Sentences with phrase «when home electricity»

Electricity rates are lower during the daytime when home electricity use is lower and solar panels are at their most productive.

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When electricity was first brought into the home, it was intended to power light bulbs, Gates said.
Today, Kuby is also certified to install Tesla's Powerwall (a rechargeable battery used to store electricity in homes) in Western Canada, a relationship forged when one of Kuby's solar customers wanted to install a Powerwall in Inuvik, N.W.T. «Only one per cent of solar installers ever get that [Powerwall] contract [with Tesla].
Plus, with Location - Based Charging, you can delay charging to take advantage of off - peak electricity rates when you're at home and begin charging immediately when you're away.
When Tesla and SolarCity embarked to design and engineer the solar roof together, the goal was to create the most beautiful and efficient roof ever — one that would make homes look better while reducing the cost of electricity.
As is, solar power is immediately cost effective when included in a home mortgage in all residential markets where electricity is over 12 cents per kwh, without local incentives or Cap - and - Trade.
No electricity, running water, cell phone service, and the only thing that made me happy when I returned to San Francisco is that your book was waiting on my doorstep when I came home.
When you produce 97 % of your own food, compost all manure (human and animal), make your own clothing, shoes, diapers, wraps, menstrual pads, washable toilet paper, soaps, lanolin, and herbal tinctures, and grow your animals feed, make your house out of a recycled tobacco barn with reclaimed building materials, have no electricity (even solar panels / wind generators leave a huge footprint from manufacture), water coming from your spring / creek, home school your children without fancy curriculum, make your living from your land and being a home birth midwife, etc... then you will see what real life could be.
Seems like people make such a huge issue over the intimacy thing, but what did people do for thousands of years when there was no electricity to heat their homes, and many people had one room homes where they slept with all of their kids in bed with them??
«To not be able to connect and hear from our loved ones, when you think of our hospitals and nursing homes, and the people that need our medical equipment or access to batteries or electricity, I don't want to think of the dire consequences that lie ahead,» said City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.
It revolves around investing # 1 billion in a «hi - tech National Grid» which would see «smart meters» being installed in every home - meaning that energy companies would be able to tell consumers when it is cheapest to use electricity.
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.
Residential heating by electricity (or co-generated heat) rather than by home boilers will generally yield a net saving, especially when combined with improved insulation.
Residential heating by electricity (or co-generated heat) rather than by home boilers will generally yield a net savings, especially when combined with improved insulation.
Co-author Dr Iain Staffell, from the Centre for Environmental Policy, said: «This tool allows us to combat one of the biggest uncertainties in the future energy system, and use real data to answer questions such as how electricity storage could revolutionise the electricity generation sector, or when high - capacity home storage batteries linked to personal solar panels might become cost - effective.»
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).
With recovery efforts on the island painfully slow — he still had no potable water or electricity when he left home in Caguas — Ortiz wanted more stability for his daughter, elderly mother, and mother - in - law.
Especially when it takes far less energy to deliver electricity to my home outlet than to deliver petrol to the corner convenience store.
When a security breach at Hoover Dam takes all the U.S. hydroelectric power stations offline the day after a category five hurricane hits the Gulf of Mexico, cutting off electricity to millions and threatening an already compromised fuel supply, Cash figures it's time to chase those white lines home to Tennessee.By the time he hits Chicago, the lights are out across the country, throwing America into a new dark age in which only the strong and the prepared will survive.READER NOTE: This is Part One of the (separately available) three - part novel Long Haul...
TORONTO — Ontario home owners, farmers and small businesses will get some relief from soaring electricity prices starting in January when the provincial portion of the harmonized sales tax is removed from hydro bills.
Larger expenses (such as car insurance and books) and seasonal expenses (such as a trip home at the holidays or a higher electricity bill in summer when the air conditioning is on) need to be incorporated into your budget.
Additionally, your utilities, an expense you incur as result of electricity, water and sewage usage, may increase when you move into a home that is bigger than your current living situation.
When it comes to powering the home, electricity is what makes it run.
When they reached their home, however, electricity was still out, so they elected to stay away until Wednesday.
