Sentences with phrase «than electricity from»

The report does not even note the fact that the electric customers would bear millions of dollars in extra costs because electricity from the «wind farms» would cost more than electricity from other sources.

Geosequestration would add another $ 51 / MWh, putting it up to $ 114 / MWh; this is much more expensive than electricity from several sustainable generation methods; wind in particular.

To attain zero - carbon heat for thermochemical reactions — which can operate at temperatures as high as 1,500 C — experts view CSP as a more efficient clean energy source than electricity from PV or wind.

The energy is fifty percent cheaper than electricity from fossil fuels and thus provides financial relief for the people of Senegal.

Currently, photovoltaic solar energy still costs more than electricity from fossil fuels.

``... electricity from new wind and solar power is 2.5 to 5 times more expensive than electricity from existing coal and nuclear power.»

The 2016 version of Stacy and Taylor's report similarly claimed ``... electricity from new wind and solar power is 2.5 to 5 times more expensive than electricity from existing coal and nuclear power.»

That's been the goal of solar panel makers for a long time, because as those prices decline electricity from the sun costs the same as, or is even cheaper than electricity from burning fossil fuels.

But in November and December 2005, wind power in Colorado cost less than electricity from fossil fuel, and the average household that switched to wind saved $ 4 a month on its electric bill.

Not exact matches

They point to recent examples, in which Woodside announced a major project to extract oil from mallee trees and produce electricity, in a venture that appears greener than an Irishman's heart.

A similar electricity trade applies to all of Canada, where more than 60 % of power produced still comes from hydro.

More than one third of Danish electricity production comes from turbines, according to the Danish Energy Agency.

Even in states that wish to favor coal - fired power, it will be difficult to convince ratepayers that they ought to pay more for electricity from coal than they could pay for electricity from alternative sources.

Google's total purchase of energy from renewable sources in 2017 was greater than the electricity used by its global operations, the tech giant has said.

The cost of electricity from large - scale solar installations now is comparable to and sometimes cheaper than natural gas - fired power, even without incentives aimed at promoting environmentally friendly power, according to industry players and outside cost studies.

As for the «awesome technologies» that sprang from Jobs's Apple laboratories, would not an impartial observer describe the iPad as just a small laptop computer without a keyboard and a cover rather than an innovation on par with electricity, vaccination or hybrid crops?

In an announcement on Monday, the government said that the cost of new offshore wind projects producing electricity from 2022 - 23 would, at # 57.50 ($ 75.86) per megawatt hour, be 50 percent lower than the first auction in 2015.

Small - scale solar panels generate electricity more cheaply than buying from the grid in certain parts of the United States.

But it was only in the last decade that the state began taking advantage of its vast wind - energy resources, growing from less than 1 percent of net electricity production in 2005 to nearly 30 percent in 2016.

While Sunrun sells itself to customers as a hassle - free way to save on their electricity bills rather than just a do - gooder environmental option, Jurich's interest in solar stems from a deep concern about air quality that crystallized while she was working in smoggy China.

TORONTO — Ontario will import enough electricity from Quebec to power a city of more than 200,000 people under a seven - year agreement signed Friday, but the provinces won't say how much Ontario is paying Hydro Quebec.

Literally the fuel of America's Industrial Revolution and growth, coal has fallen from providing more than half of the nation's electricity as recently as 2000 to 30 percent in 2017.

Firms mining bitcoin have also taken to moving to remote locations, not registering a company and engaging in the mildly illegal activity of purchasing electricity directly from power producers rather than grid operators.

New electricity from solar and wind will be cheaper than coal in most parts of the United States by 2023, according to a new...

Nationally, however, Ontario's efforts to cut the amount of carbon pollution from electricity generation are more than offset by the growth in emissions from the oil sands, which are expected to triple by 2020 from 2005 levels.

While the Ontario government's recently updated long - term energy plan said the province's industrial electricity consumers currently face prices lower than that of the average for the Great Lakes region, the plan also showed that the cost will rise to $ 116 per megawatt hour by 2035, a nearly 40 per cent increase from the projected 2017 price of $ 83 per megawatt hour.

The government aims to increase capacity to 350 MW by 2020, or about 5 percent of projected peak electricity demand, up from less than 1 percent now, according to EMA.

Wind power generated a record 6.3 - percent share of total US electricity last year, with four states — Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and South Dakota — generating more than 30 percent of their electricity from wind power, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) said in its newly released US Wind Industry Annual Market Report 2017.

Responding to tight market conditions and the growing demand from automotive electrification and stationary grid storage of electricity, the price of cobalt has continued its ascent from US$ 10 / lb in early 2016 to more than US$ 40 / lb today.

And if there is more demand than supply, Powerpeers meets the excess demand with electricity from other sustainable sources.

However, we strongly recommend you fund household conversions from gas to electricity if not for any other reason than to demonstrate it can be done.

«That means the electricity to power every light, refrigerator and check out - lane comes from renewable sources, rather than fossil fuels,» it states.

Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.

Residential consumers of electricity will from today [1st April 2018] pay 15 percent less than the tariff they previously paid.

Having the Belleayre, Gore and Whiteface ski centers join The Climate Reality Project's «I Am Snow 100 %» program is in line with Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, which requires that half of all electricity used in New York come from renewable sources, rather than fossil fuels, by 2030, the governor's office said in a press release.

Under the new rules, ESCOs won't be able to sell new supply to residential and small - business customers unless they are cheaper than the utility or if at least 30 percent of the electricity they sell comes from renewable energy sources like wind, hydro or solar.

According to our analysis, this would generate more than enough electricity to power the biorefinery, so surplus power could be sold back to the grid, displacing electricity produced from fossil fuels — a practice already used in some plants in Brazil to produce ethanol from sugarcane.

In 2011 researchers found that these waves of electricity cause neurons in the hippocampus, the main brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to other cells.

Rather than generating their own power via water wheels or electric dynamos, companies can now plug into the newly built electric grid and buy electricity directly from power stations.

After the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, Germany adopted a policy of phasing out nuclear energy by 2022 and ensuring that 80 percent of the country's electricity supply comes from clean energy by 2050, or more than three times the level of 2010.

In fact, the price per kilowatt - hour of electricity from batteries has more than halved from 2007 (about US$ 1000) to 2014.

Praise for a «level of predictability» Market projections from SEIA and partner GTM Research indicate the U.S. solar market will add roughly 72 gigawatts of new capacity between 2016 and 2020, pushing the country's net solar capacity to more than 100 GW, or roughly 3.5 percent of all electricity produced in the United States.

Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more power than a household uses — required a decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the grid, and from the grid to consumers.

The spread of urban centers increases the demand for electricity, more than 75 percent of which in China is generated from coal - fired power plants.

The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»

Even the oil sands ultimate consumption in a gasoline, diesel or jet engine only results in 500 kilograms of CO2 - equivalent per barrel of refined petroleum products, meaning total oil sands emissions from well to wheel are considerably lower than those of this nation's more than 500 power plants burning coal to generate electricity.

«In terms of consumer ownership and use costs, the case to make a switch from current fuels to compressed natural gas (CNG) is much more compelling than for other alternative fuels like ethanol and electricity.»

And even the most optimistic projections have wind power accounting for less than 3 percent of total electricity production by 2020 — more than the current U.S. share of 0.4 percent but far less than world leader, Denmark, which gets roughly 20 percent of its power from the wind.

In effect, the college will be making more electricity from the sun than it needs and can send clean electricity back into California's grid.

About half of all our electricity comes from more than 500 coal - fired plants.