excess electricity

collocation in English

meaningsofexcessandelectricity

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excess
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈek.ses/us
/ˈek.ses/
extra:
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electricity
noun[U]
uk
/ˌel.ɪkˈtrɪs.ə.ti/us
/iˌlekˈtrɪs.ə.t̬i/
a form of energy that can be produced in several ways and that provides power to devices that create light, ...
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(Definition ofexcessandelectricityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Excesselectricitycan be sold to suppliers or put into the local grid.
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It is consequently necessary to sell theexcesselectricityon the market.
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Net metering would enable small generators to export anyexcesselectricityback to the grid at a fair price.
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Must the boards buy theexcesselectricityproduced by that individual, because that will simply increase the present overcapacity?
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Imagine the pleasure of watching our electricity costs reduce before our eyes as our meter turns backwards, reflecting ourexcesselectricitygoing to the grid.
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We are also removing the disincentive that existed in the past—that they could not get rid of theexcesselectricityproduced by selling it to the grid.
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At night,excesselectricityon the power grid is used to pump water back to the mountaintop.
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In this cycle, theexcesselectricityproduced after consumption by devices connected to the system, is used to power an electrolyzer.
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Excesselectricitycan be sold to suppliers or put into the local grid.
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With grid-tied systems,excesselectricitycan be sent to the transmission grid.
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The landfill gas project supplies 100% of the environmental parks electricity needs, withexcesselectricitygoing to the grid.
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It has an aggressive nature if there's too muchexcesselectricity, and can charge up to 100,000 volts.
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The electrical heating is mostly provided byexcesselectricityfrom the two wind turbines.
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Excesselectricityis produced and sold to the national power grid.
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At high levels utilities need to contract with or provide storage or export/import of theexcesselectricitygeneration.
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Claire tells her to project all of herexcesselectricityinto her body, knowing that she would not be harmed and thus saving the plane.
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When the systems generate electricity more than the host buildings can consume, theexcesselectricity is fed back to the grid to "bank" with the utility company through net metering.
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By usingexcesselectricityto pump water to the top of the mountain, where a reservoir was created by building levees around an existing high swamp, energy is stored.
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A shunt charge controller or shunt regulator divertsexcesselectricityto an auxiliary or shunt load, such as an electric water heater, when batteries are full.
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In addition, home fuel cells receive net metering credit in many service areas for anyexcesselectricity generated, but not used, by putting it back on the utility grid.
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