Sentences with phrase «buy electricity energy»

Not exact matches

Put simply, for every kilowatt hour of electricity the company used in 2017, it bought a kilowatt hour of renewable energy from a solar or wind farm built specifically for Google.

This follows on from a 2016 announcement that the business was on target to buy enough renewable energy to «match» electricity usage.

To find out if your existing office equipment and anything else that uses electricity is being an energy hog, buy a device that enables you to monitor energy usage.

And with clean energy investment globally hitting a record - breaking US$ 367 billion last year — nearly 50 per cent more than was invested in fossil - fuelled electricity — it's a great time to buy into this particular market.

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

But then my dad mentioned how much we would save on our electricity bill in the long run if we bought an energy efficient front loading washer and dryer.

The ACCC will allow businesses in the Eastern Energy Buying Group to establish a joint energy purchasing group and run joint tender processes for electricity and gas for 11Energy Buying Group to establish a joint energy purchasing group and run joint tender processes for electricity and gas for 11energy purchasing group and run joint tender processes for electricity and gas for 11 years

More than US$ 1.18 billion is needed this year to buy fuel required to fire thermal power plants in order for the country to meet its electricity demands, Ghana's energy outlook report has said.

The budget proposes to end a sales - tax exemption for commercial transmission and distribution of gas or electricity bought from energy service companies.

For a second year in a row, the PSC has deeply slashed the amount of renewable energy that utility companies are forced to buy under Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear penergy that utility companies are forced to buy under Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear pEnergy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear plants.

Of course, copper is the primary metal used around the world to move electricity and that's a route Hochschild followed as well, moving into energy products and, then, in 2003, starting to trade renewable energy credits — another government run market in chits that show a given electric utility has produced or bought a sufficient amount of electricity from renewable resources, such as the sun or wind, to meet a mandate.

If two - thirds of Fortune 100 companies want to buy electricity generated by off - site renewable energy sources this year, why hasn't more capacity been built?

A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

Thirty - eight universities buy green electricity from the grid (of which eight buy 100 per cent green energy), while 37 generate some of their electricity on - site, and the number with CHP installed is also 37.

The less electricity you need to buy in from the grid, the lower your energy bills will be.

I ask, how is getting into alt energy and living off the grid, or buying a Chevy Volt and plugging into $ 100 wind - generated electricity (we just got our Volt!!!)

In the story on appliances, various experts told Alina Tugend that the energy and materials costs of manufacturing an appliance to begin with have to be weighed against the long - term savings from buying a new one that uses less electricity.

In the Maryland suburbs of Washington DC, I buy 100 % wind - generated electricity through PEPCO Energy Services, and it is only slightly more expensive than PEPCO's «standard service» which is about 57 % coal, 35 % nuclear, 5 % natural gas, and 1 % oil.

The utility has an agreement with BrightSource Energy to buy electricity from a planned suite of solar - thermal power plants — arrays of mirrors that heat fluid to drive turbines — with a total capacity of 1,300 megawatts.

The tech giant says it plans to buy enough wind and solar electricity to power all of its operations, including data centers and offices, as well as invest in the creation of new renewable energy sources.

Such industries could buckle under the inflated costs of electricity, which could end up more expensive than the electricity bought from the joint Nordic «pool», says Stephen Thomas, professor of energy policy at the University of Greenwich.

In addition, New Jersey, in common with many other states, allows homeowners to get credit for their solar electricity at retail prices while the energy being replaced could have been bought by the utility at much lower wholesale prices, a subsidy called net metering.

Companies that want to help customers install on - site solar facilities by using PPAs have argued that this section clearly permits customers to buy solar electricity from third party suppliers when their utility doesn't offer a renewable energy tariff.

BEIJING (Reuters)- A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

Google is already well known for putting its significant power behind clean energy technologies, including their work in solar power, wind energy investments and their data centers being powered by hydro - electricity, which lead to the creation of Google Energy, a company that has federal support to sell and buy electrenergy technologies, including their work in solar power, wind energy investments and their data centers being powered by hydro - electricity, which lead to the creation of Google Energy, a company that has federal support to sell and buy electrenergy investments and their data centers being powered by hydro - electricity, which lead to the creation of Google Energy, a company that has federal support to sell and buy electrEnergy, a company that has federal support to sell and buy electricity.

Community solar is an efficient and affordable new model of solar energy that allows participants to buy a fraction of the electricity generated at large off - site solar facilities.

Under DFL control, the state Legislature authorized community solar gardens in 2013 and mandated that Xcel Energy buy the power the gardens generate, as part of a plan to increase the electricity Minnesotans get from renewable resources.

Buying green energy is more environmentally effective if you live in a place like Alberta, where the electricity is fossil - intensive, and less effective in British Columbia, where each kilowatt - hour produces more than 100 times fewer emissions than a kilowatt hour in Alberta.

When the electricity generated by your solar energy system is more than you use in your home, the energy gets exported back to the grid and your utility buys the excess electricity from you at a couple cents per kilowatt hour.

