Sentences with phrase «like energy bills»

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.»

Before you shop for a home, do some research on things like energy bills and taxes based on home size.

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In 2011, a Senate bill to roll the EPA into the Department of Energy attracted the 17 cosponsors, including party leaders like John McCain and Orrin Hatch.

But the blockchain has also become host to an array of startups who are building a range of products — from apps like uPort which aims to replaced state - issued IDs with an authenticated digital identity, to GridPlus, which uses the Ethereum blockchain to track energy consumption with the goal of lowering utility bills.

The company essentially acted like a clean - energy utility that billed homeowners monthly.

What are your water and energy bills like using that much hot water?

Another key complaint was the rising cost of energy bills resulting from incorrectly calculated energy expenses, which often included costs like «high efficiency cogeneration» and «stranded costs,» rendering customers often unaware of what they are paying for.

«At this critical moment for the UK's energy policy, Osborne's gas strategy looks like nothing short of a disaster — for the economy, the environment and for people's energy bills.

More specifically, in our recent polling, 38 % (some 19m people) told us they had personal experience of having to cut back on essentials like food to meet high winter energy bills.

We all broadly welcome the Bill's objectives, and I think we can also all agree that fuel poverty has generally been getting worse over recent years and that home energy efficiency in this country is nothing like good enough.

But it is the energy bill in the Queen's Speech that will determine whether Britain makes anything like the progress needed on tackling carbon emissions back home.

Using its On - Bill Recovery Financing Program, New York's Energy Research and Development Authority would help finance geothermal in the same way it does for other energy efficient upgrades like solar pEnergy Research and Development Authority would help finance geothermal in the same way it does for other energy efficient upgrades like solar penergy efficient upgrades like solar panels.

Among her plans of what she'd like to accomplish once elected: Promote / support bills in Congress that adopt clean sources of energy by helping to end the intricate system of public subsidies that keep dirty sources of energy artificially cheap, and promote renewable sources: solar, wind, and hydro; Protect waterways / drinking supply by reducing the risk of contamination and ensure that when contamination is found, the responsible parties are held accountable; Fight for public financing of elections; Work every day to overturn Citizens United.

Vermont lawmakers sustained Governor Peter Shumlin's veto of a bill that some believed would have slowed renewable energy development in Vermont, but then replaced it with one that's more to the Democratic governor's liking.

To put this in context, an organisation like the University of Edinburgh would be charged # 900,000 in carbon tax next year — on top of its # 11 million energy bill, says Narayan.

The draft bill would require utilities above a certain size to supply 25 percent of their power from renewable sources like wind, solar and biomass energy by 2025, although efficiency measures could be used to meet a fifth of the target.

«People are busy, and when you gasp at your energy bill or at the gas pump you don't know what part of that bill is paying for something you want — like heating, cooling and transportation — and what part of it is just wasted,» Dietz says.

Like removing unnecessary lighting from a financially strapped household to save on electricity bills, the drug — called rapamycin — prolongs the survival of diseased neurons by forcing them to reduce protein production to conserve cellular energy.

Now senators like Energy committee chair Jeff Bingaman (D — NM) are disappointed but resigned to the end of RES, Bingaman spokesperson Bill Wicker told ScienceInsider.

A «nudge» puts smiley faces on your energy bill, and compares your usage to that of the eco-efficient Joneses next door (nudgers like to game our herd - like social impulses).

«We'd like to see the general public move towards net - zero energy homes, and we think the way to do that is to show people they can have a house similar to what they've always had and yet still have a net - zero energy bill.»

From a climate policy perspective, the bill can be seen as part of the Conservative ongoing effort to 1) gut environmental assessments and scientific research; 2) attack ENGOs that disagree with government policy to promote unfettered development of the oil sands; and 3) to sideline and even eliminate inconvenient advisory bodies like the National Roundtable on Energy and the Environment.

It comes out less like a spoof than a smart - aleck remake of «Meatballs,» minus the energy of Bill Murray.

Schools, like everyone else, face increased bills as global demand for energy continues to grow.

The minister also revealed that national deals brokered by the government to help schools save money on energy bills and hardware like printers and photocopiers have not had much take - up among schools.

Maybe his time, given his varying roles, would be better spent a. Getting his Trust to produce a detailed case - study with a breakdown of all the cost - savings made, for other schools to scrutinise and benchmark against... and b. actually making sure that the folk setting up his much trumpeted «national deals brokered by the government to help schools save money on energy bills and hardware like printers and photocopiers» do a better job.

