Sentences with phrase «make utility customers»

As first proposed two years ago, FirstEnergy's case before the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio asked for a different charge altogether to make utility customers guarantee electricity sales by its unregulated generation affiliate from certain coal and nuclear plants.

«But the state needs to face the overreliance and put its energy mix together in a way that makes utility customers less subject to the vagaries of natural gas prices.»

Not exact matches

FPL took 10 days to restore power in the state after Irma, which made landfall in the Middle Keys and then swept north through the state, knocking out power to 90 percent of the utility's customers.

Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) notes that this bill makes Colorado one of the first states to declare that utility customers have a right to install energy storage, and SEIA's interest in the new law shows the growing importance of energy storage to solar markets.

But the Lovins have shown electric utility companies that they can make a better profit if their customers use less electricity.

... The Chancellor said HM Revenue and Customs has prevented utility firms from claiming tax breaks on payments made by their customers rather than themselves.»

Pataki's deregulation of utilities has made millions for the players in the New York's power markets, at the expense of the average residential customer and small business owner.

While a single press release does not a campaign make, Amedore's charge that the reconfiguration of utility capacity zones which went into effect May 1 could cost mid-Hudson customers $ 300 million over the next three years got my attention.

Despite the international shale oil boom extracting natural gas with hydrofracking technologies, which most electric utilities, including the local ones, supply to customers as a major part of their power supply, the shift away from petroleum dependency has made remarkable progress in recent years through strategic incentives like the one which prompted this vote in Olive.

With these homes making their own electricity, utilities lose their most lucrative customers and confront a dwindling base over which to spread big infrastructure costs, like building new power plants or maintaining the grid.

The second car on Volvo's «60» platform is the largest, widest, and important to this pick, the lowest wagon in its class by overall height, which at this point includes very little that is sold in the U.S. Volvo isn't expecting the crossover - and sport / utility craze to turn soon — after all, the automaker makes bags of money on the XC90 and XC60 — but if anything on the road draws modern customers back to the station wagon, this will be the car.

As Toyota launches its first true full - size truck this month, this Japan - based automaker will be making a strong push to win customers, such as Devlin, in a market where utility and U.S. - based companies rule.

If publishers want to impose such enhanced restrictions then they are free to do so (whether by technical means or simply a more restrictive license) but they have to understand that this makes the end product less valuable to the customers, it lowers it's utility, and the only way that might work is if it's sold at a lower price.

As customers make the shift from a mediated banking experience to one that takes place with their direct participation, the perceived inconvenience of online banking should give way to the realization that taking your money online adds more utility than it sacrifices.

Then, making their case to local regulators, utilities plainly state the cost of creating and delivering energy to a specific group of customers.

Utility companies use credit scores to decide if a new customer has to make a deposit for service.

As a utility customer, understanding your electricity bill is an easy way to identify potential savings and can help determine whether installing solar makes sense for you.

(The Senate's language banning utilities from investing in new pipelines and then charging electric customers for these investments did not make it into the compromise energy bill.)

Customers will not install technology that provides services to utilities — even if products are free with a small return value stream — because utilities will not make the value stream significant enough.

In addition, solar advocates and utilities are increasingly at odds over how to value «customer - sited» solar; evolved business models for utilities could be necessary to make the 10 percent solar goal a reality.

The move makes Southern Company «the nation's second - largest combined gas and electric utility by customer base,» according to Utilitutility by customer base,» according to UtilityUtility Dive.

«We're proud to be partnering with these progressive utilities to make renewable energy more widely available to their customers,» said Duke Energy Renewables President Greg Wolf.

If a utility can make it easier for customers to use high - efficiency air conditioners and ensure that their buildings are properly insulated, their energy use on those hot summer afternoons will be lower.

Esther Whieldon, associate editor, discusses the year - long attempt by Duke Energy to buy Progress Energy, which would make Duke one of the largest electric utilities in the United States with roughly 7 million electric customers.

