Sentences with phrase «electricity companies make»

Demanding plans for power cuts: In the US, electricity companies make money helping their customers to use less power.

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Looking at the bigger picture, Anheuser - Busch's parent company, AB InBev, has made a commitment to securing 100 percent of its purchased electricity from renewable sources by the year 2025.
SunPower has argued that its premium - priced panels, which are among the most efficient in the industry at transforming sunlight into electricity, should receive an exemption from the tariffs because their unique technology can not be compared with that of more conventional models, including those made by the companies that sought the tariffs, Suniva and SolarWorld.
When making a smart product, companies would do well to focus on ways to save the customer money — either by helping save water or electricity or by alerting the customer to discounts via coupons or sales.
• Elliott Management Corp, is making an offer of $ 18.5 billion for Oncor Electric Delivery Company, a Dallas, Texas - based regulated electricity transmission and distribution company, according to RCompany, a Dallas, Texas - based regulated electricity transmission and distribution company, according to Rcompany, according to Reuters.
It acquired such companies as Edison Mission Energy and Alta Wind, making it one of the largest retail electricity providers in the U.S., and which had the added benefit of coming with over half a million new customers.
Such serial cancellations «send a negative signal both to global manufacturers and Indian companies who are looking to diversify into lithium ion battery manufacturing,» Dash said, adding that «the Central Electricity Authority is considering regulation to make storage mandatory for large - scale solar projects ranging between 100 and 200 MW.»
Perhaps even better, the investment he made into an electricity company is paying his electricity bill, and more besides!
That makes the company, based near Montreal, a major consumer of electricity.
But the Lovins have shown electric utility companies that they can make a better profit if their customers use less electricity.
At the end of the day, being a sustainable company by using less electricity, gas, water and recycling makes good business sense.
They also give competitive advantage to certain businesses against others - so, certain «green» businesses get preferential tax treatment compared to, say, traditional energy companies, thus making it more profitable to engage in, say, wind energy than in building other means of generating electricity.
«Gas and electricity companies have attempted to make «completely unacceptable» claims for nearly # 1billion in tax breaks they should not be entitled to, George Osborne said.
The Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo) remains persistent with its increment demands made to the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC)...
This is because the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has explained that the reduction will only reflect on the bills of consumers when they make their second purchase of credit for electricityElectricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has explained that the reduction will only reflect on the bills of consumers when they make their second purchase of credit for electricityelectricity for April.
«The electricity generation and the electricity distribution companies are also advised to look into the power voltage made available to customers to prevent power surge resulting from high voltage which could cause an outbreak of fire.
Utilities such as electricity and water were dealt with by government, with payments were made to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo), and the Ghana Water Company Limielectricity and water were dealt with by government, with payments were made to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo), and the Ghana Water Company LimiElectricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo), and the Ghana Water Company LimiElectricity Distribution Company (NEDCo), and the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL).
We've got ta have a public energy system — not rely on companies motivated by private profit who make more money when they sell more electricity or fuel.
As the company's name suggests, Kuttner expected to rely on electricity (and indeed, two electric two - seaters, the Wave II from Li - ion Motors and the E-Tracer 7009, made by X-Tracer, took $ 2.5 million each in the other two X Prize categories).
«We found that having a patent in storage technology made companies more likely to apply for another patent, either in renewable electricity generation technology or in efficiency - improving technology in fossil fuels.»
An analysis of the worm by computer security company Symantec makes it abundantly clear that a few lines of malicious computer code can trip electricity grids, burn out power - station generators, pollute water supplies and sabotage gas...
«This process can help landfills make plenty of electricity to turn a profit by selling it back to the electric company
The company is doing enough business in such fuel cells for backup electricity, for example, that it makes sense, according to spokesman Daniel Pepitone.
The company, based in Siracusa, already makes small electric cars, electric tourist trains, boats and mobility vehicles for the disabled, so it at least knows a thing or two about electricity.
A customer is able to write a check or make a payment to an outside vendor, such as a grocery store, electricity company or other outside individual, with one of their designated payment tools.
In fact, many of these companies supply the energy used to make electricity.
After crunching some numbers, running some tests and making some (fairly safe) assumptions, user SanDiegoDave100 over at Motley Fool is able to make a pretty good case for using a solar power system to provide electricity for his home and an all - electric car like the forthcoming Tesla Roadster or the company's more affordable second and third models.
