In addition, these systems monitor electric system parameters and pricing information to manage consumers energy costs, comfort, and health according to end-users personal preferences.
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On Feb. 27, a Consumers Energy crew was replacing eight-decade-old pipelines in Royal Oak when a natural-gas explosion killed one resident and damaged 31 homes.
Smart meter readings offer utilities and consumers energy and cost savings.
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CMS's Consumers Energy unit has 626 miles of cast- and wrought-iron pipeline in its gas system, or about 2.4 percent of the utility's total distribution system.
But despite the energy savings, when consumers buy Energy Star products, they often face a bit of sticker shock.
He's betting that lawmakers, blue-chip utility companies and consumers seeking energy efficiency will bring in the business.
Indeed, many of the most prevalent plug loads are profligate consumers of energy.
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Overall consumer price inflation has come down since last year, primarily as a result of the deceleration of consumers' energy costs.
The EU correctly points out that Russia needs European energy consumers just as much as Europe needs Russian energy suppliers.
He wanted to know the costs to energy consumers of these proposals compared to other forms of low carbon energy.
First, distributed energy generation is enabling efficient, decentralized energy production close to the point of use by consumers, integrating energy generation more fully into our homes, offices, and factories.
For energy consumers, such a strategy, if successful, will inevitably mean shortages of energy, and higher costs at the fuel pump, in our home utility bills, at grocery and clothing stores, and in any other good or service whose cost is in any way dependent on the cost of energy or transportation.
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Smart meters will better inform consumers of their energy consumption and increase off-peak tariff usage.
Eriksen emphasizes the importance of mobilizing consumers to make energy efficiency a way of life.
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As they move from low-energy to high-energy consumers, they are becoming steadily rising competitors with us for oil.
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The EIA estimates growth to be relatively flat for OECD countries, which are generally the more advanced energy consumers.
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Energywatch Scotland is once again arguing that the market is not working for the most vulnerable of energy consumers.
Other benefits are available to entice consumers to choose energy-efficient appliances.
It was not possible to understand what impact any attempted manipulation would have had on prices paid by consumers, the energy secretary said.
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And that's the really - I think that's the big factor, the unknown here, is when do American consumers begin taking energy efficiency seriously?
Tighter restrictions are a view to which CFTC Chair Gary Gensler subscribes and one that is also supported by large industrial energy consumers.
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"There is a level of mutual dependence - we depend on them for energy supplies and we are energy consumers for them, " he said.
While I support the goal, the proposal was a weak-kneed and poorly considered one that would have simply created a pass-through to California's energy consumers.
GreenWave also offers coaching to help consumers reduce their energy use.
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However, the International Energy Agency (IEA), a rich-world energy consumers' club, says that European customers have already stopped buying Iranian crude and that Asian buyers are looking elsewhere.
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Many energy consumers are switching fuels as rapidly as possible.
Consumer Focus, the official watchdog that speaks for consumers, said energy customers were already being overcharged and there was room for price cuts now while wholesale costs were lower.
For all the opposition's protestations that it would wreck the economy and saddle consumers with higher energy bills, a recent poll suggested that the measure was less unpopular than Tony Abbott.
And if both America and China, the biggest energy consumers, become less dependent on the Middle East for gas, they are less likely to fall out over securing resources from the region.
Most of this burden was carried as an implicit subsidy to domestic energy consumers, with the price of diesel fuel, for example, set at the equivalent of two American cents a litre, and petrol selling for less than bottled water.
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