Sentences with phrase «raise electric rates»

While coal and electric utility industry officials and their supporters in Congress charge the president with fighting a «war on coal» that will cost coal states jobs and raise electric rates, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy defended the proposed rules as affordable and reasonable.

The EPA spoke of the health and other benefits of reining in climate change through reduced C02 emissions, while utility industry officials decry a «war on coal» that will cost jobs and raise electric rates.

Exelon Corp., the plant's operator, punted last October on a decision to close the plant, but previously said if it didn't get to raise electric rates for customers by May 31, it would shut down the money - losing facility by 2017.

The reason NY officials chose to let power companies raise electric rates is because 36 municipal power suppliers petitioned the PSC committee.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued an order relating to a newly - implemented energy capacity zone that is already raising electric rates.

Now, in a state filing, Minneapolis - based Xcel said the costs were prudent — something it must prove to Minnesota utility regulators in order to fully recoup the investment by raising electric rates.

They did away with plans to prohibit Santee Cooper, a state - owned utility, from raising its electric rates to pay off the $ 4 billion it borrowed for the project, fearing insolvency.

Not exact matches

Capital raise after capital raise obviously signals an intense cash burn rate, but if Tesla is going to change the world and push electric cars to a point where they constitute more than 1 % of global auto sales, chilling out on the spending and letting the balance sheet take a breather doesn't make much sense.

In a letter to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo last month, the newly formed Long Island Coalition of All - Electric Senior Communities charged the «systematic raising of electric rates on Long Island is significantly impacting their livesElectric Senior Communities charged the «systematic raising of electric rates on Long Island is significantly impacting their liveselectric rates on Long Island is significantly impacting their lives.»

He says the additional costs could even be compounded by utility ratepayers who also use public transportation, or shop at stores that have to raise their prices due to higher electric rates.

He says the additional costs could even be compounded by utility rate payers who also use public transportation, or shop at stores that have to raise their prices due to higher electric rates.

Drug use raises the heart rate, and the electric shock causes the heart to beat faster still.

On electric power alone the 9.9 kWh capacity is enough for 31 miles of engine - off running (charging in 2h30m from a 3.6 kW wall box) and thanks to its contribution in NEDC fuel economy testing, results in the eyebrow - raising 166mpg and 39g / km CO2 ratings.

Because I ride a bicycle and limit my car trips, and I've curtailed my airplane travel, and wear sweaters (I know when I've set the thermostat too low when I can see the dog's breath in the living room), and because I've opted into our electric utility's «Pure Power» wind power program (they pledge to buy 75 % of your power from wind farms in exchange for raising your rate a few cents per kilowatt hour), my personal «Carbon Footprint» comes out at less than 4 tons per year.

My provider of electric power is proposing to raise rates, and will probably succeed in doing so despite some opposition from state officials.

But if we get to point where electric can do everything needed and taxes whether on engines or carbon are not getting use down low enough then at some distant point (that we are not close to) govt might prefer to implement ban rather than continually raising carbon tax rate.

The PUC's investigation will take place at the same time that Xcel is preparing to again ask to raise Minnesota electric rates.

Their theory goes like this: Homeowners install solar panels, which reduces the amount of electricity they buy from the electric utility, thereby reducing the amount of fees that customers pay for grid maintenance, which then causes the utility to raise rates and, ultimately, encourages more and more customers to go solar which... causes rates to soar.

The grid improvements are part of a bid by Duke Energy Carolinas to raise residential electric rates 17 percent, the subject of formal hearings the North Carolina Utilities Commission is scheduled to hold next week.

The only question is that the current electric supplier might raise their rates if their fixed costs (personnel & maintenance) remain the same and they only save a fraction of their fuel cost while selling less power.