Sentences with phrase «cheaper energy bills»

The benefit for the householder is that there is no upfront cost, the solar energy system is free, and they immediately benefit from using a renewable energy source in addition to considerably cheaper energy bills.

In this volatile house market, buyers respond well to the prospect of cheaper energy bills than in a similar house without panels.

Not exact matches

In a statement, transport minister Paul Maynard said it could help make vehicles more energy - efficient and save costs: «Advances such as lorry platooning could benefit businesses through cheaper fuel bills and other road users thanks to lower emissions and less congestion.

On energy, about 24 million households will save about # 30 a year on bills due to a cheaper domestic energy efficiency scheme — but the Department of Energy and Climate Change is losing 22 % of its benergy, about 24 million households will save about # 30 a year on bills due to a cheaper domestic energy efficiency scheme — but the Department of Energy and Climate Change is losing 22 % of its benergy efficiency scheme — but the Department of Energy and Climate Change is losing 22 % of its bEnergy and Climate Change is losing 22 % of its budget.

Energy firms could also be forced to put details of cheaper tariffs on their bills, including those offered by rival firms.

We have increased our investment in measures to improve the energy efficiency of Scotland's homes which, in addition to making fuel bills cheaper, has also helped to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from housing, consistent with our ambitions to combat climate change.

In fact British energy is among the cheapest in Europe, though we have high bills because we use more gas central heating and because of our inefficient homes.

«While we're forcing energy companies to put their customers on their cheapest tariffs, Ed Miliband would introduce an energy policy that would add # 125 to the typical household's bill,» he said.

Among her plans of what she'd like to accomplish once elected: Promote / support bills in Congress that adopt clean sources of energy by helping to end the intricate system of public subsidies that keep dirty sources of energy artificially cheap, and promote renewable sources: solar, wind, and hydro; Protect waterways / drinking supply by reducing the risk of contamination and ensure that when contamination is found, the responsible parties are held accountable; Fight for public financing of elections; Work every day to overturn Citizens United.

ENERGY Secretary Greg Clark confessed yesterday that he had never switched suppliers to get cheaper gas and electricity bills because «it's quite a hassle».

«Cheaper energy is on the list of three to four things you would most want to happen for the poorest people in the world,» former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates noted.

«Certainly for the next several decades, the majority of electricity will be generated by fossil fuels in a fairly conventional way,» says Bill Moomaw, an international energy policy expert at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, primarily because it is cheap and readily available.

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It's still worth talking to your landlord to see if they'll switch to a cheaper supplier — after all, they'll get to pay less on energy bills too.

Yeloha, which bills itself as a peer - to - peer solar sharing network, will allow anyone to receive the benefits of solar energy at home through the purchase of a solar subscription, which is said to be cheaper than the cost of electricity from their utility.

And for the first time, 20 governments and a passel of billionaires led by Bill Gates announced plans to ramp up long - lagging investments in basic research and development on clean energy — like advancing cheap, extensive battery storage to maximize the potential of solar power, safer nuclear plant designs and even technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

This is by far the fastest, easiest, and cheapest way to reduce our energy consumption — and it will save us $ 130 billion on our energy bills.

[W] ith the inability of the Connecticut House to pass a bill that would have allowed the state's only nuclear power plant, Millstone, to compete on equal footing with cheap natural gas and heavily subsidized renewables earlier this month, Connecticut is now in danger of losing its largest source of zero - carbon energy.

We work to lower energy bills, reduce flooding, improve access to healthier food, and make it cheaper and easier for everyone to get around.

Founder Bill Gross says the company can produce power from solar thermal plants cheaper than competitors like BrightSource Energy, although BrightSource and others use very similar mirrors and towers.

Rupert Newland, chief executive at Arenko Group, said: «Arenko's new battery system will provide much needed flexibility to the UK grid, reducing waste and helping to make energy bills cheaper for households and businesses.

There is ample evidence in the UK of increasing fuel poverty (i.e., household spending over 10 % of disposable income keeping warm in winter) in the regions of wind farm deployment where higher electricity bills are needed to cover the rent of the land (from usually already rich) landowners, a direct reversal of the process whereby cheap energy over the last century has lifted a significant fraction of the world's poor from their poverty.

To comply with state Senate Bill SB X1 - 2 of 2011, by state Sen. Joe Simitian, D - Palo Alto, the California Energy Commission studied whether importing cheap hydropower from British Columbia would meet California's stringent renewable power criteria.

To break the deadlock stalling the transition to clean energy technologies in the United States and around the world, at minimum, direct federal funding for energy R&D of the scale that Bill Gates advocates — $ 16 billion per year — is necessary to make clean energy cheap.

In terms of the wider issues, you could argue that the level of concern about energy bills is an argument for prioritising investment in the cheapest renewables, as they give the biggest bang for their buck.

Because the earth (mother earth, or Gaia, to all you tree hugger freaks) knows what we want, and what is best for us, and what is best is our nice Goldilocks climate that supports the inviolate and constitutionally protected right to cheap, atmosphere changing fossil fuels even though said usage essentially reverses 10s of millions of years of earth lower atmosphere affecting energy balances within a mere speck of time) and not you eco fools who want to harm the poor (something climate change would never do, bill gates and the world's leading scientists and thinkers and economists are fools to even think it — climate change will affect the wealthy) just to give the even more power over our individual lives.

But cheap energy is at least good for economic growth and for household bills.

Real soon now we'll have those portable thorium reactors that make energy so cheap your monthly electricity bill will be about same as a latte at Starbucks.

Cheap natural gas lowers energy bills.

Utility customers in states such as Hawaii, California, Massachusetts, and New York — where electricity is the most expensive — see faster returns than those in cheap - energy states such as Idaho and Washington, especially in places where the local utility allows residential meters to spin backward, sending excess energy to the grid and lowering power bills in the process.

Americans are paying through the nose on their tax returns and health bills to help Big Oil and the political elite maintain the illusion that cheap, dirty energy is a bargain.

Could this premium be justified because utility bills paid by a tenant should be cheaper, or could potential tenants negotiate with landlords for lower rents if the property has a low energy rating?

on the other hand i use the cheaper tuff led bulbs, they are brighter than those big expensive companies at half the price and also surprisingly more reliable since i use their energy savers working since 2006... the difference on your electric bills wont be noticable since most ppl use energy savers and replacing them does nt save alot, these giant companies are just eating our money the new way.

For those that don't, fitting a draught excluder, which you can buy from most DIY stores, is a quick and cheap way to cut down on your energy bills.