When you combine these potential productivity benefits with the opportunity to
reduce utility costs by 20 to 30 per cent or more, the question, really, is not whether we can afford to go green, but whether we can afford not to.»
Of the people who cited energy efficiency in this survey, Garrity said their core motivation was to
reduce utility costs.
Provided innovative alternatives and insights to out - of - state developers, architects and construction contractors to
reduce utility costs, conserve resources, inhibit fire, improve safety and ensure resistance to the effects of region - specific natural disaster.
Glass shower and tub enclosures
reduce utility costs, and makes cleaning an easier task.
He said DOE is helping employees telecommute and is investigating a «hoteling» approach to its office, in which employees wouldn't have a designated space and could be moved to different areas as necessary to
reduce utility costs.
Direct assistance is provided in the form of a three - year forgivable loan program that serves to improve Oneida County's housing stock by alleviating codes violations, bringing homes into compliance with Housing Quality Standards (HQS) and improving energy efficiency thereby
reducing utility costs.
Additionally, according to Greening America's Schools: Costs and Benefits by Greg Kats, green schools use 33 percent less energy and 32 percent less water than conventionally constructed schools, significantly
reducing utility costs over the average 42 - year life cycle of a school.
Not exact matches
However, once solar consumers combine
cost effective battery storage with their solar panels (enabling them to store excess power and
reduce their dependence on the grid)-- franchise owning
utilities will inevitably begin to lose revenues.
It would be a long while before anybody seriously wondered if the things had any
utility beyond
reducing Wite - Out and carbon paper
costs.
Water Corporation of Western Australia has
reduced its water losses from leaks and overflows by 11 per cent in the 2012 - 13 financial year and recorded the lowest operating
costs of the major water
utilities nationwide.
Last August, the panel issued a report calling upon the
utility to
reduce rate hikes and sharply cut operating
costs.
After that, try
reducing food and
utility costs.
Although it is now clearly demonstrated that the most
cost - effective step for most
utility companies and industries is to invest in more efficient equipment so as to
reduce the use of fuel, the energy policy of the Bush administration, supported by prevailing preferences among economists, gives only lip service to this approach.
Councilwoman Kate Nightingale said she talked to a solar company about adding more solar arrays in town to further
reduce the town's
utility costs.
These include lowering expense projections for retirement and health insurance expense to reflect lower projected usage and rates not available at the time the budget request was prepared; lowering
utility cost estimates to reflect the significant decline in energy demand and prices resulting from
reduced economic activity and lowering other operating
cost estimates to reflect lower anticipated price changes.
After a lengthy effort to
reduce costs for Long Island Power Authority customers, State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said that the
utility has been ineffective after he discovered that
costs have not been
reduced and debt levels continued to rise.
In collaboration with H2O Applied Technologies, Manhattan College in Riverdale launched a large - scale water and energy conservation project this spring expected to save an estimated $ 652,000 per year in
utility costs and
reduce electricity use for the institution by nearly 2 -LSB-...]
Increasing
utility subsidies for LED - based lighting will be a major factor in
reducing the initial
cost to the residential user and boosting acceptance for the technology, Blansett said.
Those upgrades will
cost utilities $ 9.6 billion, but the health benefits in 2016 alone from the
reduced pollution range from $ 37 billion to $ 90 billion, according to the EPA.
By giving
utilities crucial information they need to select the most economical fixes, Schempf estimates that his system could
reduce the
cost of inspections by 25 to 50 percent, saving the gas industry tens of millions of dollars each year.
Utilities can substantially
reduce their disruption
costs, as well as social
costs, by continuing to supply at least a small amount of electricity to serve HP demands during outages.
With these results, the simulations can be improved further and give
utilities the tools to better manage energy while
reducing costs and improving reliability for consumers.
The collar will pay for itself in a year and continue saving you 4 to 9 percent in water - heating
costs — as well as
reducing carbon emissions by the local electric
utility.
There's good evidence that
utility costs are the second - leading cause of foreclosure, but if you want to
reduce those bills, you won't often find easy explanations telling you how.
Risk -
utility tests generally examine whether the risks posed by an alleged design defect could have been avoided or
reduced through the use of an alternative solution that would not have impaired the
utility of the product or unnecessarily increased its
cost.
Theoretically, having a MOOC degree that's delivered via a Learning Management System such as Moodle should
reduce costs: Universities would save on
utility bills and equipment for lecture halls, plus students wouldn't have to fork out for accommodation or travel expenses.
