Sentences with phrase «use electricity plan»

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Plan the way you use your appliances by getting a smart power strip to manage your electricity consumption.

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

Zack Korman is co-founder at Awesome Power Inc, a startup that uses smart meter electricity usage data to find the cheapest electricity plan for a person's home.

Other environmental policies include promoting smarter energy use through the ecoEnergy Initiative; a Chemical Management Plan to regulate chemicals harmful to human health and the environment; $ 1.5 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels; a commitment to ensure that 90 percent of Canadian electricity needs are generated through non-emitting sources by 2020; and additional government funding to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands.

Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

Solar Bankers has announced plans for a decentralized electricity network, allowing consumers to freely produce and trade clean energy using proprietary energy - generating devices.

And yet you're typing your message on a computer made of plastc, linked by satellites running on electricity using written language — all the plans of men who are now dead.

«In particular, instead of electricity or natural gas we plan to use waste heat or biogas generated from anaerobic digestion to bake our dog biscuits.

Cuomo's plan, released a couple of years ago, would cut the use of fossil fuels for electricity in the state in half by 2030, but does not apply those same goals to other carbon emmissions.

Officials said the new solar power will account for a «major component» of Austin Energy's recently adopted Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan, which calls for meeting 55 percent of all delivered electricity using renewable resources by 2025.

Demanding plans for power cuts: In the US, electricity companies make money helping their customers to use less power.

«Our goal is to rapidly transform the way electricity is delivered and used,» said Arnold, who added that Duke plans to expand the smart - grid effort to Kentucky and the Carolinas eventually.

Rechargeable batteries are too heavy for the job, so engineers are planning to try a technology that would use current to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen during the day, and then reverse the process at night via fuel cells to produce electricity.

As farmers become more aware of the opportunities — not just in crop production but also in ecosystem markets — they have the ability to use land in concert with a regulated industry [the electricity sector under the Clean Power Plan to satisfy that regulatory requirement through green infrastructure.

But there are more radical moves being considered, like the plan to build a giant set of batteries that will store electricity for use at times when supplies across the grid are low.

Electricity and Electrostatics - Teachers Note — 1 This document contains; - Electricity and matters - Electrified objects - Conductors and insulators - Lightning and lightning rod - Discharging New Teachers can use this document as a lesson plan... Electricity and Electrostatics - Teachers Note — 2 This document contains; - Electric current, unit of electric current, measuring electric current - Voltage, unit of voltage, measuring voltage New Teachers can use this document as a lesson plan... Electricity and Electrostatics - Teachers Note — 3 This document contains; - Ohm's Law - Resistance and unit of resistance - Combinations of Resistors (Series and Parallel Combinations) New Teachers can use this document as a lesson plan... Electricity and Electrostatics - Teachers Note — 4 This document contains; - Source of Electricity (wet and dry cells, accumulators)- Combination of Batteries (series and parallel combinations) New Teachers can use this document as a lesson plan...

This document contains; - Electricity and matters - Electrified objects - Conductors and insulators - Lightning and lightning rod - Discharging New Teachers can use this document as a lesson plan...

The topics of Magnetism and Electricity, Rocks and Minerals and Taxonomy are used to plan and conduct investigations and to develop models to represent patterns in the real world.

So far, we're not using up quite as much of our extra electricity as I'd planned to, but I'm happily driving to work every day for free!

I Guess the Bush Administration Doesn't Think Highly of Pickens» or Gore's Proposals The fact that this proposal is announced just days after Al Gore calls for all U.S. electricity be generated renewably within 10 years, and two weeks after T. Boone Pickens unveiled his plan to radically increase U.S. wind power and use natural gas to offset petroleum in transportation, shows how mired in business - as - usual thinking regarding energy and environmental policy the current administration is.

Trading off cotton farming for concentrating solar is a good example of smart planning — take out one of the most water - wasteful subsidized crops we don't grow very well, and replace it with a plant that uses less water and produces electricity.

Most talk of algae and renewable energy on TreeHugger involves liquid biofuels, but a new plan being put forth in Venice hopes to use algae to generate electricity and allow the city take one large step towards being entirely off fossil fuels: The idea is to take two kinds of algae which are brought in attached to ships, Sargassum muticum and Undaria pinnafitida, and use it in a new 40 MW power plant.

Most talk of algae and renewable energy on TreeHugger involves liquid biofuels, but a new plan being put forth in Venice hopes to use algae to generate electricity and allow the city take one large step towards being

15 large solar thermal power plants that use mirrors to concentrate sunlight and generate electricity are planned in California, Arizona, and Nevada.

To operate the plant, Northland plans to purchase electricity from Ontario's grid at night when prices are low and use it to pump water from the mine pit up to a newly constructed reservoir.

EV owners can save money on fueling costs without changing electricity plans, but taking advantage of rate plans that offer lower - cost electricity at night («time - of - use» plans) can mean hundreds of dollars in additional savings per year, especially in California.

