Sentences with phrase «utility commission»

Most state public utility commissions that have spent the past year trying figure out how they will meet their target in the proposed rule will now have to start all over again.

He has been a successful advocate for companies regulated by state utility commissions for more than 25 years.

That partnership has since broken down, with utility commissions reluctant to dedicate consumer dollars to technological improvements.

We have, for example, awarded utility agreements — a few hundred megawatts — which are subject to public utility commission final approval.

Back when they were regulated, utilities could offer high payout ratios since public utility commissions guaranteed profits.

These power companies are highly regulated by public utility commissions that are very sensitive to public opinion and would not and did not participate in any climate - skeptic actions at all.

[5] Taken together, these two factors call into serious question the validity of the cited studies, something most state utility commissions are doing.

Energy Future's board favored Sempra's bid after it also offered assurances it could get its acquisition of Oncor approved by Public Utility Commission of Texas, as well as a U.S. bankruptcy judge, the sources said.

The California Public Utilities Commission in late May ordered Southern California Edison (SCE), the region's main power provider, to «expedite its purchase of energy storage» this summer to help «alleviate the electric reliability risks to the Los Angeles Basin,» a process that's still ongoing.

At the time, not much information was known about the fuel cell component, but a recent filing with the North Carolina Utilities Commission tells us a bit more.

In my August 20, 2013 blog piece, I briefly mentioned the role Minnesota assistant Attorney General Barbara Freese had in the May 1995 Minnesota Public Utilities Commission hearings where skeptic climate scientists were called to testify, and I detailed her subsequent association problems with Ross Gelbspan.

Bloomberg - The California Public Utilities Commission approved unanimously the Oakland, California - based solar company's deals to sell power to Edison International from its Rio Mesa 2 and Sonoran West projects, and denied proposals for its Rio Mesa 1 and Siberia 1 and 2 plants.

Have you seen ICBC's pitch to the B.C. Utilities Commission in support of their latest rate increase request?

It's not that the California Public Utilities Commission doesn't like the curlicue lights, which are significantly more energy - efficient than incandescent bulbs.

The California Public Utility Commission voted by a narrow majority of 3 to 2 to extend the ability of residential energy customers in California to be credited with full retail rates for excess solar power that they generate and feed back into the grid at times when the electrical loads in their house are less than their solar production.

GE Mobile Water Solution Enables Orlando Utilities Commission to Continue Wastewater Treatment During Planned Outage

Nancy spent 3 years at the Colorado Public Utilities Commission as a clean energy advocate, pushing against utility plans to build «clean» coal power plant in Colorado and Arizona.

However, the studies that produced their data: Finland and Nordic — PhD by Holtinnen 2004; Sweden — paper by U Axelsson et al from 2005; Ireland — 2004 study; UK — paper by Strbac et al from 2007; Germany — Dena Grid study from 2005; Minnesota — paper for Minnesota Public Utilities Commission from 2006; and California — paper by Porter et al from 2007.

This statement examined the impacts of BC's British Columbia Utilities Commission Act (1996), Demand Side Measures Regulation (2008), and the BC Energy Plan: A Vision for Clean Energy Leadership on vulnerable groups.

The N.C. Utilities Commission said Thursday that it had no legal authority to reject the Pantego Wind Energy Facility, which would spread over 11,000 -LSB-...]

And finally, to the state's avoided cost rates and rules, which were under attack last year, but which the NC Utilities Commission decided to leave in place.

Then the state utility commission said to build only one of the plants, and in May of this year Duke said that would cost $ 1.83 billion, an increase of more than 80 percent from the original estimate.

The proposed RNG standard is before the NC Utilities Commission for approval.

She also worked for the energy division of the California Public Utilities Commission on implementation of the Renewable Portfolio Standard and for Pacific Gas and Electric Company, where she helped develop new demand response programs for the California ancillary services market.

$ 7.6 million: How much the California Public Utilities Commission fined Uber for holding back trip information.

Further growth of Nevada's distributed PV sector, however, is uncertain because Nevada's Public Utility Commission recently approved several changes to the net - metering tariffs, including phasing in lower net - metering compensation rates and higher monthly fixed charges for distributed PV customers.

Approval is granted subject to provisions by the Hydro and Electric Energy Act and the Alberta Utilities Commission Act.

These changes were implemented by the California Public Utilities Commission through significant updates to its Electric Tariff Rule 21 (or «Rule 21»), a set of existing interconnection requirements.

Lesser has provided expert testimony on energy - related matters before utility commissions in numerous states; before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; before international regulators; and in state and federal courts.

One of his first briefs involved his «spending part of the winter of 1981 in Fort St John in northern BC, representing the government at the BC Utility Commission hearings into BC Hydro's proposal to build a dam on the Peace River in a place called Site C.»

The Oregon Public Utility Commission rules that PacifiCorp had failed to prove a need for Hunter Unit 4, a proposed 575 MW coal plant in Castle Dale, Utah.

Solar company Sunrun (RUN) even went so far as to file an open records request for communication between NV Energy employees, lobbyists, Gov. Sandoval and his staff, and current Public Utilities Commission Chairman Paul Thomsen.

The move comes a week after the California Public Utilities Commission issued a proposal that would change industry rules, allowing self - driving car companies to begin using driverless cars to transport passengers.

«I had relatively limited expectations for the battery industry in advance of 2020,» Michael J. Picker, president of the California Public Utilities Commission told the New York Times.

I was able to get my solar system installed before the Nevada Public Utilities Commission changed the rules for net metering.

If you take the revenue requirement that in our public utilities commission regulation establishes how much money Diablo takes to run every year, it works out to about 5.6 cents per kilowatt hour.

Member, Austin Electric Utility Commission Member, Austin Bar Association Member, Austin Young Lawyers Association Member, Gulf Coast Power Association emPOWERing Women committee Member, State Bar of Texas Member, American Legion Auxiliary, Texas Bluebonnet Girls State Member, Capital City A&M Club Board Member, Capital of Texas Media Foundation

The US Attorney and California's District Attorney have ongoing criminal investigations into how the California Public Utilities Commission initiated and rushed through a settlement proposal that closed SONGS.

A federal policy enacted nearly 40 years ago has breathed life into an ongoing argument at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission over utility opposition to a wind - solar hybrid project proposed in the rural city of Red Lake Falls.

In the intervening years, the parties will seek Public Utility Commission approval of the plan which will replace power from the plant with renewable energy, efficiency and energy storage resources.

ATR president Grover Norquist wrote a Feb. 27, 2013 letter supporting the Rep. Dennis Hedke's House bill shortly before the bill was kicked back into the House Utilities commission.

On December 19, 2017, the North Carolina Utilities Commission established the rules for the DEC and DEP community solar programs and directed the utilities to file initial program plans by this coming Tuesday, January 23rd.