Sentences with phrase «electricity users»

The company has already put forward plans to reward large electricity users that can turn their factories off during peak power demand, with a view to freeing up capacity across the network.

Demand response is the commitment of electricity users to curb consumption when necessary during peak demand times.

About 7 percent of the island's electricity users still don't have power, and it's unclear when power will be fully restored.

The letters are being used by some utilities to target heavy electricity users who may not be aware that they are wasting energy, and their own money.

To clarify that industrial electricity users are still free to build their own generation facilities.

Under the law, German electricity users pay a charge that goes towards funding renewable energy generation.

Developed in consultation with local stakeholders, the Standard for Singapore allows electricity users to purchase and support high - quality renewables to accelerate the development of renewable generation and renewable electricity markets in Singapore.

The net non-environmental benefit for electricity users is negative throughout the life of the policy.

Ironically, however, net metering policies permit distributed generators to avoid paying their share of the costs of these grid investments, leaving the costs to be paid by other electricity users.

In their call for a higher rate, Quail says the union is joined by groups representing commercial electricity users, industry advocates, and old age pensioners.

As Japan faces power shortages caused by the loss of the Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear power plant hit by the massive March 11 tsunami, the country has begun imposing energy restrictions on major electricity users.

Although more customers are investing in their own equipment for electric supply, like solar panels or even microgrids — a network of electricity users with a local source of supply and the capability to operate as an island during outages — the report says most U.S. customers will continue to depend on obtaining their power from the large - scale, interconnected electrical grid at least for the next two decades.

The bottleneck ran between two places most electricity users have never heard of: Kanawha, Va., and Matt Funk, W.Va.

Put another way, electricity users pay directly for CCS research and development instead of having utilities peform that research themselves based on market pricing pressure (the usual way to get companies to do R&D in a market economy).

That cost lessens in 2035 and 2045 but amounts to a cumulative $ 72 billion costs to electricity users over 25 years.

«Large electricity users like T - Mobile US forecasting significant costs savings shows there's every reason to take the highest level of action on renewables,» said Constant Alarcon, RE100 Campaign Manager, The Climate Group.

House Bill 589 was also designed to spur a wave of rooftop solar and give universities and other large electricity users new pathways to buy clean energy.

A longer view reveals an even more startling economic impact: factoring in the dry years from 2007 - 2009, the total additional energy cost to the state's electricity users during the six years of recent drought was $ 2.4 billion.

The 60 or so per cent of Australian electricity users who say they would prefer to buy greenpower but in practice buy dirty power are allowing their immediate preference to over-rule their higher - order preference.

That makes them easy to slip into populated urban areas, where electricity users are clustered.

About 16 percent of the island's electricity users still don't have power, and the government doesn't expect to restore it fully until May.

Developed in consultation with local stakeholders, the Standard for Chile will allow electricity users to purchase and support high - quality renewables to accelerate the development of renewable generation and renewable electricity markets in Chile.

Bruce Mountain, an electricity market analyst and director of CME consultancy, said a similar type of subscription business model had been used for large industrial electricity users, except in those cases, the customers took on the risk of being exposed to a highly fluctuating «spot pricing» for power.

AkzoNobel becomes the second biggest electricity user to join RE100 after Walmart, consuming around 16 TWh annually.

And also by the study published last year by RWI (Rheinisch - Westfaelisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), which claimed the extra cost added to consumers bills was around 7.5 % p.a., and calculated the total cost of PV to German electricity users could be more than $ 77 bn over a 25 - year period.

According to company press information, «The Lightsource private - wire Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) will see large - scale solar sites «hard - wired» directly into large electricity users — comfortably beating the retail price that they are paying for electricity.»

And a microgrid still has to perform functions like frequency regulation, voltage stepping, and power routing between generators, storage, and electricity users.

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.

His group of heavy - electricity users — including producers of steel and aluminum — was one of the more vocal against the Obama regulation.

The price of an allowance is under $ 2, hardly a massive economic burden on either electric utilities or electricity users.

Politicians, such as the governor of New York, have raided RGGI auction funds — supposed to be spent on energy efficiency improvements and rebates to electricity users — to remedy budget shortfalls.

Japan is also the world's fifth - largest electricity user — electricity accounts for more than 36 % of total energy.

Initially, all electricity users, including residential customers, were to be allowed to choose their supplier by June 2001.

I just object to seeing our electricity users being ripped off, particularly by the French.

More than a quarter of US commercial and industrial (C&I) electricity users could potentially use energy storage to lower premium rates they are charged during periods of high demand, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has found.