Sentences with phrase «for by electricity»

Similarly, the Ontario Electricity Support Program or OESP is being paid for by electricity customers.

Not exact matches

Andreasen described the big cables as «critically important for the electricity grid» by connecting regions and countries with one another, enabling the trade of energy over borders.

Family power bills to rocket by $ 246 a year The average WA household will be slugged an extra $ 4.74 a week - about $ 246 a year - for electricity from July 1, the state government announced yesterday.

«Oh, and by the way, Barclays and JPMorgan are putting out hundreds of millions of dollars in restitution for getting caught rigging electricity prices.»

As the Washington Post reported, natural gas is overtaking coal as the fossil fuel of choice for electricity generation — the report forecasts that by 2019, coal will provide 28 % of US electricity, whereas natural gas will make up 34 %.

Beyond using this clean electricity to power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel - cell cars) on the road by 2020.

Founders told me this dictatorship handed out floor penalties freely and taxed small companies heavily by charging for everything from internet and electricity to trash and sample delivery.

For a country whose electricity is 40 percent powered by solar, it was hit hard.

And the pace and breadth of his inventiveness is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that during those three critical years he was granted not only nearly 90 patents for incandescent filaments and lamps but also 60 patents for magneto or dynamo - electric machines and their regulation, 14 patents for the system of electric lighting, 12 patents for the distribution of electricity, and 10 patents for electric meters and motors.

As I wrote for NOVA Next, Germany stabilized its grid and electricity supply by dialing up its fossil fuel, nuclear, and hydro power, while also asking four energy - hogging aluminum smelters to dial down their power use temporarily.

Solar power is on pace for the first time this year to contribute more new electricity to the grid than will any other form of energy — a feat driven more by economics than green mandates.

For the rest of its electricity consumption, the state's population of 858,000 — which is actually outnumbered by livestock — relies on renewables.

By comparison, all the Tesla (tsla) cars on the road (about 280,000 at the end of 2017, according to company statistics) likely used less than 1.3 terawatt hours of electricity combined for the year, a Fortune analysis found.

«Solar roof is more affordable than conventional roofs because in most cases, it ultimately pays for itself by reducing or eliminating a home's electricity bill,» Tesla said Wednesday.

Narrated by actor and New Generation Latino Media co-founder John Leguizamo, the new Duracell - branded documentary spot from W+K New York called «Island Without Power» examines how this loss of electricity has impacted everyday life for residents of the island.

(Reuters)- Solar power is on pace for the first time this year to contribute more new electricity to the grid than will any other form of energy — a feat driven more by economics than green mandates.

California's «NEM 2.0» policy has created a clear migration path to continue to allow solar customers to receive fair compensation for the solar power they produce even as the adoption of solar increases, and implicitly encourages the adoption of battery storage by assigning a higher value to electricity provided when the grid needs it most.

Written by Merran Smith, Executive Director at Clean Energy Canada, a program of Simon Fraser University's Centre for Dialogue, and Sergio Marchi is President and CEO of the Canadian Electricity Association.

The package includes a plan to phase out coal - fired electricity generation by 2030, a commitment to generate 30 per cent of Alberta's electricity from renewable sources by 2030, new financing for energy efficiency, and an economy - wide price on carbon pollution.

The controversy over BC Hydro rate increases began last March when the company announced plans to increase electricity prices by nearly ten per cent for the next three years.

Renewable energy accounted for 103.6 percent of mainland electricity consumption last month, the report by the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association and the Sustainable Earth System Association said citing data from power grid operator REN.

In their call for a higher rate, Quail says the union is joined by groups representing commercial electricity users, industry advocates, and old age pensioners.

This past January, for the first time in its history, Germany faced a symbolic milestone by covering around 100 % of electricity use with renewable energy, and for 2017 it produced with renewable sources 36.1 % of total power consumption.

For variable expenses, such as an electricity bill, use the average of a year's bills — so add up all the bills, divide by 12 and use that number as your estimate.

By using mobile minutes as a currency, Namibia's unbanked are able to quickly pay for electricity in times of trouble through text messages.

U.S. federal subsidies for renewable energy, which includes biofuels as well as renewable electricity generation, has declined by 56 percent since 2013, dipping to $ 6.7 billion in 2016.

In partnership with Toronto innovation hub MaRS Discovery District, the Energy Apps for Ontario Challenge is offering $ 50,000 to support the best new apps that use electricity data collected by smart meters.

GOODcoins by Zerofootprint GOODcoins rewards customers for tracking electricity and for achieving electricity reductions targets.

As we noted in a previous report, a proposal to the New York Public Service Commission has been submitted by Orange and Rockland Utilities for a Tesla Powerpack system that could see a 70 % reduction in the demand charges on customer electricity bills.

