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Get Used To Blackouts and Higher Electric Bills As the Climate Changes
2016-01-04 17:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: Climate change could put at risk thousands of the world's power plants by the middle of the century, leading to outages and forcing countries to find alternative sources of energy, according to a study published on Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. Researchers evaluated the likely impact of more frequent and more severe heat waves on 24,515 hydropower and 1,427 thermoelectric power plants around the world. They found that as many as 86 percent of those hydro facilities could see notable...
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Ontario hydro bills will rise in new year even after debt charge is eliminated
2015-12-31 11:26:39| Energy - Topix.net
The increase comes on the heels of a jump just two months ago, and hydro bills will rise again after the Liberals introduce a cap-and-trade plan in the spring. Under the Liberal government, electricity prices in Ontario soared from a flat 4.7 cents a kilowatt hour in 2004, to the Nov. 1, 2015 rate of 17.5 cents a kwh at peak times, increases that total almost 375 per cent.
Happy new year: Time Warner Cable, Dish, DirecTV bills increasing in 2016
2015-12-29 03:36:14| Telecom - Topix.net
The Time Warner Cable corporate logo is displayed at a company store, Tuesday, May 26, 2015 in New York. (Mark Lennihan The nation's largest cable and satellite TV providers are raising their rates in 2016, making customers' bills increase as much as $10 a month.
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Gov. Snyder, seeking answers, not ready to sign off on Switch data center tax break bills
2015-12-10 20:24:41| Furniture - Topix.net
A fast-tracked plan to land a high-tech data center in West Michigan has slowed this week in the state House, as officials debate the nuts and bolts of a major tax break proposal still likely to be finalized by the end of the year. But with just four session days left on the legislative calendar in 2015, there remain "tough questions that need to be answered before I sign off on something," Gov. Rick Snyder said Wednesday.
United Kingdom: Flood-hit homeowners face higher insurance bills after Storm Desmond
2015-12-06 20:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Homeowners in flood-stricken areas of Cumbria could see their already high insurance bills increase further following Storm Desmond. Under an agreement between the government and insurers, homeowners are supposed to be able to buy policies that include cover for flood damage from their existing provider. However, there is no cap on costs, and previously residents in the area have reported being quoted prices of 2,000 a year and offered policies with excesses of 20,000, or being turned down entirely....
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