Energy Usage
Electricity
Coffeemaker, microwave, toaster (< 30 minutes)
Food preparation
Electricity
Television (4 hours)
Recreation
Electricity
Computer (24 hours)
Recreation/Education
Electricity
Washing machine (< 30 minutes)
Personal care
Oil
Automobile (17 miles)
Recreation
Electricity
Stovetop (20 minutes)
Food preparation
Electricity
Lights (various rooms of apartment, used singly or in combination over a 6-hour period. No light stayed on for more than 1/2-hour)
Household use
SATURDAY
Electricity
Coffeemaker
Food preparation
Electricity
Television (3 hours)
Recreation
Electricity
Stereo (6 hours)
Recreation
Electricity
Stovetop (2 20-minute blocks)
Food preparation
Oil
Automobile (8 miles)
Grocery shopping
Electricity
Lights (various rooms of apartment, used singly or in combination over an 18-hour period. Living room light stayed on entire period because of overcast weather and insufficient natural light.
Household use
Electricity
Computer (24 hours)
Recreation/Education/Personal Banking
SUNDAY
AUGUST 14
2011
National Grid is an international energy delivery company that provides electricity and natural gas to over three million users in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and New York. National Grid generates electricity through nuclear power. The company has a website that features a great deal of information on its green energy initiatives, but says little about...
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" (THE CALIFORNIA CRISIS) Studies also refer to the very structure of the deregulation system in California as being intrinsically flawed. As one study notes; "The most important flaw of California's deregulated electricity market was that the market was more re-regulated than deregulated" and that it was "...the most complicated electricity market ever created..." (Ritschel and Smestad 1379) This situation was exacerbated by other pertinent factors, all of which contributed to the
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I began to wonder, what are we all hurrying for? When I finally got to my apartment, of course the elevator wasn't working, so I had to climb up a lot more stairs than I wanted to. When I opened my door, I was greeted mostly with a dim blackness. There was no hum of the refrigerator, no blinking VCR light, and no LED clock on my bedside table. Everything
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