Sentences with phrase «of electricity consumers»

Coal is not subject to the vagaries of windless or sunless days, and can easily meet base - load demands of electricity consumers without interruption.

Caught in the middle are the public power systems, municipal and cooperative utilities, which serve a seventh of all electricity consumers in the U.S. and some of the largest cities, such as Los Angeles, Jacksonville, and Memphis.

The challenge of ensuring environmental compliance, reliable generation and affordable electricity rests on states and regional transmission organizations that must consider the interests of electricity consumers as well as the overall well - being of the state economy.

RISE suggests an important role for utilities in meeting efficiency, as well as access, objectives because of utilities» in - depth knowledge of electricity consumers» habits and because of their own power consumption.

The Supreme Court found that Order 745 was built upon Order 719, which required that wholesale market operators receive demand response bids from aggregators of electricity consumers except when state regulation bars such participation.

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said metering of electricity consumers is not a monopoly for Discos.

Not exact matches

It's kind of crazy if you think about it: There's no information sent to consumers about when it's expensive to supply more electricity and when it's not.

«Whole new services we can't even imagine will be enabled by the fact that we will soon be buyers and sellers of electricity, rather than just consumers.

Electricity is cheap, and so long as consumers have the option of charging at home there is a limit to how much stations can mark up the price of providing eElectricity is cheap, and so long as consumers have the option of charging at home there is a limit to how much stations can mark up the price of providing electricityelectricity.

NDP environment critic Peter Tabuns welcomed the import of more clean power from Quebec, but said the impact on consumers» electricity bills and the actual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the agreement will be minuscule.

When electricity was first introduced to consumers, the only application of it was operating lights.

The consumer ratings agency compared the cost of a Tesla solar roof in New York, Texas and California and deemed that — depending on factors such as electricity cost and sun exposure — the numbers generated by Tesla's Solar Roof calculator check out.

While the Ontario government's recently updated long - term energy plan said the province's industrial electricity consumers currently face prices lower than that of the average for the Great Lakes region, the plan also showed that the cost will rise to $ 116 per megawatt hour by 2035, a nearly 40 per cent increase from the projected 2017 price of $ 83 per megawatt hour.

Other similar things might be investing in supermarkets and «consumer staples» (because if your weekly shopping basket inflates, their shares and divis probably will too) or investing in healthcare as a hedge against future healthcare costs inflating or investing in utilities as a hedge against utilities bills rising (I've yet to buy any but I quite like the idea of owning enough ~ 7 % yielding Centrica for the divis to cover the gas and electricity bills) or investing in travel and tourism companies as a hedge against holiday costs inflating.

After running the numbers through Tesla's Solar Roof calculator which you can do for yourself, Consumer Reports found that the installation in New York would payout and save the homeowner money over 30 years, largely due to the high price of electricity in the area.

That makes the company, based near Montreal, a major consumer of electricity.

We know that while consumers are strongly attracted to «free TV,» they also spend an enormous sum supporting it, through the purchase of their TV sets, the cost of electricity, and the add - on costs to every item they purchase which is advertised, not to mention the lost revenue in tax - deductible billions spent by advertisers.

David Brewster and Beth Griggs, «Competition Issues in the Electricity Industry - The Australian Gas Light Company v Australian Competition and Consumer Commission» [2004] AURELawJl 36; (2004) 23 (1) Australian Resources and Energy Law Journal 98 Stephen G Corones, «Informal merger clearance process under scrutiny: Australian Gas Light Company v ACCC» (2004) 32 (2) Australian Business Law Review 147 - 151 (abstract only) Rajat Sood, «Implications of AGL v ACCC — Market Power and Competition in the National Electricity Market» (2004) 32 Australian Business Law Review 375

As a result of this likely lessening of competition, the proposed acquisition is likely to mean that consumers will pay more for electricity, receive lower quality service and be offered less choice.

And since electricity use can contribute up to 30 % of a household's carbon footprint, consumer choices have a real impact.

* «We will re-regulate Maryland's electricity supply going forward when it is in the best interest of Maryland consumers.

We have put consumers» interests — today and in the long term — at the heart of our policy, encouraging more competitors in the electricity and gas markets, working with Ofgem to simplify the confusion of tariffs, and getting tough on abuses.

On the basis of these interventions, if government recommendations to PURC are accepted, consumers will be expected to benefit from reductions in electricity tariffs.

The restructuring of VRA will also enable the use of cheap electricity from legacy hydro to support government subsidy objectives to a targeted category of consumers in a transparent manner.

Residential consumers of electricity will from today [1st April 2018] pay 15 percent less than the tariff they previously paid.

The policy that attracted the most attention was the commitment to help tackle the «cost - of - living crisis» by freezing gas and electricity prices until 2017 to give time to «reset the market» in favour of consumers.

