Sentences with phrase «electric utility rates»

Lastly, the majority expressly rejected Old Dominion's argument that the Court's constitutional interpretation «lacks any limiting principle on the power of the General Assembly as relates to setting electric utility rates.

The Grid Transformation and Security Act — which promises to lower utility bills, increase investments in energy efficiency and renewables, and restore oversight of electric utility rates in the Commonwealth — requires Virginia's largest utility (Dominion Energy) to consider combined heat and power, or CHP, in its future resource plans.

But it appears that the state's powerful union sector is feeling the heat from its members and employers, angered that energy - rich California now has the «lower 48's» highest average electric utility rates for residential, commercial, industrial and transportation at 17.55 cents per kilowatt hour.

Not exact matches

As of December 1, 2009, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, for example, offered an off - peak discount of approximately 50 % off of the regular residential electricity rate for electricity used to charge electric vehicles.

The Federal Reserve's monthly index of industrial production and the related capacity indexes and capacity utilization rates cover manufacturing, mining, and electric and gas utilities.

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.

Streamlines the review and approval process for the State's 40 municipally owned gas and electric utilities by exempting them from the mandatory evidentiary hearing currently required for municipal rate cases.

Greenport Electric isn't listed but its rates, which like Rockville Centre's and Freeport's are subsidized by cheap hydropower from New York Power Authority, are on par with those two Long Island municipal utilities.

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.

NEW CITY — A battle is being waged in Rockland County against a proposed rate hike from the electric utility Orange and Rockland.

A Dutchess County - based utility company is turning to legal action in its opposition to a new capacity zone that it says is already translating into higher electric rates.

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.

As adoption increases, utilities will have to figure out the best way to have enough electricity on the grid to charge more and more cars without affecting rates and reliability for those with and without electric cars, he said.

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

Another feature of the app developed by Microsoft works to make sure the majority of the Ford Focus Electric's battery pack is charged when utility rates are the cheapest.

The experimental system would allow fleet operators to use their plug - in hybrids to supply electricity for a building during a power outage, reduce power usage when electric rates are high or even sell electricity back to their utility company.

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Over the years we have consistently owned electric utilities because there always seem to be stocks that are temporarily depressed because of a bad rate decision by the public service commission.

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

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.

And given the lobbying power of energy - extracting industries, along with those reliant on them (automakers, electric utilities), can embedded advantages, ranging from cheap rail rates for coal to direct tax breaks for oil drillers, be diminished?

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.

With a background in regulated utility issues, Matt has worked directly with electric, water, and natural gas utilities to advance best practices in demand response, demand side management, program design, and alternative rate mechanisms at Comverge, the National Association of Water Companies and the Institute for Electric Efficiency at the Edison Fouelectric, water, and natural gas utilities to advance best practices in demand response, demand side management, program design, and alternative rate mechanisms at Comverge, the National Association of Water Companies and the Institute for Electric Efficiency at the Edison FouElectric Efficiency at the Edison Foundation.

Large commercial and industrial customers sometimes obtain interruptible rates, which provide a discount in return for the consumer's agreement to cut electric loads upon request from the utility (usually during critical periods, such as summer afternoons when the system demand approaches the utility's generating capability).

In many states, electric utilities are publicly regulated and enjoy guaranteed rates of return on their investment.

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

The NY total for the most recent rate requests for electric delivery for the investor owner utilities and LIPA is $ 1,282 million (Table 1, NYS Electric Delivery Rate Casrate requests for electric delivery for the investor owner utilities and LIPA is $ 1,282 million (Table 1, NYS Electric Delivery Rateelectric delivery for the investor owner utilities and LIPA is $ 1,282 million (Table 1, NYS Electric Delivery RateElectric Delivery Rate CasRate Cases).

Even if the utility rates change, or if you sign up for electric competitive supply services through a third - party, you can continue to earn solar credits at a fixed discount.

But the city's goals could also benefit the utility by expanding electric vehicle use or establishing premium rates for solar power, for example.

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.

Since these large customers can create and manage their own electricity, utilities have negotiated directly with them on really low electric rates to keep them as customers.

For purposes of this subsection, «State - approved production incentive program» means a requirement imposed pursuant to State law, or by a State regulatory authority acting within its authority under State law, that an electric utility purchase renewable energy (as defined in section 609 of this Act) at a specified rate.».

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.

Arizona's largest electricity utility is working on plans to offer 200 Flagstaff customers a discounted electric rate, over time, in exchange for installing free photovoltaic (PV) panels on their roofs.

Suppose electric utilities in Nevada were to reduce the compensation for net metering from retail to wholesale rates to put solar panel users on a level playing field with other generators.

For example, it would allow utilities to count energy intensity reductions resulting from heat rate improvements at electric generating plants, either owned by the utility or their affiliates.

They did away with plans to prohibit Santee Cooper, a state - owned utility, from raising its electric rates to pay off the $ 4 billion it borrowed for the project, fearing insolvency.

According to an analysis in Advanced Energy Economy's PowerSuite tool, SB 564 also seeks to «adopt rate - making mechanisms that would greatly benefit utilities, but likely lead to higher electric rates for all customer classes.»

In Ohio, American Electric Power is planning to install 250 charging stations in Columbus and has submitted a proposal to the state Public Utilities Commission seeking compensation for the stations as part of a broader eight - year rate case.

Their theory goes like this: Homeowners install solar panels, which reduces the amount of electricity they buy from the electric utility, thereby reducing the amount of fees that customers pay for grid maintenance, which then causes the utility to raise rates and, ultimately, encourages more and more customers to go solar which... causes rates to soar.

«adopt rate - making mechanisms that would greatly benefit utilities, but likely lead to higher electric rates for all customer classes.»

«(ii) electricity generated through the incineration of municipal solid waste owned by an electric utility or sold under contract or rate order to an electric utility to meet the needs of the retail customers of the utility;

-- The purpose of this section is to improve the ability of retail rate utility customers to compare tariff options by making the most up - to - date electric utility tariffs available in an online format that can be read and manipulated electronically.

In the traditional model for establishing rates for customers of regulated electric and natural gas utilities, higher sales of energy lead to...

The PSC will consider the electric utilities» role in providing infrastructure and rate design to accommodate the needs and electricity demand of EVs.

The EPA spoke of the health and other benefits of reining in climate change through reduced C02 emissions, while utility industry officials decry a «war on coal» that will cost jobs and raise electric rates.

We assume that the White House is on the Potomac Electric Company's Residential Time Metered (RTM) schedule, with 3.5 % utility escalation rate, and 5c / kWh for Net Surplus Compensation.

While coal and electric utility industry officials and their supporters in Congress charge the president with fighting a «war on coal» that will cost coal states jobs and raise electric rates, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy defended the proposed rules as affordable and reasonable.

However, some electric utilities are changing their rates in ways that make solar batteries a smart investment for homeowners.