So if the world moves toward a system for tracking emissions, who is responsible for a particular batch of carbon dioxide — the company that mined and sold the coal, the power plant that burned it, the consumer who buys the exported widget made with the electricity generated by that combustion, or...?
Improvements in electricity transmission made companies» proximity to Niagara Falls increasingly irrelevant.
Company officials said they planned to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in projects that aim to make nonpolluting technologies for generating electricity competitive with what has been the norm for the last 100 years — burning black rocks.
The audience was similarly made up of likely buyers of emissions credits (Stanwell and other electricity generators), sellers (geothermal and other carbon - free sources) and intermediaries (accounting companies, consulting engineers and so on).
G2 Energy, one of a small number of companies in the UK authorised to make new grid connections to the country's electricity transmission and distribution networks, claims it has now surpassed the 100MW mark of battery projects worked on, as it announced the completion of connection works at a new 29MW battery storage facility in Kent, southern England.
In its place, the work of innovation to decrease energy consumption is taken up by researchers and startups with many promising solutions like biofuel paved future roads that are cheaper than petroleum, sustainable and environmental friendly, or the creation of high speed system of transportation that runs on air and electricity, made by a company called HyperLoop.
SONY Sony is instrumental in prompting an increase in a wider range of renewable electricity use by numerous leading Japanese companies through its Green Power Certification System, making it a renewable energy leader.
Brian Paganini is vice president of Quantum Biopower, a Connecticut company that uses a process called «anaerobic digestion» to make electricity out of food waste.
«We make (our product) with electricity, we bake it with gas, we refrigerate and freeze it with electricity and we distribute it with gas and oil,» said McArthur, who said he worries that high prices could cost his company up to $ 15,000 a year in an industry with a very tight margin for profit.
Industry is consuming 29TWh of electricity they made themselves from waste heat recovery power facilities, which are not tracked by electricity companies.
The preferential tariff — the price that China's two state - owned electricity transmission and distribution companies will pay energy companies for their solar power — aims to make solar power competitive against traditional fuels, such as coal, which accounts for two - thirds of China's electricity.
Anything that raises the cost of electricity makes all of the companies that sell electricity higher profits.
According to company officials, the hike is needed to «comply with EPA environmental improvements to reduce polluting emissions from coal - fired plants, make up for a decline in demand for electricity from commercial and industrial users, and cover rising costs of health care for the utility's employees.»
The individual consumer could then use their consumer power and choose whether they are prepared to support (be a customer) with a company which is potentially making most of its money from Fossil fuels or Nuclear but then adds a large amount to invest in renewable energy OR not be associated with companies which deal in fossil fuel based electricity at all: i.e. not supporting = not being part of the problem philosophy — OR any cross-over between the two.
Therefore, having committed to being a carbon neutral company in 2020, it only makes sense to also strive for sourcing 100 % of electricity from renewable sources in the same year.»
The results are (a) widespread destruction of our former green and pleasant land, (b) higher electricity bills, (c) windfarm companies making pots of money.
The details, that make Tobis think this one is real enough that its failure will amount to «the party of free marketry» «find [ing] some excuse to bend their principles just this once», are essential, and should get a few words in it, not just out along the links — and if they are out there somewhere, it's not in the first, Sierra Club link, which says a Texas power line company can't legally use the battery but does not say an electricity generator couldn't.
The session answered some basic questions with regards to technical criteria and other guidance, as well as documents for assisting companies to make credible renewable electricity consumption claims, as part of the RE100 campaign.
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.
Carbon capture experts say two important projects will open soon in North America: the Southern Company's Kemper County plant in Mississippi, which will burn coal to make electricity and provide carbon dioxide for oil recovery, and the Boundary Dam coal plant in Saskatchewan, which will do the same.
Policy visibility, certainty and stability are also vital for companies to make long - term decisions about their electricity supply.
To that end, it is first necessary to make it mandatory for power utility companies and retail electricity suppliers to disclose the breakdown of their electricity rates and energy mix.
The campaign's website showcases PPS companies that sell power generated from renewable energy in each region and encourages electricity users to make a «power shift» declaration and choose a PPS company that prioritizes renewable energy.
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