Sentences with phrase «rate than the utility»

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And the only reason solar customers» electricity rates are even up for debate is that the installation cap under the old rate was hit last week, six months earlier than the utility estimated.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Will cutting rates really boost the sectors that did much of the damage to April's GDP report like resources (can't influence commodities), utilities (can't influence weather, with utilities output just coming off a large surge in Jan / Feb) and manufacturing (bigger challenges than CAD)?

«Utilities have altered their rate structures such that demand charges are rising faster than overall energy rates, and businesses are bearing the bulk of those increases,» said Peter Rive, SolarCity's chief technology officer and chief operations officer.

The price of utilities and property rates and charges, for example, both increased by more than 5 per cent over the year.

Roughly half of the ETFs have a higher correlation to treasury bonds and the other half to the S&P 500 Index (i.e., CWB — convertible bonds, JNK — high yield corporate, PFF — preferred stock and XLU — utilities all react to interest rates but are more correlated to the stock market than to treasury bonds).

One also has to question the editorial wisdom of allowing a biography of a famous Supreme Court justice to meander more than 450 pages before its subject even becomes a justice» a long walk through such dusty disputes as the Ballinger «Pinchot scandal and the 1890s battle over Boston's utility rates.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

Fresh onion, garlic, carrot, cucumber, mustard and aromatic spices help tone down the heat a little on this complex habanero blend to give it a higher - than - typical «utility rate» — in other words, it's good on almost everything.

The reality is that utility rates have increased, there was additional baby - related laundry, and we used the air conditioners more in the summer of 2007 than we had in previous years.

The pledge unanimously passed and signed by the Town Board at its April 11 meeting went on to ask «the New York State Legislature to commit to these same clean energy goals, which would represent a 20 percent increase over the current New York State Energy Plan targets» and to urge «Governor Cuomo to adopt a statewide minimum energy efficiency target of three percent per year of annual energy savings for New York's utilities as part of his comprehensive energy efficiency program, to be announced on Earth Day 2018, and further urges that this program be implemented through a centralized planning process rather than in separate utility rate cases.»

With award - winning higher education, a skilled workforce, competitive real estate, attractive incentive packages and utility rates, it's no wonder why major companies such as Gap, GlobalFoundries and IBM collectively employ more than 10,000 people here.

Tim Woodcock The co-founder of HomeEdison noted the Renewable Energy (RE) sector's ability to deliver alternative energy at substantially lower costs than standard utility rates; the importance of building a two - way energy supply infrastructure in order to allow homeowners and business to sell the excess energy their alternative installations generate back to the utility company; and the applicability of geothermal systems in much of our region.

Extended the Power for Jobs program and the «energy cost savings benefit program» through the end of 2007; allows all PfJ participants to elect to begin receiving benefits through the savings reimbursement option, rather than a contract continuation; PfJ participants with contract extensions are eligible for a rebate of any excess costs (PfJ rates compared to rates available through their local utility) incurred after January 1, 2006 under their PfJ contracts (Part U).

Shortly after Cuomo announced the Ambit refunds, the AARP called on New York to hold hearings to investigate why New Yorkers are paying higher rates for electricity to independent energy service companies, or ESCOs, than they would pay to utilities.

More than half of that additional capacity — 5,251 MW — has been installed by home and business owners participating in utility net metering programs that allow owners of solar systems to sell excess capacity back to their local utility at retail rates, according to EIA.

[3] To further increase the utility and validity of evaluation systems, states should require that evaluation instruments differentiate among various levels of teacher performance rather than only giving binary satisfactory / unsatisfactory ratings.

Having achieved some success with a take - rate of more than 10 percent for the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon 2.8 - liter I - 4 turbodiesels, it's expanding the diesel lineup to two of its most popular non-pickup models, the Chevy Cruze — both the sedan and the new hatchback — and the Equinox crossover / utility.

Summit White 2017 GMC Yukon XL SLT 4D Sport Utility EcoTec3 5.3 L V8 6 - Speed Automatic Electronic with Overdrive 4WD Reviews: * Seating for up to nine passengers; nicer interior than other truck - based, full - size SUVs; all - terrain mobility with four - wheel drive; tow rating is higher than average for the class.

Black 2017 Chevrolet Tahoe LT RWD 6 - Speed Automatic Electronic with Overdrive EcoTec3 5.3 L V8 Tahoe LT, 4D Sport Utility, EcoTec3 5.3 L V8, 6 - Speed Automatic Electronic with Overdrive, RWD, Black, Jet Black w / Leather - Appointed Seat Trim, Navigation System.Awards: * ALG Best Residual Value * 2017 KBB.com 12 Best Family Cars * 2017 KBB.com 5 - Year Cost to Own Awards * 2017 KBB.com Best Buy Awards * 2017 KBB.com 10 Most Awarded BrandsReviews: * Seating for up to nine passengers; standard V8 engine assures plenty of passing power and a substantial tow rating; nicely trimmed cabin is one of the best in the class; available two - speed transfer case gives the Tahoe better than average off - road capabilities.

The hybrid Vue's 28 mpg combined city / highway rating gives the Saturn line - up a compact utility with significantly better fuel economy than the Honda CRV (22 mpg) or Toyota RAV - 4 (23 mpg).

The 6.2 L EcoTec makes matting the throttle great fun, but its greatest utility lies in its torque, which helps the RST PP to achieve an 8,400 - pound tow rating — 1,800 pounds better than the next best tow rig in the lineup.

