Sentences with phrase «electric utility customers»

In May, the Brookings Institute published a paper, by Muro and Saha, purportedly aimed at addressing the policy question posed by the growing level of net metered electric utility customers and the growing debate about its economics.

In 2011, Richard Perez, Ken Zweibel, and Thomas E. Hoff [13] attempted to describe the combined value that solar energy delivers to utilities» electric utility customers (energy, capacity) and society's taxpayers (environmental, fuel price mitigation, [14] outage risk protection, and long - term economic growth), specifically in the New York City area.

Another oft - cited study, by LBNL in 2010, [8] did not examine the value of net metering of solar to non-participating electric utility customers; instead, the authors reviewed the impact of retail rate design on hypothetical net metering bill savings.

In 2012, Richard Perez [16] teamed with Thomas E. Hoff and Benjamin L. Norris in order to study the values that a fleet of distributed solar systems in various configurations delivers to utilities, electric utility customers, and taxpayers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

They concluded that «Net metering — contra the Nevada decision — frequently benefits all electric utility customers when all costs and benefits are accounted for...» This brief assesses the Brookings paper and finds it lacking in approach and coverage of issues.

In 2012, they looked only at the PG&E utility territory, which includes more than two thirds of the net costs of net metering for non-participants, as well as for all electric utility customers across the state of California.

Across the country, more and more electric utility customers are using rooftop solar panels and other small - scale, on - site power sources known as distributed generation (DG).

The rules are designed to permit public entity electric utility customers to install a solar generation system, sized not to exceed the aggregate of the metered annual use of the customer's qualified facilities that are all in the same rate class under the applicable tariff.

And, whether or not they know it, all of the North Carolina electric utility customers who have a few more bucks in their pockets (because the solar we install means they don't have to start paying for a new billion dollar fossil fuel plant this year), would disagree.

A Critique of Brookings Institutution's Mark Muro and Devashree Saha: Rooftop Solar: Net Metering Is A Net Benefit [1] by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal's Director of Science and Technology Assessment Across the country, more and more electric utility customers are using rooftop solar panels and other small - scale, on - site power sources known as distributed generation (DG).

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

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

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

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.

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.

Under terms of the contract, as amended in 1996, United States Enrichment Corporation (i) purchased the enrichment portion of the blended - down material and sold it to its electric utility customers for use in fabricating fuel for their commercial nuclear power plants, and (ii) transferred to TENEX a quantity of natural uranium equal to the natural uranium component of the low enriched uranium.

Electric utility customers across New York state could see a jump in their bills next year.

Not exact matches

Tom Ballinger, the commission staff's director of the engineering division, said 700 customers of the state's electric utilities filed comments and that nearly 11 percent of the comments were «positive» about utilities» performance during Irma.

Led by the Ministry of Energy and MaRS Discovery District, a working group was formed with the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario and representatives from the energy sector to adopt and implement the «Green Button data standard» — a common format for customers to securely access their data from their electric utilities.

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.

As for the grid, the proliferation of electricity storage could eventually transform it into a «plug and play» for the units, used by utilities, solar customers and electric vehicles.

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

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

The Executive Budget is proposing a massive $ 651 million increase in the state's «Section 18 - A» assessments on utilities (increasing the assessment rate from.3 percent of revenues to 2 percent), a significant share of which will hit electric and gas utilities, with a direct pass through to their business customers.

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.

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.

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.

The Clean Energy Fund is part of an effort by the Cuomo administration to overhaul NYSERDA and the state's renewable energy and energy conservation programs, which are funded by a surcharge on utility bills — about $ 3.50 a month for the average gas and electric customer in the Capital Region.

Duke, the nation's third - largest electric utility, provides service to 11 million natural gas and electricity customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.

With a Department of Energy grant awarded to General Motors, Bill Boyce, supervisor for electric transportation with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, said his utility modeled a few electric vehicle pricing schemes and found they were able to manage the impact of charging on the grid by educating their customers on the best time to Utility District, said his utility modeled a few electric vehicle pricing schemes and found they were able to manage the impact of charging on the grid by educating their customers on the best time to utility modeled a few electric vehicle pricing schemes and found they were able to manage the impact of charging on the grid by educating their customers on the best time to charge.

Last year, for example, the Edison Electric Institute, a utility trade group, in a report described rooftop solar as a «disruptive challenge» that could squeeze revenue and profits as customers defected, leaving companies forced to maintain grids that serve all.

The nation's fourth - largest electric utility is headquartered in Atlanta and serves more than 4.4 million customers in the South through its subsidiaries Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power and Mississippi Power.

Electric companies in Albuquerque are offering better services at better rates to get you as their utility customer.

It's an electric and gas utility based in St. John's, Nfld., that has customers in Canada, the U.S. and the Caribbean.

The Storage Segment provides gas storage services for utilities, large industrial users, electric power companies and other customers.

Alliant Energy (LNT) LNT is a Midwest utility, serving about 1 million electric plus a half - million gas customers in Iowa and Wisconsin.

The Public Service Company of New Mexico utility provides electric generation, transmission, and distribution service to its rate - regulated customers.

American Electric Power Co Inc is a public utility holding company, through its subsidiaries, provides electric service, consisting of generation, transmission and distribution, on an integrated basis to its retail cuElectric Power Co Inc is a public utility holding company, through its subsidiaries, provides electric service, consisting of generation, transmission and distribution, on an integrated basis to its retail cuelectric service, consisting of generation, transmission and distribution, on an integrated basis to its retail customers.

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.

The Avista Utilities segment generates, transmits and distributes electricity and distributes natural gas, serving electric and gas customers in eastern Washington and Northern Idaho and gas customers in parts of Oregon.

In NJ she also worked many years for a large local Electric Utility as a Customer Service Representative, Trainer and Major Account Mgr and also attended community college in Atlantic City to further her business skills.

That storm left an estimated 6.2 million customers in Florida without electricity on September 11, according to the Florida Public Service Commission, which, like the commission in Texas, collects data from electric utilities.

American Electric, which owns utilities serving 11 states, says the wind farm is a good deal for customers.

The state's three investor - owned utilities, Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric, initially argued for fixed charges for solar customers, but in the last month authored a new proposal that would preserve net metering but reduce the rate at which solar customers are compensated for the power they export.

American Electric is not the first utility owner to seek regulatory consent to charge customers for a big wind project.

EIA uses its surveys of electric utilities to collect information on the number of customers with distributed PV systems and the aggregate capacity of those systems.

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.

If built and brought online at the end of 2020, the 2,000 - megawatt Wind Catcher Connection in Oklahoma's Panhandle would supply the customers of PSO and Southwestern Electric Power with electricity the utilities maintain would be among the most affordable in the nation.

Last summer Baltimore Gas & Electric worked with Opower on a similar program, delivering targeted messaging to 300,000 customers enrolled in the utility's Smart Energy Rewards program.