The system will retain power generated when demand is low and can be tapped
when electricity consumption is highest or the wind is not blowing.
OhmConnect is a free service that acts somewhat like a virtual power plant, except that instead of generating energy, it works with the user's devices to reduce demand at times
when electricity consumption is at a peak, which can help utilities to avoid having to bring a «peaker plant» online to cover the extra demand.
Not exact matches
If you just charge people a lower price
when there's a lot of wind and sun (
when the supply of
electricity is abundant and cheap) and a higher price at times
when there's not, they'll reduce
consumption when electricity is scarce.
During the summer period
when the outside temperature is higher the
electricity consumption is also higher.
Given the right financial incentives, though, many households may accept smart grid strategies that let utilities reduce power
consumption in homes at peak periods of demand,
when wholesale
electricity prices are highest, some analysts conclude.
Household
electricity use falls by more than 30 %
when residents are obliged to pay for their own personal
consumption.
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).
What I'd like to know is, taking all of these factors into account, how much extra we, the consumers, will have to pay for a kilowatt - hour of coal - fired
electricity 5, 10, 20 and 30 years from now (a point in time which even WV's own Nick Rahall says will be
when the most productive coal seams have been mined out) because our leaders today decided to facilitate an increase in the
consumption of coal through the laughably mis - named «climate bill.»
After painstaking consideration that accounted for a number of factors — from
electricity and water
consumption to how much time each bath would take — Moorefield settled on a price of $ 13 per bath
when he opened shop.
I wish I could agree with Mander's routes to a solution (which are the same as Al Gore's) but I can't:
When something like fuel or
electricity gets consumed more efficiently, we just end up using at least the same amount for more of the same or for new kinds of
consumption.
We still use
electricity, businesses find it possible to make money, lights burn in homes
when needed, in fact all sorts of things prove possible in spite of the dour predictions of Cassandras in other places more amenable to needless
consumption.
When the rooftop solar generation is entirely used to offset on - site
electricity consumption, then the home has virtually no impact on the grid, reducing the home's climate change emissions.
When we discovered our overnight outside lamps were causing a spike in
electricity use, for example, we brain - stormed strategies to reduce this source of power
consumption.
The system of regulated end - user prices, however, is subsidising
electricity consumption at a time
when low - carbon power supply is becoming more constrained and expensive.
When it nears the point of
consumption, such as our homes, the
electricity is transformed down to the safer 100 - 250 voltage systems used in the domestic market.
The company pays the owners of commercial and industrial buildings to let it periodically reduce their power
consumption when the grid is overburdened, or to avoid high
electricity prices.
Several states have voluntary limited or pilot TOU rates, «but the trend is towards TOU rates as a default option» to reward customers for reducing their
electricity consumption when demand is high, Proudlove said.
This happening at a time
when we are seeing a shift in final energy
consumption with demand for
electricity doubling globally by 2060.
However, the relation is complex: Only
when prosumers have the choice between self -
consumption and sale of the surplus
electricity production to the grid we observe a statistically significant effect on
consumption behavior.
For example, Daniel Schwartz of Carnegie Mellon University and co-authors reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that residents used considerably less
electricity when told they were participating in a study of household
electricity consumption.
As we we're finally becoming aware, we're paying a fantasy rate
when we purchase
electricity as cheaply as we do now and as a consequence we're substantially oblivious of our
consumption habits.
When we talk about energy
consumption, all attention goes to the
electricity use of a device or a machine while in operation.
In any case, I'd like to be as green as possible with my solution, specifically concerning
electricity consumption (both
when on and
when in standby mode), but also in minimizing buying a lot of electronics.
We know that the energy for manufacturing and construction has to occur at the beginning of the project, and we know it takes 2 - 4 years to payback this energy (
when considering the
consumption of the energy by employees of the wind farm) in the form of
electricity generated by the turbine.
Not only can smart lighting systems save you money on
electricity consumption (no more forgetting to turn the lights out
when you leave the house — a smart switch can do it for you), but it can also make your house feel more like a home.
That's because computerized controls in one's home and on appliances can be set to respond to signals from energy providers to minimize
electricity consumption at times
when the power grid is under stress from high demand.