Sentences with phrase «electricity standard bill»

One bill that could reach the Senate floor in a lame - duck session is the Bingaman - Brownback renewable electricity standard bill, S. 3813.

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Night lights use far less electricity than your standard ceiling light, which is evident in your energy bills.

Not sure what your motives are but you're way off on the replacement electricity and by your standards we should all brace for blackouts and higher utility bills.

The report was released today as lawmakers negotiate over whether to scale back the renewable electricity standard in the bill sponsored by Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D - Calif.)

The bill's major provisions would, among other things, impose a national renewable electricity standard, overhaul federal financing for «clean energy» projects, establish a suite of efficiency measures, mandate new federal electricity - transmission siting power, and allow wider oil and gas leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

The original Energy Bill passed in the House by a margin of 235 - 181 had called for a national Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) that would require Investor Owned Utilities to produce 15 % of their electricity from Renewable Sources by 2020.

«I am an independent advocate for affordable electricity for all rate classes, and an electricity market and policy analyst,» Stacy said in his April 2014 testimony on the bill that froze Ohio's renewable energy standard.

Savings from the bill could have been much improved by strengthening the combined efficiency and renewable electricity standard to require utilities to reduce electricity demand by 10 % by 2020.

Grassley said that the Senate is likely to take up an energy bill, perhaps including a renewable electricity standard, but not the controversial emissions reduction system approved last year by the House but left undone by the Senate.

This will reduce your energy bill, as you will be paying monthly for the solar panels instead of your standard utility bill for otherwise generated electricity.

Shifting to the highly efficient bulbs sharply reduces monthly electricity bills and cuts carbon emissions, since each standard (13 watt) compact fluorescent over its lifetime reduces coal use by more than 210 pounds.

``... having such a [renewable] standard in energy legislation will ultimately increase consumers» electricity bills.»

Most likely the «renewable electricity standard» (as Congress prefers to call it) will be part of a comprehensive energy bill that contains provisions on everything from the «smart grid» to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

On Monday, the California Legislature will vote on a bill to raise California's Renewable Portfolio Standard, potentially requiring 33 percent of electricity generated by the state's utilities to come from renewable resources by 2020.

* The «Losers» include: * Electricity consumers who are forced to bear higher costs of electricity when the use of wind energy and other renewables is mandated by a state - imposed «Renewable Portfolio Standard» or who must pay «public benefits charges» (which is really just another tax added to taxpayer utility bills) imposed on electElectricity consumers who are forced to bear higher costs of electricity when the use of wind energy and other renewables is mandated by a state - imposed «Renewable Portfolio Standard» or who must pay «public benefits charges» (which is really just another tax added to taxpayer utility bills) imposed on electelectricity when the use of wind energy and other renewables is mandated by a state - imposed «Renewable Portfolio Standard» or who must pay «public benefits charges» (which is really just another tax added to taxpayer utility bills) imposed on electricityelectricity use.

The Low Carbon Portfolio Standard bill backed by Exelon would have required the state's electric utilities to purchase credits from low - carbon energy sources, including nuclear energy, to match 70 % of the electricity used on the distribution system.

Horner testified before the Kansas legislature on February 12 to encourage the false notion that the renewable energy portfolio standard is going to make consumer electricity bills skyrocket (again, there is no correlation between state RPS laws and electricity prices).

This analysis also demonstrates that improving the energy efficiency provisions in ACES by including a stand - alone energy efficiency resource standard (EERS) requiring 10 % cumulative savings by 2020 (instead of the ACES Combined Efficiency and Renewable Electricity Standard, or CERES), directing one - third of electric local distribution company allowances to energy efficiency, and sustaining State Energy and Environmental Development funding at 9.5 % of allowance revenue through 2030 provides significant additional consumer savings and carbon reductions and creates more jobs than the originstandard (EERS) requiring 10 % cumulative savings by 2020 (instead of the ACES Combined Efficiency and Renewable Electricity Standard, or CERES), directing one - third of electric local distribution company allowances to energy efficiency, and sustaining State Energy and Environmental Development funding at 9.5 % of allowance revenue through 2030 provides significant additional consumer savings and carbon reductions and creates more jobs than the originStandard, or CERES), directing one - third of electric local distribution company allowances to energy efficiency, and sustaining State Energy and Environmental Development funding at 9.5 % of allowance revenue through 2030 provides significant additional consumer savings and carbon reductions and creates more jobs than the original bill.

Over its lifetime, each standard (13 watt) CFL will reduce electricity bills by roughly $ 30.

Not only will the bill not contain any restrictions on greenhouse gases — not even a watered - down utility - only cap — it won't even contain the two other key policies that would have moved clean energy forward: the Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) and the energy efficiency standards.

The bill's renewable electricity standard is another component that may be weakened.

This year, a vote on a renewable electricity standard was blocked during the Senate's energy bill debate.Representative Tom Udall (D - N.M.), the amendment's lead sponsor in the House called the vote «a great victory for the planet.»

ACEEE's analysis of this legislation demonstrates that improving the energy efficiency provisions in ACESA by including a stand - alone energy efficiency resource standard (EERS) requiring 10 % cumulative savings by 2020 (instead of the ACESA Combined Efficiency and Renewable Electricity Standard, or CERES), directing one - third of electric local distribution company allowances to energy efficiency, and sustaining State Energy and Environmental Development funding at 9.5 % of allowance revenue through 2030 provides significant additional consumer savings and carbon reductions and creates more jobs than the originstandard (EERS) requiring 10 % cumulative savings by 2020 (instead of the ACESA Combined Efficiency and Renewable Electricity Standard, or CERES), directing one - third of electric local distribution company allowances to energy efficiency, and sustaining State Energy and Environmental Development funding at 9.5 % of allowance revenue through 2030 provides significant additional consumer savings and carbon reductions and creates more jobs than the originStandard, or CERES), directing one - third of electric local distribution company allowances to energy efficiency, and sustaining State Energy and Environmental Development funding at 9.5 % of allowance revenue through 2030 provides significant additional consumer savings and carbon reductions and creates more jobs than the original bill.

Climate Bill Analysis, Part 7: Renewable Electricity Standard Severely Weakened; May Have Little to No Impact