Sentences with phrase «in utility tariffs»

The Public Relations and External Relations Manager at the PURC, Nana Yaa Jantuah, hinted discussions on proposals for increment in utility tariffs were still underway.

The Tema District Council of Labour (TDCL) has expressed concern about the hike in utility tariffs and other services making life unpleasant for workers and their families.

The protesters want government to reverse the recent increases in utility tariffs and petroleum prices.

The levy has caused an increase in petroleum prices by up to 27 % compounding the effects of recent increases in utility tariffs.

Dr. Sammiu Kojo Nuamah made the appeal on Citi FM's News analysis programme, The Big Issue on Saturday in relation to the recent hikes in utility tariffs.

Inflation, which remains still high at 19.2 percent in March 2016, is being affected by the increase in utility tariffs, energy sector levies and transportation costs, but core inflation has started to decline in recent months.»

This, together with hikes in utility tariffs (electricity and water) has irked the anger of majority of the populace, with some threatening to go on the streets to demonstrate against the government.

Not exact matches

As rising rates and tariff talk threatened large multinationals and caused a stock market correction beginning in February, some investors have turned to domestically oriented utilities with steady cash flow as a potential safe haven.

«Products like sport utility vehicles may not sell in places like China [due to the new tariffs], and that means potentially lost jobs at the plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina,» he says.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; cancelation of utility - scale feed - in - tariff contracts in Japan; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

«Solar import tariffs imposed by the U.S. government in January are likely to have only a limited impact on solar energy development in the country, but are likely to tip the scales toward wind projects at the utility scale,» the RECAI stated.

«Solar import tariffs imposed by the U.S. government in January are likely to have only a limited impact on solar energy development in the country, but are likely to tip the scales toward wind projects at the utility scale,» the RECAI

What the tariff will do, however, is complicate the development of large, industrial «utility - scale» solar plants, a meaningful source of jobs in a labor - poor industry.

Workers in construction, transportation, retail, banks, hotels, utilities and other professionals would «clearly lose» in a tariff war, the economists say, adding farmers would be doubly hurt — paying higher prices for imported goods and seeing export options curtailed.

The Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission (PURC) last December announced hikes in tariffs of electricity and water by 59.2 % and 67.2 %, respectively.

«In terms of the [utility] tariffs, we may be able as a government to accommodate a certain portion of it.

«If you take the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU)[report], they said 2017 and onward is going to be a period of prosperity for Ghana and that is because of the foundation that we have laid, it's because of the work that we have done, we've eliminated a lot of the deficits that were created by huge subsidies on utility tariffs, we eliminated a lot of the subsidies that created huge deficits on the cost of petroleum products, today as I speak, Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) is running, and producing petroleum products for Ghana, we have enough stock of LPG, our tanks and strategic reserves for petroleum products are all full, and, so, we have ships standing offshore Ghana with petroleum products, but there is no space to offload those products, and, so, we've done a good job in stabilising various sectors of the economy.

They charged utility companies to justify previous increments in tariffs.

«The government is not able to maintain the value of the currency so the 80 percent tariff increase in six months become valueless because the utility companies have to run on inputs that are imported with dollars,» he stated.

We are also concerned about the poor macro-economic performance and the technical and operational inefficiencies of the utility companies which have contributed greatly to the frequent hikes in tariffs.

As workers, we are worried about the ever increasing utility tariffs which do not match the rate of increase in incomes.

Following our consultations with the PURC, we did not expect any increase in tariffs beyond 50 percent as against the 129 to 400 percent proposed by the utility companies, on condition that the power supply would have stabilized.

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.

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), which is set to release new utility cost figures soon, has said it will do what is right under its mandate in setting the new utility tariffs.

Utility Companies in the country are consulting with the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), for tariff review.

One major challenge for the growth of private sector in Ghana has to with high utility tariffs.

Also, in the past, tariff hikes justified on the grounds of improving service delivery had failed woeful to bring about any appreciable improvement in the services of the utility providers.

At a joint consultative meeting organized by the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) in Accra, the utility service providers presented their proposals for upward tariff adjustment and justified the need for it.

But STRANEK in a statement said it «believes that the concession of ECG will create jobs, ensure that real tariff levels reduce over time for the power sector, introduce efficiencies in the operation of utilities, among others» adding: «Thus, the concession is a good step in the right direction.»

