The SCC's job is to protect electric
utility customers from precisely this kind of exploitation.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)- State officials say nearly 80,000
utility customers from New York City's northern suburbs to the Mid-Hudson Valley remain without power two days after a violent storm tore through the region.
State officials say nearly 80,000
utility customers from New York City's northern suburbs to the Mid-Hudson Valley remain without power two days after a violent storm tore through the region.
Not exact matches
Most of it will come
from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without domestic
customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with emissions control regulation, drove
utilities in the U.S. to shut down coal - fired plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas plants.
Your business faces plenty of threats —
from fire to fraud,
from dishonest employees to discontented
customers to disconnected
utilities.
Its three largest
utilities also offer net metering programs for commercial, residential and agricultural
customers who generate their own electricity
from renewable resources.
Under existing VOS program designs, solar
customers continue to purchase all of their electricity
from the grid at the
utility's retail rate and receive credit for the solar electricity exported to the grid at the approved VOS rate.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand
from significant
customers; changes in demand
from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in
customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in
utility - scale project approval process; delays in
utility - scale project construction; delays in the completion of project sales; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features
customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand
from significant
customers; changes in demand
from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in
customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in
utility - scale project approval process; delays in
utility - scale project construction; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features
customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 20, 2016.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand
from significant
customers; changes in demand
from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in
customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in
utility - scale project approval process; delays in
utility - scale project construction; cancelation of
utility - scale feed - in - tariff contracts in Japan; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features
customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.
The outage comes at an especially embarrassing time, following an announcement
from government officials that they had restored electricity to 50 percent of
utility customers.
A four - page bill signed by the state's governor declares that the installation of energy storage by
utility customers is in the public interest, and prohibits discriminatory charges or regulatory burdens
from interfering with this.
Led by the Ministry of Energy and MaRS Discovery District, a working group was formed with the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario and representatives
from the energy sector to adopt and implement the «Green Button data standard» — a common format for
customers to securely access their data
from their electric
utilities.
... The Chancellor said HM Revenue and Customs has prevented
utility firms
from claiming tax breaks on payments made by their
customers rather than themselves.»
Our
utility companies will have their corporate income taxes slashed
from 35 percent to 21 percent generating a major windfall at the expense of
customers.
Criticism for the
utility is not only coming
from fed up
customers, but elected officials who say they aren't getting answers either.
The Executive Budget is proposing a massive $ 651 million increase in the state's «Section 18 - A» assessments on
utilities (increasing the assessment rate
from.3 percent of revenues to 2 percent), a significant share of which will hit electric and gas
utilities, with a direct pass through to their business
customers.
«To prevent a windfall, we will conduct a thorough accounting of the benefits the
utilities realize
from the tax reduction plan, and we will ensure it's the
customers who receive the benefits, not company shareholders.»
The
utility company said crews were giving higher priority to
customers who lost electricity during the first storm and expects outages
from both storms will last into the weekend.
; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up
customer delivery charges as
utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation
from solar panels and wind turbines.
While that's down
from about 2.2 million
customers who lost power during superstorm Sandy, Cuomo said
utilities need be held accountable for their response to the storm.
The Cuomo administration estimates the Clean Energy Standard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021
from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up
customer delivery charges as
utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation
from solar panels and wind turbines.
Despite the international shale oil boom extracting natural gas with hydrofracking technologies, which most electric
utilities, including the local ones, supply to
customers as a major part of their power supply, the shift away
from petroleum dependency has made remarkable progress in recent years through strategic incentives like the one which prompted this vote in Olive.
Con Ed and Orange and Rockland
customers and businesses that lost food and prescription medicine because of the power outages for three or more days in a row are now eligible for money
from the
utility companies.
Customers who reported the scams say they were contacted by telephone by individuals who claim to be from National Grid and who advised the customers they have a past due balance on their util
Customers who reported the scams say they were contacted by telephone by individuals who claim to be
from National Grid and who advised the
customers they have a past due balance on their util
customers they have a past due balance on their
utility bill.
It would require
utilities to purchase power
from nuclear facilities, and those costs would then be passed along to
customers, who now pay some of the highest energy costs in the nation.
