Improving that design and our other wasteful electric loads could do wonders.

For every watt delivered to the External electric load, the amplifier itself will, at best, dissipate another watt.

Peak electric load, and peak use of gas in electricity generators, occurs in summer, during the day.

It has been designing consumer wind systems sized to the changing distributed electric loads of their periods since the mid-1920s.

For example the level of occupancy for the room area, as well as electric and ventilation loads.

Solar systems for community use or specific consumers are generally larger in size, and designed specifically to meet the electric load.

The 58 projects under way or completed will cut electric load by 22,500 kilowatts and cut bills by $8.6 million a year.

"These smart windows have a huge potential to save energy and control peak electric loads in buildings," he said.

The generator supplies power to the home's electric load, but is not connected to the electric utility lines.

Renewable supplies with variable production, like wind and solar power, tend to increase the net variation in electric load, increasing the opportunity for grid energy storage.