Sentences with phrase «state utility electricity»

A Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) was signed between the state utility Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and Karpowership Ghana Company Limited.

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«Those pushing for net neutrality think the world would work better if the Internet was somehow magically transformed into a public utility, like a water or electricity company, with the FCC and state regulators setting rates, overseeing investment, and micromanaging relationships between providers and customers,» Downes says, adding the result would be devastating to the smooth functioning of ISP networks.

Business Insider forwarded the new USGS study and map to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC), which regulates the state's electricity industry.

The angry protestors are gathered outside of the office of Nevada's Public Utilities Commission, the regulatory body that sets rules for the state's electricity, gas, and water uUtilities Commission, the regulatory body that sets rules for the state's electricity, gas, and water utilitiesutilities.

Renewable energy producers earn RECs for electrical generation and states can determine if the distributed generation customer, or the utility that purchases excess electricity, owns the REC.

Energy regulators in the state are battling utility companies over net metering, which is the process through which solar customers get a credit for a certain amount of electricity that they send back to the grid.

First, some background: In December, the Republican - appointed Nevada Public Utilities Commission (PUC) decided in favor of the state's biggest electricity provider and created a new rate class for rooftop solar customers.

And electricity may not be restored fully in Puerto Rico and the USVI until May, since emergency managers are still reeling from the devastation across the United States in 2017, spreading thin reconstruction supplies like utility poles and power lines across all disaster areas spanning from California to Florida.

For utilities like Florida Power & Light, the electricity utility that serves about half of the state's 20 million residents along the southern coasts and has 90 percent of its customers within 20 miles of the coast, putting power lines underground increases risks of flood damage, so the move would only trade one hazard for another.

Dominion is one of the largest producers and transporters of electricity and natural gas in the United States utility sector.

BH Energy owns four utilities servicing customers in 11 Western / Midwestern states, two electricity distribution companies in England, two interstate pipelines, a renewable energy business, and a residential real estate brokerage firm.

It's just a reckless pie in the sky idea that Cuomo floated that's surely going to raise electricity rates, as if the nuclear bailout wasn't enough or the fact the NY is the only state to charge its residents sales tax on its utility bills.

For a second year in a row, the PSC has deeply slashed the amount of renewable energy that utility companies are forced to buy under Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear plants.

Cuomo's plan to bail out upstate nuclear plants could end up raising electricity expenditures for health systems around the state by at least $ 13.4 million, according to a report by a consumer utility advocacy group.

A northeastern Wisconsin utility can scale back a credit program for customers who generate their own electricity through solar panels, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.

After Hurricane Irma temporarily knocked out electricity for millions of Floridians in September, state regulators next week will hold a two - day workshop to look at utility preparedness and storm - response plans.

Close Indian Point power plant by 2021 - Unit 2 Reactor to close April 2020 and Unit 3 Reactor April 2021 - End use of a plant with numerous safety violations - «Current Indian Point Employees will be Offered relocation and opportunities with other plants and utilities within the state; training in renewable technologies» - «Entergy will provide $ 15 million in funding for environmental and community benefits» - Cuomo is working on replacement resources so that there can be no cost increases in electricity after Indian Point closes More

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in February that the state was taking tough new measures against energy marketing companies, also known as ESCOs, after data showed some were charging more than utilities for gas and electricity supply.

On Thursday, utility workers around the state were hustling to restore electricity amid downed trees and wires.

Most of New Jersey's electricity comes from in - state producers or states not in RGGI, so there is little issue about consumers continuing to pay for the program through out - of - state utility surcharges if New Jersey departs, the official said.

In a Laconia Daily Sun editorial supporting Hassan, former New Hampshire Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Fernald noted that New Hampshire residents consume electricity from out of state, meaning that state taxpayers would still have to pay for the program via carbon fees on utilities bills if it left the program.

Major companies — electricity giant Huaneng Group and state - directed China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC)-- have responded to the government's goals, looking to build utility - scale wind farms throughout the country, according to engineer He Dexin, president of CWEA.

Moreover, if natural gas prices remain low due to higher yields associated with the hydraulic fracturing of wells, other forms of electricity — including renewables — will have a hard time winning favor with utilities and state public utilities commissions that govern the growth of the electricity system.

Granted, there will be significant saving on your monthly utilities — for one, your electricity will be free — but that saving comes at over double the cost, per square foot, of 93 percent of new homes sold in the United States in 2006.

A new wrinkle on an old technology — solid - state thermophotovoltaics (TPV)-- could provide a high - efficiency alternative for directly converting high - temperature heat from concentrated solar thermal to utility - scale electricity.

