Sentences with phrase «rising energy costs»

The utilities board is recommending the provincial government set up a program to help offset rising energy costs for low - income earners.

We recognize that using less energy is not only better for the environment, it is smart business because it can help mitigate the financial impact of rising energy costs.

If you're like a lot of homeowners these days, you're concerned about rising energy costs.

The remaining 15 percent would be spent on helping low - income communities deal with rising energy costs.

Warning signs of climate distress and volatile fuel costs are leading people to question where their power comes from and how rising energy costs will affect their communities and businesses.

At the most basic level the sector should plan for rising energy costs in the future whatever political party is in power.

Every issue is an invaluable guide to leading a more sustainable life, covering ideas from fighting rising energy costs and protecting the environment to avoiding unnecessary spending on processed food.

They appear to have failed to anticipate rising energy costs, and thus put their environmental concerns above the «energy poor».

All businesses are under increasing pressure to reduce their energy consumption whether it be as a result of rising energy costs or the need to reduce carbon emissions.

North Country businesses have to balance that issue with other needs, said Stec, citing a business who shifted their focus from rising energy costs to the wage issue.

Manufacturers that require large amounts of energy to make their products, they're challenged by rising energy costs.

«These grants will help home and business owners offset rising energy costs by financing energy efficiency and power generation improvements to deliver energy in a more cost - effective and environmentally appropriate way,» says Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

Rising energy costs pushed the headline month - on - month figure up to 0.4 %, while the annual gain rose from 1.6 % to 1.9 %, only a tenth below the Fed's target for inflation.

Australian steel manufacturer BlueScope announces a surge in net profit, but also warns high and rising energy costs pose an ongoing challenge as does an ACCC investigation into alleged cartel conduct.

Massachusetts helps cities and towns that adopt the Green Communities Act maximize energy efficiency in public buildings, generate clean energy from renewable sources, and manage rising energy costs with grants and other assistance.

More than three quarters of the firms surveyed said that their costs had increased in the quarter, mainly due to rising commodity prices as more than half of respondents (57 %) cite rising energy costs, and 49 per cent increase in the cost of raw materials as the reason.

In the run up to Labour conference, a new policy to tackle rising energy costs was widely anticipated.

With rising population (At 6.7 Billion biology is certainly coping well enough to support discussion like this) & rising energy costs destined to lead to a dramatic collapse in global per capita energy input the likelihood of a destructive human consiousnee inversion is very high.

The NC Utilities Commission, the state agency that regulates utilities that provide water, gas, and electricity, has said that renewable generation provides fuel price hedging benefits that put downward pressure on rising energy costs (source: Docket No.

These experts need to be guided by «number crunchers» like Parker Gallant, who can see ahead and who care about the debt being left to our children and grandchildren and the fact that rising energy costs increase the stress on people who are on fixed incomes or who live in poverty.

''... Wind power, which generates energy without using fuel, provides a hedge against rising energy costs because wind energy production is immune from fuel price spikes».

He's particularly concerned about rising energy costs for average Americans and how that might affect the economy as a whole.

Many people, worried about rising energy costs, choose to ration their energy use, unaware that living in a cold home can actually cause or exacerbate a range of serious health conditions such as strokes, heart attacks and bronchitis.

The bill calls on the state Department of Commerce to identify trade - exposed industries, which compete globally and might face plant closures from rising energy costs, and allow them to apply for an exemption.

Voters are worried about how rising energy costs will crimp their lives, says Thomas Mueller, president and CEO of the Canada Green Building Council.

Die Weldt — December 16, 2013 In the UK thousands are struggling with rising energy costs.

It's a simple concept — put a much needed price on carbon pollution, but return all the revenue that's generated to taxpayers (for example with a monthly refund) to offset rising energy costs.

Rising energy costs are a type of inflation that we saw in the mid-2000s, during the previous runup to oil at over $ 130 per barrel in 2008.

MacKay stated, «As New Yorkers everywhere, in all corners of this State, struggle with the high cost of living, joblessness, rising energy costs and the outflow of jobs, Andrew Cuomo offers the answers we all need to put the State back on course.»

To discuss their progress as well as work that still needs to be done related to rising energy costs, PUSH Green is hosting an Ambassador's Event.

«Garbage disposal problems and rising energy costs have driven the economics of a plasma arc solution beyond possible to necessary.»

One potential solution that's been bandied around are vertical farms, though it's debatable whether they're just a pie in the sky — or necessarily made feasible once stagnating rates of future food production, rising energy costs and soil degradation are finally factored in.

urbanism is, in fact, our single most potent weapon against climate change, rising energy costs, and environmental degradation.

In addition to saving $ 500,000 a year, using renewable energy protects the city from rising energy costs and allows it to pass the savings on to its wastewater customers in the form of lower rates.

The Association of Washington Business, the state's most powerful trade group, has raised concerns about rising energy costs and their impact on businesses.

Partly this is been driven by businesses wanting to mitigate risk, rising energy costs and respond to stakeholders» concerns about climate change.

Environmentalists and public - health groups cheer the new limits, but Republicans, energy - state Democrats, and industry groups warn of rising energy costs and vulnerabilities to America's electricity grid.

Locking in residential solar loans at low, fixed interest rates eliminates the financial burden, and anxiety, of rising energy costs, the company points out.

It's one thing to destroy coal in favor of more expensive energy in an advanced economy where consumers have more disposable income to absorb the blow of rising energy costs, but to deny developing countries access to electricity is an absurd form of «liberalism.»

All the income collected from the fees on fossil fuel production would be returned in equal per capita amounts to all legal residents to compensate for rising energy costs.

Reducing the energy consumption of buildings has become increasingly imperative because of the combined demands of energy security, rising energy costs, and the need to reduce the environmental damage of energy consumption.

Energy efficiency saves money, reduces financial risk from rising energy costs, and is a proven best practice among leading companies.