Sentences with phrase «energy at the household»

It's been great seeing in Kenya, for example, how solar energy at the household and micro-grid level really is coming in for modest energy needs like cell phone recharging, charging lights at night.

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Taking a closer look at saving trends, he argues that the surge in energy costs may have temporarily dampened saving, while the accounting of household income from stock holdings may be skewing saving estimates.

The newness and attention needed of opening a second studio, still finding time and energy to give love to the first, I have 5 little boys at home and a 6th baby on the way, a husband and household all needing attention — it's easy to feel pulled in every direction.

Looking at the sector - wide performance of Corporate America in the second quarter of this year, more than 80 percent of the companies in information technology, healthcare and the financial - services space reported higher than estimated EPS growth, closely followed by the consumer staples industry producing food, beverages, household articles, while about 60 - 70 percent of the companies listed under the energy, utilities and materials sectors reported better than expected EPS numbers.

With a passion for sustainability and extensive commercial experience working for companies such as RWE npower, Carillion and BskyB, Claire will lead Warm Zones in delivering energy efficiency and related services targeted at low income and vulnerable households.

The UK's leading fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA), which is this week launching its Warm Homes Campaign with energy company E.ON, will be publishing a report illustrating «The Many Faces of Fuel Poverty», showing the range of people that are impacted by living in cold homes, and offering strong practical information at a community and neighbourhood level on where households can get advice and help, including how to access grants for free home insulation, reduced energy tariffs and special payEnergy Action (NEA), which is this week launching its Warm Homes Campaign with energy company E.ON, will be publishing a report illustrating «The Many Faces of Fuel Poverty», showing the range of people that are impacted by living in cold homes, and offering strong practical information at a community and neighbourhood level on where households can get advice and help, including how to access grants for free home insulation, reduced energy tariffs and special payenergy company E.ON, will be publishing a report illustrating «The Many Faces of Fuel Poverty», showing the range of people that are impacted by living in cold homes, and offering strong practical information at a community and neighbourhood level on where households can get advice and help, including how to access grants for free home insulation, reduced energy tariffs and special payenergy tariffs and special payments.

The most recent official Government statistics, announced by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in June 2011, put the total number of households living in fuel poverty in the UK at 5.5 million in 2009 a rise of around 1 million when compared to 2008 and representing approximately 21 % of all UK households.

In the power and energy sector, 35 communities, he said, had been connected to the national grid, with streetlights installed at Bugri and Basyonde, 1,500 LPG cylinders and 200 solar lamps distributed among households as well as 17 corn - mill machines shared among all the electoral areas in the constituency.

Jenny Saunders OBE, Chief Executive of National Energy Action (NEA), the national fuel poverty charity and one of the award scheme judges said «Coordinated action at a local level is key to helping the estimated 2.2 million households in living in fuel poverty in our communities and there is a wealth of knowledge, experience and passion amongst not for profit organisations seeking to address this problem across England.

The Government has a commitment to eradicate fuel poverty in all UK households by 2016, however rising energy prices mean there are now around 1.5 million more households in fuel poverty than there were at this time last year.

· Reduce the cost of domestic energy bills for four million households — with a saving of at least # 270 per year for affected households.

«The health and wellbeing of thousands of very vulnerable households is being put at risk, and we urge the Government to urgently bring forward a new fuel poverty and energy efficiency programme funded through the VAT and other taxes the Government receives from energy bills and the energy sector.»

At the lower estimate, energy costs are only likely to vary by around # 51 per household.

SSE has ring - fenced Energy Company Obligation (ECO) eligible measures targeted at fuel poor and vulnerable households in Cornwall and is a key partner to delivering Warm and Well Cornwall.

«At the moment the only thing rising faster than household fuel bills are the profits of the energy companies.»

Governor Cuomo directed the State to engage community members, environmental advocates, and government partners at all levels to create the New York Offshore Wind Master Plan.2 Then, as part of his 2017 State of the State Address, Governor Cuomo set a nation - leading offshore wind energy development goal of 2,400 MW by 2030, enough to power up to 1.2 million New York households.

Eric Paulos at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and colleagues report in a new paper how, as part of a study of domestic energy consumption, they gave 12 US households gadgets called Kill A Watts that reveal the energy use of devices.

Vaporising household waste to create clean energy could solve two of humanity's biggest environmental problems at once.

Webber and co-author Robert Fares, a Cockrell School alumnus who is now an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, analyzed the impact of home energy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT AEnergy, analyzed the impact of home energy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT Aenergy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT Aenergy and smart technology company housed at UT Austin.

A mechanical engineer explains how reusing wastewater at the town and even household levels can save both water and energy

To understand how users interact with smart energy systems, a team of researchers from Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at Southampton and the University of Zurich produced three different smart thermostats that automated heating based on users» heating preferences and real - time price variations: a manual one through which participants explicitly specify how the heating should respond to price changes, and two learning - based ones that employed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to automate the temperature settings based on learned households» preferences.

«Smart thermostat puts energy money saving at household fingertips.»

Wider access to air conditioning (AC) could have prevented many deaths — but only 8 % of India's 249 million households have AC, Saurabh Diddi, director of India's Bureau of Energy Efficiency in New Delhi, noted at the World Sustainable Development Summit there last month.

Dietz led a study of household energy consumption, published online August 31, 2010, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, that looked at the effects of programs trying to influence energy use, many of which were very effective.

