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...seem to use them more frugally. Mrs. Szyperski figures that she spends only $12.50 a year for electricity for each person in her eight-member household. (Daytime rates in the two communities are comparable.) Such knowledge about energy costs is commonplace in Rösrath; the average housewife knows kilowatt rates as accurately as she does the size of her shoe. Some of Rösrath's residents also benefit from the kind of energy-saving measures that Carter is trying to encourage-for example, a device that stores heat generated by electricity ,at night, when the rate...
...kilowatt saved is a kilowatt earned, and energy thrift should not have to be its own reward. So believe officers of the Seattle Trust & Savings Bank, who are now offering reduced-cost loans to customers who open new checking accounts and buy well-insulated homes, upgrade existing ones or purchase fuel-saving cars or boats. The buyer of a house that scores at least 15 points on an energy-saving rating system devised by the bank (five points for an efficient furnace, another five for ceiling insulation), can qualify for a 30-year mortgage at 8.5%, about a point below...
...proposal to establish a uniform per kilowatt-hour rate for all users of electricity, one of three placed on the November 2 Massachusetts ballot on Wednesday, could lead to a tuition hike for Harvard students if voters approve the measure...
...proposal is far from dead. Fair Share, a consumer lobbying group, collected 68,495 signatures on the petition calling for uniform rates per kilowatt hour for all customers. Fair Share must start a new petition and gather about 10,000 signatures to get the referendum on the ballot in November...
...cost of a nuclear power plant planned for Midland, Mich., in 1968 was estimated to be $260 million; the plant, not yet finished, is now expected to cost $1.4 billion. In total, says Power Plant Builder Leonard Reichle of Ebasco Services, Inc., a nuke costs $1,005 per kilowatt of generating capacity, while a coal-fired plant costs between $690 and $910 per kilowatt...