Sentences with phrase «lipa ratepayers»

Even in states that wish to favor coal - fired power, it will be difficult to convince ratepayers that they ought to pay more for electricity from coal than they could pay for electricity from alternative sources.

To what extent governments and ratepayers should support rooftop solar is a matter of debate in several state legislatures and utility commissions.

In Louisiana and California, for instance, studies commissioned by state regulators found that net metering policies resulted in higher costs for all ratepayers.

Clearly China has bought into the nascent industry theory: that by generating demand for a sunrise industry, a country or region can come to dominate it, more than justifying the cost to ratepayers and taxpayers.

On the other hand, there are customers of Nova Scotia Power, ratepayers who want a cheap, stable supply of electricity.

It will also save Ontario ratepayers about $ 10 million per year.

Those gas - fired plants were originally going to be built in Mississauga and Oakville until the Liberals cancelled them days before the 2011 election, which the auditor general said would cost ratepayers up to $ 1.1 billion.

«I would agree with Jessica that the refusal to grandfather existing net metering ratepayers really is the worst part,» Dylan Gasperik, a communications executive working with Vote Solar, told ThinkProgress.

«The Nevada Coalition to Protect Ratepayers and the thousands of solar employees we represent have anticipated a public hearing concerning the future of rooftop solar.

Electricity sector pension plans are relatively generous to employees and costly to employers; these costs are ultimately reflected in prices charged to ratepayers.

In a speech to her party on Saturday, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne acknowledged rising electricity prices that are roiling ratepayers in province, calling it her «mistake» and taking responsibility for «for not paying close enough attention to some of the daily stresses in Ontarians» lives.»

This saves water ratepayers money, because energy is often the most expensive component of treating and moving water.

Director proposes evening meetings Ramona Municipal Water District Director Jeff Lawler proposes that water board meetings be held in the evenings instead of afternoons so more ratepayers can attend.

But it doesn't seem everyone has the same enthusiasm, Tourism Minister Leon Bignell said the city council is made up of «the most infuriating people in South Australia» and that «they are big on complaining but not putting their hands in their pockets to help their ratepayers».

The village also said constructing the pipeline would cost about $ 5 a month for ratepayers.

This decision was made due to lack of financing, following the Supreme Judicial Court decision prohibiting utilities from charging ratepayers for pipeline construction.

Astorino also outlined a new plan in response to the opioid epidemic and asked the Board of Legislators to join him in a lawsuit aimed at protecting taxpayers, ratepayers, students and communities directly affected by the eventual closure of Indian Point.

Skeptical lawmakers will take another look today Cuomo's plan to invest billions of dollars of ratepayer money into aging nuclear power plants.

Cuomo's massive ratepayer subsidy of aging upstate nuclear power plants would be significantly modified under a bill just introduced by Senate Republican Leader John Flanagan.

But critics, including some environmental groups, say it's an expensive bailout for the nuclear industry that will be financed by ratepayers around the state, as well as public institutions the same ratepayers use, like the MTA and New York City's public housing authority.

And encouraging the development of those sources may involve subsidies from ratepayers, the Cuomo administration official said.

It also has a proposal before the New York Public Service Commission to repower to natural gas with ratepayer assistance paid over the next 10 years.

It's also the date for an $ 8 billion bailout of some upstate nuclear power plants to begin, and more than 80 local government leaders are making a last - ditch effort to stop a plan that they say will cost electric utility ratepayers billions of dollars.

The bill also would prevent LIPA from increasing rates to offset revenue losses due to ratepayer energy conservation efforts.

At the same time, Cuomo's administration has supported a ratepayer - backed bailout for three upstate nuclear power plants, pointing to the need to keep their emission - free power on the grid in order to reach the state's pollution - cutting goals.

On the other hand, the state official said, «This will actually avoid the sticker shock that ratepayers experience every time there is a fuel shortage, a power plant goes offline or there is a spike in energy costs.»

