Sentences with phrase «reduced 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.

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.

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.

Glass shower and tub enclosures reduce utility costs, and makes cleaning an easier task.

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.

Of the people who cited energy efficiency in this survey, Garrity said their core motivation was to reduce utility costs.

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.»

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 faUtilities 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 fautilities 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.