Sentences with phrase «use electricity costs»

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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.

Just so long as it covers the cost of the electricity it uses, as well as the extra parts I bought for the experiment.

Crescent Electric studied mining costs based on the wattage used by the three most popular mining rigs (the AntMiner S9, the AntMinerS7 and the Avalon 6) and the days each takes to mine a coin (which range from 452 to over 1,800 depending on the machine), then multiplied by the average electricity rate in each state.

Elite Fixtures has compiled a list of mining costs throughout the world, using averaged data from three mining rigs and average electricity rates in 115 countries as of January 2018.

That raises costs and uses more electricity.

A small lakeside town in upstate New York is fed up with Bitcoin miners using up so much of its low - cost electricity.

While such a significant amount of electricity usage might go unnoticed in large metropolitan areas, the sheer amount of electricity being used is leading to higher costs for customers in small communities because of a limited supply of low - cost hydropower.

Instead, the net metering rate will be set at wholesale prices — even though the utility doesn't have to pay for any of the solar panels» hardware or maintenance, and transmission costs are negligible, since the electricity is being generated close to where it is used.

However, it was eventually discovered that using a computer's GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) to mine produced much faster speeds and cost less in electricity.

This was calculated by using an equation that included the cost of electricity in running a computer that generated Bitcoins.

* Establish a Planning Council on Electricity to help predict and prepare for future energy requirements using the lowest - cost options.

This new appliance, best suited for oil and electrically heated homes, uses Time - of - Day electricity rates to lower heating costs by up to 50 percent.

Together, such use cases could do an excellent job of democratizing mining by taking electricity costs out of the equation, allowing anyone anywhere to mine and earn cryptocurrency.

They are paying for heating, cooling, and the cost of electricity, all of which would be used to some degree even if the building were empty.

The government's Energy Star program reports that on average, supermarkets use 50 kilowatt - hours of electricity and 50 cubic feet of natural gas per square foot per year for an average annual energy cost of more than $ 4 per square foot.

Electricity is expensive, but they prorate the fees according to how much you use — the higher the use, the higher the cost per unit — and also what month it is.

The main energy sources used in the industry are gas and electricity, but there is also significant use of diesel generation, and a growing interest and use of biogas and solar generation as alternatives in the face of conventional energy costs continuing to rise.

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.

In times of continuous clear weather Joppa Flats can produce more electricity than it uses, which means there's no cost in «re-fueling» electric cars.

I was told that it costs much more to use disposable diapers compared to using washable cloth diapers; but since the computation I got was from using a branded diaper and I used generic diapers plus the cost of laundry (water + detergent + electricity), I guess the costs are just about the same.

Cloth diapering has many components to it and the cost is difficult to calculate but I created a cloth vs disposable diaper calculator on our blog (http://www.groceryalerts.ca/cloth-vs-disposable-diaper-calculator/) and the calculator looks closely at the cleaning costs, electricity, and hydro and looks at diaper use estimates from several sources (13).

«It's terrifying to think that each month, one million families turn to high - cost, short - term credit, like payday loans each month and 400,000 are using them for essentials, such as putting food on the table or preventing the gas and electricity from being cut off,» Reed added.

Benefits in kind: electric vehicles Commenting on the news that, from April 2018, there will be no benefit - in - kind charge on electricity that employers provide to charge employees» electric vehicles, Colin Ben - Nathan said: «If an employer provides electricity to an employee to charge their own car, a benefit in kind arises based on the cost of the electricity used for private mileage, but there is no clear guidance on how to calculate the cost of electricity and it is therefore necessary to estimate the cost.

It claimed geothermal would use too much electricity, and that existing heating and cooling infrastructure would have to be replaced at an «extensive cost,» but the authority did not offer specific financial figures.

«But the biggest cost - savers will really occur in the rural areas where people are now using propane to heat their house, or electricity.

