Sentences with phrase «public utilities commissions»

Most public utilities commissions and other regulatory bodies have rejected residential demand charges out of hand as being too confusing for consumers.

In 2008, the Public Utilities Commissions in Oregon and California concluded that removing the dams, instead of spending more than $ 500 million to bring the dams up to 21st century safety and environmental standards, would save PacifiCorp customers more than $ 100 million.

Moreover, if natural gas prices remain low due to higher yields associated with the hydraulic fracturing of wells, other forms of electricity — including renewables — will have a hard time winning favor with utilities and state public utilities commissions that govern the growth of the electricity system.

According to the IRS, «two state agencies have regulatory authority over the trucking industry in each state: the Public Utilities Commission and the Department of Motor Vehicles.»

In October 2012, the California Public Utilities Commission sent Lyft, along with several other ride - sharing and car - hailing companies, cease and desist letters.

Business Insider forwarded the new USGS study and map to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC), which regulates the state's electricity industry.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is similarly encouraging user reduction from 9 to 11 am on the day of the eclipse.

$ 7.6 million: How much the California Public Utilities Commission fined Uber for holding back trip information.

Administrative Law Judge Ann O'Reilly, of the Minnesota Office of Administrative Hearings for the Public Utilities Commission ruled late on Monday that Enbridge should be issued permission for the replacement, but said the company should use its existing right of way, adding hurdles to the project's construction.

The angry protestors are gathered outside of the office of Nevada's Public Utilities Commission, the regulatory body that sets rules for the state's electricity, gas, and water utilities.

Solar company Sunrun (RUN) even went so far as to file an open records request for communication between NV Energy employees, lobbyists, Gov. Sandoval and his staff, and current Public Utilities Commission Chairman Paul Thomsen.

The move comes a week after the California Public Utilities Commission issued a proposal that would change industry rules, allowing self - driving car companies to begin using driverless cars to transport passengers.

«I had relatively limited expectations for the battery industry in advance of 2020,» Michael J. Picker, president of the California Public Utilities Commission told the New York Times.

Energy Future's board favored Sempra's bid after it also offered assurances it could get its acquisition of Oncor approved by Public Utility Commission of Texas, as well as a U.S. bankruptcy judge, the sources said.

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission suspended operations on the Mariner East 1 pipeline on March 7 after sinkholes were discovered near the project.

In 2015, Nevada's public utility commission changed the favorable rates that were crucial for the rooftop solar industry in the state.

Last year, the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada issued a report finding that rooftop solar customers actually give back more to the grid than they cost.

Grappling with entrepreneurs trying to leverage technology and create new businesses that operate outside existing practices, and sometimes laws, is no new issue for the Public Utilities Commission.

As enacted, the bill transfers the decision on how to address the net metering cap to the public utility commission.

«As of now, according to our rules, they shouldn't be operating at the airport, «California Public Utilities Commission Director of Policy and Planning Marzia Zafar said.

Earlier this month in Colorado, meanwhile, the state became the first to officially regulate companies like Uber and Lyft, also requiring more in the way of insurance and for drivers to register with the state's Public Utilities Commission.

First, some background: In December, the Republican - appointed Nevada Public Utilities Commission (PUC) decided in favor of the state's biggest electricity provider and created a new rate class for rooftop solar customers.

We have, for example, awarded utility agreements — a few hundred megawatts — which are subject to public utility commission final approval.

His office represents residential customers in matters before the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.

Energy Transfer Partners announced that its subsidiary, Sunoco Pipeline L.P., received a unanimous vote from the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to resume operations of its Mariner East 1 pipeline.

But the real attention came in October, when the new company got a cease - and - desist order from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, as well as the California Public Utilities Commission.

A report by the California Public Utilities Commission is due out this fall on the costs and benefits of rooftop solar that may help determine the direction regulators and lawmakers take on net metering programs in the state.

The third leg of that stool is the California Public Utilities Commission, which was offering grant incentives through Southern California Edison so private companies could procure equipment and then work with a host.

The fate of several state policies that allowed SolarCity to operate had become more uncertain, thanks mostly to hostility from the entrenched utilities, and the company was forced to pull out of Nevada altogether after the state's public utilities commission voted to significantly cut benefits for homeowners with solar.

Among the many ramifications from the decision will be the need for the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to revisit some of its policy decisions aimed at achie...

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) said on Thursday that all five commissioners voted to allow Energy Transfer Partners LP to restart its Sunoco Mariner East 1 natural gas liquids pipeline.

The Pennsylvania Public Utility commission is ordering 17 utilities to lower distribution rates as a result of federal tax - cutting legislation signed in December by President Donald Trump.

The mayor of Pittsburgh, Bill Peduto, frustrated with the pace of regulation - skirting in Pennsylvania, took up the cause of illegality with fervor, proclaiming, «I will not let the governor and the Public Utility Commission shut down innovation without a fight.

After months of damaging headlines and questions about its coziness with energy companies, the California Public Utilities Commission is getting new leadership.

UPDATE: As reported by the Star Tribune, Gov. Mark Dayton said he would veto any legislation that cuts the Public Utilities Commission out of the process!

That move was championed by Republican leadership and the Texas Public Utility Commission and has opened the possibility for renewables as a substantial part of the energy portfolios for multiple cities, said Thomas Edgar, a professor of engineering and chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin.

Duke Energy of Ohio, which serves Cincinnati, had the best track record in the country, replacing 80 percent of its cast - iron pipes through an aggressive program approved by the Public Utility Commission of Ohio in 2001.

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.

The Golden State's Legislature has ordered the California Public Utilities Commission to retool NEM by 2015.

That's why it may be time to re-examine the role of public utility commissions and the effect of the National Labor Relations Act in labor disputes regarding electric utilities, Scott suggests in a new study.

But the state's public utility commission, the only regulatory agency with authority to oversee the safety and operation of Con Edison's system, announced that it lacked jurisdiction to end the lockout or get involved in the negotiations.

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.

Public utility commissions have more authority than some existing court decisions suggest, but they tend to take a conservative approach and there is a strong presumption that they can't get involved, Scott said.

Perhaps the state's most striking advance was the approval by the Public Utility Commission of Texas in 2005 of a plan to build a matrix of new transmission lines across west and central Texas to tap the full potential of its wind power.

The dispute was ultimately settled but the case underscored the high stakes of labor disputes involving electric utilities, as well as the potential danger to public safety and the need for clarification of the authority of state public utility commissions, Scott said.

Many public utility commissions have concluded, based largely on court decisions under the NLRA, that they're prohibited from intervening in labor disputes even when public safety is threatened, Scott said.

Electric vehicles pose both challenges and opportunities for the grid, said Noel Crisostomo, a public utilities regulatory analyst for the California Public Utilities Commission.

Scott began studying the National Labor Relations Act and the role of public utility commissions in labor disputes involving electric utilities after following a 2012 labor dispute involving Consolidated Edison of New York.

In fact, another agency is specifically tasked with leading that charge: the California Public Utilities Commission is responsible by law for ensuring that publicly owned utilities in the state get 20 percent of their electricity from renewable resources by the end of this year (although the utilities have until 2013 to prove that they have complied) and 33 percent by 2020.

Such a scene would have been difficult to imagine in December 2015 when the Public Utilities Commission voted to end net metering — as the credits paid to panel - owning homeowners for power sent back to the grid are called.