Sentences with phrase «than electricity generating»

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

Windpower is more expensive than electricity generated by conventional means.

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.

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.

Electricity generated by wind and solar is more expensive than electricity generated using traditional methods, e.g., coal - fired, natural gas combined cycle, nuclear and hydro power plants.

Here are some facts: Electricity generated by wind and solar is more expensive than electricity generated using traditional methods, e.g., coal - fired, natural

Not exact matches

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

For example, generating efficient, renewable energy is a priority of the federal government, so businesses involving Cogeneration (using one fuel to simultaneously produce heat and electricity) or renewable energy technologies will find more government grant opportunities than others.

Just over a decade ago, coal - fired power generated more than 50 % of U.S. electricity.

The plant's original plan called for producing enough solar panels to generate 1,000 megawatts of electricity, although Peter Rive, SolarCity's chief technology officer, said this month that improvements to the equipment design and factory layout could allow it to produce more than 1 gigawatt in panels.

That's the claim Tesla CEO Elon Musk made Friday when he announced plans to create Solar Roof tiles that will «look better than a normal roof, generate electricity, last longer, have better insulation, and actually have an installed cost that is less than a normal roof plus the cost of electricity.»

GREG WARREN: With coal fired and natural gas plants continuing to generate around two thirds of the nation's electricity and renewables accounting to less than 10 percent, there remains plenty of room for growth.

Certain matters discussed in this press release are forward ‐ looking statements, including that Everstream Energy Capital Partners, North Sky Capital and New Energy Capital are planning to invest more than $ 67 million in a fund to support utility ‐ scale projects in Central and Southern California developed by SunEdison; that the projects will generate over 320,000 MWh of electricity annually, and create hundreds of jobs or up to 250,000 hours for California electrical and construction union workers.

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.

But until the Ether price explosion last month, mining on the Ethereum network cost more in electricity than it generated in revenue.

We could blanket large parts of the Pacific rather than use up valuable land, but every building, heck even every road could be equiped to generate electricity.

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.

The proven GWE anaerobic technology has been demonstrated in more than 300 projects completed worldwide, including more than 70 that generate biogas to replace fossil fuels in fuelling boilers and processing plant or to sellback to the electricity grid.

Similar global expertise is embodied in the GWE anaerobic technologies of which more than 300 have been completed worldwide, including more than 70 that generate biogas to replace fossil fuels in fuelling boilers and processing plant or to sellback to the electricity grid.

They also give competitive advantage to certain businesses against others - so, certain «green» businesses get preferential tax treatment compared to, say, traditional energy companies, thus making it more profitable to engage in, say, wind energy than in building other means of generating electricity.

A large part of the electricity gap should be met by energy saving measures: the National Audit Office recently found that efficiency schemes cost 1.8 pence to save a kilowatt hour of electricity, cheaper than all known means of generating electricity.

And in each of those events, the electric field grew stronger than normal, often in just a matter of seconds — bolstering the idea that the shuffling of sand grains generates static electricity.

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.

But once it's produced, gas is a far cleaner fuel than coal for generating electricity.

BUSCH: One of the best examples is in California, where studies have shown that green jobs — in the narrow sense of generating clean electricity or doing other pollution - reduction work — are growing about three times faster than other types of jobs.

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.

Exxon Mobil also touted its status as the United States» No. 1 natural gas producer, noting that gas emits significantly less CO2 than coal when burned to generate electricity.

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.

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.

If liquefied coal powered the world's vehicles, produced its heating, and generated its electricity, Earth would warm 2º Celsius (3.6 º Fahrenheit) by 2042, three years sooner than if society continued to use oil.

THE world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

But storing surplus wind - generated electricity in batteries results in even greater reductions — from about 20 percent for lithium - ion batteries to more than 50 percent for lead - acid.

But there are times when solar and wind farms generate more electricity than is needed by consumers.

Therefore, it would actually be more energetically efficient to shut down a wind turbine than to store the surplus electricity it generates.»

Despite widespread concern about potential human health impacts from hydraulic fracturing, the lifetime toxic chemical releases associated with coal - generated electricity are 10 to 100 times greater than those from electricity generated with natural gas obtained via fracking, according to a new University of Michigan study.

Uranium 238 is much more common in nature than uranium 235 but does not fission well, so fuel manufacturers boost the uranium 235 content to a few percent, which is enough to maintain a continuous fission reaction and generate electricity.

The latest figures show that on some days of the year the electricity being generated from sun, wind, biomass, water and geothermal production already accounts for more than half of the load required in the country.

In Maine, cooking the same turkey in the same oven but with electricity generated primarily from renewable energy releases less than three pounds of carbon dioxide.

For example, he points out that the proportion of electricity to be generated by nuclear power plants in the year 2000 will, at 34 per cent, be almost double the previous forecast made less than three years ago.

It seems to me the trick to making it an attractive proposition is to view it as a means of generating electricity, rather than as a means of generating money.

The Energy Information Administration projects that by 2035 natural gas will generate more electricity than coal.

The analysis by Yang and Jackson finds that if the gas produced by the new plants is used to generate electricity, the total lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would be 36 percent to 82 percent higher than pulverized coal - fired power.

Starting with the natural pigments that help plants harvest solar rays, Velev and his team have crafted a flexible, nontoxic photovoltaic device that he hopes could eventually generate clean electricity far more cheaply than today's silicon - based solar panels.

Thermal power plants — those that consume coal, oil, natural gas or uranium — generate more than 90 percent of U.S. electricity, and they are water hogs.

Fox aims to turn these diamond films into a new kind of solar cell, one that generates electricity by absorbing heat rather than visible - light wavelengths.

We have demonstrated that in winter Helsinki, black cells generate considerably more electricity than traditional cells even though both cells have identical efficiency values,» she adds.

And on unusually sunny and windy days — such as on 8 May, when for about 4 hours wind and solar power generated more than 90 % of the electricity that Germany consumed — they must swiftly order coal and gas - fired power stations to reduce their output lest an influx of power «congests» the grid and increases the risk of failures.

The world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

«It is more cost effective to consume the self - generated solar electricity than to feed it into the public electricity grid,» says Noeren.