Sentences with phrase «utility customers all»

Alabama Power is a part of Southern Company (NYSE: SO), a leading U.S energy company serving nine million electric and gas utility customers in 18 states through its subsidiaries.

And we're working with Southern Company to help more utility customers save energy.

Funded by a $ 9.8 million 2009 Recovery Act grant, the solar - plus - storage systems powered the schools despite the overcast weather, while 6.7 million utility customers had no electricity.

Section 56 - 594 of the Virginia code allows utility customers with wind and solar projects to net energy meter.

We are pleased to have the opportunity to build a solar thermal power tower plant at the Palen solar site, and to deliver cost - effective and dispatchable clean power to our utility customers.

With Southern Company's board voting today to green light the completion of the Vogtle nuclear power plant, the prospect that Georgia utility customers may be on the hook for many billions for a plant that...

Furthermore, utility customers would cumulatively save a net $ 145 billion by 2040 (net present value after investments).

In May, the Brookings Institute published a paper, by Muro and Saha, purportedly aimed at addressing the policy question posed by the growing level of net metered electric utility customers and the growing debate about its economics.

In 2011, Richard Perez, Ken Zweibel, and Thomas E. Hoff [13] attempted to describe the combined value that solar energy delivers to utilities» electric utility customers (energy, capacity) and society's taxpayers (environmental, fuel price mitigation, [14] outage risk protection, and long - term economic growth), specifically in the New York City area.

Another oft - cited study, by LBNL in 2010, [8] did not examine the value of net metering of solar to non-participating electric utility customers; instead, the authors reviewed the impact of retail rate design on hypothetical net metering bill savings.

In 2012, Richard Perez [16] teamed with Thomas E. Hoff and Benjamin L. Norris in order to study the values that a fleet of distributed solar systems in various configurations delivers to utilities, electric utility customers, and taxpayers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

They concluded that «Net metering — contra the Nevada decision — frequently benefits all electric utility customers when all costs and benefits are accounted for...» This brief assesses the Brookings paper and finds it lacking in approach and coverage of issues.

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.

Across the country, more and more electric utility customers are using rooftop solar panels and other small - scale, on - site power sources known as distributed generation (DG).

On February 24, 2009, the attorney for Florida's utility customers announced a case against Progress Energy, alleging that the company owes its 1.7 million customers a $ 61 million refund for overpriced coal used during 2006 and 2007.

The SGCC study consisted of a nation - wide survey of utility customers who were asked to rate the importance of several smart grid benefits, namely:

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 a study.

Rates are higher during the afternoon when electric demand is at its «peak» across all utility customers.

Money is a great motivator for anything, and likely the biggest one when it comes to reducing energy usage at home, but a study done for the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC) found that U.S. utility customers were interested in smart grid technologies for much more than just the ability to save money.

Ocean turbine arrays in the pasages between the Antilles Islands can provide electric power for utility customers and desalination plants on the islands.

In a historic vote this morning, Mississippi state regulators slammed the brakes on the Kemper coal power plant, saying they will refuse to ask utility customers to pay anything for Kemper's non-functional multi-billion dollar «clean coal» gasification technology and will re-designate the plant as a natural gas facility.

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.

These include many of the 186,000 utility customers in 23 largely rural, mostly low - income counties in southeastern Mississippi that are now on the hook for a good part of the plant's estimated $ 6.6 billion cost - this after Southern promised them and state and federal officials in 2010 that the first - of - its - kind power station wouldn't cost more than $ 2.4 billion.

The increase in renewables won't result in rate increases for utility customers, Weisgall said, even though the utility will be paying almost $ 2 billion over the next 30 years in landowner payments and taxes.

FirstEnergy's initial bailout request, first proposed in 2014, would have forced captive utility customers to ensure the profitability of the financially challenged W.H. Sammis coal plant and Davis Besse nuclear plant, which are owned by an affiliate of FirstEnergy Corp..

today, most utility customers pay an average price for electricity.

As first proposed two years ago, FirstEnergy's case before the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio asked for a different charge altogether to make utility customers guarantee electricity sales by its unregulated generation affiliate from certain coal and nuclear plants.

«Forcing Ohio utility customers to finance FirstEnergy's corporate slush fund simply has no basis in Ohio law,» said Shannon Fisk, Managing Attorney at Earthjustice.

The rules are designed to permit public entity electric utility customers to install a solar generation system, sized not to exceed the aggregate of the metered annual use of the customer's qualified facilities that are all in the same rate class under the applicable tariff.

Utility customers that do not pay into the SBC may still be eligible for NYSERDA programs.

Efficiency is extremely valuable to the environment, to utility customers, and to a clean and resilient grid.

We oppose any fees imposed on such utility customers.

Utilities often buy solar power through fixed power contracts — meaning that the risks are borne by independent solar farm owners, not utility customers.

One of the most important impacts of installing solar for utility customers who have tiered billing is that the solar energy produced by the system can offset consumption at the more expensive top tiers.

Here are the facts: investing in local solar farms instead of more costly power plants saves utility customers money.

With Southern Company's board voting today to green light the completion of the Vogtle nuclear power plant, the prospect that Georgia utility customers...

Money in politics typically never leads to good outcomes for utility customers.

«Some say the rate - based infrastructure buildout will be too expensive for utility customers, but PG&E's estimate for 25,000 level two charging stations and 100 DC fast chargers was only $ 0.70 per month to the average residential customer,» Hauser said.

The deal assigned utility customers to cover $ 3.3 billion of the $ 4.7 billion in premature shutdown costs...

Community solar allows residential and non-residential utility customers without solar - suitable roofs to buy a small part of a large central array.

It can prevent feeders from being saturated and can allow utility customers «to do demand response, to do load shifting, and to sell excess and stored solar generation into ancillary service markets.»

, which would eliminate electric security plans and expressly allow refunds to utility customers.

And, whether or not they know it, all of the North Carolina electric utility customers who have a few more bucks in their pockets (because the solar we install means they don't have to start paying for a new billion dollar fossil fuel plant this year), would disagree.

Indiana solar advocates actively encouraged utility customers to install solar panels, at times coming up close to the Dec. 31 deadline.

The Legislature asked the PSC to develop a program that reflects the need for all utility customers to pay their fair share of using the state's electrical grid based on cost - of - service principles, which is what they did,» Heaton said.

Commercial utility customers in Hawaii pay 29 cents a kilowatt - hour for power, on average, according to the Energy Department.

-- The purpose of this section is to improve the ability of retail rate utility customers to compare tariff options by making the most up - to - date electric utility tariffs available in an online format that can be read and manipulated electronically.

That's despite shifting preferences among utility customers, new technology and new investments in the growing field, he said at Gov. Bob McDonnell's second annual conference on energy in Richmond, a three - day event hosted by the Virginia Chamber of Commerce.

Power producers are engaged in a mad rush to build natural gas plants, and wherever possible, to stick utility customers with the costs.

According to Leyden, «C&I and utility customers are missing the opportunity to increase their reliability and reduce costs by not taking a more holistic approach to their energy procurement and asset utilization.»