Sentences with phrase «where electricity costs»

On the other hand, electric - power users in states where electricity costs have traditionally been high may find opportunities to cut electricity bills.

The decreased prices of Ethereum has in fact made Ether mining unprofitable for many miners, particularly in regions where electricity costs are above average.

Perhaps even more significantly, while you'll find less waste overall of electricity in Hawaii, lots of electricity there is still wasted pointlessly in all the same ways we find where electricity costs less.

In areas where electricity costs are high — such as the Northeast and California — microgrids may be able to consistently provide energy at a lower cost.

Newly built wind farms in Morocco, and solar plants in Dubai and Chile, where electricity costs are around $ 30 / MWh, could also be competitive with SMR paired with carbon capture and storage.

As utilities continue to adopt mechanisms like time - of - use charges (where electricity costs more during certain parts of the day — usually during peak - use hours) your energy storage system can make sure you're using its power instead of the power from the grid.

In general, LED upgrades should be made earlier and more frequently in places — such as California, Washington, D.C., and Hawaii — where electricity costs are high.

It is impossible for the UK to compete with non-EU countries like the US, where electricity costs half the price, and Norway, where energy is 25 % of the UK price.

Considering everything involved, people no longer see bitcoin mining as a profitable venture, unless you intend to do it on a large scale, are based on a country where electricity cost is low, or have a huge budget to purchase and set up the hardware.

Not exact matches

Instead, the net metering rate will be set at wholesale prices — even though the utility doesn't have to pay for any of the solar panels» hardware or maintenance, and transmission costs are negligible, since the electricity is being generated close to where it is used.

While the cost of electricity from coal and gas will go up and down given the volatility of the markets for those fuels, we can enter into a 20 year contract for renewable energy where we know what we'll be paying for the electricity today and in 2033.»

At one point, the wholesale cost of electricity went into the negative at mid-day — the point on the 24 - hour clock where prices are supposed to be higher.

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.

The blow would fall heavily on the states whose coal provides most of our electricity and on rural areas where electric costs have the most impact.

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 example).

«But the biggest cost - savers will really occur in the rural areas where people are now using propane to heat their house, or electricity.

Even the electric utility industry recognizes that where residential electricity costs reach 15 cents per kilowatt - hour — or roughly 16 percent of the U.S. retail electricity market — solar is already as cheap as grid electricity.

That high energy density makes OTEC a more attractive option than wave or tidal power, Cable says, especially for distant outposts like those on Guam, where a cost analysis suggests that OTEC could provide electricity slightly more cheaply than existing oil - fired plants.

The biodigester - sanitation systems also provide a fuel source in a place where only about 10 percent of the population has access to electricity, and about 70 percent of the energy used comes from wood and charcoal, which costs around 25 - 50 percent of a household's income.

(C) Cost - effective energy efficiency programs for end - use consumers of electricity, natural gas, home heating oil, or propane, including, where appropriate, programs or mechanisms administered by local governments and entities other than the State.

One reason is the high cost of electricity in Hawaii, where 93 percent of electricity is generated by burning imported oil.

The big task ahead for Alphabet is to get the technology to an efficiency and at a scale where the cost of generating electricity from waste heat is cheaper than the cost of retail electricity.

In a Canadian province where a winter heating with electricity might cost a few hundred dollars per month minimum, this man manages to cut his heating bill by using free solar energy.

There is good reason to believe that floating wind can not only emulate this, but can facilitate accelerated growth in new markets and regions where securing low - carbon electricity at low cost for energy - intensive coastal populations is a growing priority.

The growth of VRE also disrupts economic metrics, where the context of levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) doesn't adequately capture these short term dynamics.

Proven technology already used around the globe can harness the strong and steady ocean winds off the shores of the United States, transform them into clean, cost - effective electricity, and transmit that power to where it is needed most.

We need something where we're not doubling the cost of the electricity.

Smelting aluminium is done where electricity is cheapest because the cost of power is a large component of the cost of aluminium.

