energy bills Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:19:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Reducing Renewable Energy Targets Will Affect Consumer Bills https://www.greenoptimistic.com/reducing-renewable-energy-targets-will-affect-consumers-bills-20130815/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/reducing-renewable-energy-targets-will-affect-consumers-bills-20130815/#respond Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:19:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=40663 According to a report by the Bloomberg New Energy Finance research house, consumers will have to pay much higher electricity bills if renewable energy targets (RET) are reduced. As the authors state, this will be initiated by the fossil fuel generators, who will not only have limited competition, but also they will have full control […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/reducing-renewable-energy-targets-will-affect-consumers-bills-20130815/feed/ 0 40663 New Reflective Pavements Increase Building Temperatures and Electricity Bills https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-reflective-pavements-increase-building-temperatures-and-electricity-bills-20121109/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-reflective-pavements-increase-building-temperatures-and-electricity-bills-20121109/#respond Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:14:05 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=27895 On 29th of October, the new Journal of Urban Climate published a study which indicated that replacing old, heat-trapping paving materials with newer and cooler ones could increase electricity bills of neighboring buildings. According to the authors, the new materials lower the temperature of the place where they are used. Jan Kleissl, one of the […]

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