Sentences with phrase «required utility»

The most recent pronouncements from both the Federal Court (2015) and Federal Court of Appeal (2014) continue a trend [4] over the past few years of trying to uphold a patent and find that it has the required utility.

Your dealer should be able to help arrange the required utility company approvals.

The Georgia Public Service Commission yesterday OK'd a plan that will allow Georgia Power Co. to develop its own solar energy projects, while rejecting a proposal that would have required the utility to purchase from third - party solar power developers.

The EEG required utility companies to plug all renewable power producers, down to the smallest rooftop solar panel, into the national grid and buy their power at a fixed, slightly above - market rate that guaranteed a modest return over the long term.

Proponents of the RPS plans say that the mandated restrictions will reduce harmful emissions and spur job growth, by stimulating investment in green technologies.Motivated by a desire to reduce carbon emissions, and in the absence of federal action to do so, 29 states (and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) have required utility companies to deliver specified minimum amounts of electricity from «renewable» sources, including wind and solar power.

Motivated by a desire to reduce carbon emissions, and in the absence of federal action to do so, 29 states (and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) have required utility companies to deliver specified minimum amounts of electricity from «renewable» sources, including wind and solar power.

Yet, a small number of dedicated breeders spread all across the U.S. still required a utility hunting partner.

California has also required utilities to collectively install over a gigawatt of energy storage by 2020.

But the math only works in places with so - called «net metering» laws, which require utilities to buy the electricity rooftop panels generate at prices far above what they pay for centralized power.

California for years has required utilities to purchase excess rooftop solar power, paying homeowners in credits that lower their utility bills.

Scott Segal, the head of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, will argue the CPP is expensive and illegal because it requires some utilities to reduce emissions «beyond the fence line» or far away from the power plants themselves.

The Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) requires utilities to buy power from independent power producers if they can generate below the cost that utilities expect to otherwise pay for power, and it has driven multiple gigawatts of solar deployment already in several states.

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This month, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed a law requiring utilities to buy a combined 1,600 megawatts of offshore wind power in coming years.

Cuomo will count nuclear power as renewable energy, at least temporarily, when the state issues new rules next year requiring utilities to procure half their power from renewable sources by 2030.

It would require utilities to purchase power from nuclear facilities, and those costs would then be passed along to customers, who now pay some of the highest energy costs in the nation.

The state of New Jersey's Board of Public Utilities recently adopted stringent rules that would require utilities to develop cyber-response units within their companies and report regularly on any potential security breaches.

The draft bill would require utilities above a certain size to supply 25 percent of their power from renewable sources like wind, solar and biomass energy by 2025, although efficiency measures could be used to meet a fifth of the target.

Part of the reason the numbers work so well is that the Danish government requires utilities to buy wind - generated electricity at a price that is normally above market rates.

[If fewer than 10 percent of homes produce lead readings above 15 ppb, the Lead and Copper Rule does not require the utility to take action.]

A 6 - 2 ruling upholds a regulation that requires utilities to pay more to customers who conserve power during times of peak demand

It requires utilities to purchase 1,600 MW of offshore wind, enough to power a quarter of Massachusetts homes.

The bills also offer a raft of other ideas, including tax incentives for cars and car chargers, bond authority to raise money for charging infrastructure, and requiring utilities to come up with their own estimates of how many plug - in vehicles could hit roads.

That strategy worked reasonably well until recently, when 28 state governments set «renewable portfolio standards» requiring their utilities to supply a certain portion of their electricity using renewables, such as 20 percent by 2020 or even sooner.

The Clean Power Plan, which requires utilities nationwide to cut their carbon emissions 32 percent by 2030, is the cornerstone of Obama's efforts to address climate change.

An Oregon bill, signed into law this March, increases the state's renewable portfolio standard to 50 percent by 2040 and would require utilities in the state to stop getting power from Colstrip by 2030 (E&EN ews PM, March 11).

Conservative critics say New Jersey's solar success is driven by government programs, including a renewable portfolio standard that requires utilities to derive more than 20 percent of their electricity from clean sources.

California's Renewable Portfolio Standard, which requires utilities to get 33 percent of their electricity from renewable sources like solar and wind, is widely credited with accelerating the state's cleantech economy.

The bill, which the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved May 21, would require utilities, refineries and manufacturers to cut emissions 17 percent by 2020.

We should require the utilities to begin to work for energy efficiency and conservation, costs that will be shared and decrease the pressure on families.

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

It would require utilities to supply 10 % of their energy sales from solar electricity — largely local, distributed solar.

New Jersey has a renewable energy targetthat requires utilities operating in the state to source a certain percentage of their electricity from renewable sources.

Savings from the bill could have been much improved by strengthening the combined efficiency and renewable electricity standard to require utilities to reduce electricity demand by 10 % by 2020.

California Governor Jerry Brown yesterday signed into law a mandate requiring utilities get a third of their electricity from renewable resources like solar panels and wind turbines.

My guess you have a state that requires utilities to pay retail or higher for entire solar energy production?

To revise details of provisions that essentially pay and require utilities to find ways to reduce demand for their product.

We'll pass laws that require utilities to implement levels of wind and solar that can't possibly work with our current infrastructure or any infrastructure for that matter.

In 2016, the state enacted a law requiring utilities to get 15 percent of their electricity from renewable sources.

Due in part to state mandates requiring utilities to use renewable energy, the township is one of many communities in or near the Thumb area of Michigan that have been eyed for wind farms.

New Mexico has a renewable energy target that is mandated in legislation that requires utilities operating in the state to source a certain percentage of their electricity from renewable sources.

That policy requires utilities to purchase 3 percent of their power from 10 - to 20 - year contracts with renewable developers, which will increase to 7 percent in 2016.

Legislation in some states requires utilities to generate a certain percentage of their electricity from solar power.

Yet only half of RISE countries require their utilities to undertake energy efficiency measures.

A widespread policy called net metering, which requires utilities to purchase back power generated by their customers» solar panels, is nibbling at utility company's bottom lines.

Current law requires utilities to accept customer - generated electricity up to 4 % of their peak capacity that cap is being increased to 15 %.

Massachusetts will soon set the terms of a mandate that requires utilities to solicit contracts for 1.6 GW of offshore wind, as New York also develops policies to support offshore wind.

Wind and solar power are mostly available only when the wind blows or the sun shines, and they require utilities take a different approach to planning and operations.

Perry refused, however, to rule out administration interference with state policies that require utilities to get power from renewable sources, saying his main concern is the reliability of the electrical grid.

Specifically, McCarthy and the Air Office over which she presides gave Congress and the electric power sector false assurances that the EPA's greenhouse gas regulations would not require utilities planning to build new coal - fired power plants to «fuel switch» to natural gas.