By 2030, the network could produce 16% of electricity consumption in Europe, or about 563 TWh.
Even so, your correspondent would like to know more about his pattern of electricity consumption.
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The average annual electricity consumption for a U.S. residential utility customer is about 11, 000 kilowatt-hours.
Plug loads account for 15% of all residential electricity consumption and 20% of commercial consumption.
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For example, if you save water, what does that mean for your electricity consumption?
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Electricity consumption per person per year in the United States is approximately 12 MWh.
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For example, you might compare data on cash transactions or electricity consumption with official output figures.
Those gains take two forms: less electricity consumption and a lower cost per unit of processing power.
Second, an energy shortage obliged the government to impose rationing aimed at cutting electricity consumption by a fifth.
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Deploying advanced power electronics could reduce electricity consumption up to 30%, or 12% of total U.S. energy use.
Power-saving techniques and voltage and frequency "slewing" will allow its chip to lower electricity consumption by up to 50%.
Another cool project: the Google Powermeter, software that analyzes home electricity consumption.
Recently, though, low natural gas prices and reduced electricity consumption due to the recession have dampened demand for wind.
The company said average UK household gas consumption was up 21% over the year, while electricity consumption was up 5%.
Tracking website Blockchain logged 982 megawatt hours of electricity consumption over a 24-hour period by Bitcoin miners around the world.
This reflects, more than anything else, the tremendous increase in automobile ownership and electricity consumption that will come with rising incomes.
The company says it will be capable of generating enough energy to meet the average annual electricity consumption of about 8, 000 homes.
Thanks to its heavily insulated roof and double-glazed, low-emissivity glass throughout, Mayhem Manor's electricity consumption is a modest 8, 300 kilowatt-hours a year.
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That's equivalent to the electricity consumption for all of China in 2002.
Renewable energy capacity currently makes up about 16.9% of Germany's electricity consumption.
Cramer cited trends in electricity consumption as the reason for his optimism.
Almost 20% of global electricity consumption comes from lighting, so shifting lighting to LED technology is a cost-effective way to get change at scale.
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There is no way to reconcile that statistic with electricity production, which increased only 1.5% in September year-on-year, or electricity consumption, which rose 2.9%.
Elliott says he has orders for some 200 trucks from such outfits as electric utilities (which want to encourage their use to increase electricity consumption).
California has previously led the way nationally in curbing per capita electricity consumption, improvement in air quality and other measures of energy and environmental stewardship.
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Electricity consumption has fallen 7.6% in Texas in the past year.
Electricity consumption has risen sharply, and manufacturing employment has edged up.
Data centers account for about 1.5% of total electricity consumption in the United States, according to a 2007 report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Rather, the very best regulator of data-center behavior, and the very best guarantor of ongoing innovations in ongoing reductions of data-center electricity consumption, is free-market capitalism.
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That's about 1.5% of total U.S. electricity consumption, more than the electricity used by American televisions, or equivalent to the output of about 15 typical power plants.
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