With sweeping deregulation, electricity suppliers would offer consumers price breaks for using electricity during off-peak hours.
While electric-car owners may cruise around feeling virtuous, they still recharge using electricity overwhelmingly produced with fossil fuels.
We will be using electricity and batteries, which really originates in the primary use of coal, natural gas, and nuclear power.
It works by using electricity generated from a nuclear reaction to accelerate charged particles out of the back of the spacecraft.
Creating a magnetic field using electricity is easy: an electric current flowing in a wire generates a magnetic field around that wire.
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One, they can simply stop using electricity as required by the program.
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On the other hand, consumers are so fond of using electricity produced from sunlight that they will tolerate wildly exorbitant prices to do so.
The idea of using electricity to stimulate muscles isn't exactly new.
Demand response (DR) encompasses programs that pay consumers money to stop using electricity provided by the central power grid during periods of peak demand or system contingencies.
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Like power plants, data centers, with their acres of servers, suck up millions of gallons of water a year for cooling (as an alternative to using electricity-hogging mechanical chillers).
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The idea is that Solar Impulse will take off and fly under its own power using electricity from the 11, 628 solar cells covering the upper surfaces of its wings and tailplane.
First and foremost, BigBelly trash bins compact trash using electricity produced by built-in solar panels, which allows each bin to hold about five times more waste or recycling compared to traditional trash bins.
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Using electricity generated by the wind, "Delmarva Power will be able to light about 50, 000 homes a year, every year" for the duration of the 25-year contract, Lanard said, with first power expected by 2012.
Using less electricity, using less oil or using less water helps keep operating costs lower which allows Wal-Mart to keep prices down.
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From 1975 to 2005, it's within 10% per person what we've been using for electricity.
One of the new austerity measures involves using the electricity bills to raise funds from a property tax.
The basic idea is, is that we're still using an electricity grid that dates back 100, 150 years ago.
That number has surely risen since then because every year there are more of us crowding into cities, using more electricity.
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This allows the computer to monitor incoming notifications without using much electricity.
In some areas, you can save money by running appliances when other people aren't using much electricity since it's relatively cheaper to give that power to you.
These are most of what they are using while they are there, and they are not using much electricity, water, or internet back in their home apartment.
Ordinary German people and businesses by using less electricity?
And China, with its increasingly wealthy population buying cars and using ever more electricity, needs guaranteed energy security.
They will then pay a fixed, monthly fee for using the solar electricity from the panels on their roofs.
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This can then be used to produce electricity using a fuel cell.
Furukawa Battery, the Tokyo-based supplier of power systems , is commercializing a magnesium fuel cell technology that generates electricity using salt water as an electrolyte.
BrightSource generates electricity using an approach called concentrated solar power, in which computer-controlled mirrors, known as heliostats, focus the sun's heat to boil water and turn a steam turbine.
The state has an aggressive plan to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions through a variety of means, from using more renewable electricity such as sun and wind power to requiring carmakers to roll out less polluting vehicles.
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Utility-scale concentrating solar power (CSP) systems that produce electricity using lenses or mirrors to focus radiation on thermal collectors or photovoltaic cells draw criticism from environmental groups for taking up too much desert land, thus displacing certain animal and reptile species.
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Since the windmill's sails were damaged in 1894, flour had been produced using steam power and electricity.
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