The hot summer in the United States is driving up electricity bills due to the heavy use of air conditioning. However, you can save money in two ways: use electricity more efficiently, or pay at a lower rate. According to the Energy Information Administration, retail electricity sales reach ...
In Florida, a woman came up with a bright idea for the restoration of electricity after Hurricane Irma: she put up a banner in her backyard "passionate single woman ...". Kines Lee, 37, was recovering at a Tampa hospital after undergoing kidney and pancreatic surgery when the hurricane ...
Food safety is just as important as hurricane evacuation. Power outages during a hurricane can spoil the food left in the refrigerator. But when people return from evacuation or travel, how do they know if their food is safe or not? Problem ...
All Las Vegas city facilities - from government buildings to streetlights - are now running entirely on alternative energy sources, city officials announced. This is reported by the Huffington Post. “We can boast that Las Vegas is one of the few cities...
During Hurricane Matthew, there is a high likelihood of damage to power grids. Many gas stations in Broward and Miami-Dade must be open during a power outage. Here is a map of Miami-Dade stations equipped with generators or generating capabilities. As ForumDaily wrote earlier, according to the latest data, about one and a half million people ...
A sweltering heat wave across California prompted authorities to recommend that state residents cut back on electricity use throughout the day. A similar initiative came from the California power grid operator CAISO. Local residents are asked to save electricity from 2 pm ...
Ukraine stopped supplying electricity to Crimea after the Kakhovka-Titan power transmission line was turned off due to another accident on the line. According to Crimean officials, Evpatoria and a number of other cities and towns in the north-west of Crimea were de-energized. Later, Ukrenergo representative Zinoviy Butsio said that a second attempt to turn on the power lines...
In Crimea, which has remained without electricity for the second week, there has been a tendency to give newborns names that correspond to the moment. Thus, there are more small Lights on the peninsula. Chairman of the State Council of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov calls on parents of boys not to lag behind. “A completely original proposal arose - to call the boys Generators...
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko will consider an electronic petition demanding to cut off the supply of electricity to Crimea, annexed by Russia in the spring of 2014. By law, the president is obliged to consider a petition addressed to him if it receives the support of more than 25 thousand people. Petition to disconnect Crimea ...
Former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov proposed producing fertilizers, biogas or electricity from sanctioned products. “Any organic matter can be converted into electricity. I got electricity from processing leftover hay and straw, and processing cow manure. If you use manure from one and a half thousand...