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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 minds of regulators and lawmakers.

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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.

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  • Renewables and Natural Gas Make Up Most of Electricity Additions in the US in 2018

    According to EIA, nearly 32 gigawatts (GW) of new electric generating capacity will come online in the United States in 2018, more than in any year over the past decade.

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  • Electricity Prices Remain Flat Despite Coal Energy Decline

    en years after coal began losing substantial electricity market share – primarily to natural gas – electricity prices have not risen at all.

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  • Ohio Public Utilities Commission Grants $26 million Electricity Rates Discount to Acero Junction

    Steelmaker Acero Junction has been granted a multi-million-dollar discount on electricity rates.

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