Sentences with phrase «electricity sales»

Average annual retail electricity sales in the nine participating states from 2009 through 2012 were 6 % below the annual sales in 2005.

In part due to the impacts of increased energy efficiency and distributed solar, 2017 had the lowest observed annual electricity sales of any year since 1998.

Of these states, 10 also have some form of retail choice for electricity sales.

In both 2013 and 2014, total electricity sales and electricity - related CO2 emissions increased.

Because of these changes to the electric system, 2016 had the lowest observed annual electricity sales of any year since 1999.

California currently has a mandate to achieve 20 percent of retail electricity sales from renewable resources by 2010, and the Governor and the state's energy agencies have identified a further goal of 33 percent renewable by 2020.

A state renewable portfolio standard (RPS) encourages or requires utilities to use or buy renewable energy or renewable energy certificates (RECs) to account for a certain portion of their retail electricity sales by a certain date.

It would require utilities to meet an increasing percentage of electricity sales from solar, onshore wind, offshore wind, and energy efficiency, reaching 25 % of base year sales by 2025 (and deleting the current, obnoxious slight - of - hand that leaves nuclear out of the equation, but keeping a base year of 2007).

When Congress put the Federal Power Commission in charge of all wholesale interstate electricity sales in 1935, Texas opted out and stayed out.

Rural electric cooperatives and city - run electrical utilities are exempt from a 2013 Minnesota law that requires for - profit utilities to generate 1.5 percent of their retail electricity sales in the state from solar by 2021.

But since endangering utility profits would likely galvanize the industry once and for all against emissions regulation, the green dilemma boils down to figuring out a way to reduce electricity sales while guaranteeing utility profits.

According to figures contained in Cambridge Econometrics» UK Energy and the Environment report, renewables will account for only approximately 5 per cent of UK electricity sales to final users by 2010, just half of the 10 per cent target.

Apart from reducing the reliability of Europe's electricity supply, operators stand to lose many millions of euros from a single outage from lost electricity sales alone.

As first proposed two years ago, FirstEnergy's case before the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio asked for a different charge altogether to make utility customers guarantee electricity sales by its unregulated generation affiliate from certain coal and nuclear plants.

But if there was one thing clean energy advocates and Duke Energy agreed on during a morning panel on the «future of energy,» it was that the current utility model gives the company limited options to recoup new grid costs, whatever their value, if electricity sales remain flat.

Reuters calculations, based on industry estimates of lost daily electricity sales, show the outages at two EDF Energy plants could cost the firm some 155 million pounds during the outages from when they began in June or August to October, not including the costs of inspection and maintenance work.

No investor - owned utility has yet dipped into its pool of ratepayer funds to subsidize the vehicles, which stand to increase electricity sales.

EPO has identified an initial objective of increasing to 10 % the amount of in - state electricity sales that come from in - state solar energy generation.

These CCA programs break the utility electricity sales monopoly, providing clean and cheap power to customers.

Much of the existing coal capacity in the United States was built from 1950 to 1990 during a time when electricity sales were growing much faster than population and gross domestic product.

In more recent years, electricity sales growth has slowed or fallen, and net capacity additions (of all fuel types) have been relatively low.

According to state law, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), Southern California Edison (SCE) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) are by 2010 supposed to meet 20 percent of their retail electricity sales using renewable resources, like solar, wind and geothermal.

Ad a optional wood pellet or any fueled back up burner and you have anytime power, heat that electricity sales gives you a check back each month even after fuel if needed costs.

Rulings from Iowa and New Hampshire have recognized that PPAs involving rooftop solar are not the kind of electricity sales covered by public utility regulations.

That means implementing one of three basic scenarios: (1) consumers paying more for less electricity; (2) electricity prices remaining steady and taxpayers being called upon to subsidize the difference between the profits from actual electricity sales and the profits guaranteed by government; or (3) some combination of the two.

Rather, the study creates a national average by comparing electricity sales, unemployment, and personal income among other factors in all states that have a REPS policy with all states that do not, and then attributes the differences to the presence (or lack thereof) of a REPS policy.

The District of Columbia's aggressive support of distributed energy resources includes a 2016 Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) requirement that 50 percent of retail electricity sales come from renewable energy by 2032, with 5 percent coming from solar.

A standard, under which a certain percentage of a utility's overall or new generating capacity or energy sales must be derived from renewable resources (e.g., 1 % of electric sales must be from renewable energy by a certain year)-- An RES most commonly refers to electricity sales measured in megawatt - hours, as opposed to electrical capacity measured in megawatts.

Because Dominion holds a monopoly on electricity sales, its customers will be stuck paying for gas — and guaranteeing a revenue stream for pipeline owners — for decades to come.

These policy actions include new legislation requiring long - term contracting for renewables and other resources in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, revised incentives for distributed generation resources, changes to RPS polices in other states in New England, proposed Massachusetts - specific CO2 caps, and newly - revised forecasts for electricity sales that take the full impact of new energy efficiency measures into account.

We adjust reported emissions data for interstate electricity sales, and then calculate the fractions of each state's emissions that come from household activities: transportation, household fuel use (primarily heating and cooking), and household electricity use.

The emission rates used for compliance take into account emissions and generation from existing fossil - fired plants, as well as existing nonhydro renewable generation, all new renewable generation, 6 % of existing nuclear generation plus nuclear generation from plants under construction, and contributions from energy efficiency programs that reduce electricity sales.

The report argues that, even if electricity demand were to grow at around 1 to 1.5 per cent per annum between 2010 and 2020 and fossil fuel prices were to remain relatively high, the share of renewables in UK electricity sales is only expected to increase to around 10.25 per cent by 2015.

Most (about 80 % I understand) of total electricity sales are contained in long - term hedging agreements.

That savings alone would pay for the new power infrastructure needed within about 17 years, or about 10 years if annual electricity sales are accounted for.

The Senate bill also contained a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) that included energy efficiency, but ACEEE credited no savings to this part of the bill as the maximum level of efficiency in this provision (4 % of electricity sales by 2020) was less than business - as - usual when it came to electricity efficiency, and the bill permitted states without efficiency programs to purchase efficiency credits from states that saved more than 4 % with efficiency.

Here in Minnesota, a statewide goal of 10 percent of retail electricity sales from solar by 2030 has been established.

Scotland currently gets 28 per cent of the UK's renewable electricity subsidy, despite only providing 10 per cent of electricity sales.

Additionally, with the new products that we have shown, we expect that solar's share of the nation's $ 400 billion in annual retail electricity sales will increase more than anyone currently expects.

The most recent data from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) finds that a cost - shift does not occur until distributed solar penetration reaches 10 % of electricity sales, and even then that the impact is minimal compared to other drivers of rate increases, like new gas plants or transmission lines.

In California, where renewable energy makes up 20 percent of retail electricity sales, an overproduction of solar and wind during the middle of the day forced the state to dump 19 gigawatt - hours of prepurchased renewable energy last year.

Compared to electricity sales, which seem likely to slow as energy usage becomes increasingly efficient, gas has a much stronger growth profile.

Introducing new or expanded demand - side energy efficiency programs that reduce electricity sales