Sentences with phrase «as electric utilities»

Breakthrough Institute's report Energy Emergence: Rebound and Backfire as Emergent Phenomena reviewed nearly 100 peer - reviewed articles on rebound and backfire, and discovered that across industrial sectors, such as electric utilities, construction, agriculture, manufacturing, and communications, rebound was found to be higher than at the consumer level.

Such reports could be supplemented by international inspection both of the major taxpayers, such as electric utilities, and the tax agencies of participating countries.

Advocates of distributed solar energy in Virginia are watching nervously this summer as electric utilities and the solar industry negotiate the future of net metering, the policy that makes rooftop solar economically viable in a state with no other incentives.

While CO2 emissions from coal collapsed, CO2 from gas increase by 12.5 % in 2016, as electric utilities switched from burning coal.

This is why oil giants like ExxonMobil are investing more these days in natural gas, demand for which is expected to grow as electric utilities in Canada, the United States and Europe switch from coal to gas - fired power generation.

The participation of industry, such as electric utilities and oil companies, in developing CCS is crucial.

«We want a demonstration of the technology by an end - user,» such as an electric utility, says Geiling.

Though we think of it as an electric utility, Dominion is a much bigger player in the gas world.

When prices do not adequately reflect them, the monetary value assigned to benefits or adverse effects (referred to as damages) are «hidden» in the sense that government and other decision makers, such as electric utility managers, may not recognize the full costs of their actions.

Not exact matches

The one he ultimately chose, a $ 14,000 CitEcar Electro Bubble Buddy, can be described as something between a golf cart and a delivery van; it's an electric - powered utility vehicle that plugs in overnight to recharge, eliminating refueling downtime.

Products from nVent include electrical, machine and utility box enclosures as well as electric heat tracing systems for oil pipelines, factory pipes and wire cables; heated flooring and heat management systems for factories and data centers; plus electrical and fastening solutions that connect and protect businesses.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. shares sank in early trading as the utility reported Thursday that its first - quarter profits were lower than a year...

When Buffett purchased $ 2 billion of Energy Future Holding's debt as part of a leveraged buyout of Texas electric utility assets, he made a huge decision ``... without consulting [business partner] Charlie [Munger].

The Utilities sector includes companies that engage in the production and delivery of electric power, natural gas, water, and other utility services, such as steam and cooled air.

Top electric vehicle markets and associated local utilities are deploying public charging infrastructure, as well as indirectly promoting infrastructure by requiring that buildings and parking facilities be wired to support electric vehicles.

«Ohio's 4 million households would pay, on average, as much as $ 528 more for their electric service under Senate Bill 58 over a utility's three - year energy efficiency plan,» Ohio's consumer counsel, Bruce Weston, wrote in a letter this week to Senate leaders.

As of December 1, 2009, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, for example, offered an off - peak discount of approximately 50 % off of the regular residential electricity rate for electricity used to charge electric vehicles.

** U.S. gas and electric utility CenterPoint Energy said it would buy rival Vectren Corp for about $ 6 billion, the latest in a string of mergers in the sector as power consumption in many parts of the country flattens.

It included the quarterly dividend payments of British - Dutch oil and gas giant Royal Dutch Shell ($ 216.17) and US electric and gas utility company Southern Co ($ 46.92) as well as the final dividend of Japanese tobacco group Japan Tobacco ($ 79.80).

Companies considered electric, gas or water utilities, or companies that operate as independent producers and / or distributors of power.

As of September 2015, there are over 30 models of highway legal all - electric passenger cars and utility vans available for retail sales, mainly in the United States, China, Japan, Western European countries.

As Vox's Alexia Fernández Campbell explained, as tax breaks faded, businesses left the island, and so did workers and utility customers, eating into the revenue of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the unregulated utility monopolAs Vox's Alexia Fernández Campbell explained, as tax breaks faded, businesses left the island, and so did workers and utility customers, eating into the revenue of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the unregulated utility monopolas tax breaks faded, businesses left the island, and so did workers and utility customers, eating into the revenue of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the unregulated utility monopoly.

As for the grid, the proliferation of electricity storage could eventually transform it into a «plug and play» for the units, used by utilities, solar customers and electric vehicles.

Rural phone companies and electric utilities, rural financial institutions, rural farm product marketing companies, companies that provide irrigation water, and lots of the companies that sell goods to farmers, for example, are all organized as cooperatives of either consumers or producers and run on a much more democratic basis than investor owned companies.

The Cuomo administration estimates the Clean Energy Standard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.

Despite the international shale oil boom extracting natural gas with hydrofracking technologies, which most electric utilities, including the local ones, supply to customers as a major part of their power supply, the shift away from petroleum dependency has made remarkable progress in recent years through strategic incentives like the one which prompted this vote in Olive.

