Not exact matches
The New York
Public Service Commission said the decision was
needed «to prevent local
electricity prices for existing residential and business customers from skyrocketing.»
It, in essence, treats the internet as a
public utility — that is, something everyone in America
needs, like
electricity or running water.
And those nascent economies
need infrastructure —
electricity above all, transport across land (rail is most efficient) and in the air, oil and gas,
public lighting, and basic health care.
As if providing high school students with invaluable, real world business experience while raising
public awareness about energy conservation was not enough, Tru Light also helps rural communities in
need of
electricity.
If we choose to use our own abundant coal resources to provide the energy for
electricity, heating, and motive power; remove CO2 from the coal - fired electrical generationg plant smokestacks, and add better safety systems to the mines, we will have done all that we
need to do other than greatly improve and enlarge our
public transportation systems, and the reliability of our power grid system.
We
need to consider alternatives like carpooling, telecommuting, working flexible schedules, using
public transportation, riding bicycles, videoconferencing and heating homes with
electricity instead of oil.
«The perceived
need for «baseload» resources is in many cases counterproductive to meeting America's
electricity system
needs and
public policy objectives at the lowest cost.
But to fully capitalize on the potential of electric vehicles for reducing climate - altering carbon emissions from the transport sector, an analyst recently explained in Issues, new investments are
needed in large - scale
electricity storage and new
public policies are
needed to encourage recharging when renewable energy sources are providing the power.
The
public sector alone can not respond to the enormous investment
needed to meet the growing demand for
electricity in -LSB-...]
With nuclear energy there is no
need to mine and burn coal, drill for oil and gas, or dam wild rivers for
electricity — a fact widely recognized by scientists, politicians, and informed members of the
public (including Brower's boss and colleagues at the Sierra Club) in the 1960s.
I do nt see that as a limitation Not sure where Allan is getting the 25 - 30TW figure for business as usual, perhaps manufacturing synthetic oil and using it to power 2Billion low mpg SUV's This seemingly unavoidable shortfall between supply and demand
needs to be brought to the attention of the general
public, because massive improvements in efficiency, eradication of trivial uses of
electricity, and lifestyle changes, particularly in relation to transport seem inevitable.
SB 338 requires the California
Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and all other locally owned utilities to start planning to meet their net - load peak energy and reliability
needs with alternatives to fossil - fuel generating plants, while also providing the
electricity at the lowest cost to consumers.
Negotiating the successful grant of consent under s36 of the
Electricity Act 1989 for Nuon Renewables without the
need for
public inquiry at the Pen y Cymoedd wind farm site in South Wales.