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Utility's Energy Storage
Dec 14 2015 03:40 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Duke Energy, . . . one of the country's biggest fossil fuel utilities, . . . is exploring energy storage. Now that wind and solar energy, . . . have proven their ability to generate cost-effective electricity, . . . energy storage is the next tech...
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Utility Tests Led Lights
Nov 23 2013 02:15 AM | eds in Economy & Politics
PG&E replaced over 100 metal-halide high bay luminaires, . . . with LEDs in the Ace warehouse. Simply replacing them resulted in a . . . 50% reduction in energy use from the baseline, and . . . 93% reduction in energy use from the baseline, just by...
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Utility Sues City For Not Wanting Them
Jun 17 2014 12:50 AM | eds in Economy & Politics
For several years, Minneapolis-based Xcel has been battling, . . . the so-called “municipalization” effort in Boulder, . . . where voters passed a 2011 ballot measure, . . . allowing the city to replace Xcel, . . . with a municipal electric utility, ....
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Utility Save's Energy & Costs
Jun 12 2016 12:00 AM | eds in Economy & Politics
Green Mountain Power in Vermont, . . . begun shipping Tesla Powerwalls early in 2016, . . . offering the option for customers . . . to allow utility access to the systems in exchange for electricity bill credit; Green Mountain Power plans to utilize th...
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Utility Is Carbon Neutral, Today!
Aug 26 2014 02:25 AM | eds in Economy & Politics
The municipal utility in Palo Alto, CA, . . . delivered carbon neutral electricity supply last year, and . . . will reach 48% renewable energy power in 2017. 08-25-2014 Source: Utility is Carbon Neutral, Today!
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Utility Forced To Buy More Solar
Jul 12 2013 03:45 AM | eds in Economy & Politics
State regulators forced Georgia Power, . . . to expand the amount of solar energy it generates. Georgia Tea Party Patriots, . . . which rallied conservatives behind the solar expansion, . . . vowed to fight Georgia Power over a proposed 6% rate hike,...
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Utility Companies Vs Solar
Apr 07 2016 12:50 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
While solar power is soaring, . . . utility companies are campaigning intensely to increase fees for rooftop solar, . . . which they see as a direct threat to their business model. The U.S. Supreme Court has also stalled the Clean Power Plan, . . . to...
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Utilities,+ Solar = "playing Nicely'
Apr 21 2016 04:55 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
New York's, utilities, and solar companies, . . . are seeking to shape policies, . . . that dictate how owners of rooftop panels, . . . are compensated for electricity they supply to the grid. 4-21-2016 Source: Utilities,+ Solar = "Playing N...
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Utilities Want Rooftop Solar Off The Grid
Jun 28 2014 06:15 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Any rooftop solar system under 30kW will gain automatic approval from the networks, . . . as long as it has equipment installed, . . . that can prevent it from exporting electricity back into the grid, . . . to avoid what they call the “Christmas Day”...
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Utilities Risk Becoming The Dinosaurs
Mar 11 2013 01:45 AM | eds in Economy & Politics
Reuters is a well known multinational news agency, . . . not exactly known as a political radical. But Reuters delved into the threat renewable energy . . . is providing to utility company profits. Example: "Every new solar panel installed on Euro...
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Utilities Learn From Phone Services
Jul 22 2013 06:35 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
As the economics of : . . . . . . distributed energy, . . . . . . storage and . . . . . . demand-side management continue to improve, . . . the warnings about coming radical changes, . . . to traditional electric utility business models grow louder. O...
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Use #fossil Fuels: Saudi Arabia Says No!
Dec 03 2017 08:00 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Saudi Arabia, . . . will shortly be issuing tenders for the construction of more than . . . £40 billion worth of solar, and wind energy projects, spread over the next . . . 12 years, as well as considering the building of the country’s . . . first nucl...
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Usa: Puerto Rico #energy Plan By June
Apr 12 2018 12:50 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
More than 50,000 power customers remain in the dark, nearly . . . 7 months after Hurricane Maria. Officials are looking at integrating renewable energy sources, and . . . building micro grids around industrial sites. Assistant Energy Secretary Bruce...
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Usa: Market Barriers Removed For #energy Storage
Feb 16 2018 06:30 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
U.S.A. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), . . . have removed all market barriers to electric storage. This means operators can dispatch power, . . . from multiple storage systems, . . . including batteries. The decision could see a fall in...
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Usa: 40% Of Usa Electricity?
Apr 07 2016 10:05 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), . . . analysis reveals a technical potential of . . . 1,118 gigawatts (GW) of capacity, and . . . 1,432 terawatt-hours (TWh) of annual energy generation, equivalent to . . . 39% of the nation's electrici...
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Usa: 100% Renewable Energy By 2050
Jan 07 2016 09:10 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
A paper titled 100% Clean and Renewable Wind, Water and Sunlight all-sector Roadmaps for the 50 United States suggests this is possible even within 35 years. 1-7-2016 Source: USA: 100% renewable energy by 2050 By State
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Usa: $20 Trillion Dollars In Debt
Jan 06 2017 02:35 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Mandatory outlays will be higher than they were last year. . . . A significant component of that growth is: . . . . . . Social Security, . . . . . . Medicare, . . . . . . Medicaid, . . . . . . Children’s Health Insurance Program, . . . . . . plus subsi...
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Usa Supporting Chilean Solar Power Plan
Jun 30 2014 04:55 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
President Barack Obama says the United States will support, . . . the construction of a solar power plant in Chile. Obama was meeting in the Oval Office on Monday, . . . with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet. He told reporters as the meeting got un...
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Usa State Energy Efficiency Scorecard
Apr 04 2016 01:40 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), . . . 9th annual edition of the State Energy Efficiency Scorecard, . . . ranks the states, with the support of the US Department of Energy. Massachusetts Edges Out California as Most Energy...
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Usa People, Politics And Economy
Mar 14 2013 08:35 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
This is the America that China’s leaders laugh at, and . . . the rest of the democratic world despairs of. . . . . . . Its debt is rising, . . . . . . its population is ageing in a budget-threatening way, . . . . . . its schools are mediocre by interna...
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Usa Government To Shift To Renewable Energy
Mar 20 2015 01:10 AM | eds in Economy & Politics
President Barack Obama ordered the federal government, . . . to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% from 2008 levels, . . . over the next 10 years, by shifting to, . . . renewable energy sources such as solar power. 03-19-2015 Source: USA governme...
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Usa Economy: The Babyboomer Impact
May 08 2014 01:45 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Every month, more than a quarter-million Americans turn 65. . . . That’s a trend with profound economic consequences. . . . Simply put, retirees don’t contribute as much to the economy as workers do. . . . They don’t produce anything, at least directly...
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Usa Economy: Big Green Business Opportunity
Jun 15 2013 04:55 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Growth rates for green business products and services, . . . through the depths of the recession, . . . are rising faster than conventional goods in America’s economy, . . . creating opportunity for the 88% of US businesses . . . classified as “microb...
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Usa Could Save $1 Trillion . . . Annually
Mar 14 2015 10:15 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
In the United States each year, our cars alone cost us well over $1 trillion, . . . burn about 2 billion barrels of oil, . . . ~20% of gasolines energy, is converted into useful power, and . . . emit about 1.5 gigatons of carbon dioxide (1/4 of al...
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Usa Could Host 62.3 Gw Of Solar Pv
Feb 21 2016 07:00 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) say's . . . 1/4 of the USA's electricity needs. could be meet through, . . . rooftop solar PV alone. Big Box stores, Grocery stores, etc, use roughly . . . 5% of all of the electricity used in the US...
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