Not exact matches
Eskom won a reprieve from Fitch on Wednesday night when the credit rating agency
left its view of the
power utility unchanged at BB - with a negative...
As Vox's Alexia Fernández Campbell explained, as tax breaks faded, businesses
left the island, and so did workers and
utility customers, eating into the revenue of the Puerto Rico Electric
Power Authority, the unregulated
utility monopoly.
To
leave roads and railroads, electric and
power utilities in private hands ran the risk of private owners «rack - renting» the population, adding to the cost of living and doing business.
Massachusetts» highest court has reduced penalties imposed against two electric
utilities by state regulators for their poor responses to a pair of 2011 storms that
left hundreds of thousands of customers without
power for days.
With roughly 15,000 Orange County residents still without
power, County Executive Edward Diana has called on the State Public Service Commission to review local
utility companies» performance in response to damage and outages
left by the storm.
The last of the federal government's
power restoration crews are scheduled to
leave Puerto Rico when their contract expires next week,
leaving the island's
power utility with the task of energizing the last 1.5 percent of customers still waiting eight months after Hurricane Maria.
The pricing for these solar
power contracts were low enough for MGM to
leave their
utility and pay a $ 87 million exit fee!
Meanwhile, electric
utilities made inroads to restore
power to residents in some areas, and a mild October has likely
left many buildings with stores of heating fuel as they wait for normal distribution to resume.
In western Denmark, the price of electricity can drop to zero on a windy day,
leaving utilities scrambling to offload excess
power or take a financial hit.
As MGM said when separating from NV Energy, «if
utilities purchase
power in the most efficient way they could, there would be no benefit to
leaving the system beyond choosing your own energy.
«Green Mountain
Power, the largest
utility in Vermont, is promoting another aggressive clean energy offer to its customers — a $ 10,000 rebate on the purchase of a new 2017 Nissan
LEAF.»
Under legislation passed after the 2000 - 2001 Western energy crisis, multiple casinos and data centers have
left the
utility to buy
power from other providers.
What the 92 - page report
leaves out is that Vitter — an esteemed member of the Senate «Millionaires Club» — owns tens of thousands of dollars in stocks of the electric
utility Wisconsin Energy Corporation (We Energies), which owns major coal - fired
power plants in both Oak Creek, Wisc. and Pleasant Prairie, Wisc..
Many include charges that escalate over time, which could
leave consumers paying more money for their
power than they would if they stuck with their regular
utility.