Sentences with phrase «rated utility has»

However, in certain states, you will receive a credit for the wholesale or «avoided cost» rate, which is usually equal to the rate your utility would have paid to buy the electricity somewhere else.

Not exact matches

«Those pushing for net neutrality think the world would work better if the Internet was somehow magically transformed into a public utility, like a water or electricity company, with the FCC and state regulators setting rates, overseeing investment, and micromanaging relationships between providers and customers,» Downes says, adding the result would be devastating to the smooth functioning of ISP networks.

As rising rates and tariff talk threatened large multinationals and caused a stock market correction beginning in February, some investors have turned to domestically oriented utilities with steady cash flow as a potential safe haven.

In a year marked by a significant milestone for rising interest rates (the 10 - year Treasury note yield topping 3 percent), an unusual winner has begun to emerge in the stock market: utility stocks.

SolarCity and Nevada utility NV Energy, owned by Berkshire, famously have been battling it out in Nevada over that state regulator's decision to change the rates and economic structure for rooftop solar.

They have long - duration cash flows — in the case of utilities, those come from mandated rates of return.

This lets you to lock in your monthly rate for 1 - 3 years on a plan that has been individualized to your organization's needs, all while receiving the same energy and services of your current utility.

If you or your business is in one of 17 states where utilities have been deregulated, check the rates with independent suppliers for additional savings.

That would put retailers, telecom, industrial services, utilities, retail staples, and health - care equipment and services at the front of the line, as each has an effective rate above 30 percent, according to Credit Suisse.

The provincial Public Utilities Board has instead approved an average rate increase of 3.6 per cent as of June 1.

The Quebec utility would in turn provide lower power rates to New Brunswick's industries and guarantee a five - year rate freeze to the province's residential and commercial customers.

Instead, the net metering rate will be set at wholesale prices — even though the utility doesn't have to pay for any of the solar panels» hardware or maintenance, and transmission costs are negligible, since the electricity is being generated close to where it is used.

Startups in the areas of information, transportation, communication, and utilities have the highest failure rates, while finance insurance and real estate tend to be more successful.

The company has one Connecticut service station, in Milford, and five super-charging stations that can provide up to 170 miles of range in as little as 30 minutes, though the charge rate depends on weather, demands on the utility grid, and other factors.

Best says prime short targets are interest rate - sensitive stocks such as REITs, utilities and infrastructure, which have rebounded strongly from the November lows.

Although the final tax reform policy keeps the subsidies in place, some market analysts have grown concerned that these developments — as well as regulatory hurdles for new wind projects — will prohibit or slow the rate of deployment of renewable energy by utilities in the U.S.

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.

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.

Strategic Total Return continues to carry a duration of about 3.5 years in Treasury securities (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact the Fund by about 3.5 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), and holds about 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in utility shares.

Only the Financials and Utilities sectors have seen increases in expected earnings growth rates since the start of the quarter.

Such market segments, including utilities, have historically proved more vulnerable to contracting valuations as rates rise, and they're likely to suffer further assuming that rates rise moderately this year.

«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.

If you believe rates are going up in 2015, why would you buy utilities?

I haven't looked at it much recently, but if it is like a lot of the utility, REIT and other interest rate sensitive stocks here in the US, it must be coming into buy territory.

Unlike certain «bond market proxies» — companies like consumer staples, utilities and REITs — they may be less affected by the gradual rate hikes the Fed seems to have in mind.

The last thing that you want is to have a rate so low that you can't pay for overhead like insurance, rent, utilities, or office supplies.

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).

Strategic Total Return continues to carry a duration of about 3 years in Treasury securities (meaning a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact Fund value by about 3 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), with about 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in utility shares.

One of the often - heard concerns about rising rates is the negative effect it could have on «bond proxy» sectors such as utilities and REITs.

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 sun makes daylight, not only on our earth, but also on the other planets; and daylight is of the utmost utility to us; for by its means we can commodiously carry on those occupations which in the night - time would either be quite impossible, or at any rate impossible without our going to the expense of artificial light.

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

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.

For many years, perinatal mortality rates were used for this purpose, often with little regard for the value and validity of such data.11 Now, with rates well below 10 per 1000 births, they have lost virtually all of their utility for measuring quality of care in the Western world.

They have been upset for a long time and this rate hike will not help the company's reputation,» said Howie Hawkins, a local activist who has voiced support for publicly - owned power utilities.

The PURC has approved new rates of utility tariffs.

NY still has the highest taxes, worst anti-business regulations, highest Medicaid costs, highest utility costs, and worst job creation rates in the nation (or at least Top 5 in every category).

NYPIRG's Blair Horner says the deal will result in $ 2.3 billion in increased payments for residential utility customers, and even more for businesses, according to a study by the Public Utility Law Project in a state that already has the among the highest utility rates in the utility customers, and even more for businesses, according to a study by the Public Utility Law Project in a state that already has the among the highest utility rates in the Utility Law Project in a state that already has the among the highest utility rates in the utility rates in the nation.

Apparently ignored by the media and the sheeple, much to my dismay, is the basic question of why a public utility, whose rates are allegedly regulated by the State, has extra money to throw around on political bribery?

First, supporting the defeated candidate results in a negative utility shock, which would tend to increase the suicide rate in states that supported the losing candidate relative to states that supported the winning candidate.

Be careful — look at this YouGov poll which shows a majority of people would support renationalisation of the utilities, increasing the minimum wage to # 10 and the top rate of tax to 60 %... but also a total ban on immigration and benefits for anyone who turns down a job, making life mean life with no parole in prison sentences and stopping all international aid.

Ryan described it as being similar to a department store layaway plan, where New York would front the cost of the installation, and consumers would pay it off over time through balanced rates on their utility bills.

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.»

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.

-- The Office of the State Comptroller said the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority increased sewer and water rates over an eight - year time period, a time where it had multimillion budget surpluses, after failing to conduct yearly financial reviews.

Did we have high utility rates under Pataki?

Did we have high utility rates under Rockefeller?

It would require a cost - benefit analysis of R.E.V., as well as detailing of how it would affect monthly utility rates.

NYPIRG's Blair Horner says the deal will result in $ 2.3 billion dollars in increased payments for residential utility customers, and even more for businesses, according to a study by the Public Utility Law Project, in a state that already has the among the highest utility rates in the utility customers, and even more for businesses, according to a study by the Public Utility Law Project, in a state that already has the among the highest utility rates in the Utility Law Project, in a state that already has the among the highest utility rates in the utility rates in the nation.

In their statement, they said, «This endorsement of Nana Akufo - Addo has become very necessary considering the high level of incompetence, corruption, mismanagement of the economy, high rate of unemployment, killer taxes, collapsing of the private sector businesses, high utility bills, nepotism, tribal politicking etc. under the 8 years rule of John Mahama NDC.