Sentences with phrase «on electricity customer»

A new report by three prominent energy experts correctly says that the focus of «resilience» should be on electricity customer needs.

(October 2, 2017) Nalcor's Muskrat Falls hydro project will cost more than double original estimates, is years behind schedule and will impose triple - digit rate increases on electricity customers when it starts producing power.

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At present an electricity customer in the United States pays 10 cents per kWh on average.

When making a smart product, companies would do well to focus on ways to save the customer money — either by helping save water or electricity or by alerting the customer to discounts via coupons or sales.

While Sunrun sells itself to customers as a hassle - free way to save on their electricity bills rather than just a do - gooder environmental option, Jurich's interest in solar stems from a deep concern about air quality that crystallized while she was working in smoggy China.

On the other hand, there are customers of Nova Scotia Power, ratepayers who want a cheap, stable supply of electricity.

Increasing numbers of utility customers are using net metering to generate electricity on their property.

Up to this point, solar customers in Nevada were paid retail rate for electricity they back on the grid.

Among the biggest changes to the rate structure will be in how much customers are paid for the electricity they put back on the grid, though net metering.

As we noted in a previous report, a proposal to the New York Public Service Commission has been submitted by Orange and Rockland Utilities for a Tesla Powerpack system that could see a 70 % reduction in the demand charges on customer electricity bills.

When Hurricane Irma hit Florida on Sept. 10, 6.7 million customers lost electricity, or nearly two - thirds of the state.

Five short videos from Iain Conn and Jeff Bell covering 2017 H1 performance and outlook, customer accounts, the British Gas electricity price rise and Centrica's views on the UK energy market.

Rochester, NY — With the possibility of heavy rain and flooding as Tropical Storm Lee bears down on the Northeast, NYSEG encourages customers in flood - prone areas — and even customers who experience persistent basement flooding — to consider how their electricity and natural gas services could be affected by high water.

The NPP's promise to pay all arrears owed contractors in 100 days, pay all customers of DKM, reduce corporate tax from 25 % to 20 %, reduce import duties on raw materials and machinery for production, reduce drivers» insurance levies and cost of driver's license; and instant reduction of electricity tariffs and transport fares were all not captured in the budget.

«We would encourage Government and industry to engage in a more open dialogue with electricity and energy customers so there is transparency in the future direction of prices, and also that customers are helped to reduce the impact on their bills through making it easier to make energy efficient lifestyle choices.»

Any MD customer that was not metered by 1 March 2017 shall not pay any electricity bill presented by a distribution company on the basis of estimated billing methodology and these customers are advised to report this to the Commission.

«The reckoner would be displayed at all district offices and revenue centres nationwide to guide customers on their electricity purchases», he added

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY — As many as 45,000 customers in Westchester County woke up on Thursday without power, and a few thousand of them had spent much of the last week with no electricity in the wake of last week's nor'easter.

Electricity was knocked out to 90 % of customers on Long Island.

The government may step in if gas and electricity providers continue to impose «outrageous» hidden price hikes on customers, as winter draws in.

Although more customers are investing in their own equipment for electric supply, like solar panels or even microgrids — a network of electricity users with a local source of supply and the capability to operate as an island during outages — the report says most U.S. customers will continue to depend on obtaining their power from the large - scale, interconnected electrical grid at least for the next two decades.

Prateek Chakravarty of Bidgely says customers typically use this information to save between 4 and 12 per cent on their electricity bills.

When generators fail, as they did last winter in Texas, controllers lean on «demand - response customers» — large electricity users, like factories, that are paid to be on call, ready to use a little less or even shut everything off at a moment's notice.

Generators and distributors of electricity depend on it to communicate and to prevent leaving customers with too much or too little power.

«Gazprom's customers in Europe — in particular utilities that burn gas to generate electricity — often need to offset their emissions under a European Union pollution trading scheme or the broader Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

Seeing as the 2013 Malibu Eco was unable to propel itself on electricity alone, we don't think most customers will really notice a tremendous difference from how the 2014 Malibu 2.5 behaves.

