Sentences with phrase «very high electricity»

It also includes a super-user electric surcharge (SUE) for very high electricity consumers.
When there is very high electricity demand in the United States, getting enough power to meet the need is very expensive.
At other times (and every still night), wind and sun will produce minimal or zero power, causing very high electricity prices and increasing the chances of brownouts and blackouts.

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The mountainous «spine» of central California, as Ms. Eggman likes to call it, is very different from the coast: there are more low - income households, higher electricity bills, and more expensive estimates for solar panel installation.
We're pleased to present this very topical post by Edgardo Sepulveda examining what has caused Ontario's rising high electricity prices.
Waste can have a very high contribution to providing electricity to citizens and alleviating energy poverty, especially in countries with low access to electricity and reduced electricity consumption per capita.
Dear Mr High Commissioner, it won't probably occur to you that what you call corruption or SOLI is just a way to survive in a country where the media is not financed by Government or by a Stock Exchange floating shares, but by individuals trying to balance poor revenues from advertising in a Country declared HIPC until some few months ago and with a very high operating cost (think about the electricity for exampHigh Commissioner, it won't probably occur to you that what you call corruption or SOLI is just a way to survive in a country where the media is not financed by Government or by a Stock Exchange floating shares, but by individuals trying to balance poor revenues from advertising in a Country declared HIPC until some few months ago and with a very high operating cost (think about the electricity for examphigh operating cost (think about the electricity for example).
However, the deployment of these new supply technologies is very likely to result in higher consumer prices for electricity.
Epidemiological studies of «pre-technological» (no electricity, gasoline, air - conditioning, grocery stores...) societies demonstrate that while those populations may have volvulus, they have no diverticulosis — due to their very high fiber intake (100 - 300 grams / day) according to the work of Burkitt (of Burkitt's lymphoma) or S B Eaton of Emory U. («Stone - agers in the Fast Lane» Am J of Med 1988).
EIA: High temperatures drove record electricity demand and very high wholesale prices in THigh temperatures drove record electricity demand and very high wholesale prices in Thigh wholesale prices in Texas
The company supplies electricity entirely from renewable sources, with a very high proportion coming from wind power.
During the early 20th century, very few rural homes in the United States had indoor plumbing or electricity, and poverty was at an all - time high.
The explosions and electricity stay relatively the same throughout, they are of very high quality in any gaming experiance.
Both approaches are high risk but have a reasonable payoff if they can manage to make affordable electricity and that is a very big if.
They've caused electricity to be far more expensive than it could and should be, caused global GHG emissions to be 10 - 20 % higher than it could have been and caused the rate of emissions reductions over the coming decades to be very much slower than it would be of not for their irrational, ideologically driven scare mongering.
By increasing the voltage to a very high level, large quantities of electricity can be transmitted over long distances with little loss of power.
Dan Thiede, communications director for the Minnesota nonprofit Clean Energy Resource Teams, said signing up residential customers «is very resource intensive» and most solar gardens have found «more bang for their buck» by simply signing up business clients with high electricity needs.
Just over a quarter of development finance commitments for electricity access, or 28 percent, reached the 20 high - impact countries over 2011 - 15, with delays and under - disbursements being very common, especially for large grid - based energy infrastructure projects.
Solar power provides about 0.2 % of world electricity, and that is only because of very high subsidies.
«We make (our product) with electricity, we bake it with gas, we refrigerate and freeze it with electricity and we distribute it with gas and oil,» said McArthur, who said he worries that high prices could cost his company up to $ 15,000 a year in an industry with a very tight margin for profit.
«What's important to keep in mind when talking about solar and electricity prices is that solar energy production tends to align very well with the highest energy demand on a utility's system.
It would also be possible for the battery charging system to be set up so that power could be sold from the battery back into the grid when electricity prices were very high — to the profit of the battery owner.
Then, depending on market conditions, it will either burn the methane in a combined - cycle power plant, making electricity at very high efficiency, or push the methane into a nearby natural gas pipeline and sell it as the final product.
On hot summer afternoons, inefficient and expensive generators are turned on to satisfy the additional demand; they may run for only a few dozen hours in a year, but the cost of building and maintaining them means that the cost of that peak electricity is very high.
The cost of renewables is very high, the cost of the additional transmissions systems they require is very high, and the intermittency causes a very significant increase to the cost of electricity.
It's important, because if this bottleneck can be resolved, according to recent research, the US could move quickly to very high renewable penetration in electricity.
One question that would remain to be addressed in the future is that of very high rates of solar power on the grid, and how PG&E and the California grid (Cal ISO) would manage the peaks and valleys of electricity production and demand.
Even once the lifetime cost of solar panel systems is far lower than retail electricity over the same period of time, the upfront cost is very high — in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Solar can't produce electricity at night, but as we've seen in Germany and Australia it doesn't take a lot of solar capacity to start pushing down electricty prices during the day and that is very bad for the economics of nuclear power as it's a high capital cost, low fuel cost source of energy and reducing output during periods of low demand doesn't do much to reduce costs.
