Sentences with phrase «forces utility companies»

The new mayor, Boris Johnson, calls it a «blunt instrument» and has said that he will force the utility companies to apply for permits before starting roadworks and will cancel the proposed pedestrianisation of a central square.

Southern Company secretly funded the outspoken climate skeptic Willie Soon until 2015, when a high profile investigation forced the utility company to finally sever its ties.

The Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown in 1979 forced the utility companies General Public Utility and Metropolitan Edison to pay out millions of dollars in settlements to area residents

Not exact matches

The fate of several state policies that allowed SolarCity to operate had become more uncertain, thanks mostly to hostility from the entrenched utilities, and the company was forced to pull out of Nevada altogether after the state's public utilities commission voted to significantly cut benefits for homeowners with solar.

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.

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).

The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected the argument that large utility companies can be sued to force them to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions because those emissions constitute a threat to society.

Last year, for example, the Edison Electric Institute, a utility trade group, in a report described rooftop solar as a «disruptive challenge» that could squeeze revenue and profits as customers defected, leaving companies forced to maintain grids that serve all.

With a poor credit score attached to your name, a utility company may take precautions and force you to pay a security deposit — sometimes ranging up to $ 200 or even $ 300.

Unfortunately, there don't seem to be legions of lobbyists out there for innovation (and energy efficiency, for that matter), while there are potent forces fighting on the side of coal companies and utilities, financial institutions eager to trade carbon credits, manufacturers and retailers of today's consumer products.

In return, the utility companies would not have to build cooling towers on their Hudson River power plants; they would instead regulate how the plants were operated so as to minimize the fish kills, they would not be forced to follow the strict letter of the Clean Water Act, to use the «best available technology» to mitigate the fish kills caused by their thermal pollution.

And this is a big asset for this company, you know, they own this thing at a time when California forced them and the other utilities to sell most of their power plants years ago.

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.

However, buried in another set of comments submitted to the EPA's regulatory reform task force by utility companies via UARG is the line: «UARG encourages EPA to acknowledge that once it has promulgated emission guidelines for a source category, the CAA does not give the Agency authority to revisit those guidelines and make them more stringent.»

However, buried in another set of comments submitted to the EPA's regulatory reform task force by utility companies via UARG is the line: ``

Today, the Public Utility Commission of Ohio (PUCO) affirmed its approval of a financial bailout that will force FirstEnergy customers to pay $ 204 million annually to the company over the next three to five years in order to benefit FirstEnergy Corp and its shareholders.

Today, the Ohio Public Utilities Commission (PUCO) approved a scheme that will force FirstEnergy's customers to hand over approximately $ 200 million annually to the company and its shareholders for the next 3 — 5 years.

And our biggest energy companies, utilities and auto companies became dependent on cheap hydrocarbons that spin off climate - changing greenhouse gases, and we clearly have not forced them, through a carbon tax, to price in the true risks and costs to society from these climate - changing fuels.

Utilities, and the fossil fuel companies that supply them, have traditionally been a major political force in slowing a transition to clean energy.

This includes things like rent of buildings, utility costs, the wage bill, IT infrastructure, etc. as well as paying their sales force commissions (an insurance company will normally use an insurance agent or insurance broker to sell policies to the general public or businesses and these people need paying too).

Shifts In Connectivity, and Utilities: In the wake of previous Windows rollouts, connectivity and networking technologies have been heavily affected by what Microsoft builds into a new version; in some cases the company's bundling of utilities and security enhancements has forced software players selling standalone utilities out of Utilities: In the wake of previous Windows rollouts, connectivity and networking technologies have been heavily affected by what Microsoft builds into a new version; in some cases the company's bundling of utilities and security enhancements has forced software players selling standalone utilities out of utilities and security enhancements has forced software players selling standalone utilities out of utilities out of business.

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The GOP measure would force companies to include the interest they pay on loans in their taxable income — ending a century - old deduction that's vital to industries including utilities and real estate.