Sentences with phrase «on utility ratepayers»

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Exelon's R.E. Ginna facility east of Rochester, on the other hand, is losing money, but because it's needed for grid reliability, it's being subsidized by utility ratepayers until 2017.

The most significant are a five year extension of 2 percent «Section 18 - a» assessments on utility energy sales, with a $ 500 million annual impact on business and residential ratepayers, and a five year extension of the $ 420 million per year «film production» tax credit.

Utility ratepayers, mostly from downstate, will pay for the deal through a surcharge on their bills.

Whether ratepayers bear the brunt of that cost depends, at least partially, on how successful the utility is drawing federal grant money...

Cuomo personally traveled to Western New York to announce a repowering agreement for a coal - burning facility in Dunkirk that would switch it to natural gas and keep the town's revenue base intact, largely by forcing utility ratepayers o pay a little extra on their monthly bills.

The grievances LIPA has filed in court on behalf of its ratepayers should be settled because a likely court judgment in favor of the utility would require Huntington to pay tens of millions of dollars in refunds.

PG&E's request last year to pass on about $ 85 million of seismic studies and other relicensing costs to ratepayers could provide an outlet for the California Public Utilities Commission to withdraw the plant's certificate of public convenience and necessity.

South Carolina earlier this year allowed utilities to offer solar leases, although they can not recover costs from ratepayers and therefore will have to run such programs through an unregulated division, a condition insisted on by solar installers.

Utilities have seen this first hand and are now trying to initiate reforms before the burden on non-solar ratepayers becomes too great.

That's when a group of utility ratepayers get together and agree to purchase electricity from a solar PV project — they «subscribe» to its power — and pay a monthly charge that appears on their utility bill.

The shift imposed by state renewables standards will, Sands said, cause utilities to pressure regulators to allow them to pass the increased costs for renewables on to ratepayers.

The utilities» compliance with the REPS is expected to save ratepayers $ 651 million by 2029, and in 2014, the average residential customer saved over $ 8 due to REPS — a number that factors in the less than $ 1 / average monthly REPS compliance fee on customers» electric bills.

Our modeling shows that if the ANE pipeline is built as proposed, ratepayers will bear substantial net cost increases on their utility bills, even if the pipeline alleviates winter price spikes.

HB 340 codifies the ability of utilities to treat solar customers differently from all other ratepayers, leaving them subject to arbitrary «recovery fees» not levied on any other electricity consumers.

Mohave Electric CEO Tyler Carlson argued that the trash - to - gas power plant could reduce costs to ratepayers by saving some of what the utility spends on solar.

On Thursday, November 14, 2013, the Arizona Corporate Commission (ACC), the state entity responsible for regulating utilities, voted to charge ratepayers a monthly fee of 70 cents per kilowatt of solar energy installed on their rooOn Thursday, November 14, 2013, the Arizona Corporate Commission (ACC), the state entity responsible for regulating utilities, voted to charge ratepayers a monthly fee of 70 cents per kilowatt of solar energy installed on their rooon their roof.

«It's projected that by 2020 we could be producing 20 % more energy or electricity than we need and that cost of double - building is passed on to the ratepayer,» Skinner told Utility Dive.

In 2016, leaning on his experience as a state utility regulator, Rep. Kevin Cramer explained that «when ratepayers are subsidizing with an additional cost because of a mandate, that's different.

The UAG provides input into Coalition activities and discusses options for advancing the land - based and offshore wind industry that focus on delivering net benefits to utility shareholders, citizens / ratepayers, and the wind industry.

Utilities in the south that miss out on 2016 — The Year of the Wind aren't just missing out on a great opportunity for their ratepayers, they risk losing billions of dollars in wind energy savings as the tax benefits begin to phase out in 2017.

As DTE, Michigan's largest utility, laudably looks to transition away from its historic overreliance on coal - fired power plants, it has regrettably turned its eye towards natural gas, figuring it can keep building large — and expensive — power plants that look good on its balance sheets while saddling ratepayers with the costs.