Sentences with phrase «give electricity and gas»

But while the hacks and the lobbyists all marveled at this bold / bonkers (depending on your political slant) pledge, the membership were mostly complaining that it hadn't gone far enough; why wasn't Ed promising to re-nationalise the energy companies and give electricity and gas away to everyone for free?

Not exact matches

While the cost of electricity from coal and gas will go up and down given the volatility of the markets for those fuels, we can enter into a 20 year contract for renewable energy where we know what we'll be paying for the electricity today and in 2033.»

They do not emit tailpipe pollutants, giving a large reduction of local air pollution, and, can give a significant reduction in total greenhouse gas and other emissions (dependent on the method used for electricity generation).

The policy that attracted the most attention was the commitment to help tackle the «cost - of - living crisis» by freezing gas and electricity prices until 2017 to give time to «reset the market» in favour of consumers.

And while he likes to proclaim himself as a national leader on climate change, he is flooding the state with imported fracked gas, giving billions of dollars to old nukes, and is getting only 3 to 4 % of the state's electricity from renewables,» noted HawkiAnd while he likes to proclaim himself as a national leader on climate change, he is flooding the state with imported fracked gas, giving billions of dollars to old nukes, and is getting only 3 to 4 % of the state's electricity from renewables,» noted Hawkiand is getting only 3 to 4 % of the state's electricity from renewables,» noted Hawkins.

In a recent test by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, simply giving employees wireless control of the three lights closest to their workstation, and allowing them to turn them on or off individually, reduced the electricity used by the building's lights by up to 72 per cent.

«We found that with a given amount of biomass you could produce more transportation and greenhouse gas offsets with electricity than with ethanol.»

The department says preference will be given to trials involving liquid petroleum gas (LPG), compressed natural gas and electricity (for adapted vehicles), rather than «biofuels» such as rape methyl ester (RME), derived from rape seed oil.

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

This biogas contains a high percentage of methane gas that gives it a high heat capacity for combustion and transformation into electricity.

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 advanced lithium - ion battery gives this new hybrid sedan a 47 - mile range on pure electricity alone, and a 340 - mile range on combined electric / gas usage.

Here we give you some ideas on ways you can save on your water, electricity and gas bills around the home.

For example, only so much natural gas can be pushed through a given sized pipe and only so much electricity can be transmitted thought a given sized transmission line.

They seem like nothing other than an overpriced way of giving people the privacy of their car and the ability to avoid sharing transit with other people who might make us nervous at great public expense and simply converting the fuel from gas to coal via electricity.

Britain has no choice given the current and increasing reliance on North Sea gas for electricity production.

It also shows why any investors basing their investment decisions on coal and gas continuing to be the cheapest source of electricity could be deeply misguided, given the relative shifts this LCOE sensitivity shows.

UK demand response aggregator Flexitricity has successfully secured gas and electricity supply licences from regulator Ofgem, giving the demand response aggregator the green light to enter the country's balancing mechanism.

Their energy modeling process also gives the annual electricity and natural gas BTU usage for the home.

He makes his money not just from book sales, but by giving talks on climate change at conferences across the country largely for various trade groups, from electricity to oil and gas to plastics.

That's consistent with the EIA's most recent Short - Term Energy Outlook, released the same day as President Obama gave his speech, which forecasts 40 % of electricity will come from coal in 2013 and 2014, with natural gas's share falling back down to an annual average of 26 % (Figure 5).

Given this constraint, we need to think about how to maximise the amount of electricity we get from this limited amount of gas, and what new technologies can help us do it.

A 20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply

It also costs a lot less to charge an EV than it does to buy gas or diesel, and if you consider powering your EV with a home solar installation, you can even bring the costs down further — you can use Solar - Estimate's tools to learn more about that and work out the rates of return you would get from installing solar panels given your electricity usage and location.

Only a high carbon price, in excess of $ 50 / tonne, will materially alter electricity generation given the dispatch order of plentiful, cheap coal and natural gas.

You can see why ALEC member companies like American Electric Power or Duke Energy may take issue with this, given their reliance on coal and gas electricity generation.

Given that current gas consumption for electricity is 7.6 trillion cubic feet, gas consumption for electricity generation should grow somewhere between twenty and forty percent.

Given that elected or appointed Public Utility Commissions approve most new plants and must by law control consumer electricity costs, it seems likely that the market will choose natural gas.

The first stage grants licenses to firms in the electricity and natural gas markets, while the second stage, which is expected to start March 3, 2003, will give large industrial users the right to choose their electricity provider.

For a given EV and electricity region, this measures the fuel economy a gas - powered car would have to achieve to generate an equivalent amount of pollution.

Allowing RTO / ISOs to use a dispatch system that gives wind and solar preference over traditional methods of generating electricity, which is driving nuclear and coal - fired generation off the grid, and which will ultimately also drive natural gas generation from the grid.

On its website, the World Bank division offered this feeble justification for this transaction: «IFC is supporting thermal power projects which have better GHG (greenhouse gas) and environmental performance than the average plants in India, given the country's large needs for incremental electricity supply.»

Our city is struggling to meet its target to reduce carbon emissions, so a government plan to give incentives for electricity generation from the sun and wind to lessen the use of highly polluting coal and gas makes sense.

«So I just give you one example of how we can combine to meet the challenges of climate change and cut people's gas and electricity bills and create the opportunities for work and training for that work.»

These will include, for instance, engineers» best calculations of how much it costs to generate electricity in various ways, from coal, gas and nuclear and solar power at given resource prices.

I use the liquid / gas transition to drive a turbine to give me electricity and power the pumps and also give me a surplus.

By the way, nowhere in the article I give any figures for the energy payback time of solar panels, I compare with electricity produced by gas and coal.

Paolo Frankl, Head of IEA's Renewable Energy Division, commented: «Given that global energy demand for heat represents almost half of the world's final energy use - more than the combined global demand for electricity and transport - solar heat can make a significant contribution in both tackling climate change and strengthening energy security, The IEA's Solar Heating and Cooling Roadmap outlines how best to advance the global uptake of solar heating and cooling (SHC) technologies, which, it notes, involve very low levels of greenhouse - gas emissions.

Those who use gas for home and water heating could be given incentives to change to electricity instead.

In order to give a new political impulse to regional co-operation on energy, the 43 UfM member states decided in May 2015 to establish three high level UfM Energy Platforms on gas, regional electricity markets, and renewable energy and energy efficiency.

The firms, which also include Bevan Brittan, Bond Pearce, Burges Salmon, Hogan Lovells, Maclay Murray & Spens, Nabarro, Sharpe Pritchard and Simmons & Simmons, have been appointed by the gas and electricity markets authority to give advice for Ofgem E-Serve.

Questions have also been raised as to whether the shale gas sector needs to be developed, given the province's recent electricity surplus and the availability of U.S. gas.