Sentences with phrase «energy bill goes»

But if we get a lot of air from the house and we also a get lot of heat as well, the attic actually gets warmer, the moisture problem goes away but the energy bill goes up.

Your energy bill goes up and down all the time, does it not?

In the average American household, almost half of the annual energy bill goes to heating and cooling — more than $ 900 a year.

As for what you can do to promote conservation, lead by example — and you'll see your energy bills go down, too.

All we need to do is point an ambulance - chasing lawyer in the general direction of the EPA after our electric and other energy bills go up.

Among the survey's other findings: - Consumers are willing to watch their energy bills go up more than 70 %, on average, before feeling forced to make energy - efficient home improvements.

Not exact matches

Not only are the panels fully subsidized, but the program also has another key aspect that differentiates it from its predecessors: 51 % of the energy bill savings must go to the tenant, not the landlord or building owner.

The U.S. average has about 3.5 % of total income going toward energy bills, though one in five families can actually spend up to 20 to 50 % of their income on utilities.

This year, anticipating the new Administration's emphasis on energy efficiency — if not the $ 8 billion worth of weatherization grants as well as more generous tax credits in the stimulus bill — Serious has gone on a serious shopping spree.

Anticipating your financial needs «allows you to focus your energy on building your new business rather than worrying how you are going to pay the bills,» she says.

As energy prices go up, more customers will look to energy efficiency and distributed energy resources to reduce their energy bills, which will continue to push electricity prices up and drive customers toward other energy sources and services.

As filling snacks go, these peach pie energy balls fit the bill quite nicely.

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In my experience, with an energy efficient washing machine our water bill has MAYBE gone up $ 3 - $ 5 / month since we started cloth diapering (I typically wash every 2 days).

The energy bill also goes to a second reading this week, where Liberal Democrats may raise concerns over the controversial plan to start fracking.

# 1200 to cover energy bills, or car insurance, or mortgage repayments, or to go towards a family holiday.

Or to put it another way: declaring war on things, from drugs to porn to energy companies, almost always goes down well with the public — and continues to do so until the bills, whether counted in lives or taxes, wash up on their doorsteps.

The consultation goes some way towards alleviating the concerns of those who criticised the energy bill for failing to show how energy would actually be saved, but campaigners were incensed that it took the form of a consultation rather than finding a place in the bill itself.

De Zoete went on to set up The Big Deal, which helps consumers to get lower energy bills.

We can expect to see more inaccurate claims from Tory backbenchers about renewable power sending the cost of energy bills soaring (and failing to account for the necessary cost of replacing ageing infrastructure regardless of whether we go green).

I always want to help them with things like energy bills and that's why we're going to cap rip off energy price rises.»

Thanks to our Ministers, who overcame resistance from right - wing Tories, the Bill does make a provision to allow a target to be set in the future — but as industry itself, and the Government's independent advisors, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), have made clear, investors in low - carbon energy need more certainty than this possible future promise before they go ahead and invest billions in new renewable energy installations.

Although that may not sound impressive, the bill conveys a positive message given the current frigid budget climate, says Michael Lubell, a lobbyist with the American Physical Society in Washington, D.C. «At least it's saying that if the rest of the government [budget] is going to be held flat, we should still spend more on energy research,» Lubell says.

The money raised will go to set up a Clean Energy Finance Corporation to promote renewables and to compensate households for higher fuel bills.

By one independent estimate, a carbon cap bill would take energy demand — predicted to go up 15 percent over the next 40 years — and essentially hold it flat.

The funding was secured with the help of U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D - Wash., through the 2010 Senate Energy and Water Development appropriations bill and will go to the Washington State Algae Alliance, comprised of WSU, Targeted Growth Inc. of Seattle and Inventure Chemical of Gig Harbor.

Your electric bill goes up, or the grid goes down... traditional power generation has served us well over the years, but with an aging system and increased demand, relying on it for all our energy needs has drawbacks.

Oddly, as I pointed out earlier, the Friends of Coal industry front group is not attacking the legislation's impacts on coal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utilities).

