Kill-A-Watt plan to produce power savings.Con Edison and Public Energy Solutions (PES pes (pes) pl. pe´des [L.] 1. foot. 2. any footlike part. pes n. pl. pe·des 1. The foot. 2. ) are shedding some light on ways that city buildings can prevent black outs, help the electric grid this summer and save 25-50% on energy costs through a new program called Operation Kill-A-Watt. Operation Kill-A-Watt is a lighting and energy upgrade initiative that has already significantly reduced electric demand in the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of area and allowed building owners the opportunity to make valuable, environmentally-friendly changes to their buildings. Operation Kill-A-Watt paid for $7 million in lighting efficiency projects last year and has increased the funding to $10 million in 2007. PES has been awarded contracts by Con Edison to help reduce power consumption by 40,000 KW (kilo-watts) in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Westchester County. PES and Con Edison are reaching out to New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. businesses and multi-family residential Multi-family residential is a classification of housing where multiple separate housing units are contained within one building. The most common form is an apartment building. Many intentional communities incorporate multi-family residences, such as in cohousing projects. buildings to assist in preventing black outs and reduce demand on the already strained electric grid for the summer of 2007 and beyond. By permanently reducing electric load in selected areas, major power outages This is a list of famous wide-scale power outages. 1965
"New York businesses and residences, whether they pay their own electric bill or if it is part of their lease, know the high cost of power. New Yorkers have the chance to take advantage of these incentives to help pay for part or all of the cost of an efficiency upgrade before the offer runs out. While people might be hesitant hes·i·tant adj. Inclined or tending to hesitate. hes  i·tant·ly adv. to sign up for a program that claims something for nothing, we have overcome that barrier by providing numerous benefits so far," said Keith Hartman, president of PES. "Over the next 10 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time combined electric bill savings for the entire Operation Kill-A-Watt program will save New Yorkers over $230 million in electric costs; money that will be infused back into the New York economy." |
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