Sentences with phrase «electricity customers when»

(October 2, 2017) Nalcor's Muskrat Falls hydro project will cost more than double original estimates, is years behind schedule and will impose triple - digit rate increases on electricity customers when it starts producing power.

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When making a smart product, companies would do well to focus on ways to save the customer money — either by helping save water or electricity or by alerting the customer to discounts via coupons or sales.

California's «NEM 2.0» policy has created a clear migration path to continue to allow solar customers to receive fair compensation for the solar power they produce even as the adoption of solar increases, and implicitly encourages the adoption of battery storage by assigning a higher value to electricity provided when the grid needs it most.

Today, Kuby is also certified to install Tesla's Powerwall (a rechargeable battery used to store electricity in homes) in Western Canada, a relationship forged when one of Kuby's solar customers wanted to install a Powerwall in Inuvik, N.W.T. «Only one per cent of solar installers ever get that [Powerwall] contract [with Tesla].

When Hurricane Irma hit Florida on Sept. 10, 6.7 million customers lost electricity, or nearly two - thirds of the state.

Ninety - five percent of electricity customers would like to have detailed data about when and how they use power, but 20 percent are willing to pay for real - time information, according to the survey of 604 U.S. customers and 200 utility managers (Greenwire, March 9).

When generators fail, as they did last winter in Texas, controllers lean on «demand - response customers» — large electricity users, like factories, that are paid to be on call, ready to use a little less or even shut everything off at a moment's notice.

The customer can also recharge the battery in the middle of the night, when prices are lowest in some markets, and then use the electricity during the day to reduce energy costs.

The company touts the offering as a way for businesses or commercial customers to cut energy costs by using stored electricity when the sun is not shining.

In this article, we explain the terms, sections, and calculations in an electricity bill and how these change when a customer installs solar.

This new development has led to debate around what the appropriate level of compensation should be for distributed solar generation fed to the grid and what distributed generation customers ought to pay to utilities for non-electricity services, such as grid maintenance, as well as for electricity when their distributed generation system is not producing power (e.g., when the sun isn't shining).

Companies that want to help customers install on - site solar facilities by using PPAs have argued that this section clearly permits customers to buy solar electricity from third party suppliers when their utility doesn't offer a renewable energy tariff.

Right now, when a customer with a solar roof creates more electricity than needed, it becomes available to the grid.

Customers may be the biggest losers when utilities use their electricity subsidiaries to guarantee the success of their gas subsidiaries, but the arrangement also harms other business interests.

The lake authority doesn't own the 18 + acre / feet of rain which falls on my land and since I don't use but a tiny fraction of that and they use the excess instead to generate electricity and sell to downstream customers when they sent me a bill for 1 acre / foot I sent them a bill in return for 17 acre / feet.

Several states have voluntary limited or pilot TOU rates, «but the trend is towards TOU rates as a default option» to reward customers for reducing their electricity consumption when demand is high, Proudlove said.

If that were the full story of utility billing, it would be enough to know the total amount of energy the customer used each month - but in many cases, utilities also charge different prices for electricity depending on when it is consumed.

Wi - Fi - enabled «smart» EV chargers or those separately metered can provide the utility with information about how customers use electricity specifically for charging EVs, including when and for how long.

California's three big utilities are shifting to time - of - use rates for residential customers — meaning ratepayers will be charged more for electricity when it is more valuable.

When these costs are not recovered from customers paying «premium» prices for «green power,» they are loaded in the bills of customers using electricity from «conventional» sources.

to serve customer demands when windmills are not producing or are producing only small amounts of electricity.

You also have to know when the customer was using electricity, and how much electricity they were using.

d. «Green Energy» pricing in 25 states, which permit distribution utilities to charge a premium prices for electricity from «renewable» sources when a customers volunteers to do so.

«Our new report shows that when utilities are examining options on how to provide their customers with cheap, clean electricity, energy efficiency is generally the best choice.»

Michigan utility regulators have examined how to compensate customers for solar projects backed by battery storage and create incentives to reduce electricity use when demand is highest.

When it comes to California's time - of - use rates and the effect they'll have on solar power, a single hour can make a huge difference — especially if it doesn't align with data that shows when the state really needs to make electricity more expensive for its customWhen it comes to California's time - of - use rates and the effect they'll have on solar power, a single hour can make a huge difference — especially if it doesn't align with data that shows when the state really needs to make electricity more expensive for its customwhen the state really needs to make electricity more expensive for its customers.

When launched in 1997, Energy Australia referred to market research indicating that 65 per cent of its customers had expressed a willingness to pay more for electricity that came from «green sources».

... At this time (we) can not predict when a long - term customer (for the plant's electricity) can be found and the actual plant construction could commence.»

When a customer purchases electricity from the grid, some of it is designated as an energy charge, which can be offset by future energy credits, and another portion is set aside as non-bypassable meaning that those charges can't be reversed.

The Phase 1 collaboration of stakeholders reached an impasse when solar advocates and the Hawaiian Electric Companies (HECO), the state's dominant electricity provider, failed to find common ground on how to revise net energy metering (NEM), the rate at which customers with solar panels are renumerated for the electricity they send to the grid.

Utilities have options when it comes to meeting customer demand for electricity.

However, when these solar customers sell energy to the grid, the price they are paid for that electricity is set at a specified, non-variable rate depending on their net metering policy.

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