Tightening fuel economy standards will put electricity in most car companies» tool boxes going forward, but it also has to come with a great driving experience if customers are going to get on board.

Based on data generated by more than 23,000 MyFord ® Mobile plug - in hybrid customers over several years, Ford estimates the 2019 Fusion Energi will potentially allow up to 80 percent of plug - in customers to drive their typical daily commute on electricity alone, with the support of both home and workplace charging, assuming the vehicle is fully charged daily at home and at work.

Customers still depend on electricity and gas even during periods of weak growth.

That storm left an estimated 6.2 million customers in Florida without electricity on September 11, according to the Florida Public Service Commission, which, like the commission in Texas, collects data from electric utilities.

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The growth of solar and wind power has highlighted the issue of negative pricing on the wholesale markets, where in some instances the availability of wind or solar power depresses prices to the point where wholesalers pay their utility customers to take the electricity off their hands.

The POUs should focus their RPS investments on signing contracts lasting at least ten years or building their own clean energy facilities, which will help stabilize electricity prices for customers and ensure compliance with future RPS requirements.

The charges ruled unlawful included compensation for AEP's perceived risk as a back - up provider of electricity for shopping customers and carrying charges on environmental investments made prior to Jan. 1, 2009.

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).

Connecting solar to the various different utilities in New Hampshire is a process that can differ somewhat depending on the type of electricity customer you are and the size of the solar system you wish to install.

As a result, a TPO solar lease customer in some instances could wind up paying more over the 10 - or 20 - year term of a residential solar lease than they would have paid a utility for electricity over the same period of time, pointed out Stanley Fishbein, the co-founder and one of two managing partners of CleanView Capital, a solar energy finance company focused primarily on the commercial and industrial segments of the solar energy market.

... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....

Green Button data refers to an option provided by some utilities that enables customers to download detailed data on their electricity usage with just the click of a (green) button from the utility website.

(Originally published on SolarLove.org) The future in which power company customers transitioning to solar electricity generation can choose to either maintain grid connection or cost - effectively generate off - grid has arrived.

They argued that these suppliers might leave the state, or that they lack the capacity to supply the electricity needs of their customers, ultimately forcing them to rely on electricity generated by the big utilities.

Companies that want to help customers install on - site solar facilities by using PPAs have argued that this section clearly permits customers to buy solar electricity from third party suppliers when their utility doesn't offer a renewable energy tariff.

These softening impacts on customer bills from renewables come because they force down the wholesale of electricity, and incumbent generators do not like that.

The proposed customer investment benefit of a $ 50 rebate on electricity bills to PHI customers, totaling $ 100 million, is pathetically small compared to the more than $ 1.8 billion in cash benefits for an above - market purchase price to PHI stockholders.

Demand response is a non-persistent intentional change in net electricity usage by end - use customers from normal consumptive patterns in response to a request on behalf of, or by, a power and / or distribution / transmission system operator.

However, more efforts are needed to inform customers on their electricity consumption habits and to regulate activities of energy consumers and suppliers.

For carbon - intensive electricity, all suppliers of electricity to end users would pay the fee, calculated based on the total number of kilowatt - hours sold to customers minus the kilowatt - hours for which the supplier has purchased renewable energy credits (RECs) or entered into long - term contracts for clean energy.

And rather than set $ / kWh tax based on the volume of electricity consumed by customers like in Boulder, the District's carbon fee would change based on the carbon content the the electricity consumed in DC.

The lake authority doesn't own the 18 + acre / feet of rain which falls on my land and since I don't use but a tiny fraction of that and they use the excess instead to generate electricity and sell to downstream customers when they sent me a bill for 1 acre / foot I sent them a bill in return for 17 acre / feet.

Since these large customers can create and manage their own electricity, utilities have negotiated directly with them on really low electric rates to keep them as customers.