Sentences with phrase «total electricity use»

In its latest report, Walmart's Dirty Energy Secret: How the Company's Slick Greenwashing Hides Its Massive Coal Consumption, the Institute for Local Self - Reliance (ILSR) calculates the total electricity use, coal - fired power consumption and resulting greenhouse gas emissions of every Walmart store and distribution center in the country.

States with strong sunlight and plenty of roofs obviously have the most potential — California, for example, could supply 74 percent of its total electricity use by covering its buildings with solar panels, while Wyoming could only get to about 14 percent.

We calculate the total electricity use, coal - fired power consumption, and resulting carbon emissions of every Walmart store and distribution center in the country in 2013.

Estimates for the internet's total electricity use vary by an order of magnitude.

Total electricity use by non-OECD member countries, however, surpassed electricity use by OECD members in 2011, and IEO2017 projects it to continue growing.

In 2016, the average solar homeowner paid off their solar investment in just over seven years, and generated 92 % of their total electricity use through solar.

In the United States, the residential and commercial sectors consumed 412 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity in 2014, amounting to 11 percent of total electricity use, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

In fact, he calculated that for his own personal driving usage, that amounted to 22 % of the total electricity used by the Tesla.

Using air conditioners and electric fans to stay cool already accounts for about a fifth of the total electricity used in buildings around the world — or 10 % of all global electricity consumption today.

Not exact matches

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.

This past January, for the first time in its history, Germany faced a symbolic milestone by covering around 100 % of electricity use with renewable energy, and for 2017 it produced with renewable sources 36.1 % of total power consumption.

They do not emit tailpipe pollutants, giving a large reduction of local air pollution, and, can give a significant reduction in total greenhouse gas and other emissions (dependent on the method used for electricity generation).

Even adding cost of water and electricity for washing and drying, the total cost per child is minimal compared to using cloth diaper service or disposable diapers.

Wilber produced an energy analysis purportedly showing that total energy costs for the first winter of operation of the new garage increased by 67 percent over the previous winter, although the new facility was three times the size of its 5,000 - square - foot predecessor, which used oil for heating while also consuming electricity.

Kohl's Department Stores Menomonee Falls, WI Retail 601 million green kWh, 50 % of total power used This chain is already the biggest solar electricity host in the U.S. To soak up rays on 60 (and counting) store and corporate rooftops, the retailer has partnered with Sun - Edison, which owns and maintains the solar panels and sells the electricity to Kohl's.

Starbucks Seattle, WA Restaurants 211 million green kWh, 20 % of total power used A 2006 audit showed that a whopping 81 percent of the coffee giant's greenhouse emissions came from the conventional energy it used to power its North American stores; each square foot consumed an average of 6.57 kWh of electricity a month.

By looking at the plant's total annual utility use and the fraction of yearly operations needed to print a single issue of DISCOVER, David Hakenewerth, a manager at Quebecor's Jonesboro facility, determined that producing one month's edition of the magazine consumes 63,364 kilowatt - hours of electricity and 1,704 therms of natural gas.

To date, Cornell has decreased the energy utilized for air conditioning (about 10 percent of the total campus electricity use) by 86 percent, thanks to the Lake Source Cooling Project.

Let's remember that 80 percent or so of total energy use will come from a small number of types of sources: electricity production (40 percent), vehicles (25 percent), heavy industries including cement, petrochemicals, refining, and steel (10 percent), and heating of buildings (10 percent).

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.

As electricity use spikes across the country in the summertime when more people use air conditioning, electric power companies turn to more coal and natural gas power plants to help meet the demand, reducing renewables» share of total U.S. power generation, Comstock said.

A previous NREL report, «Land - use Requirements and the Per - capita Solar Footprint for Photovoltaic Generation in the United States,» had estimated that if solar energy was to meet 100 % of all electricity demand in the United States, it would take up 0.6 % of the total area in the United States.

Audi currently oversees a process that guarantees g - tron vehicles have a low carbon footprint, ensuring it produces enough gas (generated from biogas using electricity from renewable energy) to cover the total usage of the g - tron fleet.

The new plug - in version of the Kia Niro hybrid adds a new dimension to that profile with an excellent range using only stored electricity as well as for distance traveled total overall with the gas and electric systems working together.

In addition to instant miles per gallon, the left screen can display instant MPGe, miles traveled on electric power alone, total gallons of gasoline used and total kilowatts of electricity used, plus a list way too long to include.

