Sentences with phrase «electricity utility industry»

The electricity utility industry employs a simple strategy for maintaining reliability: always have more supply available than may be required.

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Business Insider forwarded the new USGS study and map to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC), which regulates the state's electricity industry.

The president did not mention NV Energy by name — instead calling out several utilities around the country that have put pro-solar policies in place and are working to figure out how to transition the electricity industry from a simple provider to an integrated system of distribution.

Elon Musk just unveiled something called the «Tesla Powerwall,» a means to store solar - created electricity in people's homes... with the potential to put the entire utility industry out of business.

Even the electric utility industry recognizes that where residential electricity costs reach 15 cents per kilowatt - hour — or roughly 16 percent of the U.S. retail electricity market — solar is already as cheap as grid electricity.

Utility, industry, and petroleum sector cap and trade starting in 2012, plus renewable electricity and energy efficiency standards and clean energy investment

Rogers and Joe Hale — his friend and fellow utility executive — decided to launch the Global Brightlight Foundation, with the backing of Duke and later supported by the Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership, a broader industry group chaired by Rogers.

But that may be changing as electricity flows the way of telecommunications and natural gas, two utility industries that have been deregulated over the past decade.

They are also used in the building industry to look for moisture penetration and assessment of energy envelopes, the electricity utility market that keeps the country's lights on, in research and development in the military and academia, in medical and veterinary fields, in security and surveillance and in defence markets where the cameras can save lives.

«eLab Ignite: Finding Value at the Distribution Edge» will convene corporate customers, innovators, utilities and other key industry stakeholders to address the challenges and opportunities arising from the convergence of increasing capability and affordability of distributed resources, climate change and the need for a more resilient U.S. electricity system.

Frank Lacey, Principal at Electric Advisors Consulting LLC, has worked in the electricity industry for over 20 years, initially consulting for utilities then moving into the customer - facing sector.

Meeting electric peak demand has long been one of the utility industry's biggest challenges — a challenge that has grown with soaring costs and strained electricity supply grids.

A world of low - cost batteries will transform the way the electricity and automotive industries operate and how homeowners, businesses and utilities produce and use power, write Eric Hittinger and Eric Williams of the University of Rochester.

The solar wars have two main combatants — the monopoly electric utilities, and the solar (PV) industry involved with consumers who wish to own or buy solar electricity directly.

Eurelectric — Europe's electricity industry association which represents 3,500 utilities across the continent — also said that it would not invest in coal plants after 2020.

Since electric utilities were required to pay above world prices for British - produced coal, electricity prices became excessively high, and the British coal industry in essence became dependent on the electricity industry for its survival.

-- The term «qualified industry organization» means the Edison Electric Institute, the American Public Power Association, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, a successor organization of such organizations, or a group of owners or operators of distribution utilities delivering fossil fuel - based electricity who collectively represent at least 20 percent of the volume of fossil fuel - based electricity delivered by distribution utilities to consumers in the United States.

If you live in the United States, vote, pay taxes, and get your electricity from a utility company, you've helped the solar power industry.

This is an important chance for wind industry participants to show that low - cost, utility - scale wind energy can provide innovative solutions to help the IESO meet its objectives for providing reliable, flexible, low - cost and non-emitting electricity.

We expect the REPS, a bipartisan measure passed in 2007 that requires 12.5 % of North Carolina's electricity to come from renewable energy and energy efficiency by 2021, to remain under fire (but not from industry, ratepayers, or utilities) as we enter the upcoming 2016 short session.

And unlike the electricity industry, in which market forces have pushed utilities toward cleaner energy, including natural gas and renewable sources, relatively low gasoline prices in recent years have led consumers to pay less attention to fuel economy when they buy new cars.

7) «Fossil - Dependent Electric Utility Executives & Large Shareholders» — One of the prime consumers of coal and natural gas is the electricity generation industry, which consumes almost all of the coal produced in the world, and a high percentage of the natural gas.

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.

There is a lot of talk about the subsidies being given to green industries, but actually it is just 1 % of what utilities spend to provide electricity across India

It's something clean tech observers and many in the utility industry have long expected, articulated in the form of a report from researchers at engineering and consulting company Black & Vetch: California utilities won't be able to meet their 2010 renewable energy standard (RPS), which decrees that they must obtain 20 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources like solar, wind or geothermal.

This, coupled with SkyPower's track record and development know - how in the utility - scale solar energy industry, creates a unique opportunity to help deliver lower costs of electricity to tens of millions of people around the world,» added SkyPower's Kelly Yin, Vice President of Asia Strategy.

The CEO of PG&E, Tony Earley, claimed the utility would replace Diablo Canyon's electrical generation with renewables, but Revis James, an experienced electricity markets analyst at the industry association to which PG&E belongs, the Nuclear Energy Institute, contradicted PG&E's claim, calling the proposed deal «risky, complex and expensive»:

Both naysayers in the utility industry and boosters for the fossil fuel and nuclear industries have long expressed skepticism as to whether or not the electricity grid in the United States can handle large amounts of renewable energy.

In fact, one key coal industry lobbying point against congressional climate action has been to warn that utilities» inevitable switch from carbon - intensive coal to natural gas would expose consumers to the risk of higher - priced electricity.

The sure fire way to guarantee electricity rates and bills will rise, is for all of us to continue allowing energy to be politicized and by failing to align around shared goals and a transparent planning process that ensures energy is inclusive of and beneficial for all customers, maintains financially strong and secure utilities, and ensures our competitive energy industry adds thousands more jobs annually for the next decade to North Carolina's energy economy.

PDF) entitled «Disruptive Challenges» in January 2013, outlining the threat that distributed energy generation presents to the traditional utility industry business model of selling electricity from large, centralized, mostly fossil fuel power plants.

The CPUC therefore set California's per kilowatt - hour electricity payment to generators of renewable energy projects of up to 20 megawatts at the lowest estimated price a utility would have to pay to obtain power from a new, industry - standard natural gas plant.

clean energy innovation improving consumer choice and affordability more efficient use of energy deeper penetration of renewable energy resources wider deployment of «distributed» energy resources micro grids roof - top solar on - site power supplies and storage promote markets advanced energy management enhance demand elasticity and efficiencies empower customers more choice 50 % of its electricity from renewable resources by 2030 business as usual bad public policy clean energy's economic and environmental potential the power industry was headed for trouble rising utility bills growing customer dissatisfaction socially unjust clean energy economy haves - and - have - nots change in culture business model for the whole system moves the electric industry away from a monopoly, top - down and incentive driven system governed by the market emphasizes distributed energy a distributed system platform market exchange microgrids solar energy efficiency distributed energy resources compete to serve the grid pro-consumer pro-innovation markets - based more affordable resilient capital efficiencies encouraging more distributed energy demand response energy efficiency

Lavallée made her mark with excellent legal support to various municipal electric utilities in the restructuring of Ontario's electricity industry.

In 2015 she was appointed as a member of the Alberta Securities Commission, due to her expert counsel in an array of electric utility hearings, including those arising from the restructuring of the Alberta electricity industry.