Sentences with phrase «utility customers do»

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RALEIGH, N.C. — A public water utility studied what it was serving to its 200,000 North Carolina customers and found it contained multiple unregulated industrial chemicals with uncertain health effects, including some substances that university researchers didn't know existed, legislators learned Thursday.

Working with Best Buy, Fling saw that the company could provide customers other valuable utilities on the mobile site, such as a tool to alert customers when a store has an item, and to be able to hold it if they do.

Olnick said FPL did arrange for a utility on the nation's west coast to help with customer calls after Irma.

As Vox's Alexia Fernández Campbell explained, as tax breaks faded, businesses left the island, and so did workers and utility customers, eating into the revenue of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the unregulated utility monopoly.

The hurricane destroyed the island's electric grid, and 84 percent of the public utility's customers still don't have power.

To ensure that companies don't gouge customers, local utility boards set the rates that companies can charge.

«While the mandated water quality reports produced by regional water authorities do a great job of measuring specific water quality issues, they are not telling the whole story when it comes to perceptions of the water that is coming out of customers» faucets,» said Andrew Heath, senior director of the Utility Practice at J.D. Power.

LIPA, which Cuomo said «failed» its customers after Sandy and served as the impetus for his Moreland Act Commission that is now investigating the utility industry's post-storm response overall, did not fare nearly so well.

While a single press release does not a campaign make, Amedore's charge that the reconfiguration of utility capacity zones which went into effect May 1 could cost mid-Hudson customers $ 300 million over the next three years got my attention.

«There have been clear failures and failures of communication between the utilities and the government and the customers, and absolutely an intense review and investigation is warranted and will take place so we can take the appropriate actions — sanctions if needed and certainly to do better next time because what we have right now is not good enough for New Yorkers,» Rhodes said.

Whereas in industry I know that there's a direct connection between what I'm doing and a customer getting utility out of it.»

Utilities in states with growing levels of solar have argued that fixed fees and other changes are needed because customers with net metering bill credits don't pay their fair share of transmission and distribution charges.

«Despite what we see again and again that most customers don't like their utility, almost all customers trust their utility,» he said, adding that customer trust means the grid won't become obsolete anytime soon.

If a utility or government can further subsidize the costs, as SMUD does now, the customers win all around.

But we digress, because Mercedes has admitted that its target customers for the GLE Coupe don't expect a high degree of utility.

Although sport utility vehicles all have at least one thing in common — a truck - style body - on - frame platform — the best SUV interiors satisfy customers in different ways, with some concentrating on luxury, others on versatility, and most trying to do a little of everything.

They seem to be doing enough to belay a lawsuit, yet don't seem to be real concerned about maintaining a loyal customer base, which is a real pity because we love the ruggedness and the utility of the Nissan trucks and SUVs.

The new box delete option does what its name promises by removing the pickup box in order for customers to install the utility box or flat bed of their choice.

The Chennai team, together with our supplier partners, have done an outstanding job in delivering our customers a great looking, fuel efficient, safe, compact utility vehicle with impressive functionality and connectivity, at a very affordable price,

«Customers tell us they want a compact SUV that will respect the environment and save money at the gas pump, but they don't want to give up performance and utility.

As big of a hit that the CLA - Class has been for Mercedes - Benz over the last year, the GLA - Class should do even better positioned in the red - hot market for subcompact luxury utility vehicles, and it definitely won't hurt for customers to have the option of this GLA45 AMG model that looks as sporty as it drives.

If publishers want to impose such enhanced restrictions then they are free to do so (whether by technical means or simply a more restrictive license) but they have to understand that this makes the end product less valuable to the customers, it lowers it's utility, and the only way that might work is if it's sold at a lower price.

Utilities: Though some major utility companies still require you to link your account to a bank account for payment, more and more are letting customers pay their monthly bills using credit cards, so be sure to check with your utility providers to see if they already do so, or plan to.

Just recently, Duke was given authority by Bush's former OMB Director, Mitch Daniels to force their customers to assume the risk for the plant even though the utility commission did not require Duke to file anything near a current construction cost estimate for the 630 Megawatt plant they are seeking to build in what is already the largest concentration of coal fired capacity in the world, SW Indiana.