It uses solar and hydroelectric power for producing electricity for the total lodge area.

If that electricity savings were used to close coal power plants, that would have saved 1.6 giga tonnes of CO2 emissions (out of 7.1 giga tonnes total greenhouse gas emissions).

Making Hydrogen in these ways, and using it to run an automobile has to be less efficient than the direct use of hydrocarbon fuels and electricity to run a car, and can't reduce the total amount of CO2 emissions.

«In total, the European lifestyle uses 125 kWh per day per person for transport, heating, manufacturing, and electricity.

Today's solar systems are generating more electricity and a larger percentage of total household energy use.

Businesses in the US are levied so - called demand charges, based on their monthly use of power during peak times that can constitute as much as 50 % of total electricity bill costs.

Aluminium smelting uses 16 % of Australia's electricity and is responsible for 6 % of total greenhouse gas emissions.

The total addressable market for electricity generation technologies using perennial crops as feedstock is based on estimated global electricity generation in terawatt - hours from 2020 - 2050.

In fact, the use of air conditioners and electric fans already accounts for about a fifth of the total electricity in buildings around the world — or 10 % of all global electricity consumption.

* Note: As discussed in Breaking Energy's article, the project's use of natural gas remains within the de minimus requirement (2 % - 5 % of total fuel use) as defined by the renewable portfolio standard (RPS) to be considered RPS - eligible delivered electricity.

The fact is that even while production has significantly increased, total criteria air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions have fallen simultaneously, in large part due to industry's commitment to environmental protection and the expanded use of abundant, affordable natural gas in electricity generation.

Nationwide, buildings use 70 percent of our total electricity and 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

Wind proportion of total electricity generation (2009) = 19 % Wind proportion of electricity used in Denmark = 10 % (average for 5 years)

If that were the full story of utility billing, it would be enough to know the total amount of energy the customer used each month - but in many cases, utilities also charge different prices for electricity depending on when it is consumed.

Landfill methane emission rates are estimated using the first - order decay method recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in order to estimate both total emissions reductions for landfill gas - to - electricity generation and an increase in landfill gas flaring.

Each participating school district and local government will receive savings on their electric bills in proportion to the percentage of electricity they use out of the total for all participants.

The Tri-County Energy Consortium would like to develop a total of 50 MW of solar in the North Country in order to offset 80 percent of the electricity used by the schools, towns and villages that have signed up.

«Gross Revenues» means the total monies received by Grantee from a utility company or other power purchaser (provided, however, that if electricity is sold to a subsidiary or affiliate of Grantee, then, and only then, the gross receipts from the sale of electricity under such contract shall be calculated using a sale of not less than the arithmetical average of the prices quoted by market sources of information, which information may be based upon the price paid by any purchaser or purchasers, including Grantee or any subsidiary or affiliate of Grantee, for electricity produced in the Iowa region of the Midwest Independent System Operator («MISO») from operation of wind turbines during the calendar year immediate!y preceding the year in which such electricity production from the Wind Energy Project occurs, taking into account the aggregate terms associated with such transaction) derived from the sale of electric energy and capacity produced and sold from the WTG's installed on the Premises, net of proportional energy losses associated with the power collection system or utility interconnection.

And that did not include the electrical distribution systems necessary for the whole country to take power from this one spot, nor any kind of storage technology for using electricity at night (it was hard to cost one out when no technology exist for storing America's total energy needs for 12 hours).

After decades of increases, U.S. CO2 emissions from energy use (which account for 97 % of total U.S. emissions) declined by around 9 % between 2008 and 2012, largely due to a shift from coal to less CO2 - intensive natural gas for electricity production.

Like others, I have called for renewable power to be used both to replace the electricity produced by fossil fuel and to expand the total supply, displacing the oil used for transport and the gas used for heating fuel.

This modification of hybrids to run largely on electricity could reduce remaining gasoline use an additional 60 percent, for a total reduction of 80 percent.

Indirect commercial - sector CO2 emissions from the use of electricity purchased from the electric power sector decreased by 3.7 % (25 MMmt) in 2016, which was nearly 84 % of the sector's total decrease.

Using the residential sector as an example — the 1.3 % increase in electricity consumed between 2015 and 2016 was offset by a decline in carbon intensity of the electricity supply -LRB--4.5 %)-- yields a total of 3.2 % (not shown in the table).

The fact is that even while production has significantly increased, total criteria air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions have fallen, in large part due to expanded use of abundant, affordable natural gas in electricity generation.