Sentences with phrase «raise utility rates»

The opponents of the plan believe it will raise utility rates while failing to reduce carbon emissions.

A vocal opponent of the federal government's capacity zones, which could raise utility rates in the Hudson Valley by 20 %, Dr. Murphy sees this as the opportunity to promote and incorporate green energy projects to stabilize our...

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The big push for utility stocks came from interest rates, which unexpectedly dove in 2014 as the Federal Reserve's end of quantitative easing didn't have the rate - raising impact that most investors had believed it would.

Since utilities are not able to quickly raise prices as rates and inflation increase, shares get hammered and that can limit returns in dividend funds.

In this op - ed ASU energy security researcher Dr. Wesley Herche demonstrates that for all the talk of renewable energy raising customer rates, there is no correlation between utility rates and ambitious state - level renewable energy mandates.

Absolutely, utilities are looking much better however, with Fed raising rates and more in pipeline this year, I expect more volatility in their prices.

As the Fed continues to push back its timetable for raising rates, bond investors are capitulating and turning to Utilities as a source of yield.

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

It's just a reckless pie in the sky idea that Cuomo floated that's surely going to raise electricity rates, as if the nuclear bailout wasn't enough or the fact the NY is the only state to charge its residents sales tax on its utility bills.

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.

Consumer advocates and Connecticut officials are lining up against a request by the state's largest utility to raise $ 232 million from a rate increase.

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.

Any increase, however, isn't likely to show up until at least January, Schnure says, because utilities could not raise rates without the permission of the Vermont Public Service Commission.

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.

Big electricity and energy utilities are boring dividend plays, with heavily regulated core assets subject to rules that only let them raise prices by a formula based on inflation rates.

Utilities, the classic defensive dividend stocks, are often contractually allowed to raise the rate on their services by an inflation adjustment above and beyond an allowable rate of return.

I do believe good things are in store for this utility since they have been cleared to raise rates.

My goals are to increase my cash position and to increase my size in utilities when interest rates are raised.

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.

To help pay for the plant, in the poorest state in the nation, the utility has already raised rates 18 percent — about $ 270 a year for its average customer.

Customers learned their lessons with smart meters: cool technology that benefits utilities tends to raise rates, provides negligible access to customer data, and enables customer - unfriendly services (demand charges and dynamic TOU 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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

In this op - ed ASU energy security researcher Dr. Wesley Herche demonstrates that for all the talk of renewable energy raising customer rates, there is no correlation between utility rates and ambitious state - level renewable energy mandates.

The next day (June 3) on The Diane Rehm Show, Holmstead had to be corrected by other guests for conflating the raised rates with raised utility bills:

If the municipal utility does move forward, Regelson said their studies have found that Boulder could get off coal within the first year of control, all without raising rates.

Hmmm, guess we'll have to raise your taxes and utility rates.)

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».

Dave Carlson, founder of MegaBigPower, told CoinDesk that the utility «threw bitcoin miners under the bus» in its plan to raise rates.

A local utility in Washington State is raising power rates months after a dispute began between it and bitcoin miners seeking cheap electricity.

A Washington State utility is raising rates on bitcoin miners, months after a dispute with the local industry began over its power usage.