Sentences with phrase «of utility rate»

Non-bypassable charges, introduced in California's NEM 2.0 policies, are a portion of the utility rate that is designated as irreversible.

Ford claims that drivers will be able to recharge the vehicle's 23kWh, high - voltage, lithium ion battery in 3 to 4 hours on 240 - volt power and that, with the help of utility rate - aware charging software developed by Microsoft, a full charge will cost about $ 2 to $ 3, or about 4 cents per mile.

National Fuel Gas CEO Ronald J. Tanski, stung by the rejection of a major pipeline expansion project and a steep reduction in the size of a utility rate increase request over the past month, told analysts that the Amherst - based energy company is «getting lousy regulatory treatment in New York State.»

The days of utility rates in Oklahoma being 19 percent below the national average power rate would be over.

The only ongoing requirement is to verify the accuracy of utility rates used in the estimated bill section of the software, which performs «what if» analyses and evaluates price schemes from multiple - energy providers.

Not exact matches

«Those pushing for net neutrality think the world would work better if the Internet was somehow magically transformed into a public utility, like a water or electricity company, with the FCC and state regulators setting rates, overseeing investment, and micromanaging relationships between providers and customers,» Downes says, adding the result would be devastating to the smooth functioning of ISP networks.

Not all analysts though, are buying the sector's story, noting the rising interest rates could soon sink many of the outperforming utility names.

They have long - duration cash flows — in the case of utilities, those come from mandated rates of return.

This lets you to lock in your monthly rate for 1 - 3 years on a plan that has been individualized to your organization's needs, all while receiving the same energy and services of your current utility.

If you or your business is in one of 17 states where utilities have been deregulated, check the rates with independent suppliers for additional savings.

It also offers specific policy recommendations including providing tax credits to promote venture capital investments in minority businesses, as well as tax credits for new low - income entrepreneurs, and encouraging the use by credit rating agencies of alternative data such as rent and utility payments in establishing credit histories.

That would put retailers, telecom, industrial services, utilities, retail staples, and health - care equipment and services at the front of the line, as each has an effective rate above 30 percent, according to Credit Suisse.

The provincial Public Utilities Board has instead approved an average rate increase of 3.6 per cent as of June 1.

Under existing VOS program designs, solar customers continue to purchase all of their electricity from the grid at the utility's retail rate and receive credit for the solar electricity exported to the grid at the approved VOS rate.

NB Power is soon expected to announce another in a series of rate increases in a bid to break even, but the province remains saddled with the utility's debt and with costly decisions about the future of its generators.

Instead, the net metering rate will be set at wholesale prices — even though the utility doesn't have to pay for any of the solar panels» hardware or maintenance, and transmission costs are negligible, since the electricity is being generated close to where it is used.

Startups in the areas of information, transportation, communication, and utilities have the highest failure rates, while finance insurance and real estate tend to be more successful.

First, some background: In December, the Republican - appointed Nevada Public Utilities Commission (PUC) decided in favor of the state's biggest electricity provider and created a new rate class for rooftop solar customers.

The Berkshire Hathaway - owned NV Energy, the state's largest utility, is required to file its new rate with the PUCN by the end of the year.

In addition to long - duration Treasuries, these classic «safe havens» include high - yielding defensive equities like utilities, as well as precious metals, both of which are sensitive to changes in real interest rates.

Jessica served as President and CEO of BC Hydro from July 2014 to July 2017, overseeing one of the largest utilities in Canada, with 6,000 employees, over $ 5.8 billion in revenue, providing 98 % clean energy and the third lowest rates in North America.

Weighed down by rising interest rates, real estate and utilities are two of the worst - performing sectors this year.

«In utilities you do some of that to smooth rates, but what the auditor general is concerned about is this technique is being abused,» Ralston said.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; delays in the completion of project sales; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 20, 2016.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; cancelation of utility - scale feed - in - tariff contracts in Japan; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

The company has one Connecticut service station, in Milford, and five super-charging stations that can provide up to 170 miles of range in as little as 30 minutes, though the charge rate depends on weather, demands on the utility grid, and other factors.

