Sentences with phrase «electric utility»

that «climate changes possible over the next 30 years may significantly affect the electric utility industry.»

Plaintiffs Community Power Network Corporation (d / b / a Solar United Neighbors) and the League of Women Voters of Florida, Inc., sue Defendant JEA, a Florida municipal electric utility, to enforce state law and to prevent the destruction of rooftop solar expansion in the Jacksonville area.

Earthjustice has filed a legal challenge against JEA, Florida's largest municipal electric utility, because it is violating state law by short - changing customers who want to use rooftop solar energy.

As a result, natural gas has increased its share of electric utility generation over the past decade from 22 percent to 32 percent, overtaking coal as the major source of U.S. electricity generation.

To re-write the state law regulating electric utility monopolies.

As the largest electric utility in the state, Eversource stands to benefit most from stepping away from net metering.

While working at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Soon has received funding from fossil fuel interests including the American Petroleum Institute, ExxonMobil, the electric utility Southern Co., Donors Trust and the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, according to public records obtained by Greenpeace and the watchdog group Climate Investigations Center.

Recently, the California Public Utilities Commission directed Pacific Gas and Electric, the state's largest electric utility, to solicit bids for renewable energy and storage projects to replace three natural gas plants.

** Plum is a former member of House Commerce and Labor and currently a member of the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation.

Many large corporations have left ALEC for that reason, including Virginia's other big electric utility, AEP.

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.»

The move makes Southern Company «the nation's second - largest combined gas and electric utility by customer base,» according to Utility Dive.

Meanwhile, federal prosecution of the oil and gas industry and pesticide applicators goes back to the 1970s, and the government brought its first case against an electric utility for electrocuting birds in 1998.

DVP is Virginia's largest electric utility.

There has been growing tension between the electric utility industry and the solar industry — specifically the part of solar industry that is focused on distributed, or point of use, solar installations.

The SCC's job is to protect electric utility customers from precisely this kind of exploitation.

Even worse, Ameren, the local electric utility, operates 4 three coal - fired power plants in the St. Louis metro area, 3 of which run without modern pollution controls.

Electric utility companies across the south are snapping up wind power contracts — and now a utility in Mississippi may jump on the wind rush bandwagon.

As I've written elsewhere, senior Dominion executives and other electric utility officials tend to avoid mentioning climate change in their public discussions.

Though we think of it as an electric utility, Dominion is a much bigger player in the gas world.

Two other related bills worth noting: HB 2839 (Morris D - 40th LD) and its companion SB 6424 (Carlyle) These bills are not exactly carbon taxes, but they would apply a $ 40 / ton + 1.25 % / year «shadow» carbon price to gas and electric utility decision and planning processes.

In 1913, the company won its first long - term contract to supply a large electric utility.

S. Environmental Protection Agency, Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units (Notice of Data Availability), 79 Fed.

He also neglected to mention that record wind power had saved electric utility customers money during recent periods of extreme cold.

In total, 15 staffers on the eight main energy and environment congressional committees previously worked as industry lobbyists on behalf of oil, gas, mining, coal, petrochemical, and electric utility interests.

The back - and - forth over a capacity charge had been the primary reason that major changes to electric utility legislation had stalled in Michigan's Legislature for almost two years.

S. Environmental Protection Agency, Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units (Proposed Rule), 79 Fed.

«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.

Arizona Public Service Company is the largest electric utility in Arizona and the subsidiary of publicly - traded S&P 500 member Pinnacle West Capital Corporation.

Administrative and general expenses: Expenses of an electric utility relating to the overall directions of its corporate offices and administrative affairs, as contrasted with expenses incurred for specialized functions.

Providing programs to electric utility customers to reduce their energy use through improved energy efficiency is an innovation with roots in the energy crises of the 1970s.

S. Environmental Protection Agency, Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units; Proposed Rule Federal Register / Vol.

This after the Western Massachusetts Electric Company (WMECo)-- which serves over 200,000 commercial and residential electric utility customers in the Bay State — yesterday announced its plan to build a 4.2 - megawatt (MW) solar facility in Springfield, Massachusetts.

The gasoline engine serves as an on - board personal electric utility for when you forget to plug in to the local grid, or for ensuring a total range to match that of any conventional car you'd buy today.

Our complete technology solution also provides electric utility companies a means to control the load that plug - in vehicles put on the grid and a means to compute and implement taxes on electricity as a transportation fuel.»

Officially launched in January after years of development, a new CLEAN (feed - in tariff) program from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (the city's municipal electric utility) promises 100 MW of new local renewable energy by 2016.

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.

The electric utility industry is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, accounting for one - third of total US greenhouse gas emissions and about 40 percent of all carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning.

American Electric Power (AEP) is a major investor - owner electric utility operating in various parts of the United States.

Its state - owned electric utility is even considering building a 1,170 - kilometer (727 - mile) undersea cable to export geothermal and hydropower to Scotland.

Feb. 8, 2008), as the Act removed oil and coal - fired electric utility steam generating units (EGUs) from the list of sources of hazardous air pollutants and instead regulated the emissions through a cap - and - trade program.

, a number of electric utility companies have paid their lobbyists to engage in «active advocacy» on

Secretary of Energy Rick Perry later cited the IHS Markit report in a failed proposal to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, a proposal that was viewed as a thinly veiled bail out package for the Ohio - based electric utility FirstEnergy and Murray Energy.

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.

One widely cited study by the Brattle Group estimated that the electric utility industry will need to invest a $ 1.5 trillion to $ 2.0 trillion in infrastructure upgrades by 2030.

Actually, electric utility energy efficiency budgets have been growing rapidly over the last five years, from $ 2.7 billion in 2007 to $ 6.8 billion in 2011.

In my case, I cut my household GHG emissions by about two - thirds, from a relatively frugal base, with four changes: replaced an older car with a Prius, stopped buying grain - fed meat, bought wind power from my local electric utility, moved to a house with a ground - source heatpump.

Election day in Colorado yesterday, with the most - watched ballot issue in Boulder was whether voters would allow the city to establish a municipal electric utility.

Because I ride a bicycle and limit my car trips, and I've curtailed my airplane travel, and wear sweaters (I know when I've set the thermostat too low when I can see the dog's breath in the living room), and because I've opted into our electric utility's «Pure Power» wind power program (they pledge to buy 75 % of your power from wind farms in exchange for raising your rate a few cents per kilowatt hour), my personal «Carbon Footprint» comes out at less than 4 tons per year.

National Times runs on energy supplied by FPL (Florida Power and Light), a privately owned power company that serves as the main electric utility provider in Florida.