Sentences with phrase «power utility infrastructure»

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While utilities have long discouraged energy storage by homeowners and industrial consumers because it threatens their revenue model, Brown says it makes a lot of sense, not just for enabling more renewable power but for lightening the load on old, creaky infrastructure.

That means looking critically at the economics of the utilities industry as well as the supply chain, and steering the experimental work as closely as possible to create an energy source that can be integrated with the technical infrastructure of the existing power industry.

A Miami - Dade Circuit Court judge has ruled that Coral Gables can't force FPL to upgrade infrastructure and trim trees around power lines, but that the city can sue the utility for breach of contract over its response to power outages following Hurricane Irma.

Bill Gilliland, an M&A lawyer at Dentons LLP in Toronto, says energy infrastructure, including pipelines, utilities and power generation, has «been a busy sector.»

Under the current utility structure, the power sector in New York is on track to spend an estimated $ 30 billion to replace and modernize the state's aging energy infrastructure over the next decade.

Yesterday, a Florida Power & Light Co. official said that even though the utility was prepared for the storm, it could lead to «a rebuild of our entire infrastructure.»

Utilities interested in tapping into tidal power will have to spend money to create the energy - delivery infrastructure, or at least convince government to pay for it.

Utility companies warn that the lost revenue from solar - powered costumers will necessitate price increases for people without solar panels, because the electric grid and other critical infrastructure must still be maintained.

With these homes making their own electricity, utilities lose their most lucrative customers and confront a dwindling base over which to spread big infrastructure costs, like building new power plants or maintaining the grid.

The most familiar infrastructure is an urban infrastructure, which describes the utilities and facilities such as roads, bridges, sewers, and sewer plants, water lines, power lines, fire stations, and other sites and facilities necessary to the functioning of an urban area.

the area or activities to which the funds raised from a municipal bond issue will be directed and, in turn, the source of future bond interest payments and principal repayment; for general obligation bonds, funds raised may be for general purposes, both operating and infrastructure, and payments are secured by the general taxing power of the issuer — usually a state, town, or city; revenue bonds are categorized under terms such as «Utilities» or «Transportation»

The 19,000 tax - exempt municipal bonds tracked in the S&P Municipal Bond Infrastructure Index mainly consist of investment grade bonds related to the transportation (roads, airports et al) and utility (water, sewer, power, resource recovery) segments of the market.

Also, the utility and oil companies are and will interfere with progress that hurts their bottom line; economics has a place to be sure, but just old fashioned greed hinders progress... still, there are hard working people who support families and citizens who do can not afford any upgrades or changes, the building of the wind infrastructure is already past a billion dollars and has not brought the efficiency we need to even talk of transitions, and with the 7 - 10 billion dollars car makers are requesting in addition to 20 - 75 billion for the current production lines to be maintained (and to stop the big three from filing chapter 11) and the regular gas powered vehicles to continue in the mainstay, it is not likely the government will have the money (or credit?)

Consequently, development in the 1002 Area would require a large number of small production sites spread over a large region, and connected by an infrastructure of roads, pipelines, power plants, processing facilities, loading docks, dormatories, airstrips, gravel pits, utility lines and landfills.

The UK government has revealed plans to pump # 23 million into «cutting edge» infrastructure to accelerate the uptake of hydrogen powered vehicles, reports Utility Week.

Utilities get a potential way to relieve stress on their infrastructure, while electric - car owners get a potential source of income — from storing storing excess power.

Traditionally, when presented with a constraint on the system relating to reliability, load growth or the introduction of intermittent generation, a utility had one option: build new infrastructure, such as new substations, power plants or transmission lines.

Utilities nationwide are investing in modern grid infrastructure — including smart meters, local solar installations and better monitoring systems — to keep Americans from losing power after a storm.

Microgrids are not a traditional or typical infrastructure investment for utilities, nor has the existing electric power industry been structured to facilitate development of microgrids by non-utilities.

Our grid connected and off grid wind turbine systems, which consist of our 2.4 kW and 10 kW devices and related equipment, are utilized for electrical power generation for applications and markets such as residential, micro-grid based rural electrification, agricultural, small business, rural electric utility systems, as well as other private, corporate infrastructure and government applications.

These models bring better infrastructure within reach by leveraging private capital to stretch the spending power of water users, utilities, and governments.

On many days, pipeline capacity is sufficient for both the local gas utilities and the natural - gas - fired power plants, but during the coldest weeks of the year, this natural gas delivery infrastructure can't meet all the demand for natural gas for both home heating and power generation.

The exit fee keeps Nevada Power's other customers from being stuck with the bill for the utility's infrastructure investments; MGM accounted for nearly 5 percent of the utility's sales.

In addition, the Western Power Trading Forum submitted comments expressing concerns that utility domination of infrastructure investment is potentially detrimental to competitive wholesale and retail markets and therefore potentially detrimental to technological innovation.

The new monitoring and meter technology, utilities argue, bolster an emerging smart grid infrastructure, saves energy, allows for careful planning and empowers end users to tailor their energy usage to times when power is cheapest.

Prop 16 stems from a 2002 state law, that allowed «community choice aggregation,» which allows counties or cities to purchase electricity while utilities continue to offer the infrastructure for power delivery — the power lines, distribution equipment, supply natural, and even billing.

In 2017, the United States built about 28.5 GW of electricity generating infrastructure — 25GW of it utility - scale and about 3.5 GW of distributed (< 1MW) solar power.

Cisco Systems has announced plans to be a heavy hitter in the smart grid scene, outlining its end - to - end, highly secure network infrastructure solution that aims to assist utilities and consumers with power

Nawroth was formerly co-head of the magic circle firm's sub-sector global power and utilities group, and infrastructure funds group.

Working with clients in a wide range of industries — including oil and gas, petrochemicals, power, telecommunications and technology, mining, airports, utilities, water, rail, paper and real estate — our team is particularly experienced in project finance, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure projects and banking and investment transactions.

He has been involved in billions of dollars» worth of business transactions and has helped his clients obtain regulatory approvals to build more than $ 4 billion dollars» worth of utility infrastructure in various states, including conventional power plants, transmission lines, wind farms and solar facilities.

Foxwell Brown Ltd provide recruitment services to a range of infrastructure and built environment sectors: rail, roads and highways, aviation, power and nuclear, utilities, and construction and property.