Sentences with phrase «generation costs alone»

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Scott's current company has three divisions: a sustainability blog network that includes the world's biggest clean energy website and reached over 5 million readers in December 2013 alone; Pono Home, a turnkey and franchiseable green home consulting service that won entrance into the clean tech incubator known as Energy Excelerator; and Cost of Solar, a solar lead generation service to connect interested homeowners and solar contractors.

The Cuomo administration estimates the Clean Energy Standard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.

Coupled with the low and stable nature of electricity prices — which average $ 0.12 / kWh in the U.S. and can be significantly less for commercial and industrial users, falling to almost nothing when combined with local solar generation and storage — owners can expect to gain $ 200,000 or more in savings over a million miles based on fuel costs alone.

The cost of installed PV systems dropped 15 percent in 2013 alone — that's one reason why solar accounted for 29 percent of new US electricity generation capacity in 2013, up from 10 percent in 2012, second only to natural gas.