Sentences with phrase «for public utility service»

Until 2013, the generation, transmission, distribution and marketing of electric power for public utility service purposes in Mexico was exclusively reserved to the federal government, through the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), a public body of the federal government operating as a vertically integrated monopoly.

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More generally, people are programmed to maximize their utility, so they look for ways to enjoy public services and minimize their taxes.
Although cyber extortion cases have been rising for several years, they have to date targeted small - and mid-sized organizations, disrupting services provided by hospitals, police departments, public transport systems, and utilities in the United States and Europe.
Today the FCC voted to approve Net Neutrality regulating Internet service like a public utility, prohibiting companies from paying for faster lanes on the Internet.
As Scott explains, they «contain 30 or more chapters providing special protections for foreign investors; extending patents and copyrights; privatizing markets for public services such as education, health, and public utilities; and «harmonizing» regulations in ways that limit or prevent governments from protecting the public health or environment.»
The Council membership also includes equipment manufacturers, independent electric power producers, investor - owned utilities, public power, commercial end - users and project developers and service providers for energy and environmental markets.
I suggest, for a start, that people boycott the BC Chamber of Commerce membership (which includes all the oil and energy corporations), plus several (but not all) banks and credits unions, several public utilities, and other corporations and service providers.
George Ford, chief economist for the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Public Policy Studies, said EPB got the equivalent of $ 2,000 per customer in federal subsidies to build its citywide fiber optic network Ford said other government - owned utilities, such as one in Bristol, Va., have gotten $ 7,000 or more per subscriber to add telecommunications services that compete against private companies such as AT&T, Comcast and Charter Communications.
As we noted in a previous report, a proposal to the New York Public Service Commission has been submitted by Orange and Rockland Utilities for a Tesla Powerpack system that could see a 70 % reduction in the demand charges on customer electricity bills.
Yet rather than taking this opportunity to run these banks as public utilities and lower their charges for credit - card services — or most important of all, to stop their lending to speculators and gamblers — governments left these banks operating as part of the «casino capitalism» that has become their business plan.
While Trump's federal tax cut is causing headaches for some New Yorkers, Cuomo and regulators at the state Public Service Commission are working to ensure that utility customers in the state are able to reap some of the benefits as soon as possible.
At a joint consultative meeting organized by the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) in Accra, the utility service providers presented their proposals for upward tariff adjustment and justified the need for it.
Metzger is also the director of Citizens for Local Power, a local not - for - profit organization that provides a voice for community interests at the New York State Public Service Commission, serves as a local utility watchdog and promotes a more equitable, affordable, locally based clean - energy economy.
Advocates at the Capitol on Thursday called for a «people's commissioner» on the Public Service Commission, which regulates utilities.
18 - A (TED Part S) Executive Budget - In accordance with the recommendations of the New York State Tax relief Commission, Part S of the TED Article VII legislation, would reduce the Public Service Law § 18 - a (6) Temporary State Energy and Utility Service Conservation Assessment (Temporary Assessment) by a total of $ 200 million per year by eliminating the assessment on industrial utility customers and accelerate the phase out for all other cusUtility Service Conservation Assessment (Temporary Assessment) by a total of $ 200 million per year by eliminating the assessment on industrial utility customers and accelerate the phase out for all other cusutility customers and accelerate the phase out for all other customers.
POUGHKEEPSIE — Central Hudson and IBEW Local 320 have negotiated a new contract for utility workers, who would become employees of Fortis, Inc. should the buyout of CH Energy Group be approved by the State Public Service Commission.
For a second consecutive year, the state Public Service Commission (PSC) has deeply slashed the amount of renewable energy that utility companies are forced to buy under Governor Andrew Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard (CES).
Transmission Developers Inc., also submitted a petition requesting the Public Service Commission clarify that a utility could use imported large - scale hydropower not sold into New York's market to meet its obligations for renewable energy.
State Public Service Commission chairwoman Audrey Zibelman, who inhereted the project when she took the helm as the state's chief utility regulator, recently issued a statement noting that regulators will «re-examine» the need for the transmission lines.
The candidate is perhaps best - known regionally as the founder / director of Citizens for Local Power, a local not - for - profit organization that provides a voice for community interests at the New York State Public Service Commission, serves as a local utility watchdog and promotes a more equitable, affordable, locally based clean - energy economy.
The New York State Public Service Commission is extending the comment period for a proposed utility merger after some area residents and lawmakers requested the extension.
The state's Public Service Commission is considering changes to existing low - income utility assistance, seeking ways to improve service for those who need iService Commission is considering changes to existing low - income utility assistance, seeking ways to improve service for those who need iservice for those who need it most.
«Public utilities and services are the pubic avenues for private commerce,» Hawkins said.
By Sean Ryan Wisconsin Public Service Corp. is considering furloughs and layoffs to offset declining revenue yet still supports green construction that will cut into demand for the utility's electricity.