Most likely it was the near doubling of interest rates, which tend to disproportionately impact those sectors, such as utilities, owned primarily for their dividend yield.

As of December 1, 2009, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, for example, offered an off - peak discount of approximately 50 % off of the regular residential electricity rate for electricity used to charge electric vehicles.

Eskom won a reprieve from Fitch on Wednesday night when the credit rating agency left its view of the power utility unchanged at BB - with a negative...

Other rate - sensitive assets (e.g. utilities, gold) sold off as well, and the rotation out of defensive names into more cyclical companies is evident in recent fund flows.

Although the final tax reform policy keeps the subsidies in place, some market analysts have grown concerned that these developments — as well as regulatory hurdles for new wind projects — will prohibit or slow the rate of deployment of renewable energy by utilities in the U.S.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Will cutting rates really boost the sectors that did much of the damage to April's GDP report like resources (can't influence commodities), utilities (can't influence weather, with utilities output just coming off a large surge in Jan / Feb) and manufacturing (bigger challenges than CAD)?

The big push for utility stocks came from interest rates, which unexpectedly dove in 2014 as the Federal Reserve's end of quantitative easing didn't have the rate - raising impact that most investors had believed it would.

Strategic Total Return continues to carry a duration of about 3.5 years in Treasury securities (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact the Fund by about 3.5 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), and holds about 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in utility shares.

For the last few months, sales of cars, sport utility vehicles, mini-vans and pickup trucks hovered around the seasonally adjusted annual rate of 15 million, but December sales jumped to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 16.2 million.

Only the Financials and Utilities sectors have seen increases in expected earnings growth rates since the start of the quarter.

The problem with dividend funds heavily invested in shares of utility companies is that they are also exposed to rising interest rates and inflation similar to bond investing.

Overall, the Strategic Total Return Fund remains positioned primarily to benefit from downward pressure on real interest rates and the U.S. dollar, but our overall exposure to risk is relatively conservative in all of the asset classes we hold - TIPS, precious metals, utilities, U.S. agency notes, and foreign government securities.

As a result, we recorded an income tax benefit of approximately $ 29.6 billion and we increased regulatory liabilities of our regulated utility subsidiaries by approximately $ 6.0 billion for the portion of the deferred income tax liability reduction that we will be required to, effectively, refund to customers in the rate setting process.

«Utilities have altered their rate structures such that demand charges are rising faster than overall energy rates, and businesses are bearing the bulk of those increases,» said Peter Rive, SolarCity's chief technology officer and chief operations officer.

The Federal Reserve's monthly index of industrial production and the related capacity indexes and capacity utilization rates cover manufacturing, mining, and electric and gas utilities.

I haven't looked at it much recently, but if it is like a lot of the utility, REIT and other interest rate sensitive stocks here in the US, it must be coming into buy territory.

Despite its competitive mortgage interest rates and a strong reputation for customer satisfaction, the limited amount of loan information and low variety of products limits Capital One's utility as a home loan provider.

In this op - ed ASU energy security researcher Dr. Wesley Herche demonstrates that for all the talk of renewable energy raising customer rates, there is no correlation between utility rates and ambitious state - level renewable energy mandates.

The price of utilities and property rates and charges, for example, both increased by more than 5 per cent over the year.

Roughly half of the ETFs have a higher correlation to treasury bonds and the other half to the S&P 500 Index (i.e., CWB — convertible bonds, JNK — high yield corporate, PFF — preferred stock and XLU — utilities all react to interest rates but are more correlated to the stock market than to treasury bonds).

However, even if interest rates stay low for an extended period of time, Utilities investors are still at risk.

Stocks of utility companies do better when the economy isn't doing well and interest rates are falling.