Once maligned as pie-in-the-sky, green energy programs are now embraced by Duke Energy Corp. as money makers. The profit motive inspired CEO Jim Rogers to come up with save-a-watt, a program that would allow it to make money conserving electricity. The N.C. Utilities Commission plans to hear ...
City officials were originally imagining a unit on the plaza comparable to the 100,000-watt model operating at the Local 103 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union hall in Dorchester, alongside the Southeast Expressway.
The plants will cover 12.5 square miles of central California with solar panels, and in the middle of a sunny day will generate about 800 megawatts of power, roughly equal to the size of a large coal-burning power plant or a small nuclear plant. A megawatt is enough power to run a large Wal-Mart store.
The agreement also replaces the existing energy efficiency tracker with a new Save-a-Watt model that will compensate Duke Energy based on the success of its energy efficiency programs.
Solar energy currently costs more to produce — between $6 and $8 per watt — than power generated from fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and natural gas, according to Lance Miller, chief of policy and planning for the board.
ILLINOIS - The utility company Ameren Illinois has announced its customers will be paying less for electricity beginning in June.= According to officials of the utility, the typical Ameren residential customer using 10,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity a year will save about $100, or 8 percent, on ...
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