The Clean Power Plan, however, defines the «best system of emission reduction» more broadly, by taking advantage of flexible, cost - effective strategies that power companies already use to produce the most electricity at the least cost, and to meet current air pollution control requirements.

The Honourable Sergio Marchi, CEO of the Canadian Electricity Association, used his keynote address on the conference's second day to deliver a similar message, noting that Canada's non-emitting electricity supplies are key to capturing new clean growth opportunities and doing so requires new approaches to the planning and operation of the electricity grid, policy considerations and publicElectricity Association, used his keynote address on the conference's second day to deliver a similar message, noting that Canada's non-emitting electricity supplies are key to capturing new clean growth opportunities and doing so requires new approaches to the planning and operation of the electricity grid, policy considerations and publicelectricity supplies are key to capturing new clean growth opportunities and doing so requires new approaches to the planning and operation of the electricity grid, policy considerations and publicelectricity grid, policy considerations and public education.

Alberta has a plan to phase out coal - fired electricity and have 30 per cent of electricity used by Albertans come from renewable sources like solar, wind and hydro by 2030.

Moody's may not have known how the utilities plan to use electricity customers as a hedge for at least two planned pipelines, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) and Sabal Trail.

In a strategy that ought to concern regulators and electricity consumers, Duke, Dominion and NextEra all plan to use their regulated electric power subsidiaries to guarantee demand for the pipelines they're building.

A price on carbon will create an economic incentive to reduce emissions from the electricity, heating, and transportation sectors, and will also create a revenue stream that can be used to fund programs needed to implement the Clean Energy DC Plan.

It is far from clear whether Trump can do much more for coal than remove most or even all the climate - related regulations discouraging the use of coal, and this may not have a huge effect since to date the major adverse effects of the «war on coal» on raising electricity prices have not yet occurred because of the Supreme Court's stay on the so - called Clean Power Plan.

As part of 2016 legislation to significantly expand Maryland's use of renewable electricity, Senate Majority Leader Catherine Pugh (D - Baltimore) and Delegate Dereck Davis (D - Prince George's) are proposing a $ 40 million plan to train and prepare more Marylanders for careers in clean energy and to bolster minority - and women - owned businesses within the clean energy economy.

Saudi water desalination is a huge part of its domestic electricity use, and the Kingdom's Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) plans to switch this entirely to solar operation.

The sponsors of I - 1631 included a similar but less stringent provision, requiring electric utility plans to include «a long - term strategy to eliminate any fee obligation» imposed by the measure, as a way to push utilities to use at least some of the retained revenue to directly reduce carbon from their electricity generating sources.

Currently all of the Hawaiian Islands operate their electricity systems independently; a major planning issue going forward is interconnecting several of the islands using undersea cables in order to better integrate and manage high levels of variable renewable energy.

With a time of use rate plan the amount you are charged for electricity depends on the time of the day at which you use it.

This important fact seems to have escaped T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oil tycoon from Texas who is now promoting a plan to replace natural gas in the electric power sector with wind - generated electricity and use the freed up natural gas to power a fleet of NGVs.

Using a «high - resolution electricity system planning model» of the DOE's two - year - old SunShot Initiative (meant to knock down the cost of solar electricity to market prices by 2020) alongside likely carbon - limitation policies, Kammen and company found that it's not unrealistic for solar to capture a third of the Western U.S. electricity market within 40 years, displacing currently more - attractive technologies like nuclear and natural gas.

Obama's plan is expected to take the unusual tactic of giving credit to power plants for programs to reduce electricity use outside of their property boundaries.

The Lugar - Graham plan achieves savings in electricity and oil use by requiring higher mileage for vehicles, greater efficiency in power generation, increased use of alternative fuels and new standards for energy use in buildings.

Improved energy - efficiency tactics — such as switching to light bulbs that use less electricity — could be required by the new rules and lead to lower costs for consumers and businesses, argues Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in a proposal to reduce carbon emissions, a plan that the EPA's is widely expected to resemble.

For Plan B, we estimate that the worldwide use of plant materials to generate electricity could contribute 200 gigawatts of capacity by 2020.

In that scenario, however, coal - fired electricity use in the U.S. by 2040 would be about 150 percent of what it would be with the plan in effect.

That plan, however, will increase electricity prices for Americans — both consumers of solar power and consumers of traditional energy that subsidize solar power's use of the electric grid.

Indeed, Dominion and other utilities, including Duke Energy, Southern Company, and NextEra in the Southeast and DTE Energy in the Midwest, even plan to use electricity customers to make money for the gas pipelines they are building, locking Americans further into gas.

Each year, the ISO releases a 10 - year forecast, which, in addition to being used by the ISO itself for internal system planning, is also used by state agencies, electric utilities, and advocacy organizations to estimate future demand for electricity.

Instructs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) identify and evaluate the strategies or projects with the greatest potential for reducing the dependence on imported fossil fuels used for the generation of electricity, including increased use of specified sources of renewable energy; and (2) submit to certain congressional committees updated plans for each insular area.

But a new initiative from the Myanmar government and its private partners plans to provide electricity to the whole country in part by using off - grid solar energy.