Sentences with phrase «electric utilities have»

When electric utilities have to choose among energy sources, they will have to take into account the higher license fees or taxes associated with fossil - fuel consumption.

With a view to promoting renewable energy in Japan, electric utilities have voluntarily purchased electricity generated from renewable energy, while the national government has adopted the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) Law, under which local governments have granted subsidies.

Industrial unions, the oil and gas sector, and electric utilities have all been among Gonzalez's biggest contributors over the years.

Electric utilities have been the top campaign contributors to Boucher, giving him $ 753,960 over the past 20 years.

Electric utilities have taken advantage of clean and affordable natural gas, allowing U.S. GHG emissions to fall more than any other country since 2006.

Despite early knowledge about climate change, electric utilities have continued to invest heavily in fossil fuel power generation over the past half a century, and since 1988 some have engaged in ongoing efforts to sow doubt about climate science and block legal limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

While many electric utilities have built their capital intensive infrastructure around the availability of fossil energy to drive their generators, utilities have had the choice to lead the transition to a zero net emissions energy system via the use of renewable and nuclear energy to generate electricity.

Electric utilities have for the most part only under the duress of regulators moved towards renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Also, in some locations, electric utilities have fought (may require subscription) to create an unfriendly environment for solar, especially rooftop solar.

Electric utilities have never made a serious effort to attack the transportation market at scale.

Other electric utilities have been relatively coy about their positions on SB 320 and HB 554 publicly, but apparently have not been shy about lobbying on the bills behind closed doors.

The growing volume of distributed generation, aided in part by the rapid growth of third - party - owned solar PV in some states, is challenging the role that electric utilities have historically played as the sole provider of electricity to customers.

Electric utilities have been replacing coal plants with gas - fired facilities because they are more efficient and less expensive to operate.

A year after its IPO, the Ontario electric utility has been a star performer in a hot sector.

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.

Under our proposal, electric utilities would be required to produce a set amount of their electricity from low or non-emitting sources or through energy efficiency.

Electric utilities would have three to four years to come into compliance under the new standards, and according to the EPA, «[M] ore than half of all coal - fired power plants already deploy the widely available pollution - control technologies that allow them to meet these important standards.»

In the 1960s and 1970s, California's electric utilities had planned to build a string of new reactors and new plants that were ultimately killed by anti-nuclear leaders and groups, including Governor Jerry Brown, the Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Fund (NRDC).

Electric utilities would be allotted, or would buy, carbon emission allowances.

Not exact matches

Dominion Energy on Wednesday it would buy Scana in an all - stock deal that values the electric utility company at about $ 7.9 billion.

General Electric has become known for its quirky advertising over the years, but the utility company may have just surpassed itself with this hilarious «infomercial» starring Jurassic Park actor Jeff Goldblum.

In the 11 months since then, Mr. Hackett has shuffled Ford's executive ranks and outlined plans to introduce new sport - utility vehicles and electric cars.

Those comments, plus inquiries sent to the utilities by the commission staff, showed that efforts to harden the state's electric grid «have worked» to minimize damage to the system, Ballinger said.

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.

Utility Hawaiian Electric has announced the start of operations of a pilot project featuring flywheel energy storage technology provided by Amber Kinetics.

«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.

(Reuters)- Canadian electric utility Hydro One Ltd (H.TO) said on Wednesday that it would buy rival Avista Corp (AVA.N) for about C$ 6.7 billion ($ 5.32 billion) to expand into the U.S. Northwest.

We unpack the sizable impact Tesla's utility scale storage will have on the electric grid.

The all - cash transaction has been unanimously approved by the board of directors of both companies will create the leading Mid-Atlantic electric and gas utility.

** 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.

Wasserman - Schultz, D - Weston, said she will introduce a bill requiring that all nursing homes have generators and that electric utilities make nursing homes a top priority for power restoration after a storm.

The hurricane destroyed the island's electric grid, and 84 percent of the public utility's customers still don't have power.

Only a very small number of companies have set long - term (2030 or later) targets which can be considered to be in line with a sectoral 2 °C pathway.282 An analysis of 70 of the world's largest publicly listed corporate emitters, across the aluminium, cement, chemicals and electric utilities sectors, found that 21 had targets up to 2020 which could be considered consistent with a 2 °C sectoral pathway, but only 7 had targets to 2030 or later.283 Twenty others had non-2 °C or «irrelevant» targets, and the rest had none at all.

If this were an ordinary industry — say, airlines or electric utilities — the problem would be serious enough.

Now liberals HATE CHARITIES... ya know... if you go to a church's food bank for food or to have your electric bill paid they don't ask you to produce ID, Last pay stub, and all your credit information... they just give you food or they pay a utility bill for you... that is a charity.

But the Lovins have shown electric utility companies that they can make a better profit if their customers use less electricity.

The Lovins had to do a great deal of explanation to persuade directors of electric utilities that this did not apply to their business.

In any otherwalk of life, whether buying goods, services, booking a holiday, going to a theatre / play and even when using utilities like internet, electric, gas, phone, etc. etc. we have LEGAL rights when we are cheated out of the service we pay for (and we pay through the nose to attend the Emirates!).

If you don't have either of these then you can bring in two of the forms listed below: utility bill (gas, water, electric.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. expects to have most remaining power outages fixed by late Friday night, a utility spokesman said Thursday.

With 650 electric line and tree workers dispersed throughout the region, supported by hundreds of utility staff, electric service has been restored to nearly 95 percent of Central Hudson Gas & Electric customers affected by Friday's nor»electric line and tree workers dispersed throughout the region, supported by hundreds of utility staff, electric service has been restored to nearly 95 percent of Central Hudson Gas & Electric customers affected by Friday's nor»electric service has been restored to nearly 95 percent of Central Hudson Gas & Electric customers affected by Friday's nor»Electric customers affected by Friday's nor» easter.

Massachusetts» highest court has reduced penalties imposed against two electric utilities by state regulators for their poor responses to a pair of 2011 storms that left hundreds of thousands of customers without power for days.

On the tape, a confessed arsonist claimed that in the «50s and «60s, he and Charles Raffa had turned back utility meters, presumably to help people and businesses cheat on gas and electric bills.

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.

Now most of those struggling middle class owners are going to struggle even more to put food on the table for a hungry family, pay an urgent bill to a utility so that family has electric so teenagers who live at home with mom and dad can get more money to go to the movies or buy weed with.

It's true that 9.00 an hour isn't going to make anyone a millionaire, but what Skelos can't get straight in his mind is it might put food on the table for a hungry family, or pay an urgent bill to a utility so that family has electric..

An amended resolution that settles the three - year dispute between the Krenzer family and Rochester Gas and Electric Corp. has been endorsed by the family, the utility and others; and is on the agenda of the state PSC for final approval at its meeting Thursday.

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.

That proposal, which is being called Reforming the Energy Vision, or REV, would change how electric utilities operate and allow consumers to sell electricity they generate at home into the wholesale markets.