Progressive utilities are assisting customers to the extent they can with these systems, because incrementally capitalizing grid tie can be attractive compared to capitalizing monolithic generation plants and because they do not demand an ongoing input of money for the electricity they generate.

Most utilities do not allow customers to choose between monthly or annual billing as they offer only one option.

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

Since North Carolina does not have any laws requiring virtual net metering for cooperatives or investor - owned utilities, these bill credits are nearly always based on the utility's avoided cost of energy as opposed to a credit calculated at the full retail rate of electricity (in other words, the per kWh credits are less than the per kWh price customers pay for their electricity consumption).

(The Senate's language banning utilities from investing in new pipelines and then charging electric customers for these investments did not make it into the compromise energy bill.)

Most notably, the PUC did not finalize the bill credit that customers will receive on their utility bill for participating in the community solar projects.

All Rocky Mountain Power net metering customers in Utah will continue to receive the same credits from the utility as they do at present through 2035.

Under typical regulatory structures, utilities do not have an economic incentive to provide programs to help their customers be more energy - efficient.

SCE's concern is that the bill does not adequately «consider the potential impacts to utility customers and system reliability,» it wrote to regulators.

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.

Utilities in New England and the Midwest had trouble getting enough natural gas and other heating oils to customers, meaning the regions would have suffered from brownouts or even blackouts if coal power did not come online to pick up the slack.

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.

These customers don't have the option to walk away from the likes of Dominion Energy Virginia; they are required by law to get their electricity from that utility and no other.

For those among us who don't work in sales, employ a little parlor game we like to call the «icebreaker» (named after a form of thermal storage that forges new bonds between utilities and behind - the - meter commercial customers).

EIA's utility - scale electric generator survey has a threshold of 1 MW for reporting and, thus, does not capture most customer - sited installations.

In August 2006, DTE began reporting payment information to the major credit bureaus on all of its 2.5 million customers, without offering the ability to opt - out, making it one of the few utilities in the U.S. to do so.

«Xcel's Colorado plans suggest the utility is wising up, and that the era of customer - owned solar only lasts as long as people are willing to raise holy hell or legislatures are willing to tell them to do the right thing,» O'Farrell writes.

Massachusetts residents intending to install solar PV systems of 25 kW or less who want to qualify for the SMART program incentives need to complete all of them, as do all utility customers participating in a community shared solar project.

On their own, managing thousands of independent, intermittent renewable energy systems can create logistical challenges for utilities, which have to ensure that too much solar power doesn't flood the grid at once or that customers can turn their lights on when the wind isn't blowing.

Residential customers did get a 20 percent rate cut under the deregulation act, which saved customers of ComEd, Exelon's grid - utility arm, $ 4.27 billion dollars from 1998 to 2006, while ComEd recouped just $ 1.2 billion in transition charges.

But the utilities» enthusiasm does not extend to solar owned by their customers.

It clarifies that renewable energy companies that sell to retail customers under power purchase agreements (PPAs) are not public utilities and don't have to meet the statutory requirements for public utilities and suppliers.

The Virginia Code contains an exception to utilities» exclusive monopoly in their territory: if a utility doesn't sell 100 % renewable energy to its customers, anyone else can.

Secure Futures and the university thought that even if what was really just a financing arrangement somehow fell afoul of Dominion's monopoly, surely they were covered by the exception in § 56 - 577 (A)(6) available to customers whose own utilities do not offer 100 % renewable energy.

Similarly, on the demand — or customer — side, the idea is that Californians, buildings, appliances and electric vehicles create an intricate, synergetic web that can be made more efficient and flexible with customer education and empowerment, customer - focused energy pricing policies and demand - response programs (which allows customers to voluntarily reduce peak electricity use in response to a signal from their electric utilities and receive a payment for doing so).

The Legislature asked the PSC to develop a program that reflects the need for all utility customers to pay their fair share of using the state's electrical grid based on cost - of - service principles, which is what they did,» Heaton said.