Sentence examples for total electricity use from inspiring English sources

Even in Britain, air conditioning and refrigeration account for almost 20% of total electricity use, Maidment said.

Air conditioning accounts for about one third of the total electricity use in the residential sector.

"Electricity used in global data centers likely accounted for between 1.1 percent and 1.5 percent of total electricity use, respectively.

After an electrician altered the wires for a large clothing store in Manhattan so that its meter would register only 40percentt of the total electricity use, the store saved more than $600,000 over several years.

A study by scientist Evan Mills, with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, revealed that legalized indoor marijuana-growing operations account for 1% of total electricity use in the US, at a cost of $6bn per year.

In California, total electricity use fell 2percentt in May compared with the same period last year and it fell 11percentt after factoring in changes in the weather and economic growth, according to the state energy commission.

Figures show that 8% of the total electricity used in our homes comes from appliances left on standby.

About 2% of the total electricity used in Britain powers data centres, making them expensive to operate and a significant factor in the causes of climate change.

Air conditioning both for cooling and heating accounts for more than 50% of the total electricity used in the residential sector.

While better energy efficiency played a part in this change, the total electricity used in data centers was less than the forecast for 2010 in part because fewer new servers were installed than expected due to technologies such as virtualization, which allowed existing systems to run more programs simultaneously.

In addition to energy for lighting and other uses, the air conditioning consumes approximately 40% of the total electricity used in buildings.