"It is, in essence, a hidden tax on all non-residential users, " Bilas said.

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The researchers found that for residential users heating water (showers, clothes washers, cooking, hot tubs, etc) accounted for 75% of water-related energy use.

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In any case, only a handful of states have plans to introduce full-scale competition for residential users before 2000 (although in some states plans for competition for industrial users are more advanced).

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It's the most open and liquid power market in the United States, offering both residential and commercial users a broad choice of power suppliers.

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Water users, from residential to commercial, to even industrial sites could dramatically reduce their water-energy by using the sun.

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Residential or enterprise small cells, sometimes referred to as femtocells, are designed for deployment in residential or office settings to connect anywhere from 8 to 64 users within a radius of a few hundred feet.

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Led by the fast-talking David McCourt , RCN (as in Residential Communications Network) once bragged it would wire up 9 million cable, phone and Internet users among 25 million homes mostly in the northeastern corridor.

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