When the television, media center, etc. has cooled off, nobody's moved for twenty minutes, and nothing's being consumed but the 15 watts of power designed to save the homeowner two seconds» warmup wait when he arrives home eight hours from now — shut off the electricWhen the television, media center, etc. has cooled off, nobody's moved for twenty minutes, and nothing's being consumed but the 15 watts of power designed to save the homeowner two seconds» warmup wait when he arrives home eight hours from now — shut off the electricwhen he arrives home eight hours from now — shut off the electricity.
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.
Some of my best evenings at home have been those when the electricity has gone out for some reason.
The free solar energy that hits the Earth each day can keep us warm, light our homes, grow our food, and generate clean renewable electricity, so we often invite it into our lives, but when the weather heats up in the summer, the sun can actually cause us to use more energy, because we then need to run air conditioners to cool us back down.
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.
In South Dakota, a wind - rich, sparsely populated state, development has begun on a vast 5,050 - megawatt wind farm (1 megawatt of wind capacity supplies 300 U.S. homes) that when completed will produce nearly five times as much electricity as the 810,000 people living in the state need.
The first thing I did when we renovated our home recently was to replace all bulbs with CFLs, and I noticed that our electricity bills dropped significantly over a period of 8 months.
When we put solar on a home, much of the energy it produces ends up back on the power grid, earning credits that offset electricity purchased from the utility at other times of day.
Most utility companies across the country have net metering programs to credit solar system owners for feeding solar electricity to the power grid, when the system is generating more than the home consumes at the time.
CO2 is emitted when we burn fossil fuel to heat a home, generate electricity, or drive to the store.
Battery storage has been proposed for homes, typically in conjunction with PV rooftop solar panels, but it could also be installed to supply electricity when there is a blackout.
We don't have to worry about future electricity price increases because we included it in our home mortgage when the home was built and our mortgage is fixed for 30 years.»
When the electricity generated by your solar energy system is more than you use in your home, the energy gets exported back to the grid and your utility buys the excess electricity from you at a couple cents per kilowatt hour.
Plus, with Location - Based Charging, you can delay charging to take advantage of off - peak electricity rates when you're at home and begin charging immediately when you're away.
We already know we are putting too much heat - trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) into the air when we burn fossil fuels to generate electricity, fuel our cars, and heat our homes — but by cutting down and burning trees, we are also releasing an astounding amount of the same heat - trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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.
Community solar saves you money by allowing you to invest in solar panels that produce electricity for your home or business, even when you can't install them on your roof.
When complete in 2020, Hornsea Project One will generate enough electricity to provide for the equivalent of one million homes.
The company, Oncor, which has 119,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines delivering power to more than three million homes and businesses, surprised the energy world last month when it announced that it was willing to spend billions of dollars by 2018 to install some 25,000 batteries across Texas that would store electricity to be discharged when needed.
While New England remains a summer peaking electricity system (with a forecasted 2018 summer peak around 25 percent higher than the forecasted 2018/2019 winter peak), winter peak forecasts are important for assessing the impacts of electric system reliability during a period when much of New England's energy infrastructure is dedicated to space heating (i.e., when interstate natural gas pipelines are used both for electricity generation and for heating homes and businesses).
«Walney Extension will deliver clean electricity to more than 460,000 UK homes and I'm very glad that we can now start construction of what will be the world's biggest offshore wind farm when completed.
By the way, if you've switched to renewable electricity for your home and charge your electric car there, you've essentially eliminated your carbon emissions when you drive.
They expect to have a zero utility bill this winter when they use solar PV - generated electricity to heat, as well as light and otherwise power, their home.
One of the most important is carbon dioxide (CO2), which we release into the atmosphere when we burn fossil fuels — oil, coal, and natural gas — to generate electricity, power our vehicles, and heat our homes.
When you install a solar battery as part of your home solar energy system, you can actually store the extra energy your solar panels produce at home instead of feeding it back into the electricity grid.
A California - based air - conditioning firm has developed a home - scale air - conditioning unit with a built - in ice - maker, which enables it to make ice when electricity is abundant, and use it to cool the house for at least three compressor - free hours.
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