http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-21/as-pot-growing-expands-power-demands-tax-u-s-electricity-grids As Pot-Growing Expands, Electricity Demands Tax U.S. Grids December 22, 2015 Jennifer Oldham,Bloomberg News
... Without design standards or efficient equipment, the facilities... are responsible for greenhouse-gas emissions almost equal to those of every car, home and business in New Hampshire... regulations ... lack requirements to reduce energy waste. Some operations have blown out transformers, resulting in fires ... “Consumers seeking a green lifestyle are likely unaware that their cannabis use could cancel out their otherwise low-carbon footprint,” Evan Mills, a senior scientist for California’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, wrote in an email ... Planners predict the escalating consumption could, in some regions, undo Americans’ attempts to save energy by buying more efficient refrigerators, washers and hair dryers ... “All these things consume too much power,” said Paul Isenbergh, a ... co-owner of the 3,100-square-foot medical-marijuana operation ... “The air conditioning, the lighting, the fans, the scrubber, the humidifier.” ... The electric bill for all this: as much as $5,000 a month ... Pot operations like Isenbergh’s join data centers and electric cars as among the top new users of electricity for the Northwest Power and Conservation Council ... In Boulder County, Color., commissioners levied an energy-usage fee on such facilities after discovering that a 5,000-square-foot operation consumed 29,000 kilowatt-hours a month ... “Most of the power in our region is coming from the burning of coal, which has a powerful negative footprint,” ... [© 2015 Bloomberg] ... http://www.seattletimes.com/business/power-hungry-pot-industry-taxing-us-electrical-grids/ Power-hungry pot industry taxing U.S. electrical grids December 22, 2015 ... https://twitter.com/jennoldham Jennifer Oldham http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/authors/3472-jennifer-oldham https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennoldham http://www.afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_charging_home.html ... If electricity costs $0.11 per kilowatt-hour, charging an all-electric vehicle with a 70-mile range (assuming a fully depleted 24 kWh battery) will cost about $2.64 to reach a full charge. This cost is about the same as operating an average central air conditioner for about 6 hours. General Motors estimates the annual energy use of the Chevy Volt will be 2,520 kilowatt-hours, which is less than that required for a typical water heater or central air conditioning ... ... [dated] http://cleantechnica.com/2014/02/03/grid-capacity-electric-vehicles-actually-problem-studies-find/ Grid Capacity For Electric Vehicles Is Actually Not A Problem, Studies Find February 3rd, 2014 http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2015/06/data-center-power-water-consumption/ Data Center Power & Water Consumption Jun 30, 2015 - But aggregate data center power consumption is still about the same as it was 10 years ago ... ... http://www.computerworld.com/article/2598562/data-center/data-centers-are-the-new-polluters.html Aug 26, 2014 ... U.S. data centers are using more electricity than they need. It takes 34 power plants, each capable of generating 500 megawatts of electricity, to power all the data centers in operation today ... businesses are unwilling to invest in efficiency, study finds For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Bloomberg-lumps-plugins-w-power-consuming-datacenters-pot-growers-tp4679299.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
