Sentences with phrase «by utility ratepayers»

He says the additional costs could even be compounded by utility ratepayers who also use public transportation, or shop at stores that have to raise their prices due to higher electric rates.

The bailout is expected to cost some $ 7.6 billion, borne by utility ratepayers in New York.

Exelon's R.E. Ginna facility east of Rochester, on the other hand, is losing money, but because it's needed for grid reliability, it's being subsidized by utility ratepayers until 2017.

Not exact matches

LIPA customers are among the highest ratepayers in the nation, but they're being poorly served by a utility that bows to «political influence,» according to findings released by the committee at last week's meeting.

Cuomo personally traveled to Western New York to announce a repowering agreement for a coal - burning facility in Dunkirk that would switch it to natural gas and keep the town's revenue base intact, largely by forcing utility ratepayers o pay a little extra on their monthly bills.

South Carolina earlier this year allowed utilities to offer solar leases, although they can not recover costs from ratepayers and therefore will have to run such programs through an unregulated division, a condition insisted on by solar installers.

Instead of cutting residents a break for helping solve the climate crisis, in state after state utility corporations — led by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Edison Electric Institute (whose political advocacy efforts ratepayers actually underwrite)-- are passing legislation that pre-empts «net - metering» laws, which let customers sell their excess power back to the grid.

The shift imposed by state renewables standards will, Sands said, cause utilities to pressure regulators to allow them to pass the increased costs for renewables on to ratepayers.

But conventional net metering can only be used by individual utility ratepayers (a homeowner or a business).

The utilities» compliance with the REPS is expected to save ratepayers $ 651 million by 2029, and in 2014, the average residential customer saved over $ 8 due to REPS — a number that factors in the less than $ 1 / average monthly REPS compliance fee on customers» electric bills.

We expect the REPS, a bipartisan measure passed in 2007 that requires 12.5 % of North Carolina's electricity to come from renewable energy and energy efficiency by 2021, to remain under fire (but not from industry, ratepayers, or utilities) as we enter the upcoming 2016 short session.

As GTM reported, the company's efforts to block more stringent efficiency standards are now subject to an inquiry by the Office of Ratepayer Advocates at the California Public Utilities Commission.

The utilities» compliance with the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (REPS) is expected to save ratepayers $ 651 million by 2029.

Mohave Electric CEO Tyler Carlson argued that the trash - to - gas power plant could reduce costs to ratepayers by saving some of what the utility spends on solar.

As soon as a nuclear plant starts up the people who are and the customers, the utility ratepayers, start paying bit by bit into a decommissioning fund.

«By passing peak demand reduction mandates into law, or creating peak demand reduction programs, policymakers and utilities in Massachusetts, Illinois, and neighboring states could significantly reduce costs for ratepayers, strengthen reliability, and facilitate compliance with the Clean Power Plan,» the report concluded.

«It's projected that by 2020 we could be producing 20 % more energy or electricity than we need and that cost of double - building is passed on to the ratepayer,» Skinner told Utility Dive.

Independent studies show that distributed rooftop solar benefits all ratepayers, and is not subsidized by non-solar customers as Exelon and other utilities claim.

The company's aggressiveness in pursuit of that goal is the subject of an inquiry by the Office of Ratepayer Advocates (ORA) at the California Public Utilities Commission.