How to Use weatherize in a Sentence

weatherize

verb

• We'll weatherize the cabin with insulation.
• Who, in your view, will pay to weatherize your plants now?
  — David Blackmon, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• Make sure to weatherize your home and cover outdoor faucets.
  — OregonLive.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• The bill would also allow states to use their grants to weatherize about one million low- and moderate-income units each year.
  — Mark Wolfe For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 20 Jan. 2022
• Granholm says that while Texas has to take steps to weatherize its grid, the Department of Energy is ready to integrate the state's system into the rest of the country's.
  — Cara Korte, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2021
• The organization has led groups to plant trees, build rain gardens and weatherize buildings.
  — oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2022
• In recent months, gas producers have acknowledged the need to weatherize their operations against the cold.
  — James Osborne, San Antonio Express-News, 29 May 2021
• To keep your heating bill down without sacrificing comfort, look for alternative ways to warm and weatherize your home in the winter.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Aug. 2022
• The bill provides about $50 billion to protect against droughts and floods and weatherize utilities and other infrastructure.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• They also should be required to weatherize wells and equipment, just as power generators are expected to step up.
  — Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2021
• But whereas power plants in the Northeast and the Midwest weatherize for the cold out of necessity, there’s no commercial incentive for Texas facilities to do so.
  — Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 21 Feb. 2021
• And even if Texas gets all the funds envisioned for grid upgrades nationwide, that might not be enough to weatherize all of the generating plants and natural gas lines that failed when an arctic blast smothered the state in mid-February.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2021
• However, critics of the model argue that the price incentives aren’t big enough for generators to weatherize their facilities in advance of the storm.
  — Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2021
• To address the issue, Verde is working on improving the quality of rental housing by collaborating with the Build/Shift Collective to weatherize homes.
  — oregonlive, 20 Oct. 2022
• Whereas power plants in the Northeast and the Midwest weatherize for the cold out of necessity, there’s no commercial incentive for Texas facilities to do so, Medlock said.
  — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 19 Feb. 2021
• Such a mechanism would strengthen incentives to weatherize and maintain resilient plants that can supply power on short notice.
  — Baker Institute, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
• Further, the state did not go far enough in requiring natural gas producers to weatherize their infrastructure.
  — Robert Bryce, Forbes, 11 June 2021
• Some senators seemed frustrated the state doesn’t require power plants, wind turbines and other generators to weatherize - that is, make sure their equipment can withstand extreme heat, cold and wind.
  — James Barragán, Dallas News, 25 Feb. 2021
• Biden touted a separate administration plan to provide more than $3 billion to states to help homeowners weatherize their homes.
  — Jennifer Jacobs, Bloomberg.com, 31 Mar. 2022
• After the storm, Abbott failed to push the Legislature to pass laws that would ensure that gas companies and power generators properly weatherize.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Dec. 2021
• The program will prioritize those on an existing Senior Emergency Home Repair waitlist or those who were not able to weatherize their homes because of their roof conditions.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 2022
• The Texas House and Senate have now moved forward on measures requiring power generators to weatherize their equipment for extreme conditions like last month’s deadly freeze.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
• The Energy Department is helping low-income households access programs to weatherize their homes and save energy.
  — CBS News, 14 Apr. 2022
• Sunday added that beyond PPE, plastics are also used to weatherize homes and can be found in automotive devices, recreational equipment, and even components used to transport and store the coronavirus vaccines.
  — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2021
• For Buffett’s $8 billion, Gimon estimates Texas could weatherize about 1 million homes, potentially shaving enough load to avert the February collapse through those measures alone.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 1 Apr. 2021
• Under the existing system, there is limited incentive for natural gas plants to weatherize.
  — James Osborne, San Antonio Express-News, 29 May 2021
• After cold weather led to major power outages a decade ago, the state recommended that electric generators weatherize plants but did not mandate investments.
  — Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2021
• Homeowners familiar with chilly interiors have some options to weatherize their home.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Feb. 2022
• But the power generators in Texas have avoided doing that since a similar freeze/blackout event in 2011, after which they were advised by both state and federal regulators to weatherize their facilities, but not required to do so.
  — David Blackmon, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• Others have criticized natural gas operators in the grid failures, but most of the attention has focused on power plants that didn’t weatherize and grid regulators who didn’t move aggressively.
  — Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2021

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