Sentences with phrase «from utility ratepayers»

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit challenging New York's groundbreaking subsidies for nuclear plants, clearing the way for three Upstate nukes to continue collecting roughly $ 483 million a year from utility ratepayers.

Not exact matches

This decision was made due to lack of financing, following the Supreme Judicial Court decision prohibiting utilities from charging ratepayers for pipeline construction.

Utility ratepayers, mostly from downstate, will pay for the deal through a surcharge on their bills.

Some stakeholders are concerned that utility proposals for cost recovery of smart grid investments would lead to significantly higher monthly bills and a shift in the risk of investment from utilities to ratepayers.

South Carolina earlier this year allowed utilities to offer solar leases, although they can not recover costs from ratepayers and therefore will have to run such programs through an unregulated division, a condition insisted on by solar installers.

While consumers in the neighboring states benefit from lower electricity costs, California's ratepayers are footing the bill for the utility generators that produce the power.

That's when a group of utility ratepayers get together and agree to purchase electricity from a solar PV project — they «subscribe» to its power — and pay a monthly charge that appears on their utility bill.

If the FIT payment rate is set to be higher than the utility avoided cost, it may incur additional costs which will need to be recovered (e.g. from ratepayers).

Much like the California Solar Initiative created a market for rooftop solar and is now driving rapid declines in the cost of rooftop solar across the nation, this mandate will create a market for storage that is expected to, in the words of CPUC President Michael Peevey «tear down barriers that prevent cost - effective energy storage resources from competing and providing benefits to California customers, ratepayers of California utilities.»

We expect the REPS, a bipartisan measure passed in 2007 that requires 12.5 % of North Carolina's electricity to come from renewable energy and energy efficiency by 2021, to remain under fire (but not from industry, ratepayers, or utilities) as we enter the upcoming 2016 short session.

HB 340 codifies the ability of utilities to treat solar customers differently from all other ratepayers, leaving them subject to arbitrary «recovery fees» not levied on any other electricity consumers.

He added that if there is a negative outcome for solar from the VOS study, it shows the ratepayer advocate is biased against rooftop solar and helped the utility get what it wanted.

The utility wants to recoup billions from North Carolina ratepayers to bury power lines, replace equipment, and install sensors to limit outages.

California's Utility Reform Network and other ratepayer advocates have expressed interest and concern about rate impacts from utility involUtility Reform Network and other ratepayer advocates have expressed interest and concern about rate impacts from utility involutility involvement.

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).

As DTE, Michigan's largest utility, laudably looks to transition away from its historic overreliance on coal - fired power plants, it has regrettably turned its eye towards natural gas, figuring it can keep building large — and expensive — power plants that look good on its balance sheets while saddling ratepayers with the costs.