Public Utilities

100

For a residential consumer, power-factor improvement has absolutely no effect on one's electricity bill. Adding power-factor improvement capacitors at the point of supply will have absolutely no effect upon the operation of the load circuits, but it may act to reduce the supply current. But reducing the supply current will not reduce one's energy consumption.

No

There is no determined time for life of a water meter but we can calculate it by water volume that pass it for example 100.000m3

Majid Babaee

modern wind turbines are only about 30% efficient

Yes I believe they do because they are sitting on one of the largest oil deposits in the world.

A brown out is an intentional black out or reduction in electricity to a certain area. They are, or at least were, very common in southern China due to demand being higher than supply.

Natural gas produces approximately 1000 BTU's per cubic foot. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas

are companies which are all around the world

no picture of electrical energy

it is the most controversial public works in modern times

introduction on energy crisis

Broken Hill Proprietary Limited, also in automotive terms, Brake Horse Power.

63 dollars a barrel.

When the supplying company receives more demand for electrical power than its generating or transmission or installed capacity can deliver, the company has to resort to rationing of the available electricity to its customers. This act is called load shedding. Load shedding can also be referred to as Demand Side Management or Load Management Demand Controller devices are used to shed loads when a pre-set KW reading has been reached. These devices are tied in to circuits supplying electric heat, stoves, dryers, hot tubs--anything that tends to use a lot of power. When set properly, Demand Controllers can be very effective at reducing your energy bill. This question may be referring to the kind of load shedding which often occurs in places where the total electrical power load which can be taken by consumers greatly exceeds the available amount of energy which can be generated by the local power station or national network of power stations. This is a situation which is common in many developing countries. As soon as total power demanded exceeds a certain percentage - usually 98% - of the maximum possible power that can be generated, parts of the distribution network have to be disconnected. Such disconnections are known as "load shedding". If load shedding was not done the generating equipment's overload breakers would automatically shut down the whole power station to protect its alternators (electrical generators) from very severe damage. Such damage would be extremely expensive to repair and would take a lot of time to do. So in practice, to keep the power stations running 24/7 under such conditions, load shedding is applied to different parts of the distribution network at various set times throughout a regular "power availability" period of, usually, a week. For example, parts of the network supplying homes and small business offices may only get power for two or three hours at a time every day or every other day, whilst important places - such as hospitals, major factories and, typically, government offices - may get power almost 24/7. Load shedding, normally used in industrial, large commercial, and utility operations, is monitoring electric usage continuously (usually by automated instrumentation) and shutting down certain pre-arranged electric loads or devices if a certain upper threshold of electric usage is approached. there are two reasons for doing it, both of them financially motivated. Power companies sometimes set up an industrial customer or a school with an electric billing rate in steps, i.e. if you are pulling less than this amount of electric current during certain times you get billed at one rate for the electricity you use. If you are pulling MORE than this amount of electric current during that time, you get billed at a higher rate, even if you use the same amount of electricity overall. The highest current you draw during the time period in question is your "peak demand". The power company has to have generating capacity built and in place to generate the sum of all of the "peak demands" of its customers during the highest peak demand period. Say that period is 10 am to 12 am during weekdays. If the highest peak demand exceeds the capacity of the power company to generate, they either have to build another power station to cover that 2 hour period each day, which is a waste of money, or they have to buy power from some other power company during those 2 hours which is also expensive. So power companies look for ways to cut down on the highest peak demand. They encourage their large customers to cut back on peak demand during those "highest peak demand periods" by charging them more if they exceed a certain peak demand. Customers can stay below this set peak demand limit by monitoring their electric demand and cutting off unnecessary electric loads if they get too close to their demand limit. That is one form of load shedding. The other way is for the power companies to ask their small customers for permission to install a piece of equipment in their home or business and wire one or two appliances to the equipment which will shut down the appliances based on a radio signal from the power company. The appliances are usually electric water heaters. The power company gives a discount to these customers. Then, if the power company sees that it's demand is coming close to its generating capacity, it sends out a signal and cuts off all these appliances. That is also called load shedding.

Well I Live in Boston and my Gas Bill For 3 Bedroom Apartment is about $350 a month

1. Chesapeake Energy

2. ?

An electric generator is a device for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy. The process is based on the relationship between magnetism and electricity. When a wire or any other electrically conductive material moves across a magnetic field, an electric current occurs in the wire. The large generators used by the electric utility industry have a stationary conductor. A magnet attached to the end of a rotating shaft is positioned inside a stationary conducting ring that is wrapped with a long, continuous piece of wire. When the magnet rotates, it induces a small electric current in each section of wire as it passes. Each section of wire constitutes a small, separate electric conductor. All the small currents of individual sections add up to one current of considerable size.

It is, but you still have to pay the utility company to pump it into your home.

Im asking the same thing

lack of finance and tax systems, government cut out electricity for certain hours

The answer to this question depends entirely on the country, state, province or city where you live.

Please ask this question again and be sure to give the place you are interested in.

For example:

For how many hours does load shedding happen in Karachi?

For how many hours does load shedding happen in Bangladesh?

For how many hours does load shedding happen in Bangalore?

Saudi Arabia is the world's largest producer of crude oil - about 11 million barrels a day.