Sentences with phrase «projected utility costs»

Not exact matches

Enter what your utility charges you per kilowatt - hour, and it will project the cost of running the equipment per month and per year.

For a large project like the proposed Site C dam or smart meters the utility defers some of the costs and accounts for them later when they are balanced by revenues from the project, he said.

All told, the tariffs will increase the cost of utility - scale solar projects by about 10 percent and residential rooftop systems by just 3 percent — raising them roughly to prices seen two years ago.

More than 26,000 MW of utility - scale solar power projects are already under development in the U.S. Rayton Solar technology will improve efficiency, cut costs, and even develop new applications for utility - scale projects.

This research area covers the evaluation of the costs and benefits of capital projects of Canadian governments, such as roads, ports or public utilities, of financing modes for such projects, such as public - private partnerships, and the contribution of public infrastructure to economic growth.

Between 2015 and 2025, the International Renewable Energy Agency projects generation costs for onshore wind to fall another 26 %, while offshore wind generation costs fall 35 % and utility - scale solar PV costs drop 57 %.

Changing the piping and utility layout can increase the cost of the project substantially.

The Thruway Authority, as part of the push by Cuomo for agencies to move toward «green energy» sources, installed several wind turbines a few years ago, projecting it would save $ 300,000 a year in utility costs.

BUFFALO, NY - The New York State Thruway Authority, as part of the push by Gov. Andrew Cuomo for agencies to move toward so called «green energy» sources, installed several wind turbines a few years ago, projecting it would save $ 300,000 a year in utility costs.

Requires regulated utilities to bear the cost of facility relocations related to MTA construction projects.

These include lowering expense projections for retirement and health insurance expense to reflect lower projected usage and rates not available at the time the budget request was prepared; lowering utility cost estimates to reflect the significant decline in energy demand and prices resulting from reduced economic activity and lowering other operating cost estimates to reflect lower anticipated price changes.

In collaboration with H2O Applied Technologies, Manhattan College in Riverdale launched a large - scale water and energy conservation project this spring expected to save an estimated $ 652,000 per year in utility costs and reduce electricity use for the institution by nearly 2 -LSB-...]

That makes BoS costs — representing about half of typical commercial and utility project costs — critical to overall cost reduction for solar, the report says.

Simply put, even the largest utilities do not have the capital to build a $ 7 billion reactor, and such large projects have a tendency to see costs balloon as projects are delayed.

A «triple subsidy,» say enviros The resulting data should help reassure state public utility commissions — which have rejected many large projects out of cost concerns — about the viability and accuracy of the technology, Finley said.

And steep construction costs make the projects a financial stretch for utilities like Constellation.

The company, a specialty energy pipeline contractor and utility transmission provider, was down for the quarter as cost overruns for three of its pipeline projects took a toll on earnings.

He does not say what it costs, but notes that it will have a «lower cost than a traditional roof when combined with projected utility bill savings.»

West Virginia said earlier in 2011 that the cost should have been shared among all the states where AEP does business; Virginia hinted in July 2010 that it should have been paid for by all utilities around the United States, since a successful project would benefit all of them.

Concerning AEP's statement that costs could not be passed along, West Virginia journalist Ken Ward noted: «It's not exactly true that utility commissions aren't allowing companies to pass costs of projects like this on to consumers... The West Virginia PSC allowed AEP rate hikes to cover our state's share of the costs.

Renewable Energy Grant Program: Offers Dept. of Energy grants equal to 30 percent of the cost of solar projects started in the next two years, including large - scale utility projects.

FutureGen, a joint project of several utilities, was originally estimated at a cost of about $ 800 million, much of which was to come from the Department of Energy.

When lower per kilowatt - hour cost community solar projects are developed independently, utilities act to delay projects or increase costs in order to protect their monopoly.

The company is constructing a six - hour energy storage project for a US utility in a dense urban pocket of a major East Coast city and lithium - ion technology has proven to be the best choice across a range of considerations including cost, safety and noise performance, and land use.

The groups said the benchmark levelized cost of electricity for a utility - scale solar photovoltaic project fell to $ 86 / MWh, down 15 % from 2016, and a 72 % drop since 2009.

The costs of offshore wind projects commissioned in 2016 vary widely, but on average are 150 % higher than onshore wind and more than 50 % higher than utility - scale solar photovoltaic (PV) projects.

