Sentences with phrase «of energy bills»

Other, more popular parts of the energy bill seek to boost renewable energy such as wind and solar power.

A new front has opened in the battle against the «big six» energy companies, with environmental charities demanding a full public inquiry into the soaring costs of energy bills.

In recent years, tech companies have begun to build centres in colder climates to offset a huge portion of the energy bill.

These new requirements will hopefully make gaming consoles much more efficient and ultimately less expensive in terms of energy bills — especially for hard core gamers.

There are some people who seem to take pride in freezing the other members of their household in favor of the energy bill.

Or, either tally your usage from one year's worth of energy bills, or contact your utility directly and obtain the total usage on your account for the past 12 months.

You can offset a part of your energy bill, or all of it.

It would also do much to lower the cost of energy bills.

Versions of the energy bill passed by the House and Senate each include a pilot program to subsidize switching to buses that emit less pollution.

And then comes the sobering conservation of energy bill on the morning after.

Not only are the panels fully subsidized, but the program also has another key aspect that differentiates it from its predecessors: 51 % of the energy bill savings must go to the tenant, not the landlord or building owner.

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.

Today — during his last day on the job — Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson signed an agreement with Columbia University that could make Biosphere 2 a Department of Energy (DOE) «national user facility.»

In 2000, Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson directed the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to purchase 3 percent of total electricity needs from non-hydro renewable sources by 2005, and 7.5 percent of total electricity purchases by 2010.

The Production Tax Credit (PTC) for Wind Energy and the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for Solar Energy were not part of the Energy Bill passed by the Senate by an 86 - 12 margin on Thursday.

Like Michigan, solar panel owners in Montana may soon be footing more of the energy bill.

Past NYSERDA programs demonstrate that a typical dairy farm can save 20 to 30 percent of its energy bill with cost - effective energy efficiency improvements at an average seven - year payback.

This is a great feature for those more conscious of their energy bills, anyone who doesn't particularly like the sound all the time, and others that would prefer to have it on for only a certain period of time.

Some Tories will have winced when Miliband declared of energy bill victims, «These are the ordinary people of this country whom this prime minister will never meet and whose lives he will never understand.»

Ed Matthew, Director of Energy Bill Revolution said: «Making energy efficiency an infrastructure priority would unlock public capital to make all homes highly energy efficient, generating high levels of economic growth.

These include the «renewables obligation», which is effectively a quota mechanism imposing costs on generators who fail to generate a set proportion of their electricity from renewables and more recently, courtesy of the energy bill, a most peculiar mechanism, otherwise known as «contracts for difference».

Disputes over the government's broader agenda on carbon emissions looks set to overshadow scrutiny of the energy bill, which faces its first major parliamentary test in the Commons later today.

Last month's publication of the Energy Bill has been a source of much dissent within the coalition, whilst sparking much ridicule among the opposition benches.

The release of the Energy Bill, however, which proposed a potential increase in household energy bills in order to create a sustainable low - carbon economy, barely stirred critics.

Miliband has struck a popular chord with his promises of energy bill freezes and support of small business; Cameron was determined to show that the Conservative agenda placed his party on the side of the British people.

Now Londoners generally are struggling under the burden of energy bills that have risen by an average of # 300 a year in the last Mayoral term.

He was speaking ahead of Wednesday's Second Reading of the Energy Bill, where he wants targets to phase out fossil fuels and to decarbonise electricity generation.

Last year the Senate passed legislation mandating a 10 percent standard, but the House opposed the plan and Senate Republicans agreed to keep it out of the energy bill this year.

Wastewater treatment is a huge consumer of electricity, accounting for 2 - 3 per cent of all power usage in western countries, and no less than 30 per cent of its energy bill results from the need to remove nitrogen.

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General advice to help schools to keep on top of their energy bills would be to encourage staff to switch lights off where possible.

We are committed to helping Texas home and business owners take control of their energy bills!

But clean - tech insiders and environmental groups see this as a complete evisceration of the energy bill.

We'll see what's left of the Energy Bill by the end.

Britain will be going the way of Germany: facing a much increased risk of power cuts, multiplication of energy bills, 100s of billions in subsidies and related problems throughout the economy.

ACEEE also estimated the energy savings of the energy bill reported out by the Senate Energy Committee and found that this bill would save less than half the energy of the House - passed bill.

PARIS (Reuters)- A climate change deal is needed not just to ward off global warming, but to ensure a shift from increasingly costly fossil fuels that could lead to a doubling of energy bills, the IEA's chief economist said on Tuesday.

My plan is to work to achieve bipartisan engagement with both the returning and new members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, so that we make visible progress on a suite of energy bills that the full Senate could consider in the first several months of this year.

The result is that the two most positive provisions of the energy bill — a clean energy mandate and a tax package reining in handouts for fossil fuels and promoting clean energy — are being removed while detrimental provisions, such as a radical five-fold increase in unsustainable biofuel use, remain.

With just days to go before the Thanksgiving holiday, my estimation earlier this week that Congress might wholesale the environmental integrity of the Energy Bill remains a possibility, but overall, as discussions continue behind closed doors, the fate of the bill is extremely uncertain.

Clearly, given the deep rift between Boehner's «comical» and Markey's «most important decision» — and the economic worries among Republicans and Democrats from oil - and coal - producing states — Markey and other supporters of the energy bill will have their work cut out for them.

This auto bailout legislation, now being considered as part of the energy bill making its way to the House floor, would provide subsidies from the U.S. Treasury to encourage potential car and truck buyers to ditch their current wheels and drive home new ones.

You could shave as much as 10 percent off of your energy bill without sacrificing comfort.

He notes shifts are happening in his clients» and partners» perceptions of energy bills, the cars they drive, and their personal wellness.

We can expect to see more inaccurate claims from Tory backbenchers about renewable power sending the cost of energy bills soaring (and failing to account for the necessary cost of replacing ageing infrastructure regardless of whether we go green).

Two earlier versions of the energy bill have also faced opposition and not been passed by the state's General Assembly.