Sentences with phrase «means utility customers»

UBS says this means utility customers will effectively become utility competitors.

Not exact matches

This means more than 87 million customers across the country — so far — are set to see lower monthly utility bills.
For many content calendars, a modular approach means thinking ahead about how the content you're planning can be remixed, repurposed and deconstructed into other forms that retain their utility for your customers.
Dominion is a progressive utility, by that I mean, they are continuously looking to grow and add value to customers through diverse energy sources and are focused on efficient distribution to the widest possible customer base.
«Despite what we see again and again that most customers don't like their utility, almost all customers trust their utility,» he said, adding that customer trust means the grid won't become obsolete anytime soon.
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.
First, many of the best dividend payers are in the regulated utility industry, meaning their returns on capital are guaranteed and their customers are entirely captive.
Unlike most energy companies and resellers, Utility Warehouse operates by network marketing, which means its customers are encouraged to sell the product to their friends and they get commission for it.
Dominion is a progressive utility, by that I mean, they are continuously looking to grow and add value to customers through diverse energy sources and are focused on efficient distribution to the widest possible customer base.
Loan and utility providers and card issuers can use a CCJ to legally force a customer to repay any unpaid bills or loans when all other means have failed.
Utilities in New England and the Midwest had trouble getting enough natural gas and other heating oils to customers, meaning the regions would have suffered from brownouts or even blackouts if coal power did not come online to pick up the slack.
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.
However, higher fixed charges are an inequitable and inefficient means to address utility revenue concerns: they reduce customer control, disproportionately impact low - usage and low - income customers, dilute incentives for energy efficiency and distributed generation, and increase electric system costs.
Under the agricultural subsidies that have become the third rail of energy politics in India, farmers essentially get free power, which means the utilities that serve them lose money on every customer.
Interdependence means that grid system operators, utilities and customers can help create flat, base load blocks of predictable, cost - effective electric consumption that benefits everybody.
California's three big utilities are shifting to time - of - use rates for residential customersmeaning ratepayers will be charged more for electricity when it is more valuable.
Furthermore, fossil fuel and utility interests that have a stake in coal or natural gas plants simply want to slow the growth of their competition: for every solar installation on a home, means approximately one less customer paying for the electricity produced from fossil fuel plants.
And, whether or not they know it, all of the North Carolina electric utility customers who have a few more bucks in their pockets (because the solar we install means they don't have to start paying for a new billion dollar fossil fuel plant this year), would disagree.
Other Southern utilities penalize customers who adopt solar, loading up their bills with unjustified fees and taxes meant to discourage solar investments and protect utility profits.
Utilities often buy solar power through fixed power contracts — meaning that the risks are borne by independent solar farm owners, not utility customers.
South Carolina also has a net metering law meaning all utilities must pay you the customer full retail power value for all excess power exported to the grid.
This means that many solar customers will still have a $ 10 - $ 20 monthly charge from the utility even if they have no electric charge or even receive credits.
Under traditional net metering, customers are only billed for their net consumption over a billing cycle, meaning that any energy they consume from the utility can later be offset by energy production from their solar installation.
The term «cost» as used herein means only those charges specifically authorized by the electric utility's tariff, including but not limited to the customer, energy, demand, fuel, conservation, capacity and environmental charges made by the electric utility plus applicable taxes and fees to the customer of record responsible for the master meter payments.
Amidst an evolution in the German utility industry, one power company is looking to blockchain technology as a means to cut costs and improve its customer experience.
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