Sentences with phrase «raise utility costs»

You do know that will raise utility costs for everyone else?

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But opposition parties have called on the government to halt the privatization of utility Hydro One, which they have said is raising costs for consumers.

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.

The unemployment rate is on the rise, utility costs are some of the highest in the region and the government has raised business taxes.

Schweppes has raised prices in the route trade by 4 per cent and has cut back the depth of promotions in supermarkets, citing higher costs for aluminium, PET and PVC plastics, utilities and distribution, according to a Citigroup report on Monday.

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.

During that time, teachers will need raises, retirement and utility costs will rise, and more instruction materials will all have to be bought.

Everything from Comcast (120.00 to now 163.00), utility bills will be going up by at least 40 % when rate caps come off, food prices shot up 32 % and I haven't got a raise or cost of living for over a year.

The idea you're going to make windfall profits from plodding utilities is ludicrous: a) Like bonds, these safe stocks are rapidly becoming dangerous investments due to yield compression, and b) any secular rise (let alone a step - change) in water costs will inevitably sqeeze them, not help them — governments will impede / forbid them to raise prices accordingly!

His proposed cap and trade would generate $ 645 billion in climate revenue, and his budget outlines that money going to help low and middle income families cope with the raised cost of utilities — much like Maryland's.

That effectively raises the cost of emitting carbon dioxide, prodding utilities to seek out cleaner sources of electricity.

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.

Some lawmakers questioned whether utilities will incur any expense in adding solar, raising doubt about the need for cost recovery that could affect electricity rates.

And the pro-business U.S. Chamber of Commerce says that Obama's plan will kill jobs in utilities and other sectors while raising costs to U.S. consumers.

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.

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 Telegraph and British Gas also ignore recent findings from energy regulator Ofgem, which show that wholesale energy price rises over the past 12 months have raised costs for utility firms.

There were two measures on the ballot, one (2C) that would allow the creation of a municipal utility and one (2B) that would raise taxes to help pay for the costs that will arise as the city works to establish that utility.

The escalators raise the cost of the solar power slightly on an annual basis and are designed to keep the cost of power from the solar installation at levels lower than the expected prices of electricity from utility companies.

The water utility serving New York City has identified heavy precipitation events as one of its major climate - change - related concerns because such events can raise turbidity levels in some of the city's main reservoirs up to 100 times the legal limit for source quality at the utility's intake, requiring substantial additional treatment and monitoring costs (Miller and Yates, 2006).

For real estate purchases where clients are assuming existing tenancies, lawyers should review whether utility costs are already included in the rents and advise their clients of the inability to raise the rent if utility prices increase.

Administrative Law / Public Utilities: Rate - Setting Process Ontario (Energy Board) v. Ontario Power Generation Inc., 2015 SCC 44 (35506) The Board here did not act unreasonably in disallowing costs, and the Board did not act improperly in arguing the merits on appeal, nor did the arguments raised on appeal amount to impermissible «bootstrapping».

For example, future college education funds, as well as the cost to raise children to adulthood, and long - term housing and utility costs also need to be determined.

Housing is costlier enough in Virginia to raise the overall cost of living higher than the average even in light of the inexpensiveness of everything else, including groceries, utilities, and transportation.

You can't raise the rent in many cases to offset increases in utility costs even with no leaks so it eats into your returns.