Sentences with phrase «cost electric utility»

The damage they cause can cost electric utility companies millions of dollars annually.

More than 80 local government leaders are making a last ditch effort to stop a plan that they say will cost electric utility ratepayers billions of dollars.

It's also the date for an $ 8 billion bailout of some upstate nuclear power plants to begin, and more than 80 local government leaders are making a last - ditch effort to stop a plan that they say will cost electric utility ratepayers billions of dollars.

Work by ACEEE and LBL has found that energy efficiency typically costs an electric utility (or other program administrator) an average of about 3 cents per kWh saved over the lifetime of the efficiency measure (while this is the average, portfolio costs vary among program administrators, in the range of about 1.5 - 5 cents per kWh, according to the ACEEE study linked above).

Not exact matches

Utilities are equally affordable with $ 100 a month being enough to cover the cost of your water bill, cable TV, private trash collection, and your electric bill, even if you like to use the air - conditioning all day long.

«Safety measures cost money,» she writes, «and electric utilities, under pressure to minimize costs, must find it hard to justify large safety expenditures if their liability is limited.»

The electric car company Tesla has announced its entry into the energy market, unveiling a suite of low - cost solar batteries for homes, businesses and utilities, «the missing piece», it said, in the transition to a sustainable energy world.

To leave roads and railroads, electric and power utilities in private hands ran the risk of private owners «rack - renting» the population, adding to the cost of living and doing business.

The total value of my cloth diaper stash is $ 705.53 * Detergents — $ 51.00 Utilities (water and electric) $ 173.55 ** Total cost for cloth diapering in Year 1 (2007)-- $ 930.08

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 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.

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

For a Northern California household in a region served by the Pacific Gas & Electric utility, a one - time investment of $ 1,150 for 30 LED - based light bulbs of 60 watts at a cost of $ 35 each would pay itself back within two and a half years even if the bulbs operate only three hours per day on average, the J.P. Morgan report says.

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.

Building better solar panels that drive down the upfront cost of a roof installation and the cost of erecting big solar arrays to feed electric utilities are major challenges for the industry.

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.

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.

Call your electric utility for information about these cost - saving programs.

For that minority of companies who finance the way electric utility companies used to finance, there very well could be a reduction in the net cost of equity capital for the company.

Consider the cost of utilities, including gas, electric, water, and cable.

According to the Caribbean Association of Electric Utilities, energy costs in Belize are among the lowest in all of the Caribbean.

So what now costs the utilities $ 65.50 will later cost them $ 65.50 + $ 30.80 = $ 96.30, pretty close to a 50 % increase, to produce the exact same amount of electric energy.

63 percent of respondents said the United States should move forward to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, regardless of what other countries do... In the same poll, the public supported — by a margin of 63 percent to 37 percent — requiring electric utilities to produce at least 20 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources, even if that would cost the average household an extra $ 100 per year.»

Electric and natural gas utilities do not fail to save energy with high efficiency end - use products because it costs too much.

Majorities of Democrats, Independents and Republicans support requiring electric utilities to produce at least 20 % of their electricity from renewable energy sources, even if it cost the average household an extra $ 100 a year.

Drawbacks Of Switching To Electric In addition to paying more on your utility bill you will also have significant costs for the replacement equipment and installation.

-- Although U.S. utilities typically pay ~ $ 0.02 — 0.03 / kWh for efficiency, RMI's empirically grounded Reinventing Fire synthesis showed in detail how to quadruple U.S. electric end - use efficiency at an average cost of ~ $ 0.007 / kWh (2009 $).

They say American Electric's cost projections hinge on unproven assumptions, and they criticize the utility owner for not soliciting other bids before agreeing to buy the wind farm from the builder, Invenergy LLC.

Similar to the community solar offerings of the electric cooperatives, these Duke Energy community solar systems will give subscribers bill credits based on the utilities» avoided cost of energy.

