Sentences with phrase «california utility customers»

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The project is one of a growing number of planned battery farms in California and other states, as utilities look for better and greener options to generate and deliver energy to their customers and meet the state's regulations.

Utilities in California are seeking to reduce the solar credits and limit the amount of customers who can receive them.

California Water Service Group is a holding company with six operating subsidiaries that provide regulated and non-regulated water utility service to nearly 500,000 customers in four states.

The state's three investor - owned utilities, Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric, initially argued for fixed charges for solar customers, but in the last month authored a new proposal that would preserve net metering but reduce the rate at which solar customers are compensated for the power they export.

However, they may have to pay some monthly fees to remain connected to the grid, as is the case for customers of major California utilities.

The measurement interval available to customers depends on what their utility offers, but many utilities — especially in California and Texas, where utilities are required to provide customers with their energy usage data — provide this information in 15 - minute increments.

In 2008, the Public Utilities Commissions in Oregon and California concluded that removing the dams, instead of spending more than $ 500 million to bring the dams up to 21st century safety and environmental standards, would save PacifiCorp customers more than $ 100 million.

Electricity demand between 2011 and 2012 remained essentially unchanged, leaving California utilities to deliver the same amount of electricity to customers without one of the largest in - state suppliers.

Also, in certain states — like California — and local markets as utilities change how they charge customers for energy use, the energy storage systems can provide additional opportunities to save money.

Funding comes from investor - owned utility customers under the auspices of the California Public Utilities Commission.

Much like the California Solar Initiative created a market for rooftop solar and is now driving rapid declines in the cost of rooftop solar across the nation, this mandate will create a market for storage that is expected to, in the words of CPUC President Michael Peevey «tear down barriers that prevent cost - effective energy storage resources from competing and providing benefits to California customers, ratepayers of California utilities.»

Rebates for retail utility customers to install solar photovoltaic (PV) energy systems were included in California's SGIP when it was originally launched.

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) in southern California will begin a program in which the utility company will provide another 100 megawatts (MW) of photovoltaic (PV) solar electricity to its customers.

California's three big utilities are shifting to time - of - use rates for residential customers — meaning ratepayers will be charged more for electricity when it is more valuable.

Over the course of the past two years, staff at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) in the U.S. have introduced novel customer engagement opportunities to participate in wholesale energy markets via the Demand Response Auction Mechanism (DRAM) program.

Craven said that he hoped recent problems in California, where the company successfully campaigned to have grid interconnection charges levied on its customers installing storage lifted, would not be repeated elsewhere and described storage as an «opportunity» for utilities to rethink their business model in the wake of disruptive challenges from solar and other renewable technologies.

Aguirre intervened in an application from the state's investor - owned utilities — Edison, SDG&E, Southern California Gas and Pacific Gas & Electric — when they wanted to charge customers in advance for future wildfire damages that would not be covered by insurance companies.

In California, the Imperial Irrigation District (IID), a public power utility managing water and electricity in the Southern California desert with 150,000 electric customers, opposes a regional ISO.

In California, where that model has been changed — where utilities like PG&E are initiating programs to help their customers use less electricity — power use has remained steady while economic growth has continued.

The savings are a little less than customers with the investor owned utilities in other parts of California but this is simply because LADWP offers lower electricity rates than the investor owned utilities.

By any measure, the current California drought is severe, to the degree that Governor Brown made an emergency drought declaration almost a year ago, state and federal water agencies have been forced to greatly cut back deliveries of water to cities and farms from dangerously depleted rivers and reservoirs, and local utilities are asking customers for a mix of voluntary and sometimes mandatory water - use reductions.

The Feed in Tariff is a policy mechanism designed to accelerate investment in Renewable Energy, the California FiT allows eligible customers generators to enter into 10 - 15 - 20 - year contracts with their utility company to sell the electricity produced by renewable energy, and guarantees that anyone who generates electricity from R E source, whether Homeowner, small business, or large utility, is able to sell that electricity.

The California Public Utilities Commission decided on Wednesday that customers who choose to opt out will have to pay a one - time fine of $ 75 plus a monthly fee of $ 10.

Utility customers in states such as Hawaii, California, Massachusetts, and New York — where electricity is the most expensive — see faster returns than those in cheap - energy states such as Idaho and Washington, especially in places where the local utility allows residential meters to spin backward, sending excess energy to the grid and lowering power bills in the pUtility customers in states such as Hawaii, California, Massachusetts, and New York — where electricity is the most expensive — see faster returns than those in cheap - energy states such as Idaho and Washington, especially in places where the local utility allows residential meters to spin backward, sending excess energy to the grid and lowering power bills in the putility allows residential meters to spin backward, sending excess energy to the grid and lowering power bills in the process.

Utilities in Maine and California that have come up against smart meter protesters have allowed customers to opt - out of wireless smart meter installations if they want.

Complaints by utility customers in California's Central Valley about a spike in electricity charges on their bills after smart meter installation fanned the anti-smart meter flames and triggered the Public Utility Commission to perform autility customers in California's Central Valley about a spike in electricity charges on their bills after smart meter installation fanned the anti-smart meter flames and triggered the Public Utility Commission to perform aUtility Commission to perform a study.

In 2012, they looked only at the PG&E utility territory, which includes more than two thirds of the net costs of net metering for non-participants, as well as for all electric utility customers across the state of California.

Others, like Long Island Power Authority in New York and the major California utilities, end the billing cycle at the one - year anniversary of when a customer installed solar.