Cypress Creek Renewables, one of the United States» largest developers of utility - scale solar, has stopped investments in 1.5 gigawatts of renewable energy projects, worth $ 1.5 billion, due to Trump administration tariffs on imported solar technology, which the company said made the costs of the projects too high.

As I reported at this post, a demonstration project by a South Korean utility to create a functioning electricity system mostly fueled by wind ended up with costs on the order of ten times the costs of the conventional system, by the time the excess capacity, storage and fossil fuel back - up were taken into account.

Requires the pilot program to provide that the project owner shall receive the full financial benefit from any reduction in the cost of utilities resulting from capital improvements financed with a loan made under the program.

Analysts project that costs could rise 4 percent for rooftop solar and 10 percent for utility scale solar plants.

Project participants benefit from the electricity generated by the community solar farm, which costs less than the price they would ordinarily pay to their utility.

Slight variations in project cost can make the difference between whether or not a project will save members money compared to utility rates, and thus whether communities see it as a good option.

For a number of reasons, including the decreasing cost of distributed photovoltaic generation vis á vis utility - scale CSP, Ivanpah may go down in the record books as an extra-large pilot project.

For a moderate cost of money for a utility project (10 %), every $ 1 per FTE - watt equals 1.2 cents per kilowatt - hour.

Suffice it to say that a proper literature search and applying the same standard to data for nuclear and other mature technologies as he / she wishes to apply to CSP, the cost comparison using classical utility economics (which I was trained in in my years in GE's Power Systems business and used for decades as a power project developer) produces very different answers than kerry seems to think.

However, if costs over the lifespan of energy projects are taken into account, wind and utility - scale solar can be the least expensive energy generating sources, according to asset management company Lazard.

One of the key drivers in states» assessments is the cost of energy produced by residential solar PV installations compared with the much lower cost of energy produced by utility - scale solar projects.

But the utility shut down the carbon capture equipment in 2011 because it could not sell the carbon dioxide or recover the extra cost from its electricity customers, and the equipment consumed so much energy that, at full scale, the project would have sharply cut electricity production.

From on - site energy generation systems to community - supported renewable energy projects, BEF has partnered with dozens of businesses and utilities to cost - effectively respond to changing customer needs.

Cypress Creek Renewables, one of the United States» largest developers of utility - scale solar, has stopped investments in 1.5 gigawatts of renewable energy projects, worth $ 1.5 billion, due to Trump administration tariffs on imported solar technology, which the company said made the costs of the projects too high, according to Bloomberg and Greentech Media.

Priority must be given to projects that: leverage non-state funds; are proposed by COU's with less than $ 5 million in annually retained utility credits; or that provide benefits to low - income communities, communities of color, and communities of indigenous people (provided these projects are competitive on an emission and cost basis with other proposals).

Details on price and installation aren't released yet but Tesla's site says the tiles are «Lower cost than a traditional roof when combined with projected utility bill savings.»

«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.

Shortly after the announcement the last two remaining utilities dropped out of the project citing cost overruns.

With First Solar not yet having sold a major U.S. utility scale projects without the low cost of capital provided by a DOE loan guarantee, its ability to secure ready access to capital markets at a low cost will be critical, in our view — for its growth strategy, particularly, as we estimate its core direct module sales are losing money at current prices.»

In his budget requests this year, McDonnell proposed trying to tackle some of the cost barriers by allowing utility companies to meet as much as 20 percent of their voluntary renewable energy goals by investing in R&D projects for clean technologies.

The costs of the necessay backup for a project of this magnitude are borne by the grid operators, the regional utilities, who have to buy and operate the additional «peaker» capacity since their utility charters include maintaining system stability.

It said the main factors that are boosting the economics of renewables are reducing project risk through the corporate, utility or industrial power purchase agreements, revenue stacking and the co-deployment of battery storage to help improve revenues reduce costs.

It has also ensured the State's electric utilities must obtain 15 % of their electricity from renewables by 2020, while undertaking all cost - effective energy conservation projects.

American utilities have taken a very short - term view on project pay - back and cite $ 7,500 + per - kW prices on new reactors and outlandish per - kWh costs to customers (Lovins has a piece denouncing nuclear because of this, but he doesn't take into consideration that its been done much cheaper elsewhere).