Sentences with phrase «not utility customers»

Utilities often buy solar power through fixed power contracts — meaning that the risks are borne by independent solar farm owners, not utility customers.

All costs are paid by the participating charities, not the utility customer.

Not exact matches

RALEIGH, N.C. — A public water utility studied what it was serving to its 200,000 North Carolina customers and found it contained multiple unregulated industrial chemicals with uncertain health effects, including some substances that university researchers didn't know existed, legislators learned Thursday.

Nest thermostats will also go to families using Fannie Mae's low - to moderate - income mortgage program and to income - qualified customers of utility companies.

As of March 20, 7 percent of utility customers still couldn't turn on the lights, refrigerate food, or run water pumps.

Utilities argue that customers who generate their own solar power are not paying their fair share of fixed costs, which are then passed on to generally less wealthy, non-solar customers.

The hurricane destroyed the island's electric grid, and 84 percent of the public utility's customers still don't have power.

To ensure that companies don't gouge customers, local utility boards set the rates that companies can charge.

«While the mandated water quality reports produced by regional water authorities do a great job of measuring specific water quality issues, they are not telling the whole story when it comes to perceptions of the water that is coming out of customers» faucets,» said Andrew Heath, senior director of the Utility Practice at J.D. Power.

Water utilities need to understand why customer views are not matching the views of the water utility and need to address these concerns.»

«Whether it's a serious problem like high lead or mineral counts, or a more subjective issue like bad taste or low pressure, a significant number of residential water utility customers are not happy with the product.

LIPA, which Cuomo said «failed» its customers after Sandy and served as the impetus for his Moreland Act Commission that is now investigating the utility industry's post-storm response overall, did not fare nearly so well.

Criticism for the utility is not only coming from fed up customers, but elected officials who say they aren't getting answers either.

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.

«There have been clear failures and failures of communication between the utilities and the government and the customers, and absolutely an intense review and investigation is warranted and will take place so we can take the appropriate actions — sanctions if needed and certainly to do better next time because what we have right now is not good enough for New Yorkers,» Rhodes said.

«To prevent a windfall, we will conduct a thorough accounting of the benefits the utilities realize from the tax reduction plan, and we will ensure it's the customers who receive the benefits, not company shareholders.»

Utility officials could not immediately estimate the impact on a typical residential customer.

Under the new rules, ESCOs won't be able to sell new supply to residential and small - business customers unless they are cheaper than the utility or if at least 30 percent of the electricity they sell comes from renewable energy sources like wind, hydro or solar.

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.

Critics have raised questions about why the power authority opted not to request aid from mainland utilities after Hurricane Maria struck the territory, knocking out power to almost all customers, on Sept. 20.

Utilities in states with growing levels of solar have argued that fixed fees and other changes are needed because customers with net metering bill credits don't pay their fair share of transmission and distribution charges.

«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.

«The problem with these desert - based utilities is that they're not anywhere near their customers, so they have to transport the power, which leads to a loss of energy.

But we digress, because Mercedes has admitted that its target customers for the GLE Coupe don't expect a high degree of utility.

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.

They seem to be doing enough to belay a lawsuit, yet don't seem to be real concerned about maintaining a loyal customer base, which is a real pity because we love the ruggedness and the utility of the Nissan trucks and SUVs.

While the back seat of any pickup truck is not my favorite place to sit, Toyota gives truck customers an option of carrying five people without giving up much utility, thanks to the 6 - foot bed.

«Customers tell us they want a compact SUV that will respect the environment and save money at the gas pump, but they don't want to give up performance and utility.

As big of a hit that the CLA - Class has been for Mercedes - Benz over the last year, the GLA - Class should do even better positioned in the red - hot market for subcompact luxury utility vehicles, and it definitely won't hurt for customers to have the option of this GLA45 AMG model that looks as sporty as it drives.

But the Grand Cherokee Trailhawk has a few clever tricks up its sleeve, and while it can't satisfy the demands of every potential Jeep customer simultaneously, a week with the sport - utility provided some insight into its surprisingly effective split personality.

If you're a new customer who has not yet completed an application, please email us a utility bill from the last 30 days to update your address.

Just recently, Duke was given authority by Bush's former OMB Director, Mitch Daniels to force their customers to assume the risk for the plant even though the utility commission did not require Duke to file anything near a current construction cost estimate for the 630 Megawatt plant they are seeking to build in what is already the largest concentration of coal fired capacity in the world, SW Indiana.

Since a big recession might hit coal - burning utilities» customers more than other utility customers (to name one example) or hit coal - using industries like cement and steel more than others, one has to look carefully not only at CO2 emissions changes but at underlying economic activity or personal activity changes and how those are tied to emissions in a disaggregated way.

Progressive utilities are assisting customers to the extent they can with these systems, because incrementally capitalizing grid tie can be attractive compared to capitalizing monolithic generation plants and because they do not demand an ongoing input of money for the electricity they generate.

«If you have customers paying near zero bills but still using the grid, you can't scale that to a large percentage of customers,» said Matthew Freedman, an attorney with The Utility Reform Network, a ratepayer advocacy group that proposed an alternative to net metering to the PUC.

American Electric is not the first utility owner to seek regulatory consent to charge customers for a big wind project.

Most utilities do not allow customers to choose between monthly or annual billing as they offer only one option.

This new development has led to debate around what the appropriate level of compensation should be for distributed solar generation fed to the grid and what distributed generation customers ought to pay to utilities for non-electricity services, such as grid maintenance, as well as for electricity when their distributed generation system is not producing power (e.g., when the sun isn't shining).

According to utility company APS, the Solana Generating Station solar power plant in Gila Bend, Ariz. will produce enough energy to serve 70,000 customers when operating at full capacity and will not emit greenhouse gases.

Sunrun wants to begin leasing rooftop solar systems to residential customers in Florida, but only if state regulators confirm it won't be regulated as a public utility.

Since North Carolina does not have any laws requiring virtual net metering for cooperatives or investor - owned utilities, these bill credits are nearly always based on the utility's avoided cost of energy as opposed to a credit calculated at the full retail rate of electricity (in other words, the per kWh credits are less than the per kWh price customers pay for their electricity consumption).

Commonwealth Edison had argued that customers of those utilities should not participate in the solar renewable energy credits program.

(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.)

Most notably, the PUC did not finalize the bill credit that customers will receive on their utility bill for participating in the community solar projects.

Under typical regulatory structures, utilities do not have an economic incentive to provide programs to help their customers be more energy - efficient.

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.

SCE's concern is that the bill does not adequately «consider the potential impacts to utility customers and system reliability,» it wrote to regulators.

Vivint does not agree with all the points agreed to, but Bywater and the company signed off on the settlement, saying it would ensure and protect utility customer choice in Utah for the next several years.

So - called community solar can be owned by the utility or customers, and since APS isn't planning to build much solar, why not allow others to build and own large - scale solar?

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.