Under the new rules, ESCOs won't be able to sell new supply to residential and small - business
customers unless they are cheaper than the
utility or if at least 30 percent of the electricity they sell comes
from renewable energy sources like wind, hydro or solar.
The statement
from the
utility notes how its J.D. Power
customer satisfaction score jumped by 52 points to become «the most improved large
utility in the country.»
Critics have raised questions about why the power authority opted not to request aid
from mainland
utilities after Hurricane Maria struck the territory, knocking out power to almost all
customers, on Sept. 20.
The
utility said the «vast majority» of those
customers should see their power restored by 11 p.m. and warned everyone to stay away
from downed power lines.
Currently, Austin Energy claims only 50 MW of solar generation, including 20 MW purchased
from customers under the
utility's «Value of Solar» pricing mechanism.
The battery in Presidio, Masiello says, has proved to be controversial with wind farm developers because the
utility buys power
from them at night when it is cheap, stores it, and then supplies it to
customers during outages, when it is expensive.
At Xcel Energy, the
utility firm with the highest total wind capacity in the United States, the number of forecasting errors has dropped since 2009, saving
customers some US$ 60 million and reducing annual CO2 emissions
from fossil - reserve power generation by more than a quarter of a million tonnes per year, says Drake Bartlett, a renewable - energy analyst with the firm who is based in Denver, Colorado.
Funding is a huge challenge because
utilities must meet competing demands
from customers and regulators while being responsive to their stakeholders, who tend to limit investments to short - term returns.
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.
«But if you want the design to reflect its 4 × 4 - ness and to deliver the sort of
utility that
customers expect
from these cars, then you have to find ways to achieve that.
From distinctively - styled midsize sedans, offering an unmatched combination of power, technology and safety on the road, to versatile
utility vehicles and tough, durable trucks, Ford's product development team delivers the balanced range of world - class vehicles that our
customers want and value.
«With a structure more rigid than ever and a suspension tuned to the highest global standards, the 2015 Edge is a high - tech
utility that delivers a special driving experience
customers will feel
from their first moments behind the wheel.»
The popular Honda Pilot enters the 2007 model year packed with the features and
utility that
customers have come to expect
from this versatile and award - winning SUV.
An estimated 35,000 Lincoln - Mercury
customers were defecting annually
from the division because it offered no sport -
utility.
And the sport -
utility is getting help
from an unlikely source: Lincoln, home for Lincoln - Mercury's most upscale
customers.
Fields Land Rover / BMW in Longwood is choosing a unique way to introduce the new Land Rover Discovery to Orlando - it will be showing off the new V -8-powered sport -
utility vehicle at the Orlando Science Center
from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Earth Day.The public is invited, but invitations have been sent out to prospective
customers.
As
customers make the shift
from a mediated banking experience to one that takes place with their direct participation, the perceived inconvenience of online banking should give way to the realization that taking your money online adds more
utility than it sacrifices.
The result is the same; a
customers» home is decked out with solar panels and powered by the sun, and thanks to lucrative tax credits, the electricity agreement is cheaper than electricity bills
from the local
utility.
If you're a new
customer who has not yet completed an application, please email us a
utility bill
from the last 30 days to update your address.
That storm left an estimated 6.2 million
customers in Florida without electricity on September 11, according to the Florida Public Service Commission, which, like the commission in Texas, collects data
from electric
utilities.
The company is threatening to cut Boulder
customers off
from energy efficiency incentive programs if residents vote to create a municipal
utility.
The emerging model is that the
utilities (distribution companies) that are responsible for providing electricity service to their
customers act as portfolio managers, integrating all of the resources needed to provide that service, including electricity
from spot market purchases, independent power producers,
utility owned generation, and demand side management.
«eLab Ignite: Finding Value at the Distribution Edge» will convene corporate
customers, innovators,
utilities and other key industry stakeholders to address the challenges and opportunities arising
from the convergence of increasing capability and affordability of distributed resources, climate change and the need for a more resilient U.S. electricity system.
At the same time,
utilities are feeling the squeeze
from distributed energy resources like rooftop solar, which further threatens to erode their ability to sell more kilowatt - hours of electricity to their
customers and build more power plants.