Surplus power can be fed into the public grid as well as be used for charging the household electric vehicle,» explains Dominik Noeren, a scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg.

In household refrigerators, for example, the heat exchanger at the back gets warm because the energy extracted from the objects inside is deposited there.

In the household energy and food and agriculture sectors, the proposal with the biggest impact on both climate change and public health was a 10 - year programme in India to replace 150 million indoor biomass - burning stoves with low - emissions cooking stoves, according to lead author Paul Wilkinson, also at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

«For decades, the overall energy intensity (energy use per unit of GDP) of economies in the developed world has been decreasing, driven by the reality that energy comes at a cost, and so firms and households have incentives to economize on energy use,» Stavins said.

As an equity investment analyst at Capital, he covered U.S. construction & housing, machinery & engineering, energy companies, personal care, and household products.

Standard electric hot water tanks account for as much as 15 % of our home's energy use — with the average household paying about $ 550 each year just to heat their water; 25 % to 45 % (or approximately $ 140 to $ 250) is used just to maintain your home's hot water at a constant temperature.

They are wonderful at adapting to the needs and energy levels of their individual families and each litter will have a range in temperaments and energy levels suited for the busy family or the calm household.

Years after taking Stilwater for their own, the Third Street Saints have evolved from street gang to household brand name, with Saints sneakers, Saints energy drinks and Johnny Gat bobble head dolls all available at a store near you.

The quandary was best explained to me by John Holdren, an energy and climate expert at Harvard who has tried for many years to propel an energy revolution, from the household light bulb to the corporate and government laboratory, to cut emissions of greenhouse gases.

63 percent of respondents said the United States should move forward to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, regardless of what other countries do... In the same poll, the public supported — by a margin of 63 percent to 37 percent — requiring electric utilities to produce at least 20 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources, even if that would cost the average household an extra $ 100 per year.»

Watts described a friendly two - hour trading of very different views on many points of climate change science but also on at least a few areas of common ground on pollution problems and energy choices, including on the value of household photovoltaic systems, which both men have on their homes.

If we should have luck here in Germany, and the EEG does not fail, it would mean that in 20 years we'd have a grid mostly powered by renewable energy, paid by the private households alone, that will produce cheap electricity for the industry at a time when oil, gas and coal will be much more expansive than today.

Your dryer checks in at number two on the list of household energy hogs (right after your fridge), costing the average household more than $ 96 per year in energy, according to the U.S. Department of Eenergy hogs (right after your fridge), costing the average household more than $ 96 per year in energy, according to the U.S. Department of Eenergy, according to the U.S. Department of EnergyEnergy.

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Majorities of Democrats, Independents and Republicans support requiring electric utilities to produce at least 20 % of their electricity from renewable energy sources, even if it cost the average household an extra $ 100 a year.

It adds that job losses would be minimal; the new carbon market would create new jobs; that the manufacturing sector will lose a few jobs; that household consumption will fall by only one percent at worst; that increases in energy costs would be modest; and that overall costs would be small enough to permit expansion of programs to offset the burden for low - income households.

Data presented at the event demonstrated how if global energy efficiency improvements were doubled from the current 1.5 % to 3 % per year, significant benefits could be unlocked; household energy bills could be reduced by a third, 6 million new jobs could be created by 2020, and $ 2,300 billion (US$ 2,458 billion) saved by 2030 in reduced fuel costs.

In other words, Carbon Fee and Dividend fixes the broken energy market, helps the poor, reduces carbon emissions globally, grows the economy, protects middle income households» purchasing power, eliminates a lot of pollution, eliminates a lot of property rights issues (no more new pipelines), and directs US businesses at the biggest market opportunity of this century.

Thermal energy storage, EASE argues in its position paper, has the versatility to scale up — perhaps making use of Europe's 7,000 or so District Heating Networks (DHN), or large industrial facilities - or could be used at small, even household scale.

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.

The economics of this off - grid business model rely on what it provides being affordable to poor households, as well as offering an improvement on the energy services they currently have (often kerosene or candle lighting, plus payments to local businesses for charging mobile phones) at a lower cost.

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In other notable recent developments, Simply Energy, the Australian retail arm for Engie, said in late March that it will aggregate 6MW of Tesla household batteries together with 2MW of demand response at commercial premises in Adelaide in a virtual power plant project supported by the government - backed Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).

Supercomputers, such as Mistral at the DKRZ, consume about as much energy as 1,000 private households, but on an area of only 200 m ².

Estimate of Swedish tax shifting based on Paul Ekins and Stefan Speck, «Environmental Tax Reform in Europe: Energy Tax Rates and Competitiveness,» in press, 2007; Ministry of Finance, Sweden, «Taxation and the Environment,» press release (Stockholm: 25 May 2005); household size from Target Group Index, «Household Size,» Global TGI Barometer (Miami: 2005); population from U.N. Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision Population Database, at http://esa.un.org/unpp/; Andrew Hoerner and Benoît Bosquet, Environmental Tax Reform: The European Experience (Washington, DC: Center for a Sustainable Economy, 2001); European Environment Agency, Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), p. 243.

If demand management is discussed at all these days, it's usually limited to so - called «smart» household devices, like washing machines or dishwashers that automatically turn on when renewable energy supply is plentiful.