Sentences with phrase «retail electric rates»

That policy is net metering, where owners of a rooftop solar system are paid retail electric rates for any unused power that they generate.

5 % discount over normal retail electric rates.

Enjoy a 5 % discount over normal retail electric rates.

Yet, Texas produces more than double the amount of wind, solar and other renewable electricity as California while California's retail electric rates were 89 percent higher than Texas» in 2017.»

Under a concept called «net metering,» solar customers in Connecticut now are paid the retail electric rate for the power they sell back.

Solar customers are paid the retail electric rate for the power they sell back to the power grid.

While these policies vary in details, customers with such systems are typically credited at the full retail electric rate for any excess electricity that they generate and «sell» back to the utility.

Not exact matches

In December 2017, Honda began retail deliveries of the Honda Clarity Plug - In Hybrid in the United States and Canada, with an EPA rated electric - only range of 76 km (47 miles).

Suppose electric utilities in Nevada were to reduce the compensation for net metering from retail to wholesale rates to put solar panel users on a level playing field with other generators.

But the group isn't entirely certain about the details, and calls for more research on consumer behavior, to understand how consumers will likely respond to price signals baked into retail electricity rates, especially when electric vehicles «result in significant fuel cost savings.»

«(ii) electricity generated through the incineration of municipal solid waste owned by an electric utility or sold under contract or rate order to an electric utility to meet the needs of the retail customers of the utility;

-- The purpose of this section is to improve the ability of retail rate utility customers to compare tariff options by making the most up - to - date electric utility tariffs available in an online format that can be read and manipulated electronically.

Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) customers in Brentwood are entitled to 1 for 1 net metering crediting each kWh of solar generation exported to the grid at the retail rate.

«The reimbursement rate should be changed from the retail rate to the rate the utility pays for wholesale solar generation from utility - scale projects connected to its distribution system,» argued Tucson Electric Power Energy Supply Senior Director Carmine Tilghman recently.

«To put this in perspective, national average retail all - in residential electric rates in 2014 were $ 0.125 per kWh.»

The CES draft also concludes that Millstone's closure «Would drive up capacity and energy prices, resulting in higher electricity rates in Connecticut,» which already has the second highest electric retail rate in the country at about 20 cents per kilowatt hour.

Virtual net metering (also called virtual net energy metering, or VNEM) uses the same compensation structure as net energy metering (NEM): utilities pay customers the retail rate for the energy that their solar system feeds back to the electric grid, so that they pay only for the net amount of energy they consume.

Connecticut already has the second highest electric retail rate in the country at about 20 cents per kilowatt hour.

Another oft - cited study, by LBNL in 2010, [8] did not examine the value of net metering of solar to non-participating electric utility customers; instead, the authors reviewed the impact of retail rate design on hypothetical net metering bill savings.

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.