In December, NYPA trustees approved financing that will be offered as part of the Power Authority's Municipal Electric - Drive Vehicle Program, which provides financial assistance to New York municipal utilities to facilitate the replacement of less fuel - efficient vehicles in order to advance Cuomo's clean energy goals.

Nick Braden, spokesman for the nonprofit American Public Power Association, which represents more than 2,000 community - owned electric utilities, said in a statement that as government bodies, public utilities have an inherent political character and that knowing how to «operate within a political structure» is useful.

As a result of the agreement, the Fund withdrew the shareholder proposal it had filed for consideration at Goodyear's annual stockholders» meeting, as well as with Nisource, which is one of the largest natural gas and electric utility companies in the United StateAs a result of the agreement, the Fund withdrew the shareholder proposal it had filed for consideration at Goodyear's annual stockholders» meeting, as well as with Nisource, which is one of the largest natural gas and electric utility companies in the United Stateas well as with Nisource, which is one of the largest natural gas and electric utility companies in the United Stateas with Nisource, which is one of the largest natural gas and electric utility companies in the United States.

The investor - owned utility trade group Edison Electric Institute supports the idea of developing a replacement carbon regulation if EPA follows through with rescinding the Clean Power Plan as expected.

Managing electric loads is already a challenge for utilities, which have to respond to electricity demand as lights, televisions and computers are turned on and off throughout the day.

Tens of thousands of gas wells are expected to be drilled in the coming decade, according to energy industry and U.S. government estimates, and much of that gas will be delivered to electric utilities as a cleaner substitute for burning coal.

But acknowledging the political weight behind EEI's proposal, Greenstein today suggested a compromise that starts with free allowances for the electric utilities so long as they are also phased out at the same time that direct tax relief gets ramped up.

Even the electric utility industry recognizes that where residential electricity costs reach 15 cents per kilowatt - hour — or roughly 16 percent of the U.S. retail electricity market — solar is already as cheap as grid electricity.

That way, homeowners will be able to install smaller and cheaper solar power systems while being able to use electricity from the grid only as backup, reducing the electric power demand, or load, on the utility's grid.

Japan's electric utilities are putting the brakes on the country's fast - growing renewable energy sector as concerns mount that the addition of large amounts of solar power is creating oversupply problems for some regions while stressing the country's decentralized power grid.

Of course, copper is the primary metal used around the world to move electricity and that's a route Hochschild followed as well, moving into energy products and, then, in 2003, starting to trade renewable energy credits — another government run market in chits that show a given electric utility has produced or bought a sufficient amount of electricity from renewable resources, such as the sun or wind, to meet a mandate.

The collar will pay for itself in a year and continue saving you 4 to 9 percent in water - heating costs — as well as reducing carbon emissions by the local electric utility.

As adoption increases, utilities will have to figure out the best way to have enough electricity on the grid to charge more and more cars without affecting rates and reliability for those with and without electric cars, he said.

The dispute was ultimately settled but the case underscored the high stakes of labor disputes involving electric utilities, as well as the potential danger to public safety and the need for clarification of the authority of state public utility commissions, Scott said.

Last year, for example, the Edison Electric Institute, a utility trade group, in a report described rooftop solar as a «disruptive challenge» that could squeeze revenue and profits as customers defected, leaving companies forced to maintain grids that serve all.

The «scariest thing» to the established U.S. utilities, said Milner, as Chanin nodded in agreement, is an efficient, low - cost system in which solar power can be easily stored in an electric battery, at home or otherwise.

Rural African electrification isn't a main topic of conversation in most utility boardrooms today, just as carbon mitigation wasn't when Rogers used his chairmanship of the Edison Electric Institute to wrangle support for cap - and - trade legislation.

Not only did Big Oil punt hundreds of thousands of dollars to Soon, but Big Coal as well — specifically, the Southern Company, one of the largest coal burning electric utilities in the U.S. and in the world.

Under terms of the contract, as amended in 1996, United States Enrichment Corporation (i) purchased the enrichment portion of the blended - down material and sold it to its electric utility customers for use in fabricating fuel for their commercial nuclear power plants, and (ii) transferred to TENEX a quantity of natural uranium equal to the natural uranium component of the low enriched uranium.

The plan also calls for an increase in the percentage of energy that electric utilities must get from renewable sources such as wind and solar from 25 percent by 2025 to 50 percent by 2040.

More accurate solar power predictions, known as forecasts, allow utilities and electric system operators to better understand generation patterns and maximize solar resources.

Smith covers the Utilities sector, focusing on stocks such as Pinnacle West Capital Corp., Public Service Enterprise, and American Electric Power.

Electric companies in Albuquerque are offering better services at better rates to get you as their utility customer.

Billed as a CUV, or Cross Utility Vehicle, the all - electric design study is heavily influenced by the current Panamera Sport Turismo and showcases the brand's pure EV credentials.