Electricity bills can be very expensive specifically for low - income families who spend 10 percent of their income on electricity bills, four times higher than the averagElectricity bills can be very expensive specifically for low - income families who spend 10 percent of their income on electricity bills, four times higher than the averagelectricity bills, four times higher than the average consumer.
Germany has already started a subsidy for fossil - fueled plants bankrupted by the plunge in electricity prices — a subsidy that will just add to the very high surcharges levied on captive German rate - payers to reimburse renewable sources for costs they can't recover from market.
«Solar generators could offer very good prices because, first, their projects have very good solar irradiation in the north of Chile but second, in 2014 there were several changes in the electricity tender rules that allowed companies to offer in different hourly blocks and extended the contract term, with resulted in a higher competition, a higher participation of renewables and the lowest prices that we've seen in decades».
The use of nuclear energy to produce liquid fuels is very economic at this point of time, and whilst the production of hydrogen from nuclear electricity is expensive the cost can be reduced by using high temperature steam from nuclear reactors for high temperature electrolysis.
Reducing energy consumption should be a very high priority, but people demand cheap energy and wind farms are less problematic than most other methods of generating electricity.
The capital cost of building a nuclear power station is high, but the marginal cost of generating additional off - peak electricity is very low.
Energy poverty is spread across the developing world, but it is particularly severe in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 620 million people live without access to electricity and for those who do have access to modern energy, very high prices, insufficiency and unreliability is a constant plague.
The annual average investment needed over 2010 - 30 to ensure everyone has access to electricity in the 17 high - impact countries covered by the Access Investment Model (AIM) ranges from just over $ 1 billion to provide everyone with access to 24 hours of electricity a day on very low - powered appliances (i.e tier 1) to around $ 40 billion to provide everyone with access to 23 hours of electricity a day on very high - powered appliances (i.e. tier 5).
Development of high voltage direct current cables and transmission systems — Although initial loss of electricity of DC cables is higher than for AC, there is no incremental loss of electricity as the length of the cable increases, making it possible to build offshore wind farms in very windy areas and transmit the energy over vast distances to areas with poor wind regimes, and to combine wind generators from different areas to reduce the impact of low - wind days and the need to use backup hydrocarbons on those days
For example, climate scientists are least well - placed to make a judgement on the timing and quantum of CO2 emissions that are exported from, say, Spain, as a result of higher electricity prices there resulting from wind and solar, and certainly very poorly placed to opine on the impact on global GHG emissions of cap - and - trade or any similar EU or even EU / USA - wide policy.
The reasons we use thermal plants for generating electricity is that these plants have a small footprint, can be located close to consumers, and produce electricity reliably at very high energy - densities.
Unless you can afford more high tech approaches such as polymeric membrane filtration, ceramic, or molecular sieve filter media, which all have very limited flow - through capacities and which are expensive and consume electricity, filtration alone will not likely meet all the needs you've identified.
Storage is Still # 1 Thing to Figure Out While this high electricity generation from a very clean source is great news, it is also a good reminder that intermittent and variable sources of power pose a great challenge to the grid.
Sivaram and Kann's analysis starts with a very basic fact about solar panels: They generate their electricity during the day, ramping up to a peak in the afternoon, when the sun is high in the sky.
Obama's coal power plan, also known as his war on coal, will certainly reduce some CO2 from electricity generation but at a very high cost to consumers and industries.
The generator could then also turn very fast, operating at high frequency, with appropriate power electronics to slow the generated electricity to 60 cycles.
PB will have none of this: «Very high early penetration of wind generation is likely to have adverse effects on the rest of the generating fleet, undermining the benefits of an increased contribution of renewable electricity
Electricity grid losses are very high and could be halved.
The lack of access to electricity for 1 billion people (many of whom then use kerosene lamps for lighting) exposes households to very high levels of fine particulate matter.
Starting from the bottom: with regard to Argentina — there is no mention of the military junta in the mid-70s, nor the 30,000 (at the least) torture and killed, nor of the mothers and grandmothers walking for 20 or more years in silence protesting the killings in a Bueno Aires plaza, nor is there is mention of the billions of dollars of US military aircraft and other weapons (as well torturing equipment for sending high to low charges of electricity through various parts of the body (private parts though preferred, as they say), but sold to the junta in power which weighs heavily in the total external debt, nor of the wholesale and retail sale of government agencies or corporations, and of the rights of water (in the 1990s), and the default of the government on various debts and contracts: 40 or more cases before the courts and ICSID — seems the sanctity of the contract and personalty of the international organization is a barrier to putting an end these very crooked and immoral business transactions, etc..
Even though the electricity consumption of Bitcoin is very high, many experts believe that its necessary in order to maintain decentralization.
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