Sentences with phrase «percent of its 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.

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In sector news, utilities became one of the worst performing sectors in Wednesday's trade, closing down 1.53 percent, after U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May promised new caps on energy bills.

According to Nest, powering air conditioners during peak times accounts for just 1 percent of all energy usage — but can often take up the lion's share of an individual energy bill.

There's also longer - term logistics to consider: The process of taking a nuclear plant offline, particularly one capable of meeting 25 percent of the energy needs of the nation's largest metropolitan area, is extensive and requires a series of steps to avoid rolling blackouts and skyrocketing bills.

«The New Capacity Zone would cause quite a bit of damage to our local economy, to households and businesses in the area, with higher energy bills, on the order of up to 6 percent for our residential customers or higher and 10 percent or higher for our large industrial customers.»

The standard also requires that Austin Energy power bills rank among the bottom 50 percent of all utilities in Texas.

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.

EPRI's conclusions about energy technology gains were fed into a second computer model to assess the costs of stripping 80 percent of 1990 - level carbon emissions out of the electricity sector by 2050, approximating the goal of the House - passed climate bill.

English also recommended loosening the draft bill's emission limits (currently 20 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, and 83 percent cuts by midcentury) to match up with the availability of low - carbon energy technology.

Addressing another component of the sweeping House legislation, Crisson took issue with the Waxman - Markey bill's inclusion of a nationwide standard seeking renewable energy production of 20 percent by 2020.

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.

The program will allow the institute to cut $ 436,000 per year from its energy bills, will save more than 18,000 gallons of water a day and reduce the institute's annual carbon footprint by 53 percent.

A white roof reflects the sun's light and heat, so a couple of coats of paint can reduce your carbon emissions and take about 20 percent off your energy bills.

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.

Today, our homes and businesses consume 40 percent of the energy that we use, and it costs us billions of dollars in energy bills.

The governor and legislature would be wise to follow the guidance of the governor's year - long discussion on Michigan's energy future and pass a bill as soon as possible to increase the state's renewable energy standard to at least 30 percent by the year 2030.

Later reaffirmed by Senate Bill 107 in 2006, the RPS requires electricity corporations to increase the amount of energy they receive from renewables by 1 percent annually.

Save the average American family nearly $ 85 on their annual energy bill in 2030, reducing enough energy to power 30 million homes, and save consumers a total of $ 155 billion from 2020 - 2030; Give a head start to wind and solar deployment and prioritize the deployment of energy efficiency improvements in low - income communities that need it most early in the program through a Clean Energy Incentive Program; and Continue American leadership on climate change by keeping us on track to meet the economy - wide emissions targets we have set, including the goal of reducing emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and to 26 - 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.&energy bill in 2030, reducing enough energy to power 30 million homes, and save consumers a total of $ 155 billion from 2020 - 2030; Give a head start to wind and solar deployment and prioritize the deployment of energy efficiency improvements in low - income communities that need it most early in the program through a Clean Energy Incentive Program; and Continue American leadership on climate change by keeping us on track to meet the economy - wide emissions targets we have set, including the goal of reducing emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and to 26 - 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.&energy to power 30 million homes, and save consumers a total of $ 155 billion from 2020 - 2030; Give a head start to wind and solar deployment and prioritize the deployment of energy efficiency improvements in low - income communities that need it most early in the program through a Clean Energy Incentive Program; and Continue American leadership on climate change by keeping us on track to meet the economy - wide emissions targets we have set, including the goal of reducing emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and to 26 - 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.&energy efficiency improvements in low - income communities that need it most early in the program through a Clean Energy Incentive Program; and Continue American leadership on climate change by keeping us on track to meet the economy - wide emissions targets we have set, including the goal of reducing emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and to 26 - 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.&Energy Incentive Program; and Continue American leadership on climate change by keeping us on track to meet the economy - wide emissions targets we have set, including the goal of reducing emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and to 26 - 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.»

Already, REV has driven 730 percent growth in the statewide solar market, enabled over 105,000 low - income households to permanently cut their energy bills with energy efficiency, and created thousands of jobs in manufacturing, engineering, and other clean tech sectors.

Fourth: I suggest that the principle of limiting low - income households» energy bills to a percentage of income be adopted early in the proceeding (6 percent was adopted in the NY REV process); this will open the entire process to a wider array of reforms for everyone because the issue of preventing harm to low - income households will have been addressed integrally and early.

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).

The bill would set a mandate of 100 percent renewable energy in New York by 2050, with 40 percent of investment (whether through carbon pricing or other avenues) targeted for environmentally vulnerable low - income communities.

The 2012 Energy and Water Appropriations bill, passed on Friday by the House of Representatives, would cut federal energy innovation funding by 12 percent of the levels put in place by the FY11 Continuing Resolution, 37 percent below the White House's FY12 Administration's budget reEnergy and Water Appropriations bill, passed on Friday by the House of Representatives, would cut federal energy innovation funding by 12 percent of the levels put in place by the FY11 Continuing Resolution, 37 percent below the White House's FY12 Administration's budget reenergy innovation funding by 12 percent of the levels put in place by the FY11 Continuing Resolution, 37 percent below the White House's FY12 Administration's budget request.

Open Europe estimates that in 2013, as a direct result of the EU's unilateral climate policies, the average energy bill for a medium - sized business was increased by nine percent (# 130,000 / $ 200,000) due to EU regulations or U.K. implementation of EU - defined targets.

Even if you don't produce 100 percent of the energy you consume, solar will reduce your utility bills and you'll still save a lot of money.

Also enacted was a bill establishing a goal that renewable energy serve as 100 percent of Hawaii's power supply by 2045.

