Sentences with phrase «allows utility customers»

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

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.»

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Regulators typically set customer rates for utilities to ensure investors recover a fair return on capital and allows the businesses keep their systems well maintained.

It is a mobile app available to download on Google Playstore and Apple Appstore which would allow customers to conduct a wide range of transactions at their convenience such as; account balance enquiry, purchase of phone credit, payment of utility bills, inter-bank transfer just to name a few.

While several states have allowed utilities to charge a fee to customers who want to opt out of smart meters, Vermont's governor is expected soon to sign legislation that would allow customers to say no without paying anything extra.

These high - voltage lines also allow neighboring utilities to link their grids, thereby helping one another sustain a critical balance between generation supply and customer demand.

It would also allow more efficient wheeling of power, saving utilities and their customers millions of dollars during routine operation.

And it will allow utilities to offer customers hour - by - hour rates, including incentives to run appliances and machines during off - peak times that might vary day to day, reducing demand spikes that can destabilize a grid.

Oct 1, 2017 — Honda developed a wide range of Honda Genuine Accessories right alongside the new Accord to allow adding utility and functionality, convenience and protection — while also helping customers customize and personalize the vehicle.

Regulators typically set customer rates for utilities to ensure investors recover a fair return on capital and allows the businesses keep th...

There are many other variations, including what time of year the billing cycle ends, how much net metered customers are compensated for their excess energy, and how long credits can carry over (some utilities allow credits to roll forward indefinitely).

In these cases, knowing what option the local utility offers allows one to accurately assess how much a customer can save with solar.

Most utilities do not allow customers to choose between monthly or annual billing as they offer only one option.

Senate File 2311 (formerly SSB 3093) would effectively eliminate all funding for utility energy efficiency programs and allow future funding for programs only if customers voluntarily paid into the energy efficiency fund.

So - called community solar can be owned by the utility or customers, and since APS isn't planning to build much solar, why not allow others to build and own large - scale solar?

For smaller utilities, we offer a turnkey, full service retail green power program that allows your business and residential customers to purchase Green - e Certified RECs online directly from BEF.

If approved, the initiative allows a utility's customers to submit a petition requesting an election among customers on whether to opt out of so - called «renewable energy standards.»

But if solar companies can cross the chasm and become a more stable delivery option, by allowing utilities, homes, or commercial customers to load shift and manage consumption when it's beneficial to the rest of the grid, that completely changes the conversation.

Oil - backed groups led by the Institute for Energy Research (IER) proposed a resolution that opposed state efforts to subsidize non-gas vehicles and allow utilities to charge customers for — or «ratebase» — EV charging stations.

Some states have markets for SRECs allowing renewable customers a chance to sell them to further reduce their energy expenses or to keep them and force the utility to add in even more renewable energy to meet their renewable energy requirements.

Circumventing a decades - old pact providing a market monopoly in exchange for public oversight, an investor - owned utility has proposed legislation to allow it to build a new natural gas plant criticized for its financial and environmental impact, and then stick customers... Read More

In that region, utilities are allowed to increase their customers» rates to defray the cost of nuclear plants even before construction begins.

Like rollover minutes on a cell phone, net - energy metering allows customers to offset their electricity bills with clean energy — such as solar or wind power, for example — and to receive bill credits for extra energy sent back to the utility.

This production and reserve base allows Murray Energy to provide electric utility customers with low cost, reliable, and high quality coal supplies.

This would allow utilities to reclaim up to 100 % of the carbon tax paid by their customers if they spend the revenue on a carbon reduction plan approved by the Utilities and Transportation Commission (for private utilities) or the Department of Commerce (for public ututilities to reclaim up to 100 % of the carbon tax paid by their customers if they spend the revenue on a carbon reduction plan approved by the Utilities and Transportation Commission (for private utilities) or the Department of Commerce (for public utUtilities and Transportation Commission (for private utilities) or the Department of Commerce (for public ututilities) or the Department of Commerce (for public utilitiesutilities).

Extending the reach of the existing AMI network into the home could help speed adoption of smart energy solutions for the home by allowing utilities to easily extend demand response and variable pricing programs to their residential customers.

Whether financing energy efficiency or solar installations, a critical feature of a fair and accessible on - bill financing program is to allow customers to qualify based on their utility bill payment history, rather than credit scores.

Net metering allows customers to count «behind - the - meter» power production (like rooftop solar panels) against their utility bill, effectively rolling their meter backward.

Currently there is an attempt in Pennsylvania's statehouse to allow large utility customers to shirk their responsibility to reduce their energy waste.

HB 1475 (Ware) and SB 1163 (Saslaw) allow natural gas utilities to expand their systems to reach more retail customers.

Current law allows only 0.5 percent of a utility's customers to earn credit for the excess electricity they share with the grid.

The reason I ask is that utility companies, including those reliant on coal plants, are allowed to recover capital costs, in the form of rate increases to their customers.

One of the biggest reasons that rooftop solar panels have become much more than green status symbols for wealthy customers is net metering, a policy which allows solar panel - owning homeowners to see their electric meters spin backwards — and their utility bills shrink — as they generate their own electricity.

But whereas customers who have solar panels one their own roof get credited at full retail value and own the associated renewable energy credits, HB 618 allows the SCC to devise rules that could result in a much worse deal for solar garden subscribers, including allowing the utility to impose a «reasonable charge» to cover ill - defined costs.

Similarly, on the demand — or customer — side, the idea is that Californians, buildings, appliances and electric vehicles create an intricate, synergetic web that can be made more efficient and flexible with customer education and empowerment, customer - focused energy pricing policies and demand - response programs (which allows customers to voluntarily reduce peak electricity use in response to a signal from their electric utilities and receive a payment for doing so).

Kenya streamlined the process of getting electricity by introducing a geographic information system that allows the utility to provide price quotes to customers without conducting a site visit.

It's Mobile: Community solar allows customers to move within the utility territory and still retain their participation in the community solar project, making it an easy, portable energy solution.

Utility Partnerships: The community solar model is based on a mutually beneficial relationship with utilities, allowing them to provide a product their customers want — locally - made clean energy.

The program allows any energy customer, regardless of whether or not they own a suitable roof, to participate in a local solar energy project and receive a credit for their portion of the clean energy produced on their utility bill.

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.

There are efforts to build a smart grid in many places, a computerized grid that allows for two - way communication between a utility and customers, allowing power to be used and produced more efficiently.

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

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

Under net metering, excess electricity generated by the solar installation is valued at the same retail rate customers would pay the utility for it, which allows them to cancel out the cost of electricity they purchase from their utility at other times.

This includes one allowing utilities to potentially recover costs from net metering customers, among other changes to the program, and another limiting tax breaks.

Electric generators will pay the mandated carbon tax to their coal or natural gas suppliers, who will forward the payment to the government; the generators will pass along the tax to the retail electric utility which in turn will charge it to customers — to the extent that market conditions allow.

The sure fire way to guarantee electricity rates and bills will rise, is for all of us to continue allowing energy to be politicized and by failing to align around shared goals and a transparent planning process that ensures energy is inclusive of and beneficial for all customers, maintains financially strong and secure utilities, and ensures our competitive energy industry adds thousands more jobs annually for the next decade to North Carolina's energy economy.

Historically, industrial or commercial customers with relatively large electric loads signed contracts allowing utilities to interrupt their use when necessary.

We welcome additional financing choices in these markets, as it helps our partner installers offer creative solutions to residential solar customers, allowing them to save money on their utility bills while helping America strengthen its energy future.

Policy that allows customers to produce onsite electricity and sell excess generation to the utility at a set price