Sentences with phrase «requires electricity retailers»

Australia's renewable energy certificate scheme requires electricity retailers to sell a certain number of annual gigawatt hours of renewable energy, increasing on a growing trajectory.

Not exact matches

Executive Budget proposes to amend Section 192 - h of the Agriculture and Markets Law to require that all retail gasoline outlets near I - 87, I - 90, I - 84, I - 88, I - 86 / State Route 17, I - 81, I - 390 and I - 190 and evacuation routes be prewired for using a generator which is capable of providing adequate electricity for operations.

The draft promotes renewable energy by requiring retail electricity suppliers to meet a certain percentage of their load with electricity generated from renewable resources, like wind, biomass, solar, and geothermal... [They] begin at 6 % in 2012 and gradually rises to 25 % in 2025.

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).

First enacted as Public Act 295 in 2008, the law required electric utilities to ensure that 10 percent of their retail electricity sales are sourced from renewable options.

Requires each retail electric supplier to submit to FERC: (1) an amount of RECs and demonstrated total annual electricity savings equal to the supplier's annual combined target (the product of the specified annual percentage and the supplier's base amount of electricity sold in such year); and (2) RECs equal to at least three quarters of such target.

Includes provisions: (1) creating a combined energy efficiency and renewable electricity standard and requiring retail electricity suppliers to meet 20 % of their demand through renewable electricity and electricity savings by 2020; (2) setting a goal of, and requiring a strategic plan for, improving overall U.S. energy productivity by at least 2.5 % per year by 2012 and maintaining that improvement rate through 2030; and (3) establishing a cap - and - trade system for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and setting goals for reducing such emissions from covered sources by 83 % of 2005 levels by 2050.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) issue a rule for determining the level and type of fossil fuel - based electricity delivered to retail customers by each distribution utility in the United States; and (2) make annual determinations of the amounts and types for each such utility and publish them in the Federal Register.

At the same time, the retailer will make deep cuts to its energy consumption by shaving 20 percent from 2010 levels the amount of electricity required to power a square foot of a Walmart store or warehouse.

Currently, Japan needs to expand the scale and contents of transactions of the small - scale wholesale electricity market, including the Japan Electric Power Exchange (JEPX), and create a situation where electricity retailers procure and sell the required types and volumes of electricity in a fair manner, like in European countries.

Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS): A state's RPS requires retail electric providers to supply a specified minimum amount of customer load with electricity from eligible renewable energy sources.

A second important policy in place prior to the passage of AB 32 is the Renewables Portfolio Standard, established in 2002, which currently requires retail sellers of electricity to procure 20 percent of their retail sales from renewable resources by 2010.

The country has a flexible power system, but future growth requires fine - tuning of market rules in favour of even more flexibility, demand response, smart and effective electricity retail and distribution.

The state government will also introduce a new target requiring energy retailers to get more electricity from what it described as cleaner generators that produce their electricity using South Australia's abundant natural resources, whether this be from gas, solar, wind, biomass or graphite, which is used for batteries.

Electricity retailers are required to buy enough certificates from renewables to meet the target.

In most net metering states electric companies are required to buy this power at the retail rate, even though it would cost less to produce the electricity themselves or to buy the power on the wholesale market, and this arrangement leaves others to pay for infrastructure.

A federal EERS would set a national goal for energy savings, requiring retail electricity and natural gas distributors to run programs that achieve specific reductions in energy consumption.