Each dollar spent on a new reactor buys about two to ten times less carbon savings and is 20 to 40 times slower, than spending that dollar on the cheaper, faster, safer solutions that make nuclear power unnecessary and uneconomic: efficient use of electricity, making heat and power together in factories or buildings («cogeneration»), and renewable energy.

¶ Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative signed a power purchase agreement with EDP Renewables to buy electricity from a yet - to - be-completed 200 - MW solar project in Indiana.

Our Best Buys for green electricity and gas tariffs are Ecotricity and Good Energy, as both of these companies do something that makes a difference to the world.

And unlike the electricity industry, in which market forces have pushed utilities toward cleaner energy, including natural gas and renewable sources, relatively low gasoline prices in recent years have led consumers to pay less attention to fuel economy when they buy new cars.

Updated 2016: Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems turn sunlight into electricity for your home or business — so you don't have to buy all your energy from the utility.

For example, procurement of renewable energy electricity from Japan's Feed - in Tariff system (FIT electricity) is going to become more expensive due to revisions in the ways costs are calculated, and starting in April 2017, it will be mandatory to buy FIT eletricity from transmission and distribution companies.

Next Kraftwerke is a certified member of the EPEX energy exchange, allowing it to buy and sell the electricity generation from within its profile as well as the ability to quickly ramp up or down energy generation on the demand side of the equation.

c. Mandated «Green Energy» programs in 4 states that force distribution utilities to buy electricity from «renewable» energy sources and make it available to their custEnergy» programs in 4 states that force distribution utilities to buy electricity from «renewable» energy sources and make it available to their custenergy sources and make it available to their customers.

The premium prices help utilities cover the higher cost of the electricity they buy from «renewable» energy facilities and for the utilitiesí costs of administering «green» energy programs.

The tech giant has reached its 100 percent renewable energy goal of buying enough renewable energy each year, through power purchase agreements and other means, to match the amount of electricity that its data centers, offices and other operations use.

Pittsburgh is a US Department of Energy «Solar America City» and manages the Western PA Energy Consortium, a region - wide energy cost and consumption reduction program that has bought at least 25 percent of its electricity needs from green soEnergy «Solar America City» and manages the Western PA Energy Consortium, a region - wide energy cost and consumption reduction program that has bought at least 25 percent of its electricity needs from green soEnergy Consortium, a region - wide energy cost and consumption reduction program that has bought at least 25 percent of its electricity needs from green soenergy cost and consumption reduction program that has bought at least 25 percent of its electricity needs from green sources.

PG&E and Finavera kept quiet on some contract details, including the length of time the utility would buy energy and for how much, but said the contract calls for Finavera to deliver electricity from the project by 2010 after a permitting process expected to take two to three years.

When Whole Foods Markets (Research) announced in January that it would buy all of its electricity from wind farms, making itself the corporate world's largest consumer of renewable energy, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman called them «the most patriotic company in America.»

Most of the New Yorkers surveyed said they are willing to buy compact fluorescent light bulbs (71 percent), spend $ 5 more a month for electricity produced from renewable energy sources (68 percent), make their views on global warming clear to politicians (67 percent), use less air - conditioning (66 percent) and turn down their thermostat in the winter (60 percent).

A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

Merely by choosing to buy this, you are immediately and directly investing in the renewable energy industry, and sending a powerful and undeniable message to those who matter, the people who actually generate electricity, not environmentalists or politicians who may have different agenda.

«Where we don't produce our own green energy, we can buy third party renewable energy certificates with guarantees of origin, which is what we do in Western Europe to cover any electricity not originating from our own renewable sources.»

The electricity from renewable energy power stations is generally more expensive than from fossil - fuelled power stations, so electricity retailers have to have incentives to buy renewable energy.

For an added price, you can often choose to buy green energy over conventionally - derived energy from your electricity utility company.

House Bill 589 was also designed to spur a wave of rooftop solar and give universities and other large electricity users new pathways to buy clean energy.

Daniel T. Schwartz, Director of the University of Washington's Clean Energy Institute, said a commitment to renewable energy by major companies like Starbucks will ultimately impact the cost of clean electricity across the board: «Everyone responsible for building a clean energy system — from the people that permit the project to the engineers and construction labor that builds it — learn from each project, so the more renewable energy generation facilities that get built in the US., the cheaper they get for everyone else to buy and use.&Energy Institute, said a commitment to renewable energy by major companies like Starbucks will ultimately impact the cost of clean electricity across the board: «Everyone responsible for building a clean energy system — from the people that permit the project to the engineers and construction labor that builds it — learn from each project, so the more renewable energy generation facilities that get built in the US., the cheaper they get for everyone else to buy and use.&energy by major companies like Starbucks will ultimately impact the cost of clean electricity across the board: «Everyone responsible for building a clean energy system — from the people that permit the project to the engineers and construction labor that builds it — learn from each project, so the more renewable energy generation facilities that get built in the US., the cheaper they get for everyone else to buy and use.&energy system — from the people that permit the project to the engineers and construction labor that builds it — learn from each project, so the more renewable energy generation facilities that get built in the US., the cheaper they get for everyone else to buy and use.&energy generation facilities that get built in the US., the cheaper they get for everyone else to buy and use.»