Sentences with phrase «using grid electricity»

While at the same time, we need to factor that there are 50,000 people that are not driving their cars to work for the week and not using grid electricity.

For transport applications, Bio-SNG is significantly more cost effective than electrical solutions (either using grid electricity - # 1,000 / te CO2e, or presuming offshore wind derived renewable electricity - # 600 / te CO2e).

The Skymine plant uses grid electricity, mostly at night, that has incremental power from a CCGT plant.

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The idea is that when grid electricity rates are high, a building can switch over to using the batteries for power as a way to lower monthly energy bills.

As I wrote for NOVA Next, Germany stabilized its grid and electricity supply by dialing up its fossil fuel, nuclear, and hydro power, while also asking four energy - hogging aluminum smelters to dial down their power use temporarily.

Under her leadership, the company invested $ 15 billion in modernizing its electricity infrastructure, including spending on «smart» meters (which allow companies to monitor use remotely), auto - switching devices that allow employees to monitor usage and outages from a distance, and technology that helps the grid «self - heal» by rerouting electricity around a damaged power line.

Police in the north China city of Tianjin confiscated 600 computers used to mine bitcoin cryptocurrency after the local power grid operator reported abnormal electricity usage, Xinhua reported Wednesday.

While we do pay to access the electricity grid and for metered usage of it, just like the Internet, we don't pay yet again for individual uses of it.

The smart grid in both America and the UK uses communications technology such as smart meters to maximize the efficiency and affordability of electricity.

Tesla founder Elon Musk says he can build a new and more efficient grid that would use solar power to generate electricity.

It used to be that electricity was carried almost exclusively from big power plants over transmission lines, dumped into distribution grids, and then dumped into buildings, to be used by relatively dumb appliances.

As for the grid, the proliferation of electricity storage could eventually transform it into a «plug and play» for the units, used by utilities, solar customers and electric vehicles.

Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.

Householders would also be able to use the smart meters to feed the grid with electricity generated through solar panels.

According to our analysis, this would generate more than enough electricity to power the biorefinery, so surplus power could be sold back to the grid, displacing electricity produced from fossil fuels — a practice already used in some plants in Brazil to produce ethanol from sugarcane.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

Such grids will enable utility companies to monitor energy use in minute detail, allowing them to alter the price of electricity as demand changes.

Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more power than a household uses — required a decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the grid, and from the grid to consumers.

Instead of adjusting power output in accordance with shifting demand, they will help consumers control their use of electricity, timing it to coincide with availability of the grid's cleanest and cheapest power sources.

Recent studies conclude that while some tech - savvy consumers will line up for smart grid applications for the home, most residential customers are not eager to manage their daily energy use, particularly with electricity prices at relatively low levels.

Webber and co-author Robert Fares, a Cockrell School alumnus who is now an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, analyzed the impact of home energy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT Austin.

Using electricity from the central power grid to run an energy - intensive electrolysis machine is expensive and inefficient.

The idea is that many small power plant operators can feed their electricity into the grid but act as a single power plant using computers to control the level of power.

The use of smart grids delivers electricity more efficiently and at the same time helps reduce the environmental impact of the system.

«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.

India has connected an estimated 650 million people to the grid in the past 30 years, and Pachauri analysed government data on electricity use to find out what difference it made.

What the company calls its «mPower» reactor would be used for smaller grids or limited electricity - demand areas, such as those of municipal districts or for individual industrial use.

The plant is scheduled to go online by 2011; it will process 1,500 tons of garbage a day, sending 60 megawatts of electricity to the power grid (after using some to power itself).

A new survey of consumer attitudes released today by Accenture indicates that U.S. consumers are more interested in smart grid applications that save them money and automate the management of their electricity use, rather than giving them direct control over heating, cooling and appliances as prices fluctuate during the day.

That way, homeowners will be able to install smaller and cheaper solar power systems while being able to use electricity from the grid only as backup, reducing the electric power demand, or load, on the utility's grid.

The wind turbines on these wind farms connect directly into power grids and produce 5 percent of the electricity that that entire state uses.

Surplus energy can be stored for later use, but today's electrical grid has little storage capacity, so other measures are used to balance electricity supply and demand.

The budget also includes a request to fund three new Energy Innovation Hubs, which would focus on electricity storage, smart - grid technologies and critical energy materials such as rare metals used in solar panels.

The underlying technologies of high temperature storage and thermophotovoltaic conversion could also be used to produce grid - scale batteries able to rapidly supplement other power sources by storing heat for quick conversion to electricity.

And the power grid could be modernized to use cheaper, greener fuels such as sunlight or wind even on days when the sun doesn't shine bright enough or the wind doesn't blow hard enough to meet electricity demand.

Such demand response is different from using electric vehicle batteries as a form of storage or backup for the electricity grid, which can put undue strain on batteries as they constantly cycle from fully charged to nearly drained.

The exhaust from one cycle of electricity production could be used immediately to deliver another flow of power to the grid.

Many other issues — from climate change to nuclear power to using «smart» electricity grids — also require accurate, understandable scientific communication so that policymakers and the general public can make informed decisions.

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.

Rayko Toshev's doctoral thesis in Industrial Management «Risks and Prospects of Smart Electric Grids Systems measured with Real Options» analyses electricity price risk levels and evaluates smart grid R&D projects and technology opportunities, using real option pricing method.

The energy surplus produced by MFC might be integrated into the electricity grid and used elsewhere.

Using the power grid to charge automobiles strikes many as bad public policy, since coal, the dirtiest fuel, generates about 60 % of America's electricity.

The new school will generate 10 per cent of its energy requirements using a biomass wood pellet burning boiler to provide heating, and a photovoltaic array to generate additional electricity to the grid.

Electricity generated by a schools solar panels is either used in the school itself or sent to the local grid to be used by other consumers nearby.

The school will also get paid for every unit of electricity the panels produce, whether it is used in the school or sent to the grid.

This means that instead of buying in electricity from the grid at 10 - 15p / kWh you can be using your own free electricity from your roof, and getting support from the Feed - in Tariff on top of that.

Any electricity generated and used by the school itself will offset electricity bought from the grid, which a school will typically paying 10p / kWh for or more.

Electricity used to power vehicles is provided by the electricity grid and stored in the vehicle'sElectricity used to power vehicles is provided by the electricity grid and stored in the vehicle'selectricity grid and stored in the vehicle's batteries.

This conversion process also produces lignin (the remaining wood fibers less their sugar) that is used to power the plant and to supply electricity to the power grid.

That's the difference between regular hybrids and plug - in hybrids, one has a hybrid drivetrain while the other has an all - electric drivetrain and only the source of energy alternates between fully electric, using energy that has been taken from the grid, and hybrid, after this stored electricity has been exhausted.