This is the first time a utility has contracted for a system that stores and releases solar energy after sunset, and will help KIUC meet its goal of using renewable resources to generate half of Kaua`i's electricity by the end of 2019.

Load shifting — The battery can provide economic benefit to its owner and the grid by charging during low rate periods when demand for electricity is lower and discharging during more expensive rate periods when electricity demand is higher.

The arrangement is made possible by a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the project's developer where the customer pays an electricity rate equal to or less than what other customers pay for their existing power.

This new appliance, best suited for oil and electrically heated homes, uses Time - of - Day electricity rates to lower heating costs by up to 50 percent.

While the Ontario government's recently updated long - term energy plan said the province's industrial electricity consumers currently face prices lower than that of the average for the Great Lakes region, the plan also showed that the cost will rise to $ 116 per megawatt hour by 2035, a nearly 40 per cent increase from the projected 2017 price of $ 83 per megawatt hour.

Certain matters discussed in this press release are forward ‐ looking statements, including that Everstream Energy Capital Partners, North Sky Capital and New Energy Capital are planning to invest more than $ 67 million in a fund to support utility ‐ scale projects in Central and Southern California developed by SunEdison; that the projects will generate over 320,000 MWh of electricity annually, and create hundreds of jobs or up to 250,000 hours for California electrical and construction union workers.

However, Alberta has committed to stop burning coal for electricity by 2030, and Ontario phased out coal power in 2014.

The increase in foreign demand is being driven by industrialization and attendant demand for coal fired electricity generation in the developing world including India and China.

Other environmental policies include promoting smarter energy use through the ecoEnergy Initiative; a Chemical Management Plan to regulate chemicals harmful to human health and the environment; $ 1.5 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels; a commitment to ensure that 90 percent of Canadian electricity needs are generated through non-emitting sources by 2020; and additional government funding to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands.

Inflation is likely to continue to move higher gradually, with the headline measure boosted by higher prices for tobacco, electricity and gas.

By adjusting the way the Regulated Rate Option (RRO) is calculated (this is the rate most Albertans pay for electricity), the Alberta Liberals» plan could save Albertans $ 700 million to 2020 and $ 3 billion to 2030.

As for the grid, the proliferation of electricity storage could eventually transform it into a «plug and play» for the units, used by utilities, solar customers and electric vehicles.

The country is $ 70 billion in debt, schools are closing by the hundreds, and infrastructural services — like the overburdened electricity system — have been overlooked in order to make way for debt payments to Wall Street creditors, according to Juan Cartagena, President and General Counsel of LatinoJustice PRLDEF, a public interest law firm.

Prices for electricity would be 4 percent lower by 2033 with a transition to more wind, solar and hydroelectric power than a persistent reliance on coal and natural gas, according to a report by Calgary - based environmental research firm Pembina Institute and Clean Energy Canada, a Vancouver - based organization that promotes renewable energy.

By: Marleny Arnoldi 2nd May 2018 Although the growth prospects for Zambia's mining sector remains positive for this year, amid rising copper prices and improved electricity supply, a worsening regulatory environment may negatively impact on the country's copper production in the coming years, warns BMI Research.

Moulton pointed to a study released by the Ministry of Energy that states large commercial suppliers in Ontario cities such as Toronto and Ottawa were paying 8.35 per kWh for electricity as of May 2015, the most recent month for which the province has statistics.

Second, the broadcasting industry is indirectly supported by the money the audience pays each year for the cost of sets (approximately $ 3 billion each year), plus the cost of electricity to run them (which runs about another $ 1 billion).2.

He had felt it, for example, in the darkness of the paleolithic age when for the first time he ventured to put fire to his own use, or accidentally discovered how to produce it; in neolithic times when he found that by cultivating thin ears of grass he could turn them into rice and millet and corn; and much later, at the dawn of our industrial era, when he found that he could tame and harness not only animals but the tireless energies of steam and electricity.

Picking his way expertly through three centuries of scientific history, from Newton on gravity (the force that causes apples to fall and planets to stay in orbit is the same), through electricity and magnetism (aspects of a single reality), to the present search for a Grand Unified Theory, he argued that the coherence of the physical universe progressively uncovered by science points to a «unity principle» at its heart.

1) the light bulb «burned out,» 2) the fuse or breaker failed, 3) the electricity provided by the power company failed, 4) for some reason the switch itself failed, 5) the power line has been severed or maybe, 6) the electric bill was not paid and there could be other unmentioned reasons, but, nonetheless, faith was employed to operate the switch in the first place, even if the expected results failed.

How does President Obama think we can protect the environment without hurting the poor by, for example, making electricity, fuel, and food more expensive?