Sentences with phrase «reduced utilities charges»

Tenants would be within their rights to negotiate a reduced rental amount to account for the reduced utilities charges that their landlord would be paying on their behalf.

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The state's three investor - owned utilities, Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric, initially argued for fixed charges for solar customers, but in the last month authored a new proposal that would preserve net metering but reduce the rate at which solar customers are compensated for the power they export.

However, higher fixed charges are an inequitable and inefficient means to address utility revenue concerns: they reduce customer control, disproportionately impact low - usage and low - income customers, dilute incentives for energy efficiency and distributed generation, and increase electric system costs.

Elsewhere in the Golden State, southern Californians earn a $ 450 utility rebate for buying an EV; in the north, Pacific Gas & Electric completed an experiment where it paid BMW EV owners to delay charging their vehicles as a way of reducing peak demand.

Utilities across the country provide incentives, including rebates for EV charging equipment and reduced electricity rates during off - peak hours.

While demand charges are more common for commercial customers with big electricity bills, some states and utilities are considering the addition of demand charges to their electricity rates to motivate people to reduce their electricity use.

Generally speaking, there are two pricing strategies that can protect a utility from under - recovery of sunk costs: (a) increase flat rates while reducing kWh charges, or (b) impose time - of - use (TOU) and / or demand (kW) charges.

As PHEVs start to enter the marketplace, we'll see increasing support from electric utilities, as they'll offer reduced nighttime rates to incentivize off - peak charging.

«We had to make sure we were near to one of our main electrical rooms, as this reduced the need for trenching and wiring — which can add significant cost and hassle — and we also had to coordinate with our utility to ensure that demand for charging didn't overpower the transformers for that particular block.

It is a more efficient way to help homes and businesses reduce their use, and for utilities to track and charge customers for their real time utility use.

An additional benefit of energy storage is to reduce peak - usage charges on your utility bill.

Some of them are also capable of reducing their electricity usage during peak periods and shift charging to non-peak times as part of utilities» demand response programs.

The Rental Fairness Act includes: no rent increases for any residential rental unit to exceed the provincially legislated annual maximum of 1.5 per cent for 2017, enables a standard lease to help both tenants and landlords know their rights and responsibilities, while reducing the number of disputes, protects tenants from eviction due to abuse of the «landlord's own use» provision, ensures landlords can't pursue former tenants for unauthorized charges, prohibits above - guideline rent increases in buildings where elevator maintenance orders have not been addressed and removes above - guideline rent increases for utilities, to protect tenants from carbon costs and encourage landlords to make their buildings more energy efficient.

What change / upgrade should I do to reduce this bill other than charging the tenants a «utility bill»?