Sentences with phrase «from electricity consumers»

From electricity consumers, who can obtain electricity from our future solar farms, but also from potential customers, who want to both consume and generate electricity from solar power,» he said.

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NDP environment critic Peter Tabuns welcomed the import of more clean power from Quebec, but said the impact on consumers» electricity bills and the actual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the agreement will be minuscule.

Consumers would likely enjoy lower power bills if provincial governments welcomed more private investment in electricity utilities, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.

For commercial electricity consumers, sourcing renewable power can lock in future savings from technologies whose fuel — wind, sun, water, biomass and the earth's heat — is free.

While the Ontario government's recently updated long - term energy plan said the province's industrial electricity consumers currently face prices lower than that of the average for the Great Lakes region, the plan also showed that the cost will rise to $ 116 per megawatt hour by 2035, a nearly 40 per cent increase from the projected 2017 price of $ 83 per megawatt hour.

They can support sustainable energy sources for home electricity — and move away from fossil fuels — by signing up for «Make the Switch,» a partnership between Mass Audubon and the nonprofit Massachusetts Energy Consumers Alliance (Mass Energy).

On the basis of these interventions, if government recommendations to PURC are accepted, consumers will be expected to benefit from reductions in electricity tariffs.

The restructuring of VRA will also enable the use of cheap electricity from legacy hydro to support government subsidy objectives to a targeted category of consumers in a transparent manner.

Residential consumers of electricity will from today [1st April 2018] pay 15 percent less than the tariff they previously paid.

Ends Notes to editors: A European Supergrid is an electricity network that could connect generators and consumers from as far apart as Norway down to North Africa.

«LIPA ratepayers are still paying among the highest costs for electricity in the nation,» DiNapoli said, «The recent survey from the consumer satisfaction perspective shows that Long Islanders are still unhappy with the service.»

«These are the first investments from our reforms to build the world's first low carbon electricity market - reforms which will see competition and markets attract tens of billions of pounds of vital energy investment whilst reducing the costs of clean energy to consumers.

«If government recommendations to Public Utility and Regulatory Commission (PURC) are accepted, consumers will be expected to benefit from reductions in electricity tariffs,» he said.

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Most of New Jersey's electricity comes from in - state producers or states not in RGGI, so there is little issue about consumers continuing to pay for the program through out - of - state utility surcharges if New Jersey departs, the official said.

Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more power than a household uses — required a decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the grid, and from the grid to consumers.

«In terms of consumer ownership and use costs, the case to make a switch from current fuels to compressed natural gas (CNG) is much more compelling than for other alternative fuels like ethanol and electricity.»

And, ultimately, electricity harvested from the wind may be the cheapest form of electricity generation, saving money for consumers.

Moniz notes that just 0.1 cent per kilowatt - hour of electricity and 2 cents per gallon of transportation fuels would yield about $ 8 billion per year, although such surcharges would need to be developed «with collaboration from industry and consumers.

Its members include many big American producers and consumers of coal, oil and electricity — such as Dow Chemicals and the National Coal Association — all of whom might suffer from controls on emissions of carbon dioxide.

Over the years, consumers have learned to expect electricity on demand from power plants that run on coal, natural gas or oil.

Jiang Kejun, a researcher from the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that power producers in China face difficulties in passing along their emissions costs to fossil fuel consumers, due to the country's fixed electricity prices.

With dynamic pricing, provided from the power market and smart meters, installed by utility companies it is now possible for consumers to sell electricity back to the grid and trade it like a typical commodity.

What I'd like to know is, taking all of these factors into account, how much extra we, the consumers, will have to pay for a kilowatt - hour of coal - fired electricity 5, 10, 20 and 30 years from now (a point in time which even WV's own Nick Rahall says will be when the most productive coal seams have been mined out) because our leaders today decided to facilitate an increase in the consumption of coal through the laughably mis - named «climate bill.»

That means, for a coal plant, we'd have to burn — and so pay for — an extra 10 - 40 % more coal with CCS than we would without it, and the electricity from that extra energy / coal consumed is not available to consumers for electricity.

Powered by a 1900 mAh battery, Honor frees consumers from the inconvenience of searching for an electricity source, allowing them to share and connect for up to three days on a single charge — the longest battery life among smartphones in the 4 - inch screen range.

This completely ignores the considerable increase in industrial aerosols from the 1940s on with 1) The War and 2) The consumer and electricity generation revolutions!

This year, a renewable surcharge on private consumer electricity bills rose to a record 5.28 cents / kWh, up 50 % from 2012, 3.530 cents / kWh in 2011, and 2.407 cents / kWh in 2010.

