Sentences with phrase «where grid electricity»

Solar energy is better able to compete with electricity from conventional sources in those states where grid electricity is relatively expensive.

Not exact matches

Alternatively, as has also been an issue in the context of the switch to smart electricity grids, where the transmission system owner remains part of a vertically integrated firm, it has an incentive to implement network upgrades in a manner that excludes third parties from the competitive segments.

Centralized electricity grids won't reach many villages anytime soon, and where they do, are notoriously unreliable.

Those farms provide electricity for county government facilities at a discounted rate and send additional electricity to the power grid where it's sold to other consumers.

Florida homeowners found out about this the hard way after Hurricane Irma, where the utility told residents with rooftop solar systems that they couldn't draw power from their panels while workers were restoring power due to the risks of sending errant electricity on the grid.

For specific industry applications with high organic loads, enough biogas can be generated to fully cover a production plant's energy needs and still have a biogas surplus to feed it into power generators and sell electricity to the national grid, often generating carbon credits, where these apply, as well as profit.

The overall total impact is difficult to measure because it depends what acts people do and where they are located in the US (the electricity grid varies by region).

From there they were transported to a power station in the west, where they are now being connected to the power grid and soon ready to produce electricity.

Ofgem to tackle market exploitation where companies take advantage of constraints in the electricity transmission grid.

As of March, according to USAID figures, Power Africa has helped close deals accounting for 4,100 MW of electricity in places like Rwanda, where East Africa's largest solar array began sending 8.5 MW of electricity to the national grid late last year, boosting the country's electricity generation capacity by 6 percent.

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.

It has sent its first kits to off - grid villages in Africa, where they provide a new source of clean, affordable electricity after just 2 hours of assembly.

The energy would be sent to the surface in microwave or laser form, where it would be converted into electricity for commercial power grids or stored in the form of hydrogen.

Not only would major new wind farms and photovoltaic arrays have to be constructed there, but the entire electric grid would have to be upgraded and reconfigured to bring that electricity to the population centers where it is needed.

While algae - powered fuel cells are unlikely to generate enough electricity to power a grid system, they may be particularly useful in areas such as rural Africa, where sunlight is in abundance but there is no existing electric grid system.

And yet, in terms of greenhouse - gas emissions, grid - charged cars are still cleaner than their gasoline - powered counterparts, and that's particularly true in California, where we rely largely on natural gas to make electricity.

For example, if you assume that you are purchasing power from the grid at around # 100 MWh, a solar system with a Power Purchase Agreement — where you contract to buy the power from a third party installer — might be able to supply you with electricity at # 70 - 80 MWh.

For example, after transporting its owner to the airport, the IMx can park itself in a spot where the vehicle can connect to the local power grid and act as a «virtual» power plant by returning electricity to the grid, an extension of its vehicle - to - home and vehicle - to - building features.

Tesla promoted it as a convenient way for homeowners to store their solar energy and take their homes off the grid, have backup power for emergencies or offset electricity prices in places where there's time - of - day pricing.

Even without seeing the mantas, just savouring this location as a viewpoint is reason enough to scooter along the bone - jarring road to get here — we came via the highest point of the island, where nine wind turbines help supply some of the island's electricity grid.

Powargrid is a turn - based strategy puzzle game where you take on your enemies in a grid based war fought with resources and electricity.

But conditions don't seem nearly as ripe for approving such investments and infrastructure in more crowded regions, where demand for electricity is highest, according to Matt Wald's latest article on wind and the grid.

We are really approaching the point where it will be entirely «mainstream» for US suburbanites to live in solar - powered homes that will not only be «net zero energy» in the sense of generating as much or more energy than the house itself consumes, but will also generate all the electricity to operate an EV, which will be integrated with the house so its batteries can provide power to the house at night and during grid outages.

At present, for example, we do not have a unified national grid that is sufficiently advanced to link the areas where the sun shines and the wind blows to the cities in the East and the West that need the electricity.

The CO2 Scorecard report, by contrast, examined changes in electricity at the regional level using data from grid operators, which showed researchers greater detail about where natural gas had replaced coal or renewables; where renewables replaced coal; and where electricity consumption simply declined because of reduced demand.

And yet, in terms of greenhouse - gas emissions, grid - charged cars are still cleaner than their gasoline - powered counterparts, and that's particularly true in California, where we rely largely on natural gas to make electricity.

We install, own and operate carbon free sources of energy where the policy is supportive or where the electricity grid can handle it.

We saw a sketch of an electric car drawing power from the wind and storing energy from the grid, a photo of farmer taking off a hay crop while a wind turbine generates royalty income for his family from the same field, an illustration of wind energy at the centre of a clean and vibrant cityscape, and many more examples of how Canadians are becoming more conscious about where our electricity comes from, how we use it, and how our choices can contribute to a more prosperous and sustainable world.

Where I live, a good alternative to air conditioning is to blow nighttime air into the house from about midnight to 6 am; this is way less expensive, but as you guessed from the time frame, not an ideal application for solar power, and electricity from the grid is cheaper at night anyway.

Despite all the doomsday scenarios of electricity blackouts thrown into Travis Fisher's 2015 grid study for IER, he never named a single example where one of these clean energy policies actually caused the lights to go out.

Additional infrastructure is needed in the electricity sector for creating a well - integrated national grid, and the market should be designed to give strong signals to locate generation where it is most valuable to the whole system.

If you yearn for a world where solar and wind provide every last bit of electricity on the grid, you will need to exercise great delicacy at the dinner table.

But Canada is further ahead on implementing the actions required to address climate change that will provide a long - term sustainable future for wind energy development by looking beyond wind energy's role in the electricity grid to its role (with other renewable energies) as a substitute for fossil fuels in other sectors of the economy where most of our greenhouse gas emissions are produced.

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 most states the systems provide your power needs throughout the day and if your system produces more electricity than your home is using, it sends the excess back to the electric grid, selling your extra solar power back to the utility where it can be used by your neighbors and others.

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.

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

The resulting electrical current travels via underground cables to a substation, where it is converted to a higher voltage for the larger electricity transmission or distribution grid.

The regulator said the volume of electricity the grid is forced to buy will be determined by technical criteria such as transmission capacity and end - user demand in regions where capacity has been idled.

In addition, in a country where irrigation pumps running on diesel or grid electricity chronically overdraw underground aquifers, solar power offers a solution.

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.

Among the countries where wind and solar power account for at least 5 percent of total electricity generated in 2014, more than 80 percent have completed a grid integration study to understand how to integrate variable renewable energy.

Where wind and solar power account for at least 5 percent of total electricity generated in 2014, more than 80 percent of countries globally have completed a grid integration study to understand how to bring variable renewable energy into the grid.

Where a business has on - site solar PV systems, Stem's software and analytics tools will automatically manage those customers» use of grid - supplied electricity against their solar production.

It does tell us a couple things about what, where PG&E and also the people who manage the state's electricity grid think things are going to be 10, 15 years down the road.

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.

Domestically, this will prove most crucial in areas like Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, where exploitation of wind resources has been stymied by the electricity grid's inability to deliver the power to urban markets.

Or indeed in regions with high penetration of wind and solar electricity generation — where grid augmentation is one solution to the wind and solar intermittency problem.

Anyway, taking Africa as an example, off - grid electricity (thanks to PV) is making significant in - roads mostly without government «assistance» particularly in East Africa where, in the first instance it is displacing kerosene lamps.

Two - thirds of Walmart's rooftop solar is located in places where coal makes up less than 20 percent of the electricity these stores pull from the local grid.