By just getting your staff to help, you could
reduce energy consumption by 33 % and by taking control, a further 20 % reduction in
utilities costs.
Across the country, 46 schools, six districts, and six postsecondary institutions are being honored for their innovative efforts to
reduce environmental impact and
utility costs, improve health and wellness, and ensure effective sustainability education.
The selected schools are being honored for their exemplary efforts to
reduce environmental impact and
utility costs, promote better health, and ensure effective environmental education, including civics and green career pathways.
When students leave, they claim, a school can not significantly
reduce its
costs because it can not cut back on its major expenses, like buildings,
utilities, and labor.
I have not run the numbers but I could imagine that you would not have to
reduce the home price that significantly to make up the $ 450 / mo difference between the 15 and 30 years mortgages once you take into account reductions in home
costs (property tax,
utilities, etc).
Continuously declining long - term rates created two tailwinds for his portfolio: 1) It continuously
reduced borrowing
costs for highly leveraged companies; and 2) Drove up values of high yielding stocks (look at what
utilities, MLPs and REITs have done over the same time period).
Moving to a smaller home can
reduce your mortgage payment, as well as
costs for maintenance, landscaping,
utilities and real estate taxes.
You can only
reduce costs so far before you run up against the necessities of life, from rent to groceries to
utilities.
If you're lucky, you can even get your
utilities costs rolled into your rent at a
reduced rate.
63 percent of respondents said the United States should move forward to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions, regardless of what other countries do... In the same poll, the public supported — by a margin of 63 percent to 37 percent — requiring electric
utilities to produce at least 20 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources, even if that would
cost the average household an extra $ 100 per year.»
Moreover, widespread implementation of distributed, local electricity generation — especially low -
cost, high - efficiency thin - film photovoltaics like those now being manufactured by Nanosolar for the municipal
utility market, and other innovative PV technologies like the cylindrical PV modules being manufactured by Solyndra for commercial rooftop applications — will greatly
reduce the need for large - scale, centralized baseload generation.
Bulk power transactions are used by electric
utilities for many different aspects of electric
utility operations, from maintaining load to
reducing costs.
Will American
utilities reduce emissions and improve efficiencies and so make better profits or will government send them subsidies to cover up the
costs?
The program can also help
reduce monthly energy
costs for low income residents who spend a higher proportion of their income on
utility bills.
This is the most
cost - effective and best way for
utilities to
reduce emissions by the level necessary to tackle the climate crisis.
The state's Public
Utilities Commission is expected to review the net metering rules in 2018, and it is almost certain that the utilities will continue to push for policies that will increase costs and reduce benefits for solar providers, while improving the bottom line for dirty and climate change inducing fossil fuel fa
Utilities Commission is expected to review the net metering rules in 2018, and it is almost certain that the
utilities will continue to push for policies that will increase costs and reduce benefits for solar providers, while improving the bottom line for dirty and climate change inducing fossil fuel fa
utilities will continue to push for policies that will increase
costs and
reduce benefits for solar providers, while improving the bottom line for dirty and climate change inducing fossil fuel facilities.
Lower demand for electricity will also make citywide electrical systems more reliable, while
reducing living and operating
costs from
reduced utility bills.
Existing DC services, such as the Sustainable Energy
Utility can help residents, improve efficiency and
reduce their energy
costs.
The new system is expected to
reduce costs, because companies will compete to provide
utility - scale generation.
According to company officials, the hike is needed to «comply with EPA environmental improvements to
reduce polluting emissions from coal - fired plants, make up for a decline in demand for electricity from commercial and industrial users, and cover rising
costs of health care for the
utility's employees.»
However, higher fixed charges are an inequitable and inefficient means to address
utility revenue concerns: they
reduce customer control, disproportionately impact low - usage and low - income customers, dilute incentives for energy efficiency and distributed generation, and increase electric system
costs.
Utilities are also, Sands said, looking «to see if there might be some modifications to the portfolio standards or what qualifies as renewables» that might
reduce the
cost burdens.
The offer is beneficial to those purchasing an EV because it can
reduce the
cost of a 44,000 dollar EV to 24,000 after all state, federal, and
utility / automaker rebates.
Our findings also show that government incentives, paired with
utility - offered consumer incentives, have steadily
reduced residential customers» net
costs for installing solar PV systems to record - low levels.