Sentences with phrase «using less electricity if»

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But the Lovins have shown electric utility companies that they can make a better profit if their customers use less electricity.

When you start using it you can worry less about your electricity bills hiking, on the other hand, you can save the money you would have used if you turned to another wipe warmer that uses a lot of electricity.

If better use could be made of solar energy, with less need for storage capacity, residents» electricity bills would be reduced considerably.

If they were, gaming computers worldwide might well be consuming billions of dollars less in electricity use annually, with no loss in performance, according to new research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

But if people were better at using less electricity, which accounts for 38 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States, the potential for reducing emissions would be huge.

As I've explained, there are in effect many buyers and many sellers in CO2E pricing, even if there is a government - enforced standard of delivering equal share equitably to all sellers per capita as there are different carbon intensities of essentially the same energy: electricity need not be produced from fossil fuels, and where it is, the fossil fuels may be less carbon intensive natural gas, or enriched through geothermal or solar hydrotreating to become less carbon intensive, or the CO2 emissions can be directly sequestered or used in coproduction to reduce net influx of CO2.

According to Pentland, increasing demand is unlikely to be the cause of rising electricity rates, due to the simple fact that «many if not most utilities are selling less — not more — electricity than they used to sell.»

It meant at peak times that India needed 6,000 megawatts less electricity to satisfy demand than if ordinary bulbs had been used.

If we start using electric cars in large numbers (and I hope we do soon), then solar towers and various other forms of large scale clean electricity generation may supply a substantial fraction of our transport energy, especially for short local runs less than 100 klms a day.

If the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per daIf the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per daif the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per daif the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per day.

If they want to use less electricity, by all means, may they do so, but forcing this upon them is inhumane and selfish.

It also costs a lot less to charge an EV than it does to buy gas or diesel, and if you consider powering your EV with a home solar installation, you can even bring the costs down further — you can use Solar - Estimate's tools to learn more about that and work out the rates of return you would get from installing solar panels given your electricity usage and location.

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If renewable technologies such as a wind turbine and / or photovoltaic cells are used to generate electricity, then it is possible to have a «net - zero carbon» home (where the amount of energy that you consume per year is equal to (or less than) the amount of energy that you produce on - site).

Natural gas vehicles have great potential, but even if consumption doubled that total market would be less than 1 % of the gas used for electricity.

As an example, if you pay $ 0.11 per kWh for electricity from your utility but your utility only offers a $ 0.04 credit for electricity sent back to the grid, your solar electricity will be worth $ 0.07 less if you don't use it at home.

If those homeowners live in a place where there is time - of - use pricing (the cost of electricity varying by time of day), they already are paying less than homeowners without solar power.

But what if our devices and homes and businesses could operate exactly as they do today, while using less electricity?

If I can unplug everything, I save on my electricity bill AND am able to do something for the planet that I live on by using less electricity.