Sentences with phrase «as electricity retailer»

The procedure for registration as an electricity retailer is now being performed based on screening by the Electricity and Gas Market Surveillance Commission (EGC), which was established for the liberalization and reform of the energy market.

So now Rio and BHP Billiton have joined the lengthening line of companies asking for a carbon price, such as electricity retailer AGL and technology company Siemens which were co-signatories of an open letter earlier this year.

Not exact matches

It acquired such companies as Edison Mission Energy and Alta Wind, making it one of the largest retail electricity providers in the U.S., and which had the added benefit of coming with over half a million new customers.

The government also plays an important role in encouraging value - added products and renewable energy initiatives, as well as easing electricity price swings without imposing arbitrary taxes that disadvantage retailers.

Whether sold as bulk crude oil and natural gas or as retail electricity, gasoline or diesel, the major exporters of OPEC, Russia and others harbor some of the lowest domestic energy prices in the world.

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.

--(A) In all calendar years following its establishment, the Corporation shall collect an assessment on distribution utilities for all fossil fuel - based electricity delivered directly to retail consumers (as determined under subsection (f)-RRB-.

Re 273 — not that I am prone to agreeing with Edward Greisch, but those numbers are presumably before profit, or... Well, the number for coal seems about right, so far as I know, though it is much less than what anyone pays for retail electricity now.

This involves adjusting retail electricity prices dynamically as the amount of power in the grid changes so that consumers can modify their times of electricity use to better match consumption with generation.

Since North Carolina does not have any laws requiring virtual net metering for cooperatives or investor - owned utilities, these bill credits are nearly always based on the utility's avoided cost of energy as opposed to a credit calculated at the full retail rate of electricity (in other words, the per kWh credits are less than the per kWh price customers pay for their electricity consumption).

The fall in energy prices came as Abbott blamed renewable energy for lifting retail electricity bills.

Renewable power retailer Clean Currents will no longer provide electricity to its 15,000 + customers, as it had reliably done since 2005.

So as California was doubling its share of electricity from costly renewables, its retail electricity prices rose in line with the rest of the nation as the cheaper natural - gas - generated electricity covered for the more expensive green energy.

Unfortunately, as renewables march towards the 50 percent mandate, consumers may be hit with average retail electricity costs hikes approaching 70 percent.

Community solar rates are still higher than average retail electricity rates in some places, but as the market matures and solar PV prices continue to fall, that is likely to change.

Yet, Texas produces more than double the amount of wind, solar and other renewable electricity as California while California's retail electric rates were 89 percent higher than Texas» in 2017.»

As the cost of retail electricity grows, the savings from the solar system also increase.

First enacted as Public Act 295 in 2008, the law required electric utilities to ensure that 10 percent of their retail electricity sales are sourced from renewable options.

As an example of the actual price paid for electricity by a retail consumer, my bill for the three months ending in January 2005 was a total of Aus $ 161 for 692kWh, equal to Aus $ 232 / MWh.

The deal nets sellers a few cents over the retail price of electricity, but costs the Green Power Program almost three times as much.

The startup uses batteries and software to help major retail and hospitality companies, such as Whole Foods and Marriott, reduce their electricity bills.

«(A) that has a legal, regulatory, or contractual obligation to deliver electricity directly to retail consumers in the United States, regardless of whether that entity or another entity sells the electricity as a commodity to those retail consumers; and

«(bb) the marginal or weighted average tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt hour that are reflected in the electricity charges to the entity, as determined by the entity's retail rate arrangements; by

--(A) In all calendar years following its establishment, the Corporation shall collect an assessment on distribution utilities for all fossil fuel - based electricity delivered directly to retail consumers (as determined under subsection (f)-RRB-.

The subsidies don't stop there either as many if not all states pay residential consumers retail rates for electricity they «sell» back into the grid, as opposed to wholesale rates that utilities pay to other suppliers.

Furthermore, in the case of solar, consumers (in Arizona at least, and I believe in other states as well), are paid retail rates when the «sell» their electricity back to the utility as opposed being paid wholesale rates — that is another form of subsidy that further distorts the market.

As a result, any identifiable location (e.g., head office, retail space, warehouse, etc.) can choose green electricity and / or green natural gas.

Disclosure of information on energy mix details including the share of renewable energy sources and the amount of nuclear waste (both of which are already mandatory disclosure items in Europe) is not specified in the Guidelines Concerning the Management of the Electricity Retail Business issued in January 2016, but it is indicated as a «desired practice» for retail electricityElectricity Retail Business issued in January 2016, but it is indicated as a «desired practice» for retail electricity suppRetail Business issued in January 2016, but it is indicated as a «desired practice» for retail electricity suppretail electricityelectricity suppliers.

