Sentences with phrase «many utilities have»

Conventional, fossil fuel based energy producers and the utilities would require monumental technological strides plus significant R&D efforts merely to remain competitive.

Electric utilities have been replacing coal plants with gas - fired facilities because they are more efficient and less expensive to operate.

While utilities have long discouraged energy storage by homeowners and industrial consumers because it threatens their revenue model, Brown says it makes a lot of sense, not just for enabling more renewable power but for lightening the load on old, creaky infrastructure.

Through slow, grassroots methods such as community meetings and bill inserts, Ontario's utilities have largely succeeded in informing the province's residents about what smart meters are, and how to shift electricity demand to lower their bills.

A year after its IPO, the Ontario electric utility has been a star performer in a hot sector.

Regardless of how the pie is getting divvied up, the utilities have a problem: They're operating in an industry with long - term declining demand.

Advocates counter that the higher the concentration of rooftop solar systems in a neighborhood, the less a utility has to spend on distribution to shore up grid reliability.

If you or your business is in one of 17 states where utilities have been deregulated, check the rates with independent suppliers for additional savings.

Most utilities have these programs, so I'd recommend that businesses contact their energy providers to see what's available to them.

Puerto Rico is grappling with the largest municipal debt crisis in U.S. history, with both its government and the public utility having filed for bankruptcy protection amid fights with creditors.

In a little over six months, the electrical utility has already rewarded investors with an 18 % return.

His utilities have been criticized for relying on coal, and at Berkshire's annual meeting last May he had to fend off a shareholder effort related to climate change.

The Quebec utility would in turn provide lower power rates to New Brunswick's industries and guarantee a five - year rate freeze to the province's residential and commercial customers.

Big tech companies, global retailers, clean energy firms, food makers, agriculture conglomerates, and a couple of utilities have all signed on.

Startups in the areas of information, transportation, communication, and utilities have the highest failure rates, while finance insurance and real estate tend to be more successful.

On several occasions, utilities have had to pay surrounding states to take the excess energy off of their hands.

As FinTech evolves, the boundaries between currencies, stocks, and utilities have become blurred.

Our mission is to bring blockchain technology and the utilities it has to businesses worldwide.

Gould said that nearly 5.1 million of his company's customers lost power, but that the utility has already managed to restore electricity to 60 percent of them.

Utilities had three negative indicators at the end of Q1.

Many utilities have already begun to revise some of those tariff structures.

In Southern California, a number of water utilities have begun to install large batteries alongside their pumping plants and water treatment facilities.

This is the first time a utility has contracted for a system that stores and releases solar energy after sunset, and will help KIUC meet its goal of using renewable resources to generate half of Kaua`i's electricity by the end of 2019.

Companies in mature industries like consumer staples and utilities have fewer growth opportunities so they can share cash flow with investors through dividends rather than plow it all back into projects.

Since the terms of MP 579 were published, the trading prices of Brazilian utilities have decreased across the board.

«Utilities have altered their rate structures such that demand charges are rising faster than overall energy rates, and businesses are bearing the bulk of those increases,» said Peter Rive, SolarCity's chief technology officer and chief operations officer.

Utilities have been among the best - performing sectors this year.

Recently, classic defensive stocks such as consumer staples and utilities have not lived up to their reputation.

Despite utilities having a relatively predictable business model, the current valuation level makes utility stocks, in our opinion, risky investments.

Before the mission program could have real utility it had to have the support of large numbers of church people.

Utility has its place, but if I'm bored by my spice cabinet I lack inspiration to make inspiring recipes (which is the foundation of everything I do).

We've found (from looking at our actual bills) that our utilities have only gone up $ 5 / month with the added washes SCORE!

Julio Rhymer, the executive director of the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority, quibbles with that, saying the public utility had long - established plans to bring in hundreds of utility workers after the storms but needed to phase in their arrival on the islands in an orderly fashion.

PSEG Long Island spent $ 9 million more than previously reported responding to a March storm that didn't deliver the expected wallop the utility had planned for, driving LIPA's annual storm costs over budget by 164 percent, the utility reported.

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.

The utility has failed to take steps to reduce its $ 10 billion debt, has high tax obligations, poor budgeting and lacks liquidity, Dr. Cordoro said.

For the sprawling effort to restore Puerto Rico's crippled electrical grid, the territory's state - owned utility has turned to a two - year - old company from Montana that had just two full - time employees on the day Hurricane Maria made landfall.

By Sean Ryan The Waukesha Water Utility has to spend millions drawing fresh water from a new source.

Schools, hospitals, homes, entire villages, towns, cities, bridges, and other public utilities have been blown up, laid waste, and lives terminated in excess of 20,000, while widows and orphans littered the landscape.

«While some utilities have provisions that will automatically capture the net benefits for consumers, some do not, and shareholders could receive the windfall,» PSC Chair John Rhodes said in a statement.

The findings suggest that without nuclear power utilities would turn to fossil fuels over renewable sources.

Vermont utilities have to import «offset» nuclear power via New Hampshire's Seabrook Nuclear Power Station, a zero - carbon, high energy workhorse.

The grievances LIPA has filed in court on behalf of its ratepayers should be settled because a likely court judgment in favor of the utility would require Huntington to pay tens of millions of dollars in refunds.

The $ 1.5 billion acquisition of the Poughkeepsie - based utility had its share of controversy in recent months.

After a lengthy effort to reduce costs for Long Island Power Authority customers, State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said that the utility has been ineffective after he discovered that costs have not been reduced and debt levels continued to rise.

That announcement came after the utility had already called for 50 MW in solar projects in 2008, while it was calling for its next 100 MW — the request that resulted in the 76 solar arrays currently in the works — and before a request for another 280 MW of solar power last fall.

To reach that goal, the utility would be wise to heed some of the criticism leveled in the audit, rather than tout its customer satisfaction score.

Nick Braden, spokesman for the nonprofit American Public Power Association, which represents more than 2,000 community - owned electric utilities, said in a statement that as government bodies, public utilities have an inherent political character and that knowing how to «operate within a political structure» is useful.

But, he noted the utility has already been working to shore up its facilities by raising them up and adding walls.

Arizona utilities have long enjoyed a cozy relationship with the state's regulators.