Download or read book Understanding Your Utility Bill written by United States. Federal Energy Administration and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Energy Savers written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides consumers with home energy and money savings tips such as insulation, weatherization, heating, cooling, water heating, energy efficient windows, landscaping, lighting, and energy efficient appliances.
Download or read book Creating a Market for Electricity Savings written by Rachel Cary and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Electric Rate Book written by United States. Energy Information Administration. Office of Energy Data and Interpretation and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Electric Rate Book written by United States. Energy Information Administration. Office of Energy Data and Interpretation and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paying Too Much for Energy written by Michael Greenstone and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy consumption is critical to economic growth and quality of life. America's energy system, however, is malfunctioning. The status quo is characterized by a tilted playing field, where energy choices are based on the visible costs that appear on utility bills and at gas pumps. This system masks the "external" costs arising from those energy choices, including shorter lives, higher health care expenses, a changing climate, and weakened national security. As a result, we pay unnecessarily high costs for energy. New "rules of the road" could level the energy playing field. Drawing from our work for The Hamilton Project, this paper offers four principles for reforming U.S. energy policies in order to increase Americans' well-being. Keywords: costs of alternative energy, energy externalities, health costs of energy, private costs of energy, reforming energy policy, social costs of energy. JEL Classifications: I18, Q42, Q48, Q51, Q53, Q54.
Download or read book Utilities Code written by Texas and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Energy Efficiency How To Produce More Renewable Energy Without Paying Outrageous Bills written by Michael Bush and published by Michael Bush. This book was released on with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces alternative sources of energy, especially if you want to stop paying outrageous bills by producing more electric and fuel power. There are many technologies that convert the alternative sources of energy into electricity and fuel very effectively with little or no risk to the envornment and your wallet. Go green and grab your copy now!
Download or read book Do You Need Help Paying Your Energy Bills written by Chicago (Ill.). Department of Human Services and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The California Electricity Crisis written by Christopher Weare and published by Public Policy Instit. of CA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High Cost of Electricity written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unpacking the Determinants and Burdens of Energy Assistance in the United States written by Michelle Graff (College teacher) and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy insecurity - a household's inability to pay their energy bills - challenges millions of low-income households. Recent scholarship provides evidence that this material hardship disproportionately affects households of color, renters, those that live in dilapidated housing, and those that rely on electronic medical devices. When a household's power is disconnected, they lose the ability to meet their basic needs, including heating and cooling, cooking and refrigeration, lighting, as well as connecting all electronic devices. This may lead to unsafe behaviors, including burning trash and/or using space heaters to heat homes, taking out high interest loans to pay a bill or restore their electric service, or making tradeoffs between paying their utility bills and purchasing other necessities for their families, such as nutritious food or healthcare services. As scholars learn more about the scope and scale of the domestic energy insecure population, it is critical that the literature simultaneously explores the solutions established to alleviate this material hardship. For this reason, my dissertation examines both the determinants and administration of energy assistance in the U.S. I rely on multiple sources of longitudinal data to conduct three empirical analyses.Employing the 2014 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and linear probability models with location fixed effects, I identify household characteristics, including demographics, housing and health measures, as well as participation in other government assistance programs, that predict household utility insecurity - operationalized as those that could not pay a utility bill - and receipt of energy assistance and compare how receipt aligns with need. I find that Black households, female-headed households, those living with more dilapidated housing conditions, and are already connected to social welfare programs are all more likely to experience utility insecurity as well as more likely to be an energy assistance recipient. However, the results reveal that Hispanic households, renters, and those with younger heads of households are less likely to be able to pay a utility bill but not more likely to receive assistance in paying this bill. These outcomes suggest that receipt of energy assistance does not align with need for certain members of the U.S. population.Next, I explore the administration of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), the only federally funded program that helps low-income households pay their energy bills. Historically, LIHEAP is an underfunded block-grant program, only able to serve 20 to 25 percent of the income-eligible population each year. Using several secondary sources and original interview data with LIHEAP administrators, I exploit cross-state and over time variation in the program's eligibility requirements to conduct two-way fixed effects analyses. I explore if LIHEAP's eligibility procedures affect program outcomes, including enrollment and administrative costs (i.e. program efficiency). Across two different analyses, I find that when states reduce (increase) the administrative burdens, or hurdles that applicants have to overcome to participate in LIHEAP, and/or reduce (increase) red tape that employees face when administering the program, participation rates increase (decrease) and overhead costs decrease (increase). Taken in totality, this dissertation suggests that, in the absence of increased Congressional funding, domestic energy assistance programs could make administrative corrections to improve participation rates and efficiency. Specifically, the evidence implies that LIHEAP programs could target recruitment and outreach efforts to those most likely to experience energy insecurity but not more likely to receive assistance - Hispanic households, renters, and those with younger heads of household - as well as consider alterations to their eligibility requirements to maximize their limited budgets to enhance efficiency and increase enrollment.
