The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Community solar makes renewable energy accessible to all and helps reduce the energy burden of low-income households. Joining a community solar project requires no change to your electricity service and results in monthly savings on your utility bill through the issuance of bill credits. This is known as virtual net metering.

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Mosaic

MARCH 21, 2024

All of these are electric home improvements and all can save homeowners money on their utility bills. Electric upgrades are growing in popularity as more homeowners look to electrify their households. Lower utility costs Around 43% of a home utility bill comes from heating and cooling needs.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In our recent report, A Clean Bill , we showed how a transition to clean energy does not have to come at the cost of affordability. In fact, we found that a household in the Greater Toronto Area can save hundreds of dollars per month by adopting clean energy solutions like electric vehicles and heat pumps.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Jeremy Hunt also unveiled a £6 billion extra package of support for initiatives like retrofitting to insulate homes and upgrade heating systems, from 2025 – although it wasn’t clear if this was new money or not. UK100 noted that the £6 billion appears not to be new money, and many thought the timeline didn’t reflect the urgency of the matter.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Once only accessible to the well-off, solar power is making inroads to low-income households thanks to federal and state programs Joseph Wang and his wife have figured out a way to stay warm and efficient during northern California’s winter nights: layering. “We We bundle up during the day, and at night. Continue reading.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 14, 2023

It will meet over 20% of Molokai's energy needs serving around 1500 households—including renters, homesteaders and other residents who have been left out of the transition to renewables. The community owned solar project is expected to grow the island's energy independence and save residents money on their utility bills.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Core to this strategy is keeping the benefit of building electrification in these communities — creating jobs, improving health and saving households money. Many clean energy technologies save money over time, so upfront finance can be a great investment. Financial innovations are as important as technological innovations.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

The money will go towards improvements to vulnerable households and off-gas grid homes with an EPC rating of C or below and could save tenants between £220 and £400 a year on energy bills, says the government. An additional £1.1 billion to upgrade social and private homes in England.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

Another trial will see buy-to-let landlords add the cost of making properties more energy efficient onto their mortgage – enabling them to borrow the money for the improvements and include it in their monthly repayments.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 2, 2024

With Canada set to see 700,000 more energy jobs in a net-zero 2050 than exist today—and households on track to spend 12% less on energy in that same future—going all in on clean energy will unlock household savings while setting provincial economies up for success.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

New campaign estimates households could save £120 a year on energy bills if they adjust the temperature flow setting of their fossil gas boilers. and a raft of clean energy suppliers to deliver a new campaign urging households to turn down the flow temperature on their combination boilers this winter.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 31, 2024

The money, the party’s leader, Keir Starmer, said at the time, would foster green growth and jobs, and put the UK back in the low-carbon race internationally.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The letter stresses that the soaring energy costs currently faced by households - even with the government support package in place average bills are expected to be £1,300 higher for households this winter compared to last year - are in part the result of a recent record on reducing emissions from buildings that has been "particularly poor".

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Charged

AUGUST 31, 2023

Bidirectional charging is on the way to your driveway, and it will soon allow you to use your EV as backup power for your home, or to save money by taking advantage of utility incentives. A Kia EV9 can hold between 76 and 100 kWh of energy, enough to power a typical household for up to four days. Quasar 2 is an 11.5

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Collaboration follows new research showing nearly two-thirds of UK households do not use technology to help run their home more efficiently. Dubbed the Smarter Living Challenge , the new project will work with 60 households over the next three months to explore how digital technology can help save them money and improve energy efficiency.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Developed by analyst firm Cambridge Econometrics for Greenpeace, the Affordable Energy Calculator allows people to find out how key government decisions about home energy upgrades are likely to affect their energy bills in the coming years. Greener homes would keep communities warm and healthy and save us all money.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2022

Campaigners slam proposals to skim money from existing subsidies to create new insulation scheme, arguing that it amounts to 'robbing Peter to pay Paul'. While E3G supports expanding ECO, this must be covered by new funding - not skimming money from other schemes," she wrote on Twitter. Robbing Peter to pay Paul is not the solution.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

Households in Halifax are set to be offered cheaper electricity bills on windy days by Octopus Energy Generation, which is expanding its 'Fan Club' tariff to the West Yorkshire town, it announced today. Halifax households which sign up to the tariff could shave roughly £350 off their annual energy bill, the firm estimates.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 17, 2023

Major infrastructure improvements in the water sector in PR24 will require companies to better demonstrate how any increase in water bills will benefit customers, said David Black, chief executive of Ofwat, at a British Water reception held at the House of Lords on 27 April 2023.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 23, 2024

