Two days out of 729 (2016 was a leap year) cost Ontario
ratepayers about $ 18.1 million for power not delivered (curtailed wind) or needed (net exports).
It will also save Ontario
ratepayers about $ 10 million per year.
Not exact matches
The village also said constructing the pipeline would cost
about $ 5 a month for
ratepayers.
Other Assembly members complained
about the extra charges that
ratepayers will have to finance from the rescue deal for the three plants.
Most
ratepayers slammed PSEG Long Island and LIPA's planned 4 percent, 3 - year rate hike at a public hearing in Riverhead last night, saying rates were already too high and left uncertainties
about costs soaring even higher.
New York State Senator John DeFrancisco, concerned
about the lack of transparency in identifying the potential added costs of REV for
ratepayers, has introduced legislation that would require the fiscal analysis of proposed REV projects.
They repeated many of their familiar talking points
about the state's major energy initiatives — that R.E.V. saves billions of dollars a year for
ratepayers, that hundreds of megawatts of solar would soon come online, and that the current power grid is inefficient and unnecessarily costly.
MTA power bills will be up by
about $ 9 million in 2017, and will increase even more over the lifetime of the 12 - year, $ 7.6 billion plan to support the plants on Lake Ontario, says Stop the Cuomo Tax, a group opposed to the
ratepayer bailout.
And while he's at it, how
about a pitch to explain why
ratepayers need to spend billions more in utility payments to prop up three plants built in the 1960s and which were headed for the scrap heap?
The state chapter of the Sierra Club said the program has helped create or save 18,000 jobs at a cost of
about $ 6 yearly to the average
ratepayer, and accused the governor of «taking the side of corporate polluters.»
PG&E's request last year to pass on
about $ 85 million of seismic studies and other relicensing costs to
ratepayers could provide an outlet for the California Public Utilities Commission to withdraw the plant's certificate of public convenience and necessity.
The cost of the MWh generated by the IWT dropped to
about $ 650,000 for the day, and the HOEP averaged $ 35.95 / MWh, meaning the cost of exports for Ontario
ratepayers for that day was $ 1.5 million or only 30 cents each.
That is a penalty on Maine
ratepayers of
about $ 160 million.
For the Green Bank, which uses
ratepayer funds to leverage private investment to help people buy clean energy systems, the plan would be to double the amount of
ratepayer funding it gets — now
about $ 27 million a year — for a few years.
Raper of the Idaho PUC noted that PURPA wind farms that were seeking approval in 2010 - 2011, if approved, would have saddled Idaho
ratepayers with
about $ 2.169 billion in payments over 20 years.
The PSC also indicated it had concerns
about regulating a larger utility based outside the District and the financial risk for
ratepayers in Exelon's generation portfolio.
According to the IESO's daily generator report, the wind turbines could have supplied almost 84,000 MWh * of power, or
about 27 % of all the power consumed by Ontario's
ratepayers (approximately 83 % of their capacity).
At the same time, it removes
about $ 1,000 of after - tax money from the pockets of the 4.5 million
ratepayers in the province every year.
About 4 million of those average
ratepayers, however, will have to pay from $ 6 - $ 8.00 more per month if they use gas as a source of warmth (gas furnace) or hot water to cover the costs of the cap and trade tax starting January 1, 2017.
Ontario's 4.5 million
ratepayers picked up an annual cost of $ 33 for spilled power, while Minister Thibeault was suggesting those same
ratepayers would «save» future rate increases of
about $ 30 annually!
If one amortizes those costs over 50 years it adds
about $ 80 annually to
ratepayer bills and the interest costs annually add
about $ 120 million at 3 % per annum.
In fact, since September 2013, Ontario has curtailed
about 5.5 million MWh and
ratepayers picked up subsidy costs of over $ 660 million.
According to recent financial disclosures from Pinnacle West Capital Corporation (APS» parent company), APS has spent more than $ 9 million on public relations related to net metering and deregulation — or
about $ 9 for every APS
ratepayer.
When you examine the Independent Electricity System Operator's data you quickly learn why the Ministry no longer brags
about earning revenue from exports or keeping costs down for
ratepayers.
Export customers paid only
about 3 cents / kWh to 4 cents / kWh for Ontario power; electricity
ratepayers of Ontario paid more than 8 cents / kWh for this power to be generated 27.
California's Utility Reform Network and other
ratepayer advocates have expressed interest and concern
about rate impacts from utility involvement.
Meanwhile, the Nuclear Waste Fund — a U.S. Treasury account collected via a fee charged to
ratepayers over 30 years — today holds a balance of
about $ 37 billion.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said Tuesday it will pay
about $ 2 million to help restore two California redwood forests as part of a
ratepayer - funded program to offset the utility's greenhouse gas emissions.
Ratepayers are also billed for
about $ 300 million worth of pollution controls installed in the 2000s.
If we as a nation get serious
about climate change and these plants must be dialed down or shuttered, that would be on
ratepayers too.
It's also a good idea to see what other
ratepayers are saying
about certain insurance providers.