Sentences with phrase «local electricity customers»

Local electricity customers were encouraged to purchase pollution - free wind energy through Utah Power's Blue Sky voluntary wind program.

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The New York Public Service Commission said the decision was needed «to prevent local electricity prices for existing residential and business customers from skyrocketing.»

The ruling was needed to level the playing field and prevent local electricity prices for existing residential and business customers from skyrocketing due to the soaring local demand for electricity.

Although more customers are investing in their own equipment for electric supply, like solar panels or even microgrids — a network of electricity users with a local source of supply and the capability to operate as an island during outages — the report says most U.S. customers will continue to depend on obtaining their power from the large - scale, interconnected electrical grid at least for the next two decades.

The result is the same; a customers» home is decked out with solar panels and powered by the sun, and thanks to lucrative tax credits, the electricity agreement is cheaper than electricity bills from the local utility.

They also show how the local utility company calculates a customer's electricity charges, which can have important design implications.

«The case for preserving an electric utility's monopoly over electricity generation died with federally induced wholesale competition in the late 1970s and with the recent advent of customer - owned and cost - effective rooftop solar,» said John Farrell, director of the Energy Democracy Initiative at the Institute for Local Self - Reliance.

The value of that electricity can be shared with participating customers through their local utility.

CEO David Amster - Olszewski said the key advantage for potential customers is that they get to invest in local solar and stabilize their electricity bills.

Without access to the local market, developers may have to look for customers in electricity markets in other states or wait until the Atlantic Wind Connection is complete.

A solar power purchase agreement, or PPA, allows a host customer to pay for generated electricity at a fixed rate typically lower than the local utility's retail rate.

The Halfmoon Community Solar Project will feed solar energy to the grid operated by New York State Electric & Gas Corporation (NYSEG) and will allow more than 100 residential customers in NYSEG's Capital Region territory (parts of Columbia, Essex, Rensselaer, Saratoga and Washington counties), including low - income residents, to participate in local clean power generation and save money on their electricity bills.

«Today's Commission action enables the community solar market to finally begin moving forward in New York, bringing local clean energy and electricity bill savings to thousands of customers, even if they don't have a sunny roof,» said Jeff Cramer, Executive Director of the Coalition for Community Solar Access.

Restructuring: The process of replacing a monopoly system of electric utilities with competing sellers, allowing individual retail customers to choose their electricity supplier but still receive delivery over the power lines of the local utility.

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 process.

For example, the Ontario Power Authority is drafting rules in respect of the Feed In Tariff regime for generators and a «micro» Feed in Tariff regime for local electricity distribution companies interested in making small scale investments in generation supply for their customers.