Sentences with phrase «electric utilities so»

Large scale electric utilities so far have been mostly opposing or ineffective at implementing building conservation measures and distributed renewables.

But acknowledging the political weight behind EEI's proposal, Greenstein today suggested a compromise that starts with free allowances for the electric utilities so long as they are also phased out at the same time that direct tax relief gets ramped up.

Not exact matches

This explains why utilities are so gung - ho about electric vehicles.

As Vox's Alexia Fernández Campbell explained, as tax breaks faded, businesses left the island, and so did workers and utility customers, eating into the revenue of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the unregulated utility monopoly.

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..

The trouble, from an electric utility's perspective, is the tens of thousands of Arizona's total of three million or so homes that have installed small solar: photovoltaic panels made from wafers of semiconducting material, typically silicon, that use incoming sunlight to create an electric current.

Again, the main «issue» in my mind with GnuCash income / expense report is that there is no filter for which account (rental property) you want income / expenses for, unless you set up account tree so that each rental property has its own defined incomes and expenses (i.e. PropertyA: Expense: Utility: electric).

Utilities that should deliver consistent payouts include American Electric Power (AEP, $ 68, 3.6 %) and Southern Co. (SO, $ 45, 5.1 %).

The spotlight may help Musk push policy makers and utilities to consider reshaping regulations so solar and battery storage could be more easily incorporated into the larger electric system, Kahn said.

SO says the deal will create the second - largest utility company in the U.S. by customer base, with 11 regulated electric and natural gas distribution companies providing service to ~ 9M customers with a projected regulated rate base of ~ $ 50B.

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.

Thus, a low - energy electric vehicle provides the same utility as a high - energy fossil fuel vehicle, so a switch to electric vehicles would reduce energy demand, but not utility demand.

I would speculate that the experience of this struggle was so traumatic for the company that it played a role in its decision to divest itself of nearly all its generating assets when New York State's electric utility market was deregulated in 1994.

So what the proposal is really telling the electric utility industry is this: If you want to build a new coal - fired power plant, you'll have to build a natural gas combined cycle plant instead.

HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE TECHNOLOGIES SHOWS FORD F - 150 PICKUP PHEV http://www.edmunds.com/­insideline/­do/­News/­articleId=129928 EVT unveils the first plug - in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) version of the Ford F - 150, helping the light truck achieve better gas mileage without sacrificing the size and utility that makes it so popular.

The $ 2,000 monetary cap for residential solar electric installations is eliminated and so is the prohibition on utilities from benefiting from the credit.

Gas and electric are metered at each spot, so these utilities not included in the rental price.

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 right rate designs and incentives can do this by finding a way for solar - plus - storage to be so valuable to the electric distribution system that utilities will choose it over traditional solutions, CEERT's White said.

In addition, the RES includes an «energy transformation» requirement, known as Tier III, that tasks electric utilities to look for ways to reduce fossil fuel emissions (even where doing so may increase electric consumption).

Similarly, on the demand — or customer — side, the idea is that Californians, buildings, appliances and electric vehicles create an intricate, synergetic web that can be made more efficient and flexible with customer education and empowerment, customer - focused energy pricing policies and demand - response programs (which allows customers to voluntarily reduce peak electricity use in response to a signal from their electric utilities and receive a payment for doing so).

So, here's the list of the organizations that are the key groups that are doing something: Plug In America, Electric Auto, with chapters all over the Bay Area; ElectricDrive.org, that's the trade association of the industry; the Sierra Club has gone big into plug - in cars, now; ProjectGetReady.org is the Rocky Mountain Institute, Amory Lovins» spinoff, that's about readiness in communities; and all your local utilities.

If so, you might think our electric utility is all in favor of «green energy,» but the truth is, they have no choice.

«Also in 2006,» Michaels told the Vermont court, «when a $ 100,000 contract between New Hope and electric utility Intermountain Rural Electric Association to synthesize and research new findings on global warming became public knowledge, a public campaign was initiated to change the composition of the Intermountain board of directors so that there would be no additional electric utility Intermountain Rural Electric Association to synthesize and research new findings on global warming became public knowledge, a public campaign was initiated to change the composition of the Intermountain board of directors so that there would be no additional Electric Association to synthesize and research new findings on global warming became public knowledge, a public campaign was initiated to change the composition of the Intermountain board of directors so that there would be no additional funding.

Virtual net metering (also called virtual net energy metering, or VNEM) uses the same compensation structure as net energy metering (NEM): utilities pay customers the retail rate for the energy that their solar system feeds back to the electric grid, so that they pay only for the net amount of energy they consume.

See why environmentalists, electric utilities and all those national security wonks in Washington, D.C. are so excited about the plug - in hybrid concept?

The electric utility industry, for example, through its voluntary ad - hoc organization, the Utility Air Regulatory Group (UARG), submitted comments in December 2014 that argued the Clean Air Act section 111 is so narrow that it only authorizes EPA to regulate source - based emiutility industry, for example, through its voluntary ad - hoc organization, the Utility Air Regulatory Group (UARG), submitted comments in December 2014 that argued the Clean Air Act section 111 is so narrow that it only authorizes EPA to regulate source - based emiUtility Air Regulatory Group (UARG), submitted comments in December 2014 that argued the Clean Air Act section 111 is so narrow that it only authorizes EPA to regulate source - based emissions.

Your electric generation does not cost you anything, so the moment your system starts working, you begin recovering on your investment against the electric costs you incurred through the local utility.

In this latest e-bike launch, the Tern Bicycles GSD is looking to fill that not - so - apparently - obvious gap in the market, with a folding compact utility electric bike capable of carrying a total load of almost 400 pounds (or several small passengers), while still fitting in the same space as a conventional bike.

«What scares us is the prices for plasma sets are dropping so fast that people are saying, why get a 42 - inch plasma set when you can get a 60 - inch or 64 - inch one,» says Tom Reddoch, director of energy efficiency for the nonprofit Electric Power Research Institute's laboratory in Knoxville, Tenn., an independent organization that advises the utility sector.

Furnish it, you furnish all utilities as well but cap the electric and water to a reasonable rate so they do nt leave the door open with the air on and run up the billl, provide internet and put in a Ruko device, charge a cleaning fee (find a good cleaner), and you are ready to roll.

There are two electric meters so each tenant pays their own electric bill but all the other utilities are shared.

Alabama Power is a part of Southern Company (NYSE: SO), a leading U.S energy company serving nine million electric and gas utility customers in 18 states through its subsidiaries.