«(ii) reductions in distribution system losses of electricity achieved by a retail electricity distributor, as compared to losses attributable to new or replacement distribution system equipment of average efficiency (as defined by the Secretary by regulation); and

We will examine how public utility regulation and environmental law have traditionally balanced cost, reliability and environmental performance in the electric generation mix, and how that balance is changing as (i) wholesale electricity markets (and some retail markets) have come to rely more on competition and market pricing of electricity, and (ii) renewable generation replaces more traditional, dispatchable resources.

Assuming retail electricity costs will increase 5 % / year (conservative due to the grid investments being made and the Qld increases have been 11.37 % & 5.38 % for 2008 & 2009 with another 14 % mooted for 2010) and PV prices will drop 5 % / year, I calculate retail grid parity arriving in Qld as soon as 2012 for a 3kW residential system.

If the house was to remain on the grid it could displace 9500kWh of fossil - fuel - generated electricity, reduce the nation's emissions by 5 - 10 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year (see CO2 released per kWh) and produce an income for the householder of $ 760 / year (if the electricity was sold for $ 0.08 / kWh to an energy retailer such as Diamond Energy).

If the cost of solar electricity is higher than the wholesale price, but lower than the retail price then point of use solar capacity will be installed as it saves people money on their electricity bills.

Net Energy Metering (NEM) As UtilityDive explains, «U.S. policymakers... never got comfortable with the economics behind the FIT model, preferring to set initial solar supports at or near the retail rate of electricity.»

History may judge the introduction of competition to the retail electricity market as an expensive mistake.

According to those studies, national average retail electricity rates may decline by as much as 7 percent, or increase by as much as 7 percent, relative to business - as - usual.

The state government will also introduce a new target requiring energy retailers to get more electricity from what it described as cleaner generators that produce their electricity using South Australia's abundant natural resources, whether this be from gas, solar, wind, biomass or graphite, which is used for batteries.

And electricity retailers are also accused of picking up more profits from exports of excess electricity back to the grid from rooftop solar systems — for which they pay 6c / kWh (and in some cases nothing at all) and then sell it to the houses in the same street for up to five times as much.

For mid-sized and large businesses, as well as residential and business consumers on retail contracts, the global adjustment will appear as a separate line on their electricity bill.

As of April 2016 there was an agreement between the operators and Diamond Energy, an electricity retailing company.

Each utility must compensate customers with systems less than 40 kW in size for net excess generation (NEG) at the average retail utility energy rate, defined as the total annual class revenue from sales of electricity minus the annual revenue resulting from fixed charges, divided by the annual class kilowatt - hour sales.

A MAJOR electricity retailer has announced a $ 130 - a-year price hike and blamed closing coal - fire power plants, among other factors, as some government MPs dig in their heels on the Finkel report.

Price - responsive - load, in which the electricity market can respond to retail electricity price changes, must be adopted as soon as possible.

The retail electricity price must be allowed to rise and fall, depending on supply and demand, just as the wholesale electricity price does;

Starting from the bottom: with regard to Argentina — there is no mention of the military junta in the mid-70s, nor the 30,000 (at the least) torture and killed, nor of the mothers and grandmothers walking for 20 or more years in silence protesting the killings in a Bueno Aires plaza, nor is there is mention of the billions of dollars of US military aircraft and other weapons (as well torturing equipment for sending high to low charges of electricity through various parts of the body (private parts though preferred, as they say), but sold to the junta in power which weighs heavily in the total external debt, nor of the wholesale and retail sale of government agencies or corporations, and of the rights of water (in the 1990s), and the default of the government on various debts and contracts: 40 or more cases before the courts and ICSID — seems the sanctity of the contract and personalty of the international organization is a barrier to putting an end these very crooked and immoral business transactions, etc..

The company said, in a press release, that its new partnerships, with electricity and gas retailers Elering AS and 220Energia, together with Estonian wind power technology company Eleon, will allow the nationwide adoption of a blockchain - based green trading ecosystem and demonstrates the importance of the technology to the energy sector.

Their client base consist of the big retailers such as Pick and Pay, as well as other non-commercial companies where clean water plays an important role such as Escom (main producer of electricity in SA), all the municipalities, etc..

As of mid-April 1998, only one state - California - has moved to full open access or electricity deregulation for retail customers.

As a result, a retailer and owner may have different perspectives on whether electricity service is one of the services provided by the center.»