Together, we can provide flexible and cost-effective energy usage across more than seven million households in the United Kingdom, and accelerate the broader energy transition. The company has operations in 16 countries and its advanced data and machine learning platform, Kraken, supports more than 54 million customers worldwide.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 21, 2022

The plans would mean energy retailers are required to protect their customers’ money so that it isn’t lost if they go out of business adding costs to already high bills and causing a huge amount of stress and worry for customers. Credit balances and consumer bills.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 25, 2024

Through this customers can stay informed via notifications of for example, the best times to use household appliances to save money. British Gas also offers customers the chance to purchase heat pumps through flexible financing methods and coupling with the recently increased government boiler upgrade scheme grant of £7,500 (US$9,500).

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The research comes as updates to the government’s Environmental Bill are set to come into force in 2023. We hope the fast-approaching Environmental Act deadlines will help propel both business and household efforts to recycle food waste and move towards a more circular economy.”. Reducing use of plastic (35%).

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GreenBiz

MAY 20, 2021

Stop investing in companies that explore for needless new drilling sites — they’re wasting their money and ours." And mass electrification of homes to make them more efficient would offer more than 65 million American households more than $27 billion a year in energy bill savings in aggregate, according to Rewiring America.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Octopus Energy Group’s entech platform Kraken will control domestic assets such as heat pumps, smart meters and other energy tech to automatically reduce bills for Belgian households. This next partnership with Noven will allow the same benefits of cheaper, greener energy to be passed on to households. “By

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The UK imports a vast amount of gas each year to heat our homes, and that money drains straight out of the UK economy. Every unit of gas we use costs the government and households money, makes it harder to get inflation back under control and weakens the UK economy. Few things save gas as effectively as a heat pump.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The number of households applying to the grant—which offers up to $5,000 off the upfront cost of various energy upgrades—increased by 55 per cent between November 2023 and January 2024. Canadians shaved money off their bills while the federal government took the sting out of the purchase cost.

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Business Green

AUGUST 21, 2022

Friends of the Earth and the New Economics Foundation call on government to invest £15bn in improving housing stock in response to surging energy bills this winter. The campaign group said it the government could begin to roll out such a scheme out using the money raised through its Windfall Levy, which is expected to raise around £5bn.

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Mosaic

APRIL 10, 2023

Saving homeowners money 2. The Inflation Reduction Act has the potential to save 103 million households $37 billion a year on energy bills. These initiatives will help lower energy bills and the usage of polluted energy sources — helping people and our planet prosper! Creating green energy jobs 3.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

The new law marks the third comprehensive effort by a state to prevent utilities from using consumers’ monthly bills to fund political efforts, following a similar law passed in Colorado in May and a law that Maine Governor Janet Mills signed in late June.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

A new report by the nonprofit Environmental Defence indicates that, despite record profits for the fossil fuel industry and Canadian claims to eliminate subsidies , the government of Justin Trudeau continues to spend massive quantities of public money supporting the primary cause of climate change. “As

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

The government has today announced plans for new legislation to end the sale of the majority of halogen bulbs for general household use from 1 September, as part of a package of measures designed to tighten energy efficiency standards for electrical appliances. Shift to LED bulbs expected to cut UK carbon emissions by 1.26

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

Tory leadership hopeful pledges to 'turbocharge' home insulation rollout to cut energy bills and support climate goals. Meanwhile, she has pledged to ditch green levies on energy bills, part of which are used to pay for the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme that funds insulation upgrades for fuel poor homes.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The changes, plus a $30 bill minimum and a grid access fee for systems larger than 15 kilowatts, ensure that solar adopters will not zero out their payments to the utility. It’s not about taking away money from solar customers, it’s aligning the cost and aligning the price signals.". Beyond solar.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

Move environmental policy costs from energy bills into general taxation. ” “The recent windfall tax-funded energy bill grants are welcome, but they are a short-term sticking plaster. ” “Not only will this help bring down household energy bills, but it will also drive progress toward our Net Zero targets.

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Mosaic

OCTOBER 1, 2022

According to Rewiring America, 80 percent of voters say decreases in their monthly energy costs would have a “Very” or “Somewhat” significant impact on their household budgets. Energy Awareness Month is the perfect time to talk to your customers about how energy efficiency can lower their utility bills and save them money.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2023

Dan said: “We went into this business because we all have to play a part in addressing climate change and the cycle of being trapped with ever-raising energy bills. By giving people control over the energy in their own homes, they can transition to renewable energy, they can live in a more sustainable way, and they can save money as well.”

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