Sentences with phrase «upstate plants»

«At the initial ZEC maximum of $ 17.48 per MWh, the subsidy for upstate plants would raise electricity rates by about 0.32 cents per kilowatt - hour state - wide, an increase of 1.8 percent for residential rate - payers and 5.4 percent for large industrial customers.

Those efforts started in November 2015 as state and federal officials worked with Kraft Heinz to keep it from also shutting other upstate plants that employ hundreds of people.

The expansion doesn't impact any existing jobs at the gun manufacturer's upstate plant in Herkimer County, where its workers have been vocal opponents of the gun control law known as the SAFE Act.

«We also must remember that nuclear's benefits extend well beyond the employees that directly work at upstate plants: nuclear is critical to keeping the lights on and powering the economy and jobs across the central and upstate regions,» Gregory Lancette, president of the Central and Northern New York Building and Construction Trades Council, said in a statement.

Every utility customer in the state — including the MTA — is paying higher power bills to support the aging upstate plants, which are run by Chicago - based Exelon.

At the initial ZEC maximum of $ 17.48 per MWh, the subsidy for upstate plants would raise electricity rates by about 0.32 cents per kilowatt - hour state - wide, an increase of just 1.8 percent for residential rate - payers and 5.4 percent for large industrial customers.

«It appears the state is attempting to draw a distinction between Indian Point and the upstate plants based on its license and there is no distinction,» he said.

Implementation of the State's Clean Energy Standard, which allows continued operation of the upstate plants, largely preserves this.

On Monday, Riesling offered little explanation as to why it wanted to purchase the two upstate plants.

With that in mind, the state agreed to subsidize the upstate plants.