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 state leader is Massachusetts, where Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, signed legislation in August requiring the state's utilities to obtain 1,600 megawatts of electricity from offshore wind farms within the next decade — enough electricity to power 320,000 homes.

Several states — including California, New York, and Connecticut — are rewriting their utility rules so individuals or companies can sell electricity (from a fuel cell or other private power source) back into the grid.

In fact, another agency is specifically tasked with leading that charge: the California Public Utilities Commission is responsible by law for ensuring that publicly owned utilities in the state get 20 percent of their electricity from renewable resources by the end of this year (although the utilities have until 2013 to prove that they have complied) and 33 percentUtilities Commission is responsible by law for ensuring that publicly owned utilities in the state get 20 percent of their electricity from renewable resources by the end of this year (although the utilities have until 2013 to prove that they have complied) and 33 percentutilities in the state get 20 percent of their electricity from renewable resources by the end of this year (although the utilities have until 2013 to prove that they have complied) and 33 percentutilities have until 2013 to prove that they have complied) and 33 percent by 2020.

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.

-- Within 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, and after opportunity for comment, the Secretary shall issue a final rule under this subsection for determining the level and type of fossil fuel - based electricity delivered to retail customers by each distribution utility in the United States during the appropriate period.

But negotiations between the two groups resulted in a legislative compromise — dubbed the Clean Electricity and Coal Transition Plan — that will wean the state off coal - fired electricity no later than 2030 except for one out - of - state power plant that is partly owned by an Oregon - basElectricity and Coal Transition Plan — that will wean the state off coal - fired electricity no later than 2030 except for one out - of - state power plant that is partly owned by an Oregon - baselectricity no later than 2030 except for one out - of - state power plant that is partly owned by an Oregon - based utility.

The state's environmental community had been gearing up for a ballot initiative this year that would have forced the state's utilities to abandon coal as a fuel for electricity.

It provides loan assistance to State Electricity Boards / State Power Utilities for investments in rural electrification schemes.

Dominion is one of the largest producers and transporters of electricity and natural gas in the United States utility sector.

DUK is another utility, providing electricity to several states including parts of North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, South Carolina, and Florida.

63 percent of respondents said the United States should move forward to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, regardless of what other countries do... In the same poll, the public supported — by a margin of 63 percent to 37 percent — requiring electric utilities to produce at least 20 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources, even if that would cost the average household an extra $ 100 per year.»

A brief testament to the potential of wind power: CNN Money reports that over the evening of April 15, Colorado utility Xcel Energy got 57 % of its electricity from wind power, setting a new record for the United States.

This is especially true for solar PV, where in Germany and Spain FIT payments have caused serious energy policy turmoil, and in the US, where net metering policies have caused public utility backlash against PV deployment in states like Arizona and California (a result of utilities being forced to pay 15 - 30ckWh for PV electricity instead of purchasing on the wholesale markets for 4 - 6c / kWh).

It serves parts of 11 states, and is currently the largest electricity generating utility in the United Sstates, and is currently the largest electricity generating utility in the United StatesStates.

Rolling back efficiency efforts is also at odds with the findings of a September 2017 energy efficiency potential study completed for the Iowa Utilities Association, which determined that 17 % of electricity use and 15 % of gas use in the state could be saved cost - effectively through efficiency programs over the next decade.

SAN JOSE, March 19 (Reuters)- Costa Rica will lower its electricity rates an average of 12 percent from April because it has met demand this year almost entirely with renewable energy, the state utilities regulator said on Thursday.

The growing volume of distributed generation, aided in part by the rapid growth of third - party - owned solar PV in some states, is challenging the role that electric utilities have historically played as the sole provider of electricity to customers.

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.

To amortize the $ 300 million price of the wind farm, Deepwater Wind negotiated a contract with National Grid, the utility company that provides electricity for most of the state, that will increase the price of electricity generated by the turbines 3.5 percent annually to nearly 50 cents per kWh in 20 years.

In 2014, California became the first state to generate at least 5 % of its electricity from utility - scale solar plants (i.e., generators with at least one MW of capacity).

Brown signed a law last October mandating state utilities generate 50 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources by 2030.

In Connecticut, Hartford's utility provider, Eversource, and the state's other investor - owned utility, United Illuminating, provide net metering to customers that generate electricity using solar or other renewable energy systems up to two megawatts (MW) in capacity.

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

They argued that these suppliers might leave the state, or that they lack the capacity to supply the electricity needs of their customers, ultimately forcing them to rely on electricity generated by the big utilities.