Not exact matches
Shell is building an offshore wind farm in the North Sea; it's part of consortia installing solar farms in Oman and California; and it has
bought one of Europe's biggest electric - car - charging firms and a major British
electricity provider.
These homeowners have installed photovoltaic panels on their rooftops with the help of cash incentives and a state law that requires the local
electricity provider — APS — to
buy any excess power produced by an individual home.
It could be as simple as
buying more chicken instead of beef, or choosing a different
electricity provider when the choice is offered, or deciding that car - pooling is not such an annoyance after all.
* The astute reader may wonder how the Governor persuaded Dominion to allow it to
buy electricity from third - party
providers in spite of Dominion's tireless defense of its monopoly on
electricity sales and its reluctance to allow other customers to use PPAs outside the narrow confines of a pilot program.
Finally, Henry phoned Gray at the White House and wondered aloud if it might be possible to order the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a federally owned
electricity provider, to start
buying allowances to compensate for emissions from its coal - fired power plants.
«There are many sources of renewables: hydro, solar wind, or methane and with the funding to our local power
provider, they are able to
buy that energy but [also] create a local marketplace for additional generators of that clean
electricity,» said Carney.
Aggregating groups can
buy directly from
electricity providers, or they can push the savings envelope by dealing with power brokers, which
buy even larger volumes of
electricity for resale.