Sentences with phrase «than electricity in»

Only the force of gravity (through slips and falls from great heights) killed more construction workers than electricity in 2014.

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.

It's estimated wind can never supply more than the 19 % of electrical needs it does in the world leader, Denmark, until someone comes up with a way of storing the wind power that blows when we don't need it (for the times when it doesn't), or a way of transmitting electricity over huge distances with minimal line loss.

Second, many states actively favor renewables in electricity generation, and even in places that don't, the word has gotten out that coal combustion is far deadlier to humans than any other electric generation source — including natural gas.

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.

Power consumption for all cryptocurrencies is on track to use more electricity in 2018 than the whole of Argentina, according to Bloomberg.

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.

Nothing's worse than being stranded in the dark with no electricity to keep your smartphones, tablets and other devices powered up and productive.

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 201In 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 201in 2015.

In 2016 hydroelectric power accounted for 39.9 percent of South Dakota's net electricity generation, allowing residents to enjoy electricity prices significantly lower than the national average.

Despite a rapidly developing economy in Kenya, widespread use of cell phones, and the home to one of the most successful mobile payment systems in the world, more than three quarters of Kenyans don't have regular access to electricity.

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.

Keep this in mind: More than 100 billion people have lived and died on this planet — the vast majority without electricity, running water, or antibiotics.

Onshore wind turbines in Scotland sent more than 5 million megawatt hours of electricity to the National Grid in the first quarter of 2018, analysis has shown.

Coal prices in general were driven even lower in 2016 due to low natural gas prices and warmer - than - usual winter temperatures that cut down demand for coal as an electricity generator, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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.

In some coal states in the Midwest and the South, electricity costs even less than that, and it will be a long time before solar is competitive in those regionIn some coal states in the Midwest and the South, electricity costs even less than that, and it will be a long time before solar is competitive in those regionin the Midwest and the South, electricity costs even less than that, and it will be a long time before solar is competitive in those regionin those regions.

Electricity in Washington state is considerably cheaper than in most places in the U.S..

As Bitcoin's price has soared, so too has the energy consumption to produce it — to the point that Bitcoin mining now guzzles more electricity than all the electric cars in the world.

«Solar roof is more affordable than conventional roofs because in most cases, it ultimately pays for itself by reducing or eliminating a home's electricity bill,» Tesla said Wednesday.

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.

The PSC offered a truly staggering look at the electricity demand that cryptocurrency has created in the region, saying that in some communities cryptocurrency mining requires «thousands of times more electricity than an average residential customer would use» (emphasis PSC).

Additionally, with the new products that we have shown, we expect that solar's share of the nation's $ 400 billion in annual retail electricity sales will increase more than anyone currently expects.

More than six months after Hurricane Maria, daily life in Castañer, Puerto Rico, is nowhere close to normal as residents try to deal with the effects of trauma, chronic stress and the continued lack of electricity.

That equates to more than half the 38 terawatt - hours of electricity used annually by the world's biggest miner (as in literal, pull materials out of the ground mining), BHP Billiton Ltd..

Most of the deaths occurred as people slept in houses that collapsed overnight

Severe dust storms across northern India have killed more than 100 people, destroyed homes and left hundreds without electricity.

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.

Municipal power authorities in upstate New York have received permission to charge certain cryptocurrency mining enterprises higher rates for the use of their electricity than they charge other customers.

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

And with clean energy investment globally hitting a record - breaking US$ 367 billion last year — nearly 50 per cent more than was invested in fossil - fuelled electricity — it's a great time to buy into this particular market.

The total number of people without electricity in Puerto Rico is more than 120,000, and there remain municipalities where 45 percent of residents don't have power.

All told, more than 14,000 people worked in B.C.'s clean electricity sector last year, the Pembina Institute estimates.

Right now, they live in Ecuador and their utility bills... water, gas, electricity, everything... amounts to less than $ 40 per month.

Let's think worst case — should the currency collapse in your home country... and should a bank run ensue... and should the government mandate that all banks then close for no less than a week... and should subsequent food shortages take place... and should no clean water be available... and should the electricity and heat not work... and should violent protests, riots, and widespread looting erupt...

Other than noting the completion of the elimination of PST on electricity, no other PST - related improvements have been announced in Budget 2018 - 19.

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.

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.

CCS really amounts to a combined GHG and natural gas hedge which, in a world of really expensive gas, allows you to maintain lower electricity prices than you perhaps otherwise would be able to as you can continue to use relatively cheap and plentiful coal while capturing and storing the emissions.

gas world, and so I would argue that a policy focusing on CCS as opposed to a broader policy on de-carbonizing electricity through a carbon price would lead to more expensive electricity than need be the case in a carbon - constrained world.

Although the sun is at a similar angle in September and October, electricity demand is still relatively high, leading to lower solar generation shares than seen in March.

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.

«You are going to be using more electricity at night than daytime, and it has to be sized in such a way to run if you have several cloudy days in a row,» he said.

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.

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

Plattsburgh's Mayor Colin Read also detailed back in February that he would rather see high electricity consuming businesses pay real employees, rather than warehouses filled with just machines.

As an energy investor, I'd rather be in a growing renewable energy business that's taking market share in electricity generation than a fossil fuel business that's losing market share every year.

In 2013, for the first time, the world added more low - carbon electricity capacity than fossil fuel capacity.

That equates to more than half the 38 terawatt hours of electricity used annually by the world's largest miner (as in literal, pull materials out of the ground, mining), BHP Billiton Ltd..