The detailed price information needs to be transparent to communicate the cost of electricity in specific circumstances as well as the relative value of different forms of electricity generation so that all participants, even from neighbouring markets, learn where and when to operate and invest.

When one takes into consideration the different efficiencies of liquid - fueled and electric propulsion, then where the rubber meets the road the cost of powering a plug - in hybrid with average - cost residential electricity would be about 40 per cent of the cost of powering the same vehicle with today's approximately $ 2.50 / gallon gasoline, or, said another way, for the consumer to be able to buy fuel in the form of electricity at the equivalent of $ 1 / gallon gasoline.

Because of their additional cost and increased maintenance, track mounts are best suited to situations where you have limited space and want to maximize the electricity production from a limited number of solar panels.

These flexibility needs are rapidly expanding as a result of numerous industry trends: (a) recognition by policymakers that renewable energy resources are needed to meet long - term emissions reductions goals; (b) customers» increasing desire to voluntarily procure renewable energy or generate electricity on - site; and (c) substantial technological improvements that have driven down the cost of renewable resources to the point where, even before accounting for tax incentives, they are the lowest - cost option for new generating plants in some regions of the country.

Electric expenses: The cost of labor, material, and expenses incurred in operating a facility's prime movers, generators, auxiliary apparatus, switching gear, and other electric equipment for each of the points where electricity enters the transmission or distribution grid.

Electric non-utility: Any entity that generates, transmits, or sells electricity, or sells or trades electricity services and products, where costs are not established and recovered by regulatory authority.

Even in places where the average cost of electricity is low, that cost varies with the seasons and the time of day.

PJM has said the changes are a way to «respect individual state interests while protecting consumers in other states from potential cost shifts,» but critics say the changes could increase electricity prices in Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and 10 other states where it operates.

It shows the light blue line at the top, which indicates where grid - based electricity costs are heading.

As an example I gave the case of Denmark where although having the highest wind energy proportion of electricity generation in the world, the consumption within Denmark is much less than is generated; Denmark has the highest cost electricity in Europe and near the highest CO2 emissions from electricity generation in Europe.

Where distributed solar shaves the cost of peak electricity prices, utility - scale wind power lowers the wholesale cost of power across the board.

The daily cost of electricity is now more than a price of a cappuccino, though I'd like to know where you can get such a cheap one in Sydney, or Melbourne for that matter.

It's important to bear in mind that when building new sources of green electricity, it is difficult to compete on price with existing sources of brown energy — where the capital cost of the project has long since been written off (for brown) but needs factoring into the energy price for green.

Companies in the PV business have focused on reaching grid parity — where electricity generated by solar power is equal to or below the cost of electricity from competing sources — as a way to broaden the scope of PV.

The reverse in Queensland where roof - stop solar installation is heavily subsidised, flow - back electricity is bought by the utility at several times the cost of regular power, and the erraticness of the flow - back has imposed high costs on the distribution system.

for a start the infrastructure required to supply our electricity would be far far less compared to when power is sent long distances from where it is produced, there are also quite substantial losses just getting the power to those living several hundred kilometers away, for instance I am told that they lose around 14 % of the power produced in the Latrobe Valley just getting it to Melbourne, Solar on the other hand is often far closer to where the power is required, therefore there are less distribution costs and also less losses involved.

Proven technology already used around the globe can harness the strong and steady ocean winds off our shores and transform them into clean, cost - effective electricity and transmit that power to where it is needed most.

For a preview of what this could mean to American families, one can look to Germany, where due to restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions, electricity costs three - times more than in the US and gasoline is now $ 8.00 per gallon.

All four reactors are being constructed in deregulated electricity markets where the risks of cost overruns can be passed on to ratepayers...

This doesn't even address the cost and maintenance of transporting wind turbine electricity to a place where it can be converted to add to an electric grid.

If you do n`t understand how the cost of energy hurts the poor just look at the demonstrations in Bulgaria last summer where the high cost of electricity brought down the government.

Furthermore, moving electricity over long distances (to places where it is needed) results in «line losses» reducing its true availability and increasing its cost.