Sentences with phrase «means electricity providers»

That increased demand means electricity providers will need to increase capacity to guard against spikes in usage, potentially requiring up to $ 180 billion of additional grid investment, the study, detailed Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests.

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This means that as Duke Energy and other providers that are doing the same thing — building generation facilities with high capital costs relative to their probable return using our tax dollars, more or less directly transporting those dollars into their pockets — sell the electricity built with the resources we helped them build, they will charge us more money for all the electricity they sell.

-- The term «third - party efficiency provider» means any retailer, building owner, energy service company, financial institution or other commercial, industrial or nonprofit entity that is capable of providing electricity savings in accordance with the requirements of this section.

At the same time, state energy - efficiency mandates would force it to reduce generation, while new measures liberalizing the electricity market meant PG&E would lose much of its customer base to other providers.

The fixing of a maximum price in the case at hand, by limiting the ability of electricity providers to pass on the extra costs to final users, means that the supply obligation must be complied with by means of the electricity providers» own financial resources; by contrast, the national legislation at issue in Association Vent de Colère, by enabling the electricity distributors to cash in a tax imposed on the consumers, guaranteed that the additional costs resulting from an obligation to purchase wind - generated electricity would be offset.

As a point of departure, the resources employed do not flow from the public purse; on the contrary, the advantage is granted by means of a transfer of resources between private persons (from producers of other types of electricity and electricity providers to producers of CHP electricity)-- as in PreussenElektra.