ALEC and Heartland have shared numerous staff and «experts» over the years, including Sandy Liddy Bourne, who was ALEC's Director of the Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Task Force for the from 1999 - 2004, before being promoted to Director of Legislation and Policy, where she oversaw all of ALEC's task forces and helped boost state enactment of ALEC's corporate bills from 11 percent to 20 percent.

When asked to select from a variety of sources to help the state increase its energy supply, more than 90 percent of the 949 Delaware residents responding to the survey supported an offshore wind option — in which whirling wind turbines as tall as 40 - story buildings would be erected off the coast to generate electricity — even if wind power were to add between $ 1 and $ 30 per month to their electric bills.

The Iowa bill would cap spending on energy efficiency at 2 percent of annual sales for electricity utilities and 1.5 percent of sales of natural gas utilities.

Despite a growing body of research that has debunked overblown claims of a green - energy bonanza, Bill McKibben, Al Gore, and other luminaries in the mainstream climate movement have been invigorated by reports like Jacobson's and have embraced the 100 - percent vision.

The New York Times reported on December 14, 2007 that EEI led the lobbying opposition to a provision in a federal energy bill that would have required utilities nationwide to produce 15 percent of their electricity from renewable sources.

It is a recipe for healthy prosperity that will save Marylanders between $ 1.3 billion and $ 7.3 billion a year (2011 dollars) in energy costs in 2050, even after making provisions for (i) assistance for low income households to pay no more than 6 percent of income on energy bills, (ii) proactive investments in communities now dependent on fossil - fuel - related jobs, and (iii) new job creation in underserved areas.

Already, REV has driven a nearly 800 percent growth in the statewide solar market, enabled over 105,000 low - income households to permanently cut their energy bills with energy efficiency, and created thousands of jobs in manufacturing, engineering, installation and other clean - tech sectors.

State of New Mexico Executive Order 2006 - 001 Energy - Efficient Green Building Standards for State Buildings (pdf) January 2006 New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson issued an executive order requiring that all new state buildings and major renovations meet The 2030 Challenge 50 percent reduction target for fossil - fuel energy consumEnergy - Efficient Green Building Standards for State Buildings (pdf) January 2006 New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson issued an executive order requiring that all new state buildings and major renovations meet The 2030 Challenge 50 percent reduction target for fossil - fuel energy consumenergy consumption.

Instead, they import most of their natural gas from states like Pennsylvania, where hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus shale has brought jobs, prosperity, and lower energy bills — New York's electric bills are 36 percent higher than neighboring Pennsylvania's.

The bill offers the CPUC and the CEC the option of setting «targets or requirements for energy technology that minimizes the percent of load met by fossil fuels during net - load peak energy demand and maximizes the use of low - carbon technologies.»

Before the auctions started, participating states agreed to spend at least 25 percent of the revenue on consumer - benefit programs — energy efficiency to reduce bills, financial supports, etc..

While the bill is unlikely to pass, Michigan Democrats say a proposal for a 50 percent renewable energy standard is intended to «set up a new frontier of where we should be looking»

He's taken the Plan B message of cutting carbon emissions 80 percent by 2020 along with Bill McKibben's call of 350 ppm and pulled them into his call for a 100 percent renewable energy grid.

This market model analyzed the cost - effectiveness, energy rate and bill impacts, local job impacts, and emission impacts of an alternative future in which Rhode Island achieves five percent renewable energy penetration by 2035.

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.

Rebuilding With the Goal of Lower Energy Costs Cutting future home energy costs has been an important goal for those involved in rebuilding, who are well aware that in lower - income homes, as much as 50 percent of take - home pay can get burned up by utility Energy Costs Cutting future home energy costs has been an important goal for those involved in rebuilding, who are well aware that in lower - income homes, as much as 50 percent of take - home pay can get burned up by utility energy costs has been an important goal for those involved in rebuilding, who are well aware that in lower - income homes, as much as 50 percent of take - home pay can get burned up by utility bills.

In particular, they have examined the implications of a 15 percent renewable portfolio standard (RPS) by 2020, as included in HR3221, the House Energy Bill.

Not only will hydrocarbon units help mitigate millions of tons of CO2 equivalent emissions, they will also alleviate the strain of high utility bills, as these units show energy efficiency improvements of 30 to 60 percent greater than traditional HFC units.

President Obama's 2009 stimulus bill provided more than $ 50 billion, or six percent of all spending, to spur renewable energy deployment and clean energy industries and jobs.

In December, President Bush signed an energy bill that raised the United States» fuel - economy standard by 40 percent to an average of 35 miles per gallon in 2020 (see President Signs Energy Bill and Senate Rejects Incentives to Pass Energy energy bill that raised the United States» fuel - economy standard by 40 percent to an average of 35 miles per gallon in 2020 (see President Signs Energy Bill and Senate Rejects Incentives to Pass Energy Bibill that raised the United States» fuel - economy standard by 40 percent to an average of 35 miles per gallon in 2020 (see President Signs Energy Bill and Senate Rejects Incentives to Pass Energy Energy Bill and Senate Rejects Incentives to Pass Energy BiBill and Senate Rejects Incentives to Pass Energy Energy BillBill).

In Oregon, for example, Governor Kate Brown signed a bill that will move the state to 50 percent renewable energy production by 2040 and end the state's use of coal power by 2030; in Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year ago.

An energy retrofit of an older inefficient building can cut energy use and energy bills by 20 — 50 percent.

Homes with high - efficiency plumbing fixtures and appliances save about 30 percent of indoor water use and yield substantial savings on water, sewer, and energy bills.

A state bill that would set broad regulations for the burgeoning medical marijuana industry would likely have the unintended side effect of forcing all dispensaries in Boulder to use 100 percent wind or solar energy.