Our examples assume an increase in grid electricity prices of 1% every year.
Indeed, they often pay more per kilowatt than do middle-class, urban households or wealthy farmers who benefit from heavily subsidised grid electricity.
Equipped with charging stations at home and at the shopping mall, these cars would be able to run on grid electricity for short trips.
Incorporate into the grid electricity from renewable resources like solar roofs and backyard windmills, allowing utilities to use local generation to meet renewable resource targets.
Instead of selling individual units, they would offer a low-power system that relied on a solar cell or car battery in remote areas without grid electricity.
Instead of selling individual units, they would offer a low-power system that relied on a solar cell or car battery in remote areas that didn't have grid electricity.
Many of these devices are produced with the assumption that grid electricity is "infinite" so, especially in the developing world, there is little incentive to make more efficient products.
When imports are factored in, this author calculates that average emissions rates for on-grid electricity in Vermont, Washington and Oregon still fall below that of the Bloom fuel cell (but emissions rates vary within each state from utility to utility as well).
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His system has a design that makes it easier to get the air through it, uses cheaper materials and does not draw electricity from the grid, which adds to costs and reduces the net amount of carbon stored (since grid electricity comes with carbon emissions attached, from the fuel used to make it).
There has been a rapid expansion of the Mozambican electricity grid, and the latest figures show that 36% of the population have electricity, either from the grid or from solar panels, in their homes, a high figure by sub-Saharan African standards.
Cold-ironing is when ships at berth connect via large cables to the shore-side power grid for electricity.
Stimulus money found its way into school reform, a smart grid for electricity and expanded access to broadband internet.
We take off-the-shelf IT and Internet technology and transform the power grid and electricity transmission lines into an energy Internet.
One likely application of the eneGoon is storing electricity drawn from the power grid when prices are low and using the stored juice when the price of electricity on the grid is high.
It is equally clear that without consuming electricity from the grid, it cannot generate electricity, renewable or not.
In 2010, emissions from electricity grid activity in Scotland were estimated to amount to 347 grams of carbon dioxide per Kilowatt hour (kWh) of electricity generated.
And a smart electricity grid that saves you money and moves our economy forward.
Rebels no longer shut down the country's electricity grid or disrupt the flow of oil.
Other green initiatives included promoting fuel-efficient vehicles, rail transport, electricity grid improvements, and pollution control.
It also means reducing the pressure on our commercial electricity grid making it more reliable.
They also suggest that Gaza be linked to Egypt's electricity grid, to end the strip's daily blackouts.
After dark, houses not connected to the electricity grid rely mainly on open-flame kerosene lamps for light.
While looking into a grain investment in Armenia, he discovered that the nation's electricity grid was up for sale.
The same is true when it comes to something like the electricity grid.
He told BBC News the extension of the tax credit was expensive, unnecessary and destabilising to the electricity grid.
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The basic idea is, is that we're still using an electricity grid that dates back 100, 150 years ago.
It produced a beam with 300 terawatts of power (several hundred times the capacity of America's entire electricity grid).
Shanghai, for instance, also boasts abundant supplies of clean water (a crucial input) and a fairly stable electricity grid.
In developing countries where the electricity grid is either inefficient or non-existent, the market for renewables is particularly promising.
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