Sentences with phrase «public power»

An immediate task right here in our own community that will help is to work for public power at cost.

Public power at cost probably is one of the ways in which the principle of distribution of economic power must be implemented in modern society.

He required that all citizens, whatever their inward beliefs, conform their outward actions to the mandates of a single public power.

As a candidate for mayor, he suggested the city consider public power.

Of those 63, 36 are merchant generators, 19 are regulated, and eight are public power generators.

He said because he ran on the issue of public power — the city's ownership of utilities — he forced the city to deal with the issue.

Electricity from the Long Island Power Authority remains among the most expensive for large U.S. public power utilities as well as tristate and Northeastern ones, despite declining natural gas prices that have steadily lowered Long Island electric bills over the past two years.

This month, Omaha Public Power District in Nebraska devised a new renewable energy tariff to lure tech companies to its service area, and Puget Sound Energy rolled out a novel green tariff just last week.

Nick Braden, spokesman for the nonprofit American Public Power Association, which represents more than 2,000 community - owned electric utilities, said in a statement that as government bodies, public utilities have an inherent political character and that knowing how to «operate within a political structure» is useful.

I've been a regulator, a policymaker, and the CEO of a number of large public power systems.

Nebraska Public Power District wants to test the feasability of using solar power to run center pivot irrigation systems.

This month, Omaha Public Power District in Nebraska

Belegri - Roboli, Athena and Michaelides, Panayotis G. (2005): Measuring Technical Efficiency in the Greek Public Power Corporation by means of Stochastic Frontier Analysis (1970 - 1997).

The utilities are using the recent approval of a monthly charge on solar owners by public power provider Salt River Project's Board as a precedent, Rich said.

Advice on public powers, including statutory interpretation and prerogative powers, constitutional and public law requirements, and advising on adopting new policies and ways to deliver public services within existing statutory frameworks.

The EPA's letter comes as the head of the largest public power company in the nation pledged to clean up the massive spill.

Greek lignite reserves amount to approximately 4 million tonnes of which about half can be exploited by DEI, the Greek Public Power Company.

InsideClimate News reported Sept 9 that a climate denialist was the speaker at the only session on climate change at the Northeast Public Power Association's annual conference:

[6] Roboli, A. and Tsolas, I. (2003), Estimating Returns to Scale by Means of Data Envelopment Analysis: The Case of Greek Public Power Corporation (1990 - 97), 2nd Hellenic Workshop on Productivity and Efficiency Measurement, University of Patras, 30 May — 1 June.

The End New York Corruption Now Act's provisions banning outside income and creating a felony for using public power to benefit oneself, family member or business partner appear to attempt to address the former speaker and former majority leader's situations.

According to Democrats, the bill would also provide «clean renewable energy bonds» to prompt electric cooperatives and public power providers to install facilities that generate electricity from renewable resources.

Ohio has net metering and Cleveland Public Power customers who go solar remain on the same rate.

It is also too easy to fall into viewing the evolution in eBook and print sales solely through the prism of Amazon and its often public power struggle with publishers, and to be drawn too deeply into seeing the future of publishing as one format versus another.

That some in the New England public power industry still think there's a debate on climate, was reason for concern to others.

CAISO late last year said two major California public power systems — the Balancing Authority of Northern California (which includes the Modesto Irrigation District, City of Redding, City of Roseville, Sacramento Municipal Utility District [SMUD], City of Shasta Lake, and Trinity Public Utilities District) and SMUD itself — had agreed to join the imbalance market.

Also read about Mr. Buffett's investment in Washington Public Power Supply System in his 1984 letter.

A state public power utility would be essential for planning the technology transition and reinvesting earnings from fossil and nuclear energy as they are phased out into clean energy.

Public Power Makes It's Way Onto the City's Ballot The boxing gloves are out in San Francisco in a fight pitting Mayor Gavin Newsom and Pacific Gas and Electric against a broad base of citizens, supervisors and politicians.

The CPUC regulated the three large investor - owned utilities (IOUs), Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), Southern California Edison (SCE), and San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E), while big public power systems, including the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, were not subject to CPUC jurisdiction.

It's ironic that the «Western Fuels memos» became known as «Orders from Big Coal» because Western Fuels Association is actually just the opposite of what the alarmist critics thought: It's a small, not - for - profit, member - owned co-op serving 24 consumer - owned rural and small municipal electric cooperatives and other public power systems from Wyoming to Kansas.

Wisconsin Public Power Inc. and the city of Escanaba, Michigan, cancel plans to build a 300 MW coal plant in Escanaba.

SRP is also the third largest public power entity in the United States

«It's the ultimate con game if public power is your goal, and as profitable as any religion (as the pope and megapastors have shown), once you get people hooked.»

I will also be speaking at the Climate Convergence on Saturday where I will argue that to deal with climate change we must replace the coal, oil, and gas companies and investor - owned utilities with a democratic public power system operated at cost for public benefit, not for private profit.

We will need a statewide public power system in New York implement the conversion to clean energy.

As the Syracuse Green Party «s candidate for Mayor in 2005, Howie's campaign succeeded in putting public power — a city - owned power utility — on the city's agenda.

In closing arguments, a prosecutor, Rahul Mukhi, said the two defendants repeatedly used «Senator Skelos's enormous public power for Adam Skelos's enormous private gain.»

He would transform the New York Power Authority (NYPA) into a federation of locally - elected public power boards that own and operate power generation, transmission, and distribution.

Using black and white to symbolize this juncture in reality, he produces bold figures and portraits that capture both personal and public power relations in society.

In 2001, a proposition to explore public power options in San Francisco was lost by 500 votes.

Public Power Now On the surface, it may appear not a lot has changed since the forties.

Unlike the forties, though, now the city's Mayor is one of the few people in San Francisco public office still holding hands with PG&E.; Eight of eleven San Francisco supervisors support a move towards public power, as does the San Francisco Democratic Party and a number of environmental groups.

Here is a big shout out for the biggest public power -LSB-...]

Prairie State Energy Campus could not exist without the vision, cooperation, and action of our nine public power ownership groups.