Bulk power transactions are used by electric utilities for many different aspects of electric utility operations, from maintaining load to reducing costs.

APS, like the vast majority of fossil - fueled electric utilities, refuses to recognize the enormous costs of pollution to public health (17 - 27 cents / kWh for coal according to Dr. Paul Epstein from Harvard), the hidden costs of leaking coal ash ponds, and the looming costs of climate change, drought and extreme weather.

«The case for preserving an electric utility's monopoly over electricity generation died with federally induced wholesale competition in the late 1970s and with the recent advent of customer - owned and cost - effective rooftop solar,» said John Farrell, director of the Energy Democracy Initiative at the Institute for Local Self - Reliance.

Meeting electric peak demand has long been one of the utility industry's biggest challenges — a challenge that has grown with soaring costs and strained electricity supply grids.

This post compares the proposed costs relative to recent rate requests and approved rate increases by New York State (NYS) electric utilities.

This week Barclays downgraded the high - grade bond market for the entire electric utility sector because «we believe that a confluence of declining cost trends in distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation and residential - scale power storage is likely to disrupt the status quo.»

Now, in a state filing, Minneapolis - based Xcel said the costs were prudent — something it must prove to Minnesota utility regulators in order to fully recoup the investment by raising electric rates.

Compared to single - fuel programs, combined natural gas and electric energy efficiency programs often deliver additional energy and dollar savings at lower cost to utilities and consumers.

As a non-profit organization governed by its members, IMPA focuses on providing the 61 municipal electric utilities it serves with a wholesale power supply that is low cost, reliable and environmentally responsible.

It presents: (1) results of an IEA study quantifying the cost of uncertainty in the process of climate policy evolution, (2) results from interviews with investment departments of electric utilities, and (3) initial policy conclusions.

Utilities have been pushing their state regulatory commissions to charge solar users a fee to cover possible costs to the electric utility of integrating solar generation into the grid.

Sen. Doug Ericksen sent a letter to the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) on Thursday asking them to reverse their decision directing Washington's three investor - owned electric utilities to include carbon emissions and climate change damages in estimates of their coal - plant operatiUtilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) on Thursday asking them to reverse their decision directing Washington's three investor - owned electric utilities to include carbon emissions and climate change damages in estimates of their coal - plant operatiutilities to include carbon emissions and climate change damages in estimates of their coal - plant operation costs.

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

The cost of land - based wind power, utility and distributed photovoltaic (PV) solar power, light emitting diodes (LEDs), and electric vehicles (EVs) has fallen by 41 % to as high as 94 % since 2008.

However, higher fixed charges are an inequitable and inefficient means to address utility revenue concerns: they reduce customer control, disproportionately impact low - usage and low - income customers, dilute incentives for energy efficiency and distributed generation, and increase electric system costs.

Net metering also results in additional administrative costs for the electric utility, which show up in other users» bills.

That is true because the utility investment in electric power would be used more of the time (about 70 percent rather than 40 percent), so the cost per unit of capacity will be lower than it would be without the new business.

The following post summarizes a series of presentations focusing on a the potential of vehicle - to - grid capability to accelerate the adoption of plug - in hybrid (PHEV) and battery electric vehicles (BEV): [From GCC:] The premise is that the additional cost to consumers of full - function zero - emission vehicles (ZEV) or near zero - emission vehicles — whether full battery electric vehicles, plug - in hybrid vehicles or fuel - cell vehicles — can be partially offset by providing grid power support to utilities or major power consumers.

To calculate the impacts on electric utilities, the paper provides estimates of the impacts of PHEVs on the revenue and cost streams of two sample utilities, one with its own generating resources, and one that is highly dependent on imported power («wires only»).

I'm interested in knowing if you purchase a lot how hard is it to get utilities to the property especially electric, plumbing and water and if anyone would know how much it would cost to get it to the property.

Interdependence means that grid system operators, utilities and customers can help create flat, base load blocks of predictable, cost - effective electric consumption that benefits everybody.