Download or read book Energy Law and Economics written by Klaus Mathis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an edited volume for all readers who wish to gain an in-depth grasp of the economic analysis of recent developments in energy law and policy in Europe and the United States. In response to waning resources and heightened environmental awareness, many countries are now seeking to redefine their energy mix. Several energy sources are available: coal and oil, natural gas, and a variety of renewables. Yet which of them are capable of addressing core energy-related concerns? Reliability, security, affordability, fairness, and sustainability all have to be taken into account. Further, once a target mix has been identified, two challenges remain for legal scholars: what role does the law play in achieving a specified energy mix, and, how can the law best fulfill that role? The essential energy concerns are just as important in defining the way we shape our energy mix as they are in defining the mix itself. An example of current challenges in energy law and policy can be seen in the pursuit by the German and Swiss governments of the so-called “Energiewende” (energy transition). These policies are intended to enable the transition from a non-sustainable use of fossil and nuclear energy to a more sustainable approach based on renewable energies. On the one hand, the goal is to achieve a decarbonization of the energy economy by reducing the use of fossil energy sources such as petroleum, carbon and natural gas. On the other, and in response to the Fukushima nuclear accident, a phase out is intended to eliminate the dangers of nuclear technologies. Achieving these goals poses tremendous challenges for the two countries’ energy policies – partly because the energy transition will not only affect energy production, but also energy consumption. From a Law and Economics perspective, a number of questions arise: to what extent is it justifiable to rely on markets and continued technological innovation, especially with regard to the present exploitation of scarce resources? To what extent is it necessary for states to intervene in energy markets? Regulatory instruments are available to create and maintain more sustainable societies: command and control regulations, restraints, Pigovian taxes, emission certificates, nudging policies, and more. If regulation in a certain legal field is necessary, which policies and methods will most effectively spur the sustainable consumption and production of energy in order to protect the environment while mitigating any potential negative impacts on economic development? Do neoclassical and behavioural economics provide us with a suitable framework for predicting the market’s complex reactions to a changing energy policy? This book provides theoretical insights as well as empirical findings in order to answer these vital questions.
Download or read book National Electric Rate Book written by United States. Energy Information Administration. Office of Energy Data and Interpretation and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Electric Rate Book written by United States. Energy Information Administration. Office of Energy Data and Interpretation and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Energy Transitions written by Vaclav Smil and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bold and controversial argument shows why energy transitions are inherently complex and prolonged affairs, and how ignoring this fact raises unrealistic expectations that the United States and other global economies can be weaned quickly from a primary dependency on fossil fuels. Energy transitions are fundamental processes behind the evolution of human societies: they both drive and are driven by technical, economic, and social changes. In a bold and provocative argument, Energy Transitions: History, Requirements, Prospects describes the history of modern society's dependence on fossil fuels and the prospects for the transition to a nonfossil world. Vaclav Smil, who has published more on various aspects of energy than any working scientist, makes it clear that this transition will not be accomplished easily, and that it cannot be accomplished within the timetables established by the Obama administration. The book begins with a survey of the basic properties of modern energy systems. It then offers detailed explanations of universal patterns of energy transitions, the peculiarities of changing energy use in the world's leading economies, and the coming shifts from fossil fuels to renewable conversions. Specific cases of these transitions are analyzed for eight of the world's leading energy consumers. The author closes with perspectives on the nature and pace of the coming energy transition to renewable conversions.
Download or read book Paying for Energy Bills by Credit Cards Or Directly Debited Bank Accounts written by Energy Action Group (Vic.) and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