In August 2006, DTE began reporting payment information to the major credit bureaus on all of its 2.5 million customers, without offering the ability to opt - out, making it one of the few utilities in the U.S. to do so.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) issue a rule for determining the level and type of fossil fuel - based electricity delivered to retail customers by each distribution utility in the United States; and (2) make annual determinations of the amounts and types for each such utility and publish them in the Federal Register.

Customers agree that their selection of any of the Trade Allies on this list is completely voluntary and made without any promise, guarantee, coercion, threat or force by the NJ Board of Public Utilities» Office of Clean Energy.

Farrell also makes another point about the move by Xcel to embrace utility - scale solar: they are in fact competing with their own customers, because as more consumers add rooftop solar, that means lower revenues for the utilities.

So it makes sense that the utilities most responsive to their customers — co-ops, where customers are also owners — are leading the way on shared solar projects.

«The advancements that SCHOTT has made in solar receivertechnology will enable Nevada Solar One to spend less money to make more electricity, benefiting the plant's owner Solargenix, the plant's utility customers, and ultimately Nevada's energy consumers.»

That arrangement made sense for both utilities and customers at first.

Utility customers have had three options for meeting their electricity needs: buy it, make it, or eliminate it.

According to an analysis in Advanced Energy Economy's PowerSuite tool, SB 564 also seeks to «adopt rate - making mechanisms that would greatly benefit utilities, but likely lead to higher electric rates for all customer classes.»

After making those revisions, Exelon and Pepco finally got the green light and, barring legal challenges, will become the biggest utility in the nation by customer base.

«adopt rate - making mechanisms that would greatly benefit utilities, but likely lead to higher electric rates for all customer classes.»

Unless the utilities involved really want to make the program work for their customers, it's hard to imagine this turning out well.

Indeed, Dominion and other utilities, including Duke Energy, Southern Company, and NextEra in the Southeast and DTE Energy in the Midwest, even plan to use electricity customers to make money for the gas pipelines they are building, locking Americans further into gas.

Similarly, on the demand — or customer — side, the idea is that Californians, buildings, appliances and electric vehicles create an intricate, synergetic web that can be made more efficient and flexible with customer education and empowerment, customer - focused energy pricing policies and demand - response programs (which allows customers to voluntarily reduce peak electricity use in response to a signal from their electric utilities and receive a payment for doing so).

-- The purpose of this section is to improve the ability of retail rate utility customers to compare tariff options by making the most up - to - date electric utility tariffs available in an online format that can be read and manipulated electronically.

ALEC has said that one of its top priorities in 2014 will be to make it harder for homeowners and businesses to put solar panels on their rooftops by introducing solar taxes on behalf of big utilities that are afraid of losing customers.

It's Mobile: Community solar allows customers to move within the utility territory and still retain their participation in the community solar project, making it an easy, portable energy solution.

With the public paying such close attention to the drought, water utilities have a much greater chance to help their customers make significant, permanent reductions in water use.Every drop that we save now is a drop we can use in the future.

c. Mandated «Green Energy» programs in 4 states that force distribution utilities to buy electricity from «renewable» energy sources and make it available to their customers.

However, the premiums are unlikely to cover the full costs, thus making it necessary for utilities to pass along unrecovered costs to customers or shareholders.

Utility Partnerships: The community solar model is based on a mutually beneficial relationship with utilities, allowing them to provide a product their customers want — locally - made clean energy.

Remember, solar is screwing up utilities» business model, but «we're making less money» does not move the hearts of regulators, especially when it's a response to customer choice.

So helping your customers make smart decisions about their home's heating and cooling system can have a big effect on their utility bills and comfort.

A Republican proposal in Wyoming to effectively outlaw the sales of electricity from utility - scale wind and solar to in - state customers didn't make it past the first week of the legislative session.

Additionally, the utility plans to make sure that any new renewable energy procurement is covered in «non-bypassable» charges to its customers.

At the same time, some utilities are making it ever harder for customers to protect themselves from bad utility decisions.