Sentences with phrase «expensive utility electricity»

A combination of good average sun exposure, expensive utility electricity rates, the solar tax credit and the strong net metering law means that homeowners can get an excellent return by installing residential solar panels here.

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Sounds like you want rolling black - outs and expensive utilities because there's really NO plan to replace the electricity that Indian Point generates.

It is not expensive, you can find great sources on ebay, and even if it was expensive, I'd rather spend whatever is necessary to keep the functionality of my Body Temple highly efficient with the best fuel I can give it, than to spend it on, let's say petrol at the gas station, or the electricity to power the utilities in my house.

The first step in this is to make electricity from coal much more expensive because the utilities will need to generate the money to pay the carbon tax (or offsets or whatever you want to call them).

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

As a roadmap by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) found last summer, the pairing of utility - scale renewables with energy storage serve as an economically viable power solution for such areas, who are typically dependent on expensive fossil fuels for their electricity, and instil a degree of energy security.

Utilities nationwide have set retirements for 266 coal power plants since 2010 as residents reject paying the personal health costs and the expensive electricity rates needed to keep old coal plants running.

Efficiency is the least expensive way to source new electricity, and in many states, utilities are required to invest in it.

Others claim that AEPS say compliance is expensive — but both the LBNL analysis and the Pennsylvania's Public Utilities Commission confirm that compliance costs are minimal, only about 1 percent of electricity bills in Pennsylvania.

When you participate in a community solar project, you are paying for access to less expensive solar electricity so that you don't have to buy electricity at standard utility rates.

When power prices are most expensive, the system automatically reduces the use of utility - provided electricity and instead draws from the battery.

The CEO of PG&E, Tony Earley, claimed the utility would replace Diablo Canyon's electrical generation with renewables, but Revis James, an experienced electricity markets analyst at the industry association to which PG&E belongs, the Nuclear Energy Institute, contradicted PG&E's claim, calling the proposed deal «risky, complex and expensive»:

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 pUtility 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 putility allows residential meters to spin backward, sending excess energy to the grid and lowering power bills in the process.