Sentences with phrase «for electric utilities»

The strict going concern assumption no longer seems appropriate even for electric utilities.

Cutting power plant emissions that contribute to climate change is an uphill climb unless carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology can be made cheap enough for electric utilities to buy and use.

Meeting this enormous challenge will require new energy - use policies for the electric utility, transportation, construction, commercial, and industrial sectors.

Best would be to have the data for your electric utility.

This exception, while still present, seems to have become less the rule even for electric utilities.

So it was a real challenge for the electric utilities when San Onofre got shut down.

These include a renewable standard for electric utilities, new building energy efficiency standards based on California's, and a variety of other lesser «clean energy» provisions.

Devoting one - third of electric and natural gas utility allowances to energy efficiency; this is an increase relative to the 1/5 required of gas utilities in APA, and no efficiency requirements for electric utilities.

Florida Governor Charlie Crist signs an Executive Order establishing «maximum allowable emission levels of greenhouse gases for electric utilities.»

He supports coal power for electric utilities.

But acknowledging the political weight behind EEI's proposal, Greenstein today suggested a compromise that starts with free allowances for the electric utilities so long as they are also phased out at the same time that direct tax relief gets ramped up.

Last Friday, DOE also said it would distribute a $ 62 million grant to a handful of companies researching and developing concentrated solar power projects for electric utilities.

In the past, stationary fuel cells were megawatt behemoths, designed for the electric utilities.

The Electric Power Research Institute, or EPRI, is a research organization for electric utilities.

An EERS establishes energy - savings targets for electric utilities, building on EERS requirements that have been adopted in 24 states.

Net metering also results in additional administrative costs for the electric utility, which show up in other users» bills.

The bill requires the State Corporation Commission to establish third - party power purchase agreement programs for each electric utility.

The productivity - profitability link is a logical and standard business principle that is easy to understand, easy to implement and that has worked for, well, millennia in myriad business ventures — but no more for electric utilities, if Browner has her way.

It should be noted that contributions from the nuclear industry, a subcategory in the Center's totals for electric utilities, were held out of these totals.

But less electricity would mean less profitability for electric utilities, a powerful Washington lobby that Browner can ill afford to antagonize.

For the electric utility sector, says EPA, net job creation from the rules will be «not statistically different from zero» and could be between minus 15,000 and plus 30,000 jobs.

«The declining cost of renewable technologies, new third - party business models with attractive returns on investment, and price - risk mitigation are expanding the choices available,» according to another report — «Renewable Energy Options for Electric Utility Key Account Customers» — from the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA).

«Although the administration dodged a bullet, it can't really claim the case as a big victory,» Jeffrey Holmstead, a former EPA official who lobbies for electric utilities with the firm Bracewell & Giuliani, said in a statement cited by the New York Times.

Former Bush administration chief of the Council on Environmental Quality James Connaughton is now the government affairs head for an electric utility, Constellation Energy.

There's also another $ 30.5 million to develop, analyze, and demonstrate hundreds of Chevrolet Volt Extended Range Electric Vehicles (EREVs)-- 125 Volt PHEVs for electric utilities and 500 Volt PHEVs to consumers.

In 2012, they looked only at the PG&E utility territory, which includes more than two thirds of the net costs of net metering for non-participants, as well as for all electric utility customers across the state of California.

A national push to curb greenhouse gas emissions and promote clean energy technologies is creating an unusual business challenge for electric utilities

It could impose a timetable of emissions standards for electric utilities and for vehicles, which together account for around three fourths of carbon emissions.

He went on to say that the Waxman - Markey and other cap - and - trade bills in Congress would not raise energy prices enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the required amount, so that he also favored federal regulations, such as renewable requirements for electric utilities, on top of cap - and - trade.

13 July 2007 - Florida Governor Charlie Crist signs an Executive Order establishing «maximum allowable emission levels of greenhouse gases for electric utilities.»

For an electric utility, a technical glitch could trigger a huge blackout, plunging entire cities into darkness.

20Energy Information Administration, Cost and Quality of Fuels for Electric Utility Plants 1992, DOE / EIA -019 (92)(Washington, DC, August 1993), and Cost and Quality of Fuels for Electric Utility Plants 1980 Annual, DOE / EIA -0191 (80)(Washington, DC, June 1981).