Using data from the province's electricity market operator, this joint study by Energy Probe and Consumer Policy Institute1 estimates that at least $ 1.7 billion in wind subsidies have been given to wind farm operators in Ontario since 2006, the earliest date for data.

Under the Renewable Obligation (RO), suppliers have to buy a percentage of their electricity from renewable generators and can hand that cost on to consumers.

Then we want to be able to have ordinary consumers sell back the electricity that's generated from those car batteries, back into the grid.

Ontario's achievement from its hasty decision was an increase in electricity prices for its consumers.

Indeed, the introduction of competition for all electricity and gas consumers has been brought forward from 2007 to 2004.

By using a wind turbine to produce most of, or all of the electricity they need, consumers can protect themselves from future increases in the cost of utility - provided electricity.

The Supreme Court found that Order 745 was built upon Order 719, which required that wholesale market operators receive demand response bids from aggregators of electricity consumers except when state regulation bars such participation.

There was some bad news for Drax recently as the UK government decided that biomass subsidies would not keep climbing as the «carbon price floor» — levied on fossil fuel production (and due to rise further)-- on electricity consumption has caused a backlash from manufacturers, consumer groups and energy suppliers who are concerned that the «tax will push up prices, make the UK uncompetitive and force the premature closure of coal - fired power plants, increasing the risk of blackouts.»

Last month the chairman of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board's Natural Gas Subcommittee noted in the Washington Post that increased supplies from shale «has meant, since 2009, that consumers» costs of natural gas to heat homes or generate electricity have fallen by more than half.»

All inherently acknowledge that growing U.S. oil and gas production can continue benefiting American consumers, businesses and manufacturers with affordable, reliable energy that supports economic growth and strengthens U.S. security — while playing the major role in U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation fall to their lowest levels in nearly 30 years.

While consumers in the neighboring states benefit from lower electricity costs, California's ratepayers are footing the bill for the utility generators that produce the power.

The first phase of the EU ETS — from 2005 to 2007 — drew criticism for not achieving substantial cuts in emissions, excessive allowance price volatility and for resulting in windfall profits for some utility firms that received carbon allowances for free but were able to pass through their full cost to consumers in the form of higher electricity prices.

There is evidence that the Midwest is steadily decarbonizing its electricity generation through a combination of new state - level policies (for example, energy efficiency and renewable energy standards) and will continue to do so in response to low natural gas prices, falling prices for renewable electricity (for example, wind and solar), greater market demand for lower - carbon energy from consumers, and new EPA regulations governing new power plants.

The results echo a similar study undertaken by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, which found that Americans «support setting strict limits on carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal - fired plants,» by a nearly 2 - to - 1 margin — «even if the cost of electricity to consumers and companies increases.»

California will soon receive 50 percent of its electricity from renewable energy sources thanks to a state law passed in 2015, and wind power will continue to play a significant role in the California energy supply, locking in additional consumer savings by 2030.

The policy is expected to create an incentive for consumers to switch to suppliers of carbon - free electricity or invest in onsite generation from renewable sources.

Perhaps most importantly, however, the energy reform transferred power from the traditional utility companies to some of those same private consumers who are paying those high electricity prices:

Metric bias results in more stringent gas water - heater standards despite the fact that life - cycle energy losses for natural gas are only about 10 percent of its usable energy (from the point of wellhead extraction to the consumers» utility meter) versus 70 percent for electricity.

Subtitle B: Disposition of Allowances -(Sec. 321) Amends the CAA to set forth provisions governing the disposition of emission allowances, including specifying allocations: (1) for supplemental emissions reductions from reduced deforestation; (2) for the benefit of electricity, natural gas, and / or home heating oil and propane consumers; (3) for auction, with proceeds for the benefit of low income consumers and worker investment; (4) to energy - intensive, trade - exposed industries; (5) for the deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technology; (6) to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy; (7) to be distributed to Energy Innovation Hubs and advanced energy research; (8) to invest in the development and deployment of clean vehicles; (9) to domestic petroleum refineries and small business refiners; (10) for domestic and international adaptation; (11) for domestic wildlife and natural resource adaptation; and (12) for international clean technology deployment.

(Sec. 133) Requires the Secretary to promulgate regulations establishing a program to distribute allowances to Indian tribes on a competitive basis for: (1) cost - effective energy efficiency programs for end - use consumers of electricity, natural gas, home heating oil, or propane; and (2) deployment of technologies to generate electricity from renewable energy resources.

A system based on price - responsive - load would be able to remove this insurance component from at least some of the electricity supply and thus provide lower prices to consumers without reducing income to generators.

Because sunlight is readily available almost everywhere and doesn't require fuel or a connection to a power grid (an interconnected network used to deliver electricity from suppliers to consumers), solar power is particularly useful for supplying power to remote areas and to some portable devices.