HVDC cable manufacturer ABB has researched the cross-over point at which natural gas is cheaper to pipe to its final location than electricity generated nearer the upstream gas source.

The United Kingdom hosts more than half of the world's offshore capacity and aims for 18,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2020; its offshore wind resources are actually estimated to be 16 times larger than its electricity consumption.

Fuel cell vehicles are promising for the future — and Nissan continues to invest in their development — but the production and distribution of hydrogen is yet much more problematic than electricity or batteries.