Sentences with phrase «changing utility regulations»

The infrastructure challenges include installing tens of millions of charging stations, strengthening the grid to handle electricity demand by plug - ins, and changing utility regulations to promote nighttime recharging

Government must also change utility regulations so that profits do not depend on selling ever more energy, but instead increase with efficiency.

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Proponents say that today energy utilities find greater benefit in a technology that puts the financial risk up front, in the construction cost, and has little vulnerability to later swings in the price of fuel, as natural gas does, or to changes in emissions regulations, as coal faces.

(This is the second article in a three part series discussing major changes made by the Michigan Legislature to energy utility regulation in the state.

This is a massive model that purports to estimate how the entire United States utility sector will react to changes in air quality regulations.

Why traditional utilities are like frogs in warming water» Jim Rogers, the recently retired head of Duke Energy, the biggest utility in the US, says regulations and business models will not change quick enough to save traditional utilities in face of solar.

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.

State - level changes coincide with federal push for looser coal ash regulation — even as utility shareholders and activists push for more stringent management.

Missouri is contemplating changes to utility regulation and their Public Service Commission's charge to ensure fair and reasonable rates while ensuring infrastructure robustness and modernity.