Sentences with phrase «forced electricity utilities»

Australia rejected its Clean Energy Target (CET), a lengthy proposal that would have forced electricity utilities to rely on renewables and other low - emission sources for a substantial percentage of their production.

Last week, Australia rejected its Clean Energy Target (CET), a lengthy proposal that would have forced electricity utilities to rely on renewables and other low - emission sources for a substantial percentage of their production.

Not exact matches

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission's announcement of an increase in electricity and water tariffs by 59.2 % and 67.2 % respectively, forced the meeting between government and organized labor which demanded a reduction.

For a second year in a row, the PSC has deeply slashed the amount of renewable energy that utility companies are forced to buy under Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear plants.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is trying to apply market forces to utilities to transform the way electricity is produced, transmitted and consumed.

Instead, they will continue to run until utilities like AEP are forced to shut them down, which will also add to the cost of electricity.

Extreme weather contributed to cost problem Electricity rates have increased 18 percent because of Kemper, and the result of the prudency review before the Public Service Commission could force the utility to absorb more of the costs (ClimateWire, April 30).

It also relieves anxiety for utilities concerned with overproduction of electricity by solar power plants during the day, which sometimes forces them to curtail electricity production or pay customers to take the extra power.

The state's environmental community had been gearing up for a ballot initiative this year that would have forced the state's utilities to abandon coal as a fuel for electricity.

This is especially true for solar PV, where in Germany and Spain FIT payments have caused serious energy policy turmoil, and in the US, where net metering policies have caused public utility backlash against PV deployment in states like Arizona and California (a result of utilities being forced to pay 15 - 30ckWh for PV electricity instead of purchasing on the wholesale markets for 4 - 6c / kWh).

They argued that these suppliers might leave the state, or that they lack the capacity to supply the electricity needs of their customers, ultimately forcing them to rely on electricity generated by the big utilities.

Rather than encouraging the building of more efficient power plants, the California regulatory scheme prevented building new efficient power plants by forcing utilities to rely on the unreliable availability and predatory prices for imported electricity.

California unions killed the Democrats» last - minute push to force the state to adopt 100 percent renewable electricity production by 2046, over worries the nation's highest utility costs are killing jobs.

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.

I do like the idea of decentralized electricity generation as the umbilical cord would no longer force people to be at the mercy of the utility companies frequent monopolies.

c. Mandated «Green Energy» programs in 4 states that force distribution utilities to buy electricity from «renewable» energy sources and make it available to their customers.

* The «Losers» include: * Electricity consumers who are forced to bear higher costs of electricity when the use of wind energy and other renewables is mandated by a state - imposed «Renewable Portfolio Standard» or who must pay «public benefits charges» (which is really just another tax added to taxpayer utility bills) imposed on electElectricity consumers who are forced to bear higher costs of electricity when the use of wind energy and other renewables is mandated by a state - imposed «Renewable Portfolio Standard» or who must pay «public benefits charges» (which is really just another tax added to taxpayer utility bills) imposed on electelectricity when the use of wind energy and other renewables is mandated by a state - imposed «Renewable Portfolio Standard» or who must pay «public benefits charges» (which is really just another tax added to taxpayer utility bills) imposed on electricityelectricity use.

Being able to deliver cheaper electricity some of the time and with favorable rules requiring the grid to accept that electricity just shifts the cost burden to established utilities that can't maintain margins because they are forced to idle when the wind is blowing or the sun is shinning.

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.