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.
Not exact matches
Gould said that nearly 5.1 million of his company's
customers lost power, but that the
utility has already managed to restore electricity to 60 percent of them.
RG&E says
customers are eligible for credit on their
utility bill if they
lost power for more than 72 hours.
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.
On March 15, the
utility company announced that it will reimburse
customers who
lost power for three or more consecutive days for -LSB-...]
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.
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.
With these homes making their own electricity,
utilities lose their most lucrative
customers and confront a dwindling base over which to spread big infrastructure costs, like building new power plants or maintaining the grid.
The
utility industry nationwide, not just in Connecticut, has long argued that, because of the revenue they
lose from solar
customers who only draw power from the grid part of the time — chiefly at night — they have to charge non-solar
customers more to maintain the grid.
Under the agricultural subsidies that have become the third rail of energy politics in India, farmers essentially get free power, which means the
utilities that serve them
lose money on every
customer.
ALEC has said that one of its top priorities in 2014 will be to make it harder for homeowners and businesses to put solar panels on their rooftops by introducing solar taxes on behalf of big
utilities that are afraid of
losing customers.
A new report on decoupling shows that
utilities can collect revenues
lost due to energy efficiency measures without harming
customers.