Sentences with phrase «use electricity customers»

Indeed, Dominion and other utilities, including Duke Energy, Southern Company, and NextEra in the Southeast and DTE Energy in the Midwest, even plan to use electricity customers to make money for the gas pipelines they are building, locking Americans further into gas.

Moody's may not have known how the utilities plan to use electricity customers as a hedge for at least two planned pipelines, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) and Sabal Trail.

Not exact matches

The partnerships will enable about 90 million domestic customers to use Nest's thermostat to save electricity — and cash.

The PSC offered a truly staggering look at the electricity demand that cryptocurrency has created in the region, saying that in some communities cryptocurrency mining requires «thousands of times more electricity than an average residential customer would use» (emphasis PSC).

While such a significant amount of electricity usage might go unnoticed in large metropolitan areas, the sheer amount of electricity being used is leading to higher costs for customers in small communities because of a limited supply of low - cost hydropower.

Increasing numbers of utility customers are using net metering to generate electricity on their property.

Municipal power authorities in upstate New York have received permission to charge certain cryptocurrency mining enterprises higher rates for the use of their electricity than they charge other customers.

Customers earn rewards for using less electricity.

Today, Kuby is also certified to install Tesla's Powerwall (a rechargeable battery used to store electricity in homes) in Western Canada, a relationship forged when one of Kuby's solar customers wanted to install a Powerwall in Inuvik, N.W.T. «Only one per cent of solar installers ever get that [Powerwall] contract [with Tesla].

A stormy weekend led to free electricity in Germany as wind generation reached a record, forcing power producers to pay customers the most since Christmas 2012 to use electricity.

As for the grid, the proliferation of electricity storage could eventually transform it into a «plug and play» for the units, used by utilities, solar customers and electric vehicles.

But the Lovins have shown electric utility companies that they can make a better profit if their customers use less electricity.

In a time of a developing energy gap, they have a clear interest and a clear responsibility to help their customers to use less electricity and gas, but the link between the energy companies and fuel poverty is less clear.

The PSC estimates that across New York, there are 1.3 million electricity customers that use ESCOs and 827,000 gas customers that use ESCOs.

Recent studies conclude that while some tech - savvy consumers will line up for smart grid applications for the home, most residential customers are not eager to manage their daily energy use, particularly with electricity prices at relatively low levels.

Prateek Chakravarty of Bidgely says customers typically use this information to save between 4 and 12 per cent on their electricity bills.

Demanding plans for power cuts: In the US, electricity companies make money helping their customers to use less power.

Ninety - five percent of electricity customers would like to have detailed data about when and how they use power, but 20 percent are willing to pay for real - time information, according to the survey of 604 U.S. customers and 200 utility managers (Greenwire, March 9).

When generators fail, as they did last winter in Texas, controllers lean on «demand - response customers» — large electricity users, like factories, that are paid to be on call, ready to use a little less or even shut everything off at a moment's notice.

Through Catalyst, communities of innovators use software, data, algorithms, and automation to drive down non-hardware solar soft costs — like permitting, financing, and customer acquisition — that today make up more than half of the cost of a solar electricity system.

The facility uses a 550 - megawatt photovoltaic array that produces clean electricity for Californian utility customers.

The customer can also recharge the battery in the middle of the night, when prices are lowest in some markets, and then use the electricity during the day to reduce energy costs.

Customers with higher electricity consumption (such as commercial, industrial, and institutional customers) are more likely to be on time - of - use rates, providing them with the financial incentive to consider both the amount and the timing of generating eleCustomers with higher electricity consumption (such as commercial, industrial, and institutional customers) are more likely to be on time - of - use rates, providing them with the financial incentive to consider both the amount and the timing of generating elecustomers) are more likely to be on time - of - use rates, providing them with the financial incentive to consider both the amount and the timing of generating electricity.

The company touts the offering as a way for businesses or commercial customers to cut energy costs by using stored electricity when the sun is not shining.

Toyota believes customers should not have to think whether their Priuses should be using electricity or gasoline at any given moment, Knight says.

