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Tech/Engineering - Energy / Power Generation | | English term or phrase: utilities | como se puede traducir utilities de acuerdo a este contexto:
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EVs and PHEVs that draw power from a charging station or standard wall socket have raised the question: Is that really clean energy? Sure, emissions and fossil-fuel consumption are dramatically reduced on the road, say skeptics, but what if the electrons charging your battery overnight are coming from a dirty coal plant? Is that really cleaner that burning the equivalent gasoline? In a word, yes. Studies by a number of agencies, including the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Argonne National Laboratory, and the California Air Resources Board have all concluded that running cars on electricity from today`s U.S. power grid (that is, about 50% coal-fired), instead of gas or diesel, reduces overall GHG emissions anywhere from 22% to 61%. A big reason why: most battery-charging takes places overnight, when power demand drops dramatically and utilities have excess generating capacity, an effect know as “valley filling.” A December 2006 study by the U.S. Department of Energy`s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) concluded that such off-peak utility generation and transmission could power 84% of the 220 million vehicles in the United States if they were PHEVs.
Una gran razón del porqué: la mayoría de las recargas de batería ocurren por la noche, cuando la demanda de energía baja dramáticamente and utilities have excess generating capacity, an effect know as “valley filling.”
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| | | Spanish translation:plantas | Explanation:
En este caso Utilities quiere decir plantas (generadoras) pero utilities es //servicios/// como luz, drenaje, agua, etc. |
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