This is coming as the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, ANED, reveals that less than 40 percent of electricity bills are paid by consumers and as a result higher tariffs are expected to be levied in a bid to plug the loss in powElectricity Distributors, ANED, reveals that less than 40 percent of electricity bills are paid by consumers and as a result higher tariffs are expected to be levied in a bid to plug the loss in powelectricity bills are paid by consumers and as a result higher tariffs are expected to be levied in a bid to plug the loss in power revenue.

Once the pipeline is complete, the Valley Energy Center will begin to reduce the region's overall emissions, protect and enhance the reliability of the region's electric grid, and start saving New York's energy consumers more than an estimated $ 600 million in electricity costs annually.»

While consumers of power bemoan the instability and high cost of sourcing electricity, Sunday Oduntan, executive director of the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, ANED, said that the high charges were dismissible in view of the low payment habits ofelectricity, Sunday Oduntan, executive director of the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, ANED, said that the high charges were dismissible in view of the low payment habits ofElectricity Distributors, ANED, said that the high charges were dismissible in view of the low payment habits of Nigerians.

«These are the first investments from our reforms to build the world's first low carbon electricity market - reforms which will see competition and markets attract tens of billions of pounds of vital energy investment whilst reducing the costs of clean energy to consumers.

This is because the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has explained that the reduction will only reflect on the bills of consumers when they make their second purchase of credit for electricityElectricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has explained that the reduction will only reflect on the bills of consumers when they make their second purchase of credit for electricityelectricity for April.

What's the point of electing Dems if they go out of their way to put the people who have been screwing consumers since Pataki's «deregulation» of the electricity market back in charge of the PSC?

Pataki's deregulation of the electricity market hasn't done diddly - squat for consumers, especially residential ones.

The decision has one down - side that the electricity market reform will have to resolve: by dropping the CCS levy on consumers and committing to taxpayer funding, it reduces the incentive of the existing power companies to engage with CCS, and reinforces the need for a strong emissions performance standard to ensure they have clarity about the low carbon direction of the electricity market.

«For consumers like Skidmore College, they can be an incredibly meaningful source of electricity.»

Feyisetan Akeeb Kareem, Coordinator, Committee for Defence of Human Rights, Aniocha South Local Government Area, Delta State: We the residents of Ukwu - Oji Quarters in Ogwashi - Ukwu Town in Delta State are appealing to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission and the Consumer Protection Council to come to our aid because we hardly see electricity supply to usElectricity Regulatory Commission and the Consumer Protection Council to come to our aid because we hardly see electricity supply to uselectricity supply to use -LSB-...]

Azulay went on to say «every dollar spent on nuclear subsidies is a dollar out of the pocket of New York's electricity consumers - residents, businesses and municipalities.»

Ghana's Finance Minister Ken Ofori - Atta will present the 2018 budget to parliament on Wednesday amid government hints of a 25 percent cut in electricity tariffs mainly for industrial consumers.

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Most of New Jersey's electricity comes from in - state producers or states not in RGGI, so there is little issue about consumers continuing to pay for the program through out - of - state utility surcharges if New Jersey departs, the official said.

The two biggest consumers of electricity in the home — air conditioners and refrigerators — may soon become much more energy efficient thanks to a new method of cooling.

Instead of adjusting power output in accordance with shifting demand, they will help consumers control their use of electricity, timing it to coincide with availability of the grid's cleanest and cheapest power sources.

«In terms of consumer ownership and use costs, the case to make a switch from current fuels to compressed natural gas (CNG) is much more compelling than for other alternative fuels like ethanol and electricity.»

Researchers at Aarhus University have carried out extensive theoretical mapping of the way private consumers can save money for heating in a modern supply system based on electricity.

Consumers account for the largest emissions worldwide, he says: Heating and electricity generation account for about 40 per cent of global CO2 emissions, while transportation accounts for 25 per cent.

And, ultimately, electricity harvested from the wind may be the cheapest form of electricity generation, saving money for consumers.

«In just the last decade, we've had a technology bubble, an oil bubble and a housing bubble, not to mention the Enron fiasco and California's electricity crisis, each of which was least partially caused by speculators and manipulators trying to make a buck at the expense of consumers,» English said.

Moniz notes that just 0.1 cent per kilowatt - hour of electricity and 2 cents per gallon of transportation fuels would yield about $ 8 billion per year, although such surcharges would need to be developed «with collaboration from industry and consumers.

Its members include many big American producers and consumers of coal, oil and electricity — such as Dow Chemicals and the National Coal Association — all of whom might suffer from controls on emissions of carbon dioxide.

Renewable energy sources could help plug these gaps: A U.S. Department of Energy study declared in 2001 that renewables could meet 20 percent of the nation's electricity supply by 2020 at a cost increase to consumers of just over 4 percent.