Earlier this year, the Department of Energy and Climate Change released a report outlining the benefits to schools of going solar, including reduced electricity bills, revenue generation, reducing CO2 emissions, as well as improved education and engagement.

«It's early days, of course, but the indication is that we are going to see a very welcome reduction in the energy bills and overall carbon footprint,» says Campbell.

Final word goes to Gavin Skipsey, who remarks that the experience of the two Plymouth schools is «by no means uncommon as education providers become more highly informed about the role of boiler optimisation as part of a broader commitment to reducing their energy bills and carbon footprints.»

It can demonstrate by investing money in energy conservation and by tracking data going back to 1978, it has made clear progress towards reducing its fuel bills.

(And for that matter, probably won't as long as the nonfiction takes up my time and energy and creativity AND pays the bills AND continues to increase financially, because there's only so much time and energy to go around).

The split second before she said «Massachusetts,» I knew what was going to happen: Two days after we got to Marie and Bill's, Mom would suddenly get a burst of energy; she'd start calling 411, writing down numbers, getting out maps.

The service starts at $ 2,000 and goes up — depending on the size of your house — but at an approximate savings of $ 150 per year, your home's energy bills should drop.

Those savings can come from downsizing, whether it's leaving a large house with an even larger energy bill, or going from two cars to one, he says.

He's a pretty interesting dude — he was supposed to take over at Enron in 1996, but he got jilted by Kenneth Lay and went and started his own energy firm with Bill Morgan instead.

When you rent goes up, or the energy bill without using up more, do you get outraged like this too?

And if we pass a bill in the Senate, reconcile it with the House, that says we are going to invest in wind energy and solar energy and we're going to be the guys who are producing wind turbines, and we're going to be the folks who are producing solar panels on rooftops, and we're going to be the country that is retrofitting all its homes and businesses so that we are 30 percent more energy - efficient than we are right now, that produces jobs that can't be exported; it reduces our dependence on foreign oil; it is good economics; it will increase our exports — oh, and by the way, it also solves the climate problem.

So our new energy bill is, in effect, going to be a 21.4 % tax hike on the current car prices.

Dave figured his total energy bill for the month (600 kilowatt - hours [kWh] of electricity for his house + 60 gallons of gasoline for his car) to be $ 280 or so; Tesla estimates it'd take 375 kWh to make their car go 1,500 miles (Dave's monthly driving estimate), so he needs about 975 kWh per month.

Getting an energy efficient frig, such as SunFrost (http://www.sunfrost.com) can make a family's electric bill take a nose - dive, as it did for us (we bought ours in 1991 & it's already paid for itself, also by preserving veggies nearly forever — less waste), and it's going on to save us $ $ hundreds a year.

Bill Gates has long been skeptical of those who say a renewable energy revolution is imminent, arguing that we are going to need a «clean energy miracle» before we can solve climate change or quit fossil fuels entirely.

The climate problem isn't going to be solved with Liebermann - Warner or any of the smaller measures being considered in today's energy bill.

We've already seen the United States Postal Service making aggressive attempts to reduce its energy bills, and MSNBC has recently brought us news about Cradle to Cradle going mainstream.

WTF is going on?Well, the short of it is, at face value, that senator Graham has been uneasy about climate legislation for a little while — after health care reform passed, he made comments about energy reform being dead in the water, and long before that he'd drawn fire from his own party for working with Democrats and pursuing a bill that would price carbon.

(Maybe we need to go into the business of making a temperature controlled photo - reactive glass shingle / tile and getting the government to add that to the Climate and Energy Security Bill regarding building code standards...?)

Households that take advantage of cost - saving energy efficiency opportunities will actually see their monthly electric bills go down.

Australia could be the «energy capital of Asia» but instead it is going backwards, Bill Shorten will say in a speech on Thursday, vigorously defending Labor's target of 50 % of Australia's electricity coming from renewables by 2030.

The climate change prevention part: the project will also «produce energy daily, help lower energy bills, and allow savings to go to important services for the local neighborhood», according to Global Green the funder behind the project.