Sentences with phrase «local electricity utility»

• Coordinated with local electricity utility provider to be alerted of any after - hours outages in order to confirm that backup generators were running and that all components were prepared to handle load once power returned.

Not exact matches

«When we learned about struggling upstate power generators at a time when downstate was starving for electricity, we were astonished to find that NY was considering a 350 mile extension cord from Quebec to NY City that denies any NYS power generator an opportunity to compete,» said Ted Skerpon, President of IBEW Local 97 and Chair of the 15,000 member NYS IBEW Utility Labor Council.

In sun - scorched Arizona a regulatory skirmish has broken out over arrays of blue - black silicon panels on rooftops, threatening the local utilities that have ruled electricity generation for a century or more.

Unlike most of these earlier attempts, the Los Olivos house and a handful of other prototype «net zero» dwellings remain connected to the grid and sell whatever surplus electricity they generate to local utilities.

Grid parity is when the cost and reliability of that solar panel system is about the same as that of buying electricity like most people do today — from the local utility's power grid.

Contact your local utility company for information on gas and electricity usage.

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.

To evidence your address, we will normally ask you to provide us with one of the following; - Utility bill - e.g. gas, electricity, water, satellite television, telephone (not mobile), broadband (not dongle contracts)(dated within the last 6 months)- Bank / Building Society / mortgage / credit union / Credit Card statement (dated within the last 6 months or dated within the last 13 months if annually issued mortgage statement)- Local authority correspondance (dated within the last 13 months e.g. Rates / Council Tax)

Sensors on the powerline monitor and gather data about local system activity and are fed back to our control centre for analysis and planning of Nova Scotia's future energy needs... As we add more renewable energy to the grid, batteries can provide the utility with more flexibility to reliably address peak electricity demand with stored energy.

But the price of oil never rose as was predicted, so the solar plant never became competitive with fossil fuel - based energy production (Carrizo sold its electricity to the local utility for between three and four cents a kilowatt - hour, while a minimum price of eight to ten cents a kilowatt - hour would be necessary in order for Carrizo to make a profit).»

Moreover, widespread implementation of distributed, local electricity generation — especially low - cost, high - efficiency thin - film photovoltaics like those now being manufactured by Nanosolar for the municipal utility market, and other innovative PV technologies like the cylindrical PV modules being manufactured by Solyndra for commercial rooftop applications — will greatly reduce the need for large - scale, centralized baseload generation.

All of us paid more to purchase all renewable electricity from our local utility.

They also show how the local utility company calculates a customer's electricity charges, which can have important design implications.

In August 2016, for example, Massachusetts passed legislation requiring local utility companies to get 1.6 gigawatts of their electricity from offshore wind farms in the coming decade.

It would require utilities to supply 10 % of their energy sales from solar electricity — largely local, distributed solar.

«The case for preserving an electric utility's monopoly over electricity generation died with federally induced wholesale competition in the late 1970s and with the recent advent of customer - owned and cost - effective rooftop solar,» said John Farrell, director of the Energy Democracy Initiative at the Institute for Local Self - Reliance.

U.S. companies burn forest wastes both to produce process heat for their own use and to generate electricity for sale to local utilities.

This received a big boost in Brazil, when companies with cane - based ethanol distilleries realized that burning bagasse, the fibrous material left after the sugar syrup is extracted, could simultaneously produce heat for fermentation and generate electricity that they could sell to the local utility.

The value of that electricity can be shared with participating customers through their local utility.

For many, gaining access to electricity through solar microgrids and other local power sources that bypass the traditional utility model is a far more practical option.

Instead, federal tax credits along with various state and local programs, including renewable portfolio standards (RPS) that require utilities to get a certain percentage of the electricity they sell from renewables, have been the main drivers of U.S. PV growth.

In many cases, DIY projects are not permitted to be tied into the grid by the local utility, which means if your system is not producing enough electricity, there's no back - up.

Power and Water Corporation, the local utility, will roll out this program which will incorporate solar power in the delivery of electricity to the local communities.

The solar electricity and the renewable energy credits (RECs) would be sold to the local utility, which would then credit the subscribers on their utility bills.

The local utility either owns power plants or buys electricity they need from the wholesale market.

Electricity rates for home and businesses in this part of North Carolina are proposed by the local utility and approved by the North Carolina Utility Commutility and approved by the North Carolina Utility CommUtility Commission.

A solar power purchase agreement, or PPA, allows a host customer to pay for generated electricity at a fixed rate typically lower than the local utility's retail rate.

In June 2001, the city of Chicago and 48 city government agencies signed a contract with local utility ComEd to purchase 10 percent of their electricity from renewable sources, a figure due to increase to 20 percent in five years.

With a view to promoting renewable energy in Japan, electric utilities have voluntarily purchased electricity generated from renewable energy, while the national government has adopted the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) Law, under which local governments have granted subsidies.

The payback period depends on multiple factors such as federal, state, local and utility incentives, average electricity costs and amount of insolation in your area (the amount of sun your array gets over time).

Having already achieved 20 % renewable electricity through contracts with local utilities in Europe and the US that are bringing more renewables to local grids, the company has an interim target for reaching 40 % by 2020.

Having already achieved 20 % renewable electricity through contracts with local utilities in Europe and the U.S. that are bringing more renewables to local grids, the company has an interim target for reaching 40 % by 2020.

Restructuring: The process of replacing a monopoly system of electric utilities with competing sellers, allowing individual retail customers to choose their electricity supplier but still receive delivery over the power lines of the local utility.

Utility customers in states such as Hawaii, California, Massachusetts, and New York — where electricity is the most expensive — see faster returns than those in cheap - energy states such as Idaho and Washington, especially in places where the local utility allows residential meters to spin backward, sending excess energy to the grid and lowering power bills in the pUtility customers in states such as Hawaii, California, Massachusetts, and New York — where electricity is the most expensive — see faster returns than those in cheap - energy states such as Idaho and Washington, especially in places where the local utility allows residential meters to spin backward, sending excess energy to the grid and lowering power bills in the putility allows residential meters to spin backward, sending excess energy to the grid and lowering power bills in the process.

Non-contentious environment and health and safety expert Elizabeth Shepherd advised a French environmental services company and a Polish waste company on their joint tender to the City of Belgrade to operate a new energy from waste plant, supplying electricity and heat to the local utility companies.

Each month, water, natural gas and electricity costs can mean paying 200 + to the local utilities.

While not implementing an outright ban on the practice, they appear likely to ask local governments and utility providers to cease giving mining companies preferential treatment such as reduced electricity rates and tax incentives.

A local utility in Washington State is raising power rates months after a dispute began between it and bitcoin miners seeking cheap electricity.

Queensland where legal firms have developed template agreements for local government and public utilities such as electricity providers and Telstra;

Certain tenant recovery charges, such as HVAC, could change due to an increase in electricity rates from the local utility.