«Scandals and perceived corruption in governance and the society generally, socio - economic hardships such as unstable currency, unstable power supplies — undermining both industrial and domestic ventures — executive bureaucratic delays in the public sector, especially at the ports, many industrial actions, protest demonstrations throughout the economy, sudden and high tariff increases for utilities, and ever - bloating national debt stock, have hall - marked the out - going year,» he observed.

Labour has been agitating against hikes in water and electricity tariffs and a new energy levy charged on the utilities.

The opposition New Patriotic Party has in a strongly worded statement described the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission's (PURC) newly announced tariff increment, as «sheer wickedness» and «evil», asking the government to halt it.

«If government recommendations to Public Utility and Regulatory Commission (PURC) are accepted, consumers will be expected to benefit from reductions in electricity tariffs,» he said.

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) on March 5 announced a 17.5 per cent reduction in electricity tariff for residential consumers and 30 per cent for non-residential users.

He, therefore, appealed for the support of the Central Region in this year's elections, further assuring that his government will reduce electricity and utility tariffs, restore the teacher training and nursing allowances and also implement the Free SHS policy to cover all students, both day and boarding.

At the same time, he added, the government's feed - in tariff, the costs of which are shared by the government and electricity customers, has resulted in «more and more consumers hav [ing] to pay higher electricity charges to utilities.»

It all comes at a price: roughly $ 8000 more than comparably equipped 5 - series sedans and about ten grand more than the X5, such that the 535i GT will likely start in the high $ 50,000 s and the 550i GT in the high $ 60,000 s. Given those tariffs, it's hard to say whether the 5 - series GT will find much of an audience here in America, where BMW finds only a few hundred buyers each year for the 5 - series wagon and where other premium - priced, unconventional utility vehicles, such as the Mercedes - Benz R - Class, have bombed.

BEL Proposes to Recover Increase in Cost of Power The Belize Electricity Limited (BEL) Company submitted a request to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to increase electricity rates for the annual Tariff Period from July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019.

That said, according to Xabier Viteri of Iberdrola (Spain's largest utility), feed - in tariffs would have to remain in place in the medium term if Spain is to meet its EU obligation of supplying 20 % of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2020.

The newest solar buy, 88 megawatts in total and scheduled to start service in 2012, is Google's first U.S. utility - scale PV undertaking, its first participation in a feed - in tariff - based program, which also brings mega-investor Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) into that company's first U.S. sun deal.

In the short term it's primarily going to be tenders for utility - scale solar, feed - in tariffs (FiTs) in some countries or net metering in some countries, I think that's going to be some of the core thingIn the short term it's primarily going to be tenders for utility - scale solar, feed - in tariffs (FiTs) in some countries or net metering in some countries, I think that's going to be some of the core thingin tariffs (FiTs) in some countries or net metering in some countries, I think that's going to be some of the core thingin some countries or net metering in some countries, I think that's going to be some of the core thingin some countries, I think that's going to be some of the core things.

Officially launched in January after years of development, a new CLEAN (feed - in tariff) program from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (the city's municipal electric utility) promises 100 MW of new local renewable energy by 2016.

California Residential Feed in Tariff would allow homeowners to sell their Renewable Energy to the utility, protecting our communities from, Global Warming, Poison Water, Grid Failures, Natural Disasters, Toxic Natural Gas and Oil Fracking.

Further growth of Nevada's distributed PV sector, however, is uncertain because Nevada's Public Utility Commission recently approved several changes to the net - metering tariffs, including phasing in lower net - metering compensation rates and higher monthly fixed charges for distributed PV customers.

You will lock in a set discount over your utility electricity tariff rate: for example 5 % or 1 cents.

Cypress Creek Renewables, one of the United States» largest developers of utility - scale solar, has stopped investments in 1.5 gigawatts of renewable energy projects, worth $ 1.5 billion, due to Trump administration tariffs on imported solar technology, which the company said made the costs of the projects too high.

The law encourages the utilities to develop the tariffs in an open process, in collaboration with the Hawai'i Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, as well as other stakeholders in the renewable energy industry and environmental advocacy community.

The objective of this paper is to analyze the effect on utility finances and consumer tariffs of implementing utility - funded cost - effective energy efficiency (EE) programs in India.

And, as one of Oregon's main utilities, PGE is participating in the state's pilot feed - in tariff, which, as we reported several weeks ago, became quickly oversubscribed — in some cases, in a matter of hours.

New research predicts the energy storage market in Germany will increase 11-fold in the next five years, with the residential market buoyed by declining feed - in tariffs, high electricity prices and $ 30 million in subsidies, while the primary reserve market boosts activity within the utilities sector.