Also at 11:30 a.m., members of the Stop the Cuomo Tax coalition and other advocacy leaders mark the passage of one year since the state PSC voted to approve Cuomo's estimated $ 7.6 billion bailout by releasing new figures that detail the financial hit to ratepayers to date, LCA pressroom, state Capitol, Albany.

The WCC however, in their wisdom, decided to bid for unitary status without a referendum throughout the whole of Wiltshire, including all the residents, or all ratepayers or businesses.

Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. and Senator Kenneth P. LaValle introduced state legislation last Thursday that would require the Long Island Power Authority's board of trustees «to protect the economic interests of its ratepayers and the service area» when proposing rate increases.

The downside of the deal, opponents say, is that electric rates will go up for many ratepayers in vast regions of New York.

In 2016, Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo directed the New York Public Service Commission to consider ratepayer - financed subsidies similar to those for renewable sources to keep nuclear power stations profitable in the competition against natural gas.

Two state lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require the Long Island Power Authority's board of trustees to protect the economic interests of its ratepayers when proposing rate increases.

Another $ 15 million would come from the county — ratepayers using the Metropolitan Syracuse Wastewater Treatment Plant, to be exact.

The East Hampton Town Trustees» harbor management committee is interested in the cost to Long Island ratepayers if a proposed offshore wind farm is built.

Under Cuomo, the PSC has undertaken an ambitious reimagining of the utility industry, called Reforming the Energy Vision, has backed subsidies for renewable and nuclear energy and has set up a ratepayer - funded program to invest in clean energy technology.

«Today the Public Service Commission approved the Cuomo energy plan, which raises two critical questions: First, how much will the plan actually cost families and business ratepayers?

Under Cuomo, the PSC has undertaken an ambitious reimagining of the utility industry, has backed subsidies for renewable and nuclear energy and has set up a ratepayer - funded program to invest in clean energy technology.

«We knew that when it came time to start paying back the debt service on these facility improvements and upgrades that there would be an impact on the ratepayers,» said Steven P. Devan, P.E., Commissioner, Oneida County Department of Water Quality and Water Pollution Control.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit challenging New York's groundbreaking subsidies for nuclear plants, clearing the way for three Upstate nukes to continue collecting roughly $ 483 million a year from utility ratepayers.

If they decide the shutdown should be delayed, they could order utility ratepayers to subsidize the plant temporarily, but only until replacement power sources are found.

He said National Grid ratepayers would pay millions to retrofit the Dunkirk coal plant, which was slated to shut down, with equipment to burn natural gas.

Which they are leasing back to SWPCT at a return to the ratepayer of 7 % - half a percent higher than they were earning before.

New Jersey Assemblywoman Valerie Venieri - Huttle called the vetoes «a total rebuke to the ratepayers and the elected members of the legislature from both states.»

Downstate lawmakers have complained that ratepayers in places like Long Island, which already has high power prices, are subsidizing the ailing upstate economy, although PSC officials note that the power goes into a statewide grid.

LIPA customers are among the highest ratepayers in the nation, but they're being poorly served by a utility that bows to «political influence,» according to findings released by the committee at last week's meeting.

Exelon's R.E. Ginna facility east of Rochester, on the other hand, is losing money, but because it's needed for grid reliability, it's being subsidized by utility ratepayers until 2017.

«We've got to do something to make sure that the people are protected, the ratepayers are protected, and the economy is protected,» he said.

The most significant are a five year extension of 2 percent «Section 18 - a» assessments on utility energy sales, with a $ 500 million annual impact on business and residential ratepayers, and a five year extension of the $ 420 million per year «film production» tax credit.

In a state with already high state and local taxes, fees and assessments on energy — with roughly 25 cents of every dollar paid for electric power in New York State going to pay government assessments — we believe it is simply counterproductive to continue to add new and increased energy costs on state ratepayers.

All 1.1 million LIPA ratepayers foot the tax bill on the four National Grid - owned power stations, in Northport, Island Park, Port Jefferson and Glenwood Landing.