Sentences with phrase «forcing utility customers»

In contrast, forcing utility customers to bail out uneconomical nuclear plants outside of ambitious frameworks to scale up efficiency and renewables is both unsound climate strategy and terrible public policy.

What is it?It's noble, perhaps even brave, of Kia to stick with the good ol' minivan rather than forcing utility customers into an androgynously styled three - row crossover (though Kia...

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Too low a price for backup forces the utility and its other customers to subsidize the solar consumer.

Pipeline owners led by Enbridge Inc. and Williams Cos. could be forced to refund as much as $ 18.5 billion to drillers, utilities and even United Airlines Inc. for upfront payments they charged customers before new U.S. tax rules cut the corporate rate.

If utilities are forced to buy more expensive power, that will be passed along to customers.

; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.

The Cuomo administration estimates the Clean Energy Standard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.

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.

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.

Loan and utility providers and card issuers can use a CCJ to legally force a customer to repay any unpaid bills or loans when all other means have failed.

Just recently, Duke was given authority by Bush's former OMB Director, Mitch Daniels to force their customers to assume the risk for the plant even though the utility commission did not require Duke to file anything near a current construction cost estimate for the 630 Megawatt plant they are seeking to build in what is already the largest concentration of coal fired capacity in the world, SW Indiana.

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.

Corporations like Dominion Resources and Duke Energy are investing in gas transmission pipelines and gas generating plants only because they think they can profit from them now, and force captive utility customers to bear the cost of paying off the worthless assets later.

Some states have markets for SRECs allowing renewable customers a chance to sell them to further reduce their energy expenses or to keep them and force the utility to add in even more renewable energy to meet their renewable energy requirements.

Customers agree that their selection of any of the Trade Allies on this list is completely voluntary and made without any promise, guarantee, coercion, threat or force by the NJ Board of Public Utilities» Office of Clean Energy.

The point of Milton Friedman's arguments against public utility commission law was to prevent forcing customers to commit to funding the cost of investment over 40 to 50 years in mandatory rate base charges.

Earthjustice is litigating in Ohio against proposals by two major utilities to force customers to prop up eight outdated power plants — seven coal and one nuclear — for the next 15 to 35 years.

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.

If the utility doesn't provide renewables to its customers where those factors are driving forces, they may very well get them for themselves, he added.

By any measure, the current California drought is severe, to the degree that Governor Brown made an emergency drought declaration almost a year ago, state and federal water agencies have been forced to greatly cut back deliveries of water to cities and farms from dangerously depleted rivers and reservoirs, and local utilities are asking customers for a mix of voluntary and sometimes mandatory water - use reductions.

«Forcing Ohio utility customers to finance FirstEnergy's corporate slush fund simply has no basis in Ohio law,» said Shannon Fisk, Managing Attorney at Earthjustice.

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.

FirstEnergy's initial bailout request, first proposed in 2014, would have forced captive utility customers to ensure the profitability of the financially challenged W.H. Sammis coal plant and Davis Besse nuclear plant, which are owned by an affiliate of FirstEnergy Corp..

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.

But a major force driving the utility's renewable energy plans are its customers, who want more clean energy.