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Concerned About Electricity Rates, Maine Regulators Take Another Look at Offshore Wind Project

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine utility regulators, concerned that a contract that finances an offshore wind energy project could raise electricity rates, are taking another look at the agreement. The Maine Public Utilities Commission voted Tuesday to re-open the contract, the Portland ...

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How to Get a New Energy Meter for Your Business

Need a new meter for your business premises? Or does you need to upgrade your energy meter due to capacity changes? No matter the size of your business, it is a given that utilizing technologies such as new meters gives ...

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Nearly One Third of American Households Faced Challenges Paying Their Energy Bill

Nearly one-third of U.S. households (31%) reported facing a challenge in paying energy bills or sustaining adequate heating and cooling in their home in 2015. According to the most recent results from EIA’s Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS), about one ...

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9 Summer Energy Savings Tips to Lower Your Electricity Bill

  It is hard to find anyone who doesn’t like summer with the longer days, warmer weather, and no school. However, there is one thing that typically doesn’t like the summer all that much - your electricity bill. That's because, ...

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Texans in competitive electric markets have seen a 19.6% drop in electricity prices

From 2007 to 2016, Texas residential prices in the deregulated — or competitive — areas have dropped by 19.6 percent. Prices in the regulated areas increased by 6.1 percent in that same period. The analysis, which used the most recent numbers ...

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8 U.S. States are Federally Approved for Offshore Wind Farms

There are only five wind turbines operating in U.S. waters today. But that will likely soon change, partly because of states with ambitious offshore wind targets. Massachusetts, for example, is about to pick one of the three bids it got from companies vying ...

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Midwest States Take Aim at Utility Stand By Charges for Heat and Power Plants

Several Midwest states are taking a new look at a long-ignored utility charge that efficiency advocates say discourages investment in combined heat and power plants. Standby charges are meant to cover the cost for utilities to provide backup capacity when ...

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PSNH to Issue $636 Million in Bonds to Recover From Past Investments; NH Electricity Rates Will Rise for Some, Fall for Others

Public Service of New Hampshire is preparing to issue $636 million in bonds to recover past investments in power plants it’s now divested from. “The costs remaining after the sale of our regulated power plants are being recovered now as ...

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New Hampshire’s New Energy Strategy Focuses on Lowering Electricity Rates by Growing Nuclear, Not Renewables

A new 10-year energy strategy from the Sununu administration prefers Uber to trains, supports nuclear at least as much as wind and solar, and says that electricity cost to ratepayers rather than support for renewables should be topmost in the ...

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Utilities are Starting to Seek Rate Hikes to Make Up for Slowing Electricity Demand

After growing for over a century, electricity demand has started to decline. Consumers are more informed about what is using the most electricity in their homes and businesses, we have more energy-efficient products than ever before, and there is a ...

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