Cryptocurrency mining operations are using thousands of times more electricity than an average residential customer, potentially driving up rates for everyone.

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.

Aggregator: Any marketer, broker, public agency, city, county, or special district that combines the loads of multiple end - use customers in negotiating the purchase of electricity, the transmission of electricity, and other related services for these customers.

Companies that want to help customers install on - site solar facilities by using PPAs have argued that this section clearly permits customers to buy solar electricity from third party suppliers when their utility doesn't offer a renewable energy tariff.

Customers may be the biggest losers when utilities use their electricity subsidiaries to guarantee the success of their gas subsidiaries, but the arrangement also harms other business interests.

These credits are used to offset electricity consumed by the customer at a different point in time during the same billing period.

Demand response is a non-persistent intentional change in net electricity usage by end - use customers from normal consumptive patterns in response to a request on behalf of, or by, a power and / or distribution / transmission system operator.

The lake authority doesn't own the 18 + acre / feet of rain which falls on my land and since I don't use but a tiny fraction of that and they use the excess instead to generate electricity and sell to downstream customers when they sent me a bill for 1 acre / foot I sent them a bill in return for 17 acre / feet.

Customer Self Supply, customers receive a PUC - approved credit for electricity sent to the grid and are billed at the retail rate for electricity they use from the grid.

These net - metering customers would pay a $ 15 service charge or base rate, as well as 3.81 cents per kilowatt hour of all electricity used.

SIPC member cooperatives provide electricity to over 100,000 end - use customers.

Well, in 2006 the group provided $ 100,000 to support the work of Patrick Michaels, one of the country's most distinguished climatologists and a prominent skeptic, and in general IREA opposes measures that drive up electricity costs for customers, such as requirements for the use of high - cost non-carbon energy.

The methane digester will be built on a Williamsburg County hog farm and the electricity generated will be used by customers of Santee Cooper, the state - owned utility.

The way the gardens work is that customers buy solar subscriptions based on how much electricity they typically use and, depending on the size of their subscription and the amount of power generated by the particular garden, they receive credits on their electric bills.

And so the electricity our customers use becomes less brown and more green as we progress.

We're changing the way electricity is made in the UK, using customer bills to make their own electricity greener.

The individual consumer could then use their consumer power and choose whether they are prepared to support (be a customer) with a company which is potentially making most of its money from Fossil fuels or Nuclear but then adds a large amount to invest in renewable energy OR not be associated with companies which deal in fossil fuel based electricity at all: i.e. not supporting = not being part of the problem philosophy — OR any cross-over between the two.

Good point on the cost thing, although the Hyperion site makes it abundantly clear that it's not targeted at commercial / residential uses (even though everyone converts the electricity output to «houses powered», including me)-- they're targeting high energy - use industrial customers, and such customers might find paying $ 30 million for a 20 MW transportable, pre-fab power plant that doesn't need hundreds of miles of power lines or a year to build a bargain.

We take the money our customers spend on their electricity and we use it to build windmills to put more green electricity into the grid each year.

The intention is to shift consumption away from high demand periods through a price signal mechanism telling customers that they can save money by using electricity during off - peak hours.

If customers were forced to pay the actual price at the time they use electricity, they would be motivated to shift some of their usage to lower - price hours, which would reduce the need for some expensive peaking capacity.

The tussle over prices in a decentralized electricity market continued last week, as David Roberts deconstructed the arcane world of demand response, in which utilities pay customers to cut their power use during times of peak demand.

If that were the full story of utility billing, it would be enough to know the total amount of energy the customer used each month - but in many cases, utilities also charge different prices for electricity depending on when it is consumed.

It deals with pipelines within the state that would connect customers who currently don't have access to natural gas for heating and cooking (a more efficient use of energy than burning gas for electricity to perform the same functions).

Their estimates of the expected growth in electricity use per customer are far above those developed by the Energy Information Administration's Annual Energy Outlook, the widely cited government forecast of near - term energy supply and demand.