Sentences with phrase «monopoly electric utilities»

New England's electric market in the 1990s, dominated by vertically integrated monopoly electric utilities, was a mess.

The solar wars have two main combatants — the monopoly electric utilities, and the solar (PV) industry involved with consumers who wish to own or buy solar electricity directly.

What can a small city do to advance clean energy locally, if its state commissioners and legislators are not willing to take their jobs regulating monopoly electric utilities seriously?

Florida Power & Light, like most other monopoly electric utilities, spends this large sum on the usual suspects: lobbying and public relations.

Not exact matches

As Vox's Alexia Fernández Campbell explained, as tax breaks faded, businesses left the island, and so did workers and utility customers, eating into the revenue of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the unregulated utility monopoly.

Another example is that gas and electric utilities are generally quasi-public corporations, due to their nature as regional monopolies.

«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.

To re-write the state law regulating electric utility monopolies.

That model began to change, starting with the 1978 Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), which recognized that electric generation was not a natural monopoly.

Electric power companies - numerous producers in a highly competitive generation market, three transmission companies in a regulated monopoly, three regional distributors, municipal utilities.

Fessler argued the solution to California's electric woes was to bring competition to the investor - owned utility market, where PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E had carved the state up into regional monopolies.

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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.

clean energy innovation improving consumer choice and affordability more efficient use of energy deeper penetration of renewable energy resources wider deployment of «distributed» energy resources micro grids roof - top solar on - site power supplies and storage promote markets advanced energy management enhance demand elasticity and efficiencies empower customers more choice 50 % of its electricity from renewable resources by 2030 business as usual bad public policy clean energy's economic and environmental potential the power industry was headed for trouble rising utility bills growing customer dissatisfaction socially unjust clean energy economy haves - and - have - nots change in culture business model for the whole system moves the electric industry away from a monopoly, top - down and incentive driven system governed by the market emphasizes distributed energy a distributed system platform market exchange microgrids solar energy efficiency distributed energy resources compete to serve the grid pro-consumer pro-innovation markets - based more affordable resilient capital efficiencies encouraging more distributed energy demand response energy efficiency

Until 2013, the generation, transmission, distribution and marketing of electric power for public utility service purposes in Mexico was exclusively reserved to the federal government, through the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), a public body of the federal government operating as a vertically integrated monopoly.