And despite the increasing amounts of energy and money spent on trying to retain students, the «Forgotten Students» report observes that they still continue to stop out — often for very rational and responsible reasons like supporting a loved one in a time of medical emergency, or because the bills to live have just become too high to pay.

It measures the changing prices of everyday household goods and services like food and energy bills, and shows how inflation rises over the years.

Don't forget that you can get 100 percent of the bill paid if you made a big energy efficient improvement like a high - efficiency water heater or A / C unit.

I find it amazing that people think that a blunt instrument like interest rates can cure rising energy prices or utility bills.

Don't just look at the obvious things like credit cards, energy bills and mortgages.

If you'd like to lower your utility bill costs, using less energy isn't the only way — you can also explore the state and local energy assistance programs available in your area.

Instead, consider some of your local options that can help make your regular bills easier to afford, like the Suplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.

That includes paying my monthly bills (like energy, cell phone, car + home insurance), groceries, gas, eating out with my credit card.

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

I gave my pitch about seeing if there are ways to harness existing social networks — like high - school football districts — to have inter-school competitions to cut energy demand, and bills.

To build on this progress, the Obama Administration is putting in place tough new rules to cut carbon pollution — just like we have for other toxins like mercury and arsenic — so we protect the health of our children and move our economy toward American - made clean energy sources that will create good jobs and lower home energy bills.

Before diving into the report and a host of reactions, positive and negative — along with fresh thoughts expressed to me by both Nisbet and Romm in a group e-mail exchange over the weekend — I'd like to offer a few overarching observations about the report, the fate of the climate bill, American attitudes on energy and the influence of environmental and anti-regulatory forces in Washington.

And for the first time, 20 governments and a passel of billionaires led by Bill Gates announced plans to ramp up long - lagging investments in basic research and development on clean energy — like advancing cheap, extensive battery storage to maximize the potential of solar power, safer nuclear plant designs and even technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

In Utah, two major bills incentivizing renewable energy development and purchase passed — politicians there say alternative energy like wind power could be a huge boon for rural areas hit hard by the recession.

I'd like to think he's read our stories on such climate engineering options, including one last year in our Energy Challenge series by Bill Broad (with some help from me) in which the president of the National Academy of Sciences, the atmospheric chemist Ralph Cicerone, endorsed the need to aggressively study such options, even as the world works to limit emissions.

Then a real comprehensive Energy / Climate bill written by the likes of Jerry McNerney D - CA (PhD in Physics) should take center stage.

I still think it would be great if there were a way to harness existing school sports networks — like football districts — to create inter-school energy competitions aimed at cutting heating and electricity bills, and related pollution.

Founder Bill Gross says the company can produce power from solar thermal plants cheaper than competitors like BrightSource Energy, although BrightSource and others use very similar mirrors and towers.

For instance, for residential customers in areas where Time of Use (TOU) rates are standard (like California), Green Button interval data can show how changing the timing of certain energy - intensive activities can result in reduced energy bills.

Pushed by grassroots environmental and social - justice groups, California has led the way on this approach, with 2012 legislation (Senate Bill 535) requiring that 25 percent of carbon revenue from the state's cap - and - trade program must be spent on clean - energy investments that benefit environmentally vulnerable low - income communities in places like Stockton, Fresno, Richmond, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Los Angeles (the targeted share for these communities was recently raised to 35 percent).

Forcing House Democrats to take these politically difficult votes in the midst of the recession was especially galling to many moderate Democrats because the House climate bill never had a realistic chance of Senate passage, where centrist Senate allies of the president urged other measures like a renewable energy standard.

Many are skeptical about the bill and the Hill.com's Jim Snyder defines the complications as: «a Jenga - like quality to the delicate work of constructing national energy policy, where votes fall along regional lines as much as party affiliation,» he writes.

While many of the speakers at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas on Monday advocated regulation that already has some sort of legs in Congress, like putting a price on carbon and a national renewable portfolio standard, former President Bill Clinton suggested several alternative ideas that he said could help push clean power and energy efficiency in theEnergy Summit in Las Vegas on Monday advocated regulation that already has some sort of legs in Congress, like putting a price on carbon and a national renewable portfolio standard, former President Bill Clinton suggested several alternative ideas that he said could help push clean power and energy efficiency in theenergy efficiency in the U.S..

Like rollover minutes on a cell phone, net - energy metering allows customers to offset their electricity bills with clean energy — such as solar or wind power, for example — and to receive bill credits for extra energy sent back to the utility.