Sentences with phrase «to electricity»

Without electricity from civilian power plants, the most advanced military in world history could be crippled.

«Across the year, renewables now contribute over half of our electricity needs.»

In the U.S. commercial sector, the EIA estimates that refrigeration was «the largest single end use» of electricity.

It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

Environmental group WWF Scotland said Friday that analysis of data provided by WeatherEnergy showed the country's wind turbines sent 86,467 megawatt hours of electricity to the National Grid on Monday.

I used a power meter that plugs into an outlet to figure out how much electricity my rigs were using while mining, and I checked my bill to see how much my electricity company charges per month.

Thus, the solar electricity producer with storage might have a total cost of 5.5 cents per kWh, assuming no further improvements in the photovoltaic cells.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) says that U.S. electricity consumption amounted to around 3.85 trillion kilowatt hours last year.

Since the days of Nikola Tesla, scientists have experimented with transmitting electricity through the air.

In a personal blog post announcing his plans, Camp spoke of recent travels to Kenya, where he connected with people living without access to basic services like clean water, food and electricity.

The first six months of 2017 saw turbines send more than 6.6 million megawatt hours of electricity to the National Grid, enough to supply a little over 3 million Scottish homes.

The offer follows a string of power outages in the state of South Australia, including a blackout that left industry crippled for up to two weeks, and stoked fears of more outages across the national electricity market due to tight supplies.

The coal destined for Fraser Surrey Docks, however, will be thermal coal, to be burned in power plants to generate electricity.

Here, CNBC takes a look at electricity: what it actually is, why it's so important, and how it impacts the environment.

Take away the $ 75 in electricity costs, and I've made $ 90 in two weeks.

In March of this year Energinet, along with TSOs from the Netherlands and Germany, signed a trilateral agreement relating to the development of a vast renewable electricity system, involving artificial islands, in the middle of the North Sea.

The pair split the gas and electricity sectors so we got a monopoly, Western Power — the former SECWA's electricity transmission / distribution, generating and sales arms — and, initially, two separate publicly - owned monopolies, Alinta Gas, owners of the gas distribution across Perth, and the Dampier - to - Bunbury natural gas pipeline (DBNGP).

The energy company generates and distributes electricity to customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Texas, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

The island itself needed a lot of work, with no electricity, no water and no roads.

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.

The world we live in would look a whole lot different without electricity.

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

At present an electricity customer in the United States pays 10 cents per kWh on average.

Ironically, a competitive power market would have averted «hot Wednesday» by offering Perth multiple electricity suppliers with varied fuel sourcing arrangements.

Solar photovoltaic systems, which generate electricity directly from sunlight, are best because they are easy to maintain, can be located almost anywhere and don't need to be refueled.

Following a record - breaking summer, Australia's energy market operator warned this week that eastern Australia desperately needs more gas for power stations within the next two years to provide back - up electricity for wind and solar and avert blackouts.

The Lawrence Labor Government showed foresight in its 1992 decision to convene an inquiry into WA's energy sector (gas and electricity).

Of course, we do not know what grid based electricity will cost in 2030.

As with carbon dioxide emission rankings, less developed nations tend to score better on electricity consumption because access to electrical power is not as widely available.

The advent of fracking — in addition to being the fastest - growing source of emissions in the U.S. — is also cannibalizing what is currently our biggest source of carbon - free electricity.

FORMER Electricity Reform Task Force chairman John Hyslop has re-emerged on the Western Australian business scene as a global Scot.

The giant mining operations of Asia stack thousands of computers in dimly lit factory buildings powered by cheap electricity from coal - fed generating plants.

It is made up of 91 Siemens Gamesa turbines and can generate enough electricity to power 500,000 U.K. homes per year, the Denmark - headquartered business said.

The total daily cost of electricity to run my setup is $ 5.32.

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.

That's about $ 0.02 worth of one bitcoin, for a total of $ 165 before the cost of electricity.

«The first three LNG proposals alone... would require about half of the electricity that's currently consumed by the entire province.»

Electricity can be described as «the flow of electrical power,» as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) puts it.

The main reason the US ranks so poorly on carbon dioxide emissions is because its per - person consumption rate of electricity is so high; all of that energy comes primarily from fossil fuels.

And while our study found that the work will cost around $ 42 billion, it will save as much as $ 2 billion a year in electricity bills the military now pays to civilian suppliers.

That day, total electricity consumption in Scotland — including homes, industry and businesses — was 41,866 megawatt hours, WWF Scotland said, meaning that wind power produced the equivalent of 206 percent of the nation's needs.

In what the head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission called «the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred,» the attacker - who may have been an insider - fired about 100 rounds of.30 - caliber rifle ammunition into the radiators of 17 electricity transformers over the course of 19 minutes.

In fact, we found that the military could generate all of its electricity from distributed renewable sources by 2025 using these types of microgrids - which would provide energy reliability and decrease costs.

Just consider the electrical costs by calculating how much power your PC uses and how much your electricity company charges.

Wind turbines produced double the amount of power required to meet Scotland's electricity needs Monday, according to researchers.

North Carolina gets 32 percent of its total electricity from five nuclear reactors currently in operation in the state.

Among other things it recommended «the separation of the electricity and gas segments of the State Energy Commission (SECWA) as the first step in the process of change.

Solar power has grown at a whopping 68 % average rate over the past 10 years, but still accounts for less than 2 % of total U.S. electricity generation.

Breaking the figures down further, the EIA estimates that «space cooling» — in other words, air conditioning — was the single biggest use of electricity in the U.S. residential sector.

Andreasen described the big cables as «critically important for the electricity grid» by connecting regions and countries with one another, enabling the trade of energy over borders.