Question

You are a newly-hired energy planner for the city of Exampleville. Mayor Bigshot has decided that the city should become energy-independent, and has asked your supervisor, Bossperson, for a report discussing

different options for doing so. Bossperson has tasked you with performing some calculations and discussing the strengths of different options based on those calculations. 6. There are 100,000 homes in Exampleville, and the average home has the following daily power demand profile. Each hour is an hour in a day, and "Watts" describes the average power demand during that hour:/nHour 1 Watts 600 Hour Watts 2 600 3 600 600 800 67 8 1000 1100 1200 1200 1000 1000 9 10 11 12 1200 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 1000 1000 1100 1500 1600 2200 4500 2200 1800 1000 800 600 a. How much energy in kWh does the average home use in a 24 hour period? (1 pt) b. How much energy in kWh does the average home use in 365 days? (1 pt) c. How much energy, in MWh, do all of the city's homes combined use in 365 days? (1 pt) d. Exampleville has several options for generating electrical power, each with different characteristics, listed below:

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