Sentences with phrase «from electricity customers»

But the utility shut down the carbon capture equipment in 2011 because it could not sell the carbon dioxide or recover the extra cost from its electricity customers, and the equipment consumed so much energy that, at full scale, the project would have sharply cut electricity production.

A $ 3.6 billion transfer from electricity customers to generators in New England highlights the need for greater coordination across natural gas and electricity markets.

Not exact matches

The New York Public Service Commission said the decision was needed «to prevent local electricity prices for existing residential and business customers from skyrocketing.»

Its three largest utilities also offer net metering programs for commercial, residential and agricultural customers who generate their own electricity from renewable resources.

While Sunrun sells itself to customers as a hassle - free way to save on their electricity bills rather than just a do - gooder environmental option, Jurich's interest in solar stems from a deep concern about air quality that crystallized while she was working in smoggy China.

Under existing VOS program designs, solar customers continue to purchase all of their electricity from the grid at the utility's retail rate and receive credit for the solar electricity exported to the grid at the approved VOS rate.

PCE is a public, locally - controlled community choice energy program that provides all electric customers in San Mateo County the choice of having electricity supplied from clean, renewable sources at competitive rates.

The outage comes at an especially embarrassing time, following an announcement from government officials that they had restored electricity to 50 percent of utility customers.

With a peak load of 719 megawatts, we deliver a safe and reliable supply of electricity to over 152,549 customers from the residential, institutional, commercial and industrial sectors, through 2,820 kilometres of overhead and underground cables, spanning 420 square kilometres of service territory.

The ruling was needed to level the playing field and prevent local electricity prices for existing residential and business customers from skyrocketing due to the soaring local demand for electricity.

Five short videos from Iain Conn and Jeff Bell covering 2017 H1 performance and outlook, customer accounts, the British Gas electricity price rise and Centrica's views on the UK energy market.

«We've reduced our network charges, which form part of domestic customers» bills from their chosen electricity supplier, by 14.3 %, funded a Citizens Advice Bureau fuel debt advice service and helped kick - start a number of projects through our # 50,000 community energy seed fund which we are launching this week for the second year running.

Other Ghanaians expecting government's proposed one million dollar per constituency, one - village one - dam, One - District One - Factory, DKM customers, the scrapping of energy sector levy, reduction in electricity tariff and transport fares, reduction in Corporate tax from 25 % to 20 %, and 3 % Special import levy among others have also been pushing government to kick start the processes leading to their implementation.

The NPP's promise to pay all arrears owed contractors in 100 days, pay all customers of DKM, reduce corporate tax from 25 % to 20 %, reduce import duties on raw materials and machinery for production, reduce drivers» insurance levies and cost of driver's license; and instant reduction of electricity tariffs and transport fares were all not captured in the budget.

«The electricity generation and the electricity distribution companies are also advised to look into the power voltage made available to customers to prevent power surge resulting from high voltage which could cause an outbreak of fire.

The utility company said crews were giving higher priority to customers who lost electricity during the first storm and expects outages from both storms will last into the weekend.

Not only does this system reduce their electricity bought from the grid by 70 %, but it helps Bates Troy serve their customers even during power outages and shifts away from standard fossil fuels.

Under the new rules, ESCOs won't be able to sell new supply to residential and small - business customers unless they are cheaper than the utility or if at least 30 percent of the electricity they sell comes from renewable energy sources like wind, hydro or solar.

Although more customers are investing in their own equipment for electric supply, like solar panels or even microgrids — a network of electricity users with a local source of supply and the capability to operate as an island during outages — the report says most U.S. customers will continue to depend on obtaining their power from the large - scale, interconnected electrical grid at least for the next two decades.

To retain West Virginia's role as an electricity exporter to other states, to limit job losses and to keep power prices low for customers, the state should «maximize whatever flexibility is offered under the Clean Power Plan,» stated comments from Commerce Department Secretary J. Keith Burdette, who works under the governor.

But the state's only power to influence the federal relicensing process lies in its ability to protect customers from high electricity rates.

The report, «Beyond Renewable Portfolio Standards: An Assessment of Regional Supply and Demand Conditions Affecting the Future of Renewable Energy in the West,» compares the cost of renewable electricity generation (without federal subsidy) from the West's most productive renewable energy resource areas — including any needed transmission and integration costs — with the cost of energy from a new natural gas - fired generator built near the customers it serves.

