Sentences with phrase «utility customers»

Now more than ever, these state regulators are charged with looking out for the best interests of utility customers in states that have regulated electric and other utilities.

Providing programs to electric utility customers to reduce their energy use through improved energy efficiency is an innovation with roots in the energy crises of the 1970s.

Money in politics typically never leads to good outcomes for utility customers.

Power producers are engaged in a mad rush to build natural gas plants, and wherever possible, to stick utility customers with the costs.

Helping utility customers save energy through improved energy efficiency can work against a utility's financial interest.

Still, today, most utility customers pay an average price for electricity.

Here are the facts: investing in local solar farms instead of more costly power plants saves utility customers money.

Demand response refers to how utility customers cut their power usage during peak times by using methods like on - site generation, minimizing heating and cooling in buildings, and adjusting work schedules.

The result will be excess pipeline capacity, paid for by regulated utility customers.

Helping utility customers improve the efficiency of their homes and businesses is a great way for utilities to help manage demand during those peak hours.

When an individual utility customer decides to add rooftop solar to their home or business, the utility needs to deliver less power to that customer from other sources.

We oppose any fees imposed on such utility customers.

And, whether or not they know it, all of the North Carolina electric utility customers who have a few more bucks in their pockets (because the solar we install means they don't have to start paying for a new billion dollar fossil fuel plant this year), would disagree.

Lineworkers do deserve credit for working hard to restore power to millions of utility customers in Florida.

Net metering was a method used to compensate residential utility customers with solar roofs.

That's likely true for utility customers across the U.S., Sunnova CEO John Berger said in a recent interview.

What is it?It's noble, perhaps even brave, of Kia to stick with the good ol' minivan rather than forcing utility customers into an androgynously styled three - row crossover (though Kia...

The SCC's job is to protect electric utility customers from precisely this kind of exploitation.

In many states, net metering allows utility customers who generate electricity, with solar panels for example, to sell the electricity to the grid at above - market rates.

Drawing upon our inventory, long - term supply agreements we have in place with other producers, and purchases from secondary sources, Centrus is continuing its 50 - year record of providing utility customers with assured, affordable and on - time deliveries.

Complaints by utility customers in California's Central Valley about a spike in electricity charges on their bills after smart meter installation fanned the anti-smart meter flames and triggered the Public Utility Commission to perform a study.

Green Button data gives utility customers greater insight into the amount and timing of their energy consumption, helping them to understand how they can save energy and reduce their utility bills.

CEC is pioneering the model of delivering clean power - generation through medium - scale facilities that are collectively owned by participating utility customers.

«Whether it's a serious problem like high lead or mineral counts, or a more subjective issue like bad taste or low pressure, a significant number of residential water utility customers are not happy with the product.

«The net - metered customer does not share equally in the overhead costs associated with the grid or other services provided by the utility, producing a very substantial «cross-subsidy» funded by all other utility customers who must pay proportionately more,» wrote James Hughes, CEO of solar panel maker First Solar, in an op - ed in support of the utility Arizona Public Service Co. (APS) position this past June.

In a historic vote this morning, Mississippi state regulators slammed the brakes on the Kemper coal power plant, saying they will refuse to ask utility customers to pay anything for Kemper's non-functional multi-billion dollar «clean...

With Southern Company's board voting today to green light the completion of the Vogtle nuclear power plant, the prospect that Georgia utility customers may be on the hook for many billions for a plant that...

Forcing Ohio utility customers to finance FirstEnergy's corporate slush fund simply has no basis in Ohio law.

The FSTC is funded by California utility customers and is administered by Pacific Gas & Electric Company under the auspices of the California Public Utilities Commission.

Utilities often buy solar power through fixed power contracts — meaning that the risks are borne by independent solar farm owners, not utility customers.

As first proposed two years ago, FirstEnergy's case before the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio asked for a different charge altogether to make utility customers guarantee electricity sales by its unregulated generation affiliate from certain coal and nuclear plants.

Commercial utility customers in Hawaii pay 29 cents a kilowatt - hour for power, on average, according to the Energy Department.

Peter Marsters, a research analyst at the Rhodium Group, explained that the numbers reflect how many utility customers lost power multiplied by how long they were without power.

Being a municipal utility customers don't need to switch to time of use billing unfortunately, those of you just outside the city in SCE territory do however, the returns are only lowered by about 10 %.

Corporations like Dominion Resources and Duke Energy are investing in gas transmission pipelines and gas generating plants only because they think they can profit from them now, and force captive utility customers to bear the cost of paying off the worthless assets later.

Greater operational flexibility to shape production to meet changing utility customer demand

UBS says this means utility customers will effectively become utility competitors.

Currently there is an attempt in Pennsylvania's statehouse to allow large utility customers to shirk their responsibility to reduce their energy waste.

Florida utility customers got a big break last week, when Florida Power and Light (FPL) announced that it was shuttering a 250 MW coal plant in Jacksonville and completing three solar projects totaling 224 MW - AC.

Vivint does not agree with all the points agreed to, but Bywater and the company signed off on the settlement, saying it would ensure and protect utility customer choice in Utah for the next several years.

Two weeks after Michigan regulators approved a new method for compensating utility customers who send electricity back to the grid, there were more questions than answers about the future of distributed generation here.

Rebates for retail utility customers to install solar photovoltaic (PV) energy systems were included in California's SGIP when it was originally launched.

As of March 20, 7 percent of utility customers still couldn't turn on the lights, refrigerate food, or run water pumps.

PREPA executive director Ricardo Ramos meanwhile was optimistic that Puerto Rico could hit Rosselló's target of getting electricity back to 95 percent of utility customers before the end of the year.

Utility customers all over the U.S. were sold out by their electeds for the benefit of corporate America.

The Empire Zone tax breaks have no effect on consumer electricity costs, said Gerald Norlander, executive director of the Public Utility Law Project, which represents low - income utility customers.

Utility customers throughout the state began paying in April through extra charges on their monthly bills.

18 - A (TED Part S) Executive Budget - In accordance with the recommendations of the New York State Tax relief Commission, Part S of the TED Article VII legislation, would reduce the Public Service Law § 18 - a (6) Temporary State Energy and Utility Service Conservation Assessment (Temporary Assessment) by a total of $ 200 million per year by eliminating the assessment on industrial utility customers and accelerate the phase out for all other customers.

However, some firms have been accused of talking utility customers unwittingly into long - term, costly contracts that are more expensive than what they would have normally paid if they had remained with their utility for supply service, which is typically about half the typical bill.