Because their prices can be so sensitive to interest rates, strategists at BlackRock generally prefer stocks outside what they call the «RUST» belt of real estate, utilities, staples and telecoms — where low - volatility funds tend to have bigger concentrations than S&P 500 index funds.

Strategic Dividend Value is hedged at about half the value of its stock holdings, and Strategic Total Return continues to hold a duration of just over 3.5 years (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact Fund value by about 3.5 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), with less than 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in utility shares.

When risk - free and AAA - rated corporate bonds yield less than 4 %, 3.5 % yield on utilities and 6 % yields from junk ETFs are difficult to pass up.

However, unless a majority of your credit card spending is with Air Canada, versus things like groceries, gas, or utilities, the superior rate of the SPG card in those categories will more than make up for the deficit.

If you expect that you would be happy to (and able to afford to) live in the same place for at least ten years, and if the after - tax cost of buying a home (including likely repair costs, principal and interest on a 30 - year fixed rate mortgage, taxes, insurance, and utilities) is less than 125 % of the comparable cost of renting (including rent, renter's insurance, and utilities), buy a home.

However, thanks to eight years of record low interest rates many of the best high dividend stocks (including utilities) are trading at unappealing valuations that can make for a higher degree of risk than many investors realize.

Not cheap really, but consumer staples never really get cheap either... I suppose there's a reason for it though - I remember reading somewhere that a 50/50 combination of utilities and consumer staples stocks had a significantly higher historic safe withdrawal rate in retirement than S&P index or any of the % index / % bond allocations.

Even better, those with good credit can find a number of cards with unlimited 2 % cash back on all purchases, as well as cards that provide even higher bonus cash back rates for department store purchases, giving you tons of options for better earnings (and better utility) than the Boscov's Credit Card.

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.

Since North Carolina does not have any laws requiring virtual net metering for cooperatives or investor - owned utilities, these bill credits are nearly always based on the utility's avoided cost of energy as opposed to a credit calculated at the full retail rate of electricity (in other words, the per kWh credits are less than the per kWh price customers pay for their electricity consumption).

According to Pentland, increasing demand is unlikely to be the cause of rising electricity rates, due to the simple fact that «many if not most utilities are selling less — not more — electricity than they used to sell.»

If the FIT payment rate is set to be higher than the utility avoided cost, it may incur additional costs which will need to be recovered (e.g. from ratepayers).

The latest supply contract signed by one of the CCAs, the Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council (NOPEC) offers rates 6 % lower than the local utility.

Essentially a solar owner would be required for a 20 - year period to sell all his or her power to the grid at a new, presumably lower - than - retail rate to be determined by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.

With utility rates increasing and operating budgets falling under more scrutiny than ever, businesses are using solar to turn otherwise non-performing assets such as rooftops and undeveloped land into energy - saving, self - generating solar energy investments.

California, for example, increased its utility - scale solar capacity by 3,500 MW in just two years — nearly the growth needed in New England over the next 14 years.2 Texas increased its onshore wind capacity by 7,300 MW in five years, which is more than both New England and New York would need to add by 2030.3 For offshore wind, Europe has exceeded the growth rate needed in the Northeast, increasing capacity roughly 16-fold in just 10 years.4

Participants in this solar farm model pay an administrator or utility company for the solar electricity they consume, often at a lower rate than what they would normally pay.

Solar panel owners are effectively receiving more than 6 times as much for their electricity sales than the going rate of electricity generation, and the utility is passing those costs on to other users.

LMI individuals often have better utility bill payment records than credit scores, and utility bill payment is a better indicator of default risk in an on - bill financing program anyway (and default rates have been extremely low).

Solar has surpassed a variety of milestones — for example, utility scale solar is growing at a rate faster than other generation technologies, wind and solar provided over 10 % of U.S. power in March, and utility scale solar has already broke the $ 1 / watt pricing goal set up by the U.S. DOE.

Depending on the rate structures and peak and off peak times of your utility some designers are now considering orientating solar panels more towards the west than the south to get more of the solar production to happen in peak times.

«It is also the first time that a utility scale solar project has been contracted at a price that is lower than the retail rate of electricity in Ontario.»

We're part of a joint powers authority for buying our power at a rate that's both cheaper and with lower carbon emissions than our local utility provides.

49 Rising Energy Costs for Consumers Average annual household utility bills have increased 48 % since 1980 (adjusted for inflation)-- Add in today's average annual gasoline budget per household and today's estimated annual home energy budget is over $ 3,800 Electricity costs continue to rise, with some utilities requesting rate increases of 35 % or more Spending on electricity is the highest share of total consumer spending since the energy crisis of 2000 Energy consumption has been rising along with costs — Electricity consumed by the typical American household has more than doubled since 1980 and is expected to increase another 20 % by 2015

These utilities typically connected end - users at a rate 29 % higher than their publically owned counterparts.

This is not a coincidence; when your LCOE is less than your marginal utility rate, you want to offset as much of the homeowner's energy consumption as you can.

A solar power purchase agreement, or PPA, allows a host customer to pay for generated electricity at a fixed rate typically lower than the local utility's retail rate.

Additionally, different rates can be offered to different types of technology (solar versus wind, for example) or projects of different sizes (e.g., a higher rate can be offered to small, rooftop solar than to utility - scale solar).