«However, a better measure is the total amount of electricity, measured in kilowatt - hours (kWh), that each country produces from wind and delivers to customers each year.»

Seeing as the 2013 Malibu Eco was unable to propel itself on electricity alone, we don't think most customers will really notice a tremendous difference from how the 2014 Malibu 2.5 behaves.

[172] Vattenfall offered customers participating in this trial a supply of renewable electricity generated from wind or hydropower.

They range from changeover to renewably generated electricity (Audi Energy) to installation and customer service.

The result is the same; a customers» home is decked out with solar panels and powered by the sun, and thanks to lucrative tax credits, the electricity agreement is cheaper than electricity bills from the local utility.

That storm left an estimated 6.2 million customers in Florida without electricity on September 11, according to the Florida Public Service Commission, which, like the commission in Texas, collects data from electric utilities.

And now municipally - owned energy company Bristol Energy is offering customers its My Green Plus tariff, which consists of 100 % renewable electricity and 15 % green gas — produced primarily from the poop of the residents of the city of Bristol.

And for those of us who will also want to know the details of the electricity generated from those panels, CloudSolar will update each account daily with that data, allowing customers to monitor their solar investment via smartphone or computer.

The emerging model is that the utilities (distribution companies) that are responsible for providing electricity service to their customers act as portfolio managers, integrating all of the resources needed to provide that service, including electricity from spot market purchases, independent power producers, utility owned generation, and demand side management.

«eLab Ignite: Finding Value at the Distribution Edge» will convene corporate customers, innovators, utilities and other key industry stakeholders to address the challenges and opportunities arising from the convergence of increasing capability and affordability of distributed resources, climate change and the need for a more resilient U.S. electricity system.

At the same time, utilities are feeling the squeeze from distributed energy resources like rooftop solar, which further threatens to erode their ability to sell more kilowatt - hours of electricity to their customers and build more power plants.

«And much of the demand reduction PG&E forecasts to replace Diablo will come about simply from customers switching from PG&E to alternate electricity providers, with no guarantee that their new electricity supply will come from low - carbon sources,» the letter notes.

Along with high electricity costs, C&I customers face business interruption from unplanned outages.

E.ON Italia S.p.A. With an installed capacity of more than 6 GW from traditional sources and 300 MW from renewables, and more than 900,000 overall customers in electricity and gas, E.ON Italia S.p.A. is today one of the major energy players in the country.

WASHINGTON — A 700 - mile transmission line project that's supposed to deliver large quantities of electricity from Oklahoma wind farms to customers in the southeast has been another dealt a blow by the Department of Energy.

Ancillary services: Services that ensure reliability and support the transmission of electricity from generation sites to customer loads.

Green Button data refers to an option provided by some utilities that enables customers to download detailed data on their electricity usage with just the click of a (green) button from the utility website.

The less well off will now buy their electricity from a company that has lost customers but not reduced their fixed costs by an equal amount.

Companies that want to help customers install on - site solar facilities by using PPAs have argued that this section clearly permits customers to buy solar electricity from third party suppliers when their utility doesn't offer a renewable energy tariff.

Wholesale power market: The purchase and sale of electricity from generators to resellers (who sell to retail customers), along with the ancillary services needed to maintain reliability and power quality at the transmission level.

These softening impacts on customer bills from renewables come because they force down the wholesale of electricity, and incumbent generators do not like that.

These customers don't have the option to walk away from the likes of Dominion Energy Virginia; they are required by law to get their electricity from that utility and no other.

Demand response is a non-persistent intentional change in net electricity usage by end - use customers from normal consumptive patterns in response to a request on behalf of, or by, a power and / or distribution / transmission system operator.

A carbon fee will create an economic incentive for suppliers to provide their customers with electricity from renewable sources, to complement the existing regulatory mandate created by the RPS.

Customer Self Supply, customers receive a PUC - approved credit for electricity sent to the grid and are billed at the retail rate for electricity they use from the grid.

That way, customers can become almost self - sufficient with electricity and heat from the CHP.

Customers pay a $ 6 service fee and buy electricity according to block rates that range from 8.5 cents to 14.5 cents per kilowatt hour.

FPL said last year that its transition from coal - fired power plants to cleaner sources of electricity benefits both the climate and its customers.