The 30 - second ad highlights Ms. Teachout's opposition to New York's property tax cap, which in 2015 saved taxpayers $ 4.5 billion, and her support of a national energy tax — something she flippantly calls a «fee» — that would cost New York families roughly $ 1,761 a year for using propane, electricity or fueling up their automobiles.

Close Indian Point power plant by 2021 - Unit 2 Reactor to close April 2020 and Unit 3 Reactor April 2021 - End use of a plant with numerous safety violations - «Current Indian Point Employees will be Offered relocation and opportunities with other plants and utilities within the state; training in renewable technologies» - «Entergy will provide $ 15 million in funding for environmental and community benefits» - Cuomo is working on replacement resources so that there can be no cost increases in electricity after Indian Point closes More

Electricity costs are frustratingly high in New York State, so it is important that our valuable hydropower resource be used here to aid these businesses and the workers, families and communities that depend on them.»

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.

In collaboration with H2O Applied Technologies, Manhattan College in Riverdale launched a large - scale water and energy conservation project this spring expected to save an estimated $ 652,000 per year in utility costs and reduce electricity use for the institution by nearly 2 -LSB-...]

«The Raspberry Pi modules let developers figure out how to write this software and get it to work reliably without having a dedicated testbed of the same size, which would cost a quarter billion dollars and use 25 megawatts of electricity.»

«The residential user still uses a lot of incandescent bulbs and has the greatest opportunity to reduce electricity costs and consumption,» said Christopher Blansett, an analyst at J.P. Morgan.

Mertiny and Secanell predict that using a flywheel to capture the electricity generated by a train's deceleration and applying it for acceleration would produce an energy savings of 31 per cent and cost savings of 11 per cent on the Edmonton LRT system.

«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.»

But the cost of producing it by using electricity to split water is high, because the most efficient catalysts developed so far are often made with precious metals, like platinum, ruthenium and iridium.

«Using the average U.S. electricity rate of nine cents per kilowatt - hour (kWh), 30 miles of electric driving will cost 81 cents,» the group maintains.

«This should reduce overall costs for the energy industry because, rather than creating large, expensive solar cells, you can use much smaller cells that produce just as much electricity by absorbing intensified solar energy from concentrating lenses.

Enter thin - film solar cells — devices that use a fine layer of semiconducting material, such as silicon, copper indium gallium selenide or cadmium telluride, to harvest electricity from sunlight at a fraction of the cost.

To construct the estimates, the researchers used data on locomotive diesel consumption, pipeline pumping station electricity consumption, locomotive and power plant emission factors and the AP2 integrated assessment model, which maps county level emissions to costs for counties affected by the emissions.

The cost of the electricity used was modest.

Subscribers can hardly complain to BT about the cost because that would give BT the opportunity to prosecute them, either for attempting to defraud the company or for illegally using its electricity.

The biodigester - sanitation systems also provide a fuel source in a place where only about 10 percent of the population has access to electricity, and about 70 percent of the energy used comes from wood and charcoal, which costs around 25 - 50 percent of a household's income.

For example, they compared the cost of driving one mile using electric car batteries plus electricity, with the cost using fuel tanks plus petrol.

Co-author Dr Iain Staffell, from the Centre for Environmental Policy, said: «This tool allows us to combat one of the biggest uncertainties in the future energy system, and use real data to answer questions such as how electricity storage could revolutionise the electricity generation sector, or when high - capacity home storage batteries linked to personal solar panels might become cost - effective.»

Thus, the costs of electricity use became more fairly distributed once each household had to pay for the electricity it used.

This may be seen as especially positive since it is then that electricity use peaks and the cost of generating electricity is highest.

Through Catalyst, communities of innovators use software, data, algorithms, and automation to drive down non-hardware solar soft costs — like permitting, financing, and customer acquisition — that today make up more than half of the cost of a solar electricity system.

Power generation cost using solar panels depends on getting as much electricity out of the panels as possible while keeping the manufacturing costs low.

For example, programs like OPOWER's that compare electricity use among neighbors have been shown to reduce electricity use by 2 percent at a cost of 2.5 cents per kilowatt - hour.