As Dimitri Volkmann, vice president for products and markets at Good Technology puts it, «We are seeing rapid adoption of tablets across a lot of highly regulated sectors — from public utilities to financial services, banking and healthcare.»
«We are seeing rapid adoption of tablets across a lot of highly regulated sectors — from public utilities to financial services, banking and healthcare,» said Dimitri Volkmann, vice president for products and markets at Good Technology.
Utility services: Public utilities, such as the electric company, can not refuse or cut off service because you have filed for bankruptcy.
The company, which was called Northeast Utilities until April 2015, is a holding company for The Connecticut Light and Power Company (CL&P), NSTAR Electric Company (NSTAR - E), NSTAR Gas Company (NSTAR - G), The Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH), Yankee Gas Services Company (Yankee Gas) and The Western Massachusetts Electric Company (WMECO).
Players zone land for residential, commercial or industrial development, as well as building and maintaining public services, transport and utilities.
Interventions include hacking public utilities to provide discounted or free services, as in the case of Mejor Vida Corp., which she founded in 1998, and her recently founded International Understanding Foundation; as well as her poetic marking of river stones for her 2010 performance Rio Bravo Crossing.
Meanwhile Arizona, whose latest crop of regulators were bought and paid for by utility Arizona Public Service, is moving full speed ahead with changes that will curtail that state's distributed solar market.
For example, the New York Public Service Commission's Reforming the Energy Vision is aiding this evolution by encouraging pilot programs that offer customers more choices in programming and create new business models at utilities.
Noble was until recently a consultant for the Arizona Public Service utility company, and has led efforts in Arizona to kill solar - friendly legislation.
Two state legislators that have sponsored and introduced bills to help Arizona's largest utility, Arizona Public Service, recently filed a complaint against the committee working to increase the state's renewable energy standard — Clean Energy for a Healthy Arizona.
The Missouri Public Utility Alliance is a not - for - profit service organization representing municipally - owned utilities.
Prior to joining ACEEE, Marty was supervisor of evaluation at the Michigan Public Service Commission (the utility regulatory commission in Michigan) for nearly ten years.
Considered a top state for solar energy potential — and home to a robust rooftop solar sector — Arizona's current net metering policy debates started in 2013, when utility Arizona Public Service sparked controversy with a fee proposal for rooftop solar customers that regulators ultimately scaled back to
Considered a top state for solar energy potential — and home to a robust rooftop solar sector — Arizona's current net metering policy debates started in 2013, when utility Arizona Public Service sparked controversy with a fee proposal for rooftop solar customers that regulators ultimately scaled back to a $ 5 grid access charge.
Clean energy advocates are raising concerns about a request for proposals (RFP) from Arizona Public Service they say unfairly disadvantages renewable resources and could lead the utility to defy a regulatory moratorium on new gas generation.
Data from OpenSecrets.org shows that MWR Strategies has been retained by Koch Industries; Southern Company, which is the second largest utility company in the country; Dow Chemical; Competitive Power Ventures; GDF Suez, which is Europe's largest liquefied natural gas importer; Public Service Enterprise Group; and Tampa Electric Company; for a combined lobbying revenue of $ 320,000 in 2014.
PSEG's (NYSE: PEG) primary subsidiaries are PSEG Power LLC, one of the nation's largest independent power producers, Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G), New Jersey's oldest and largest electric and gas distribution utility company, and PSEG Energy Holdings, a holding company for other non-regulated businesses.
«As of July 1, 2018, food services businesses should not be providing plastic straws or utensils,» Sego Jackson, the strategic advisor for Waste Prevention and Product Stewardship for Seattle Public Utilities, told Q13 FOX.
Many utilities are installing infrastructure for public use within their service territories.
There's Duke Energy and Arizona Public Service, two major utilities fighting to make residential rooftop solar energy more expensive for residents and small businesses owners in their respective regions.
The electrical utility Arizona Public Service has contracted to purchase the power from Solana station for approximately 14 cents per kilawatt - hour.
Management of the Rockaways» power grid has been taken over by PSEG Long Island, part of Public Service Enterprise Group, which in early October issued an updated plan called Utility 2.0 that aims to modernize the company's electric system and may open the door to a microgrid project, said Jackson Morris, formerly of Pace University's Energy and Climate Center and now director of eastern energy for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
UARG, along with EEI, receives financial support from ratepayers across the country (see this invoice from EEI to Arizona Public Service for UARG dues; or Kentucky Utilities» listing of UARG in its recent rate case).
New York Department of Public Service (DPS) Staff and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) organized and led the IPWG, which is comprised of diverse participants including the state's investor - owned utilities, a number of the Coalition for Community Solar Access (CCSA) and New York Solar Energy Industries Association (NYSEIA) member companies and other stakeholders.
EEI's roster also includes Arizona Public Service (APS), the utility that tried to force Arizona's residential solar electricity producers to pay $ 50 per month for feeding unused electricity back into the grid.
In 2013, Arizona Public Service asked the state utility commission to address the cost shift by modifying net metering for future solar adopters.
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