Sentences with phrase «utility customers pay»

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

Blurred lines between the parent company and subsidiaries could leave utility customers paying more in the long run.

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In launching Apple Pay, the iPhone maker hopes to lock in more customers for its mobile devices by enhancing their overall utility.

In fact, some evangelists are already calling pay - as - you - go computing «the fifth utility,» a term that neatly sums up the basic idea: Customers use just as much computing power or storage capability or bandwidth as they need for a particular project or period of time.

Utilities argue that customers who generate their own solar power are not paying their fair share of fixed costs, which are then passed on to generally less wealthy, non-solar customers.

The customer would pay back SolarCity and its financial partners over the course of a 20 - year lease, ideally at a monthly cost that would be lower than their traditional utility bill.

Last year it introduced a Palestinian payments solution that enables customers to pay utility bills and top up mobile - phone credit at the POS terminals.

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

Flanagan's proposal (S6651) * would immediately end the ZEC mandate and refund about $ 80 million that utilities and large industrial customers have already paid.

-RRB- * would immediately end the ZEC mandate and refund about $ 80 million that utilities and large industrial customers have already paid.

While several states have allowed utilities to charge a fee to customers who want to opt out of smart meters, Vermont's governor is expected soon to sign legislation that would allow customers to say no without paying anything extra.

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.

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.

As the cost of solar power drops, more consumers find that they hold the upper hand as utilities fight to maintain paying customers and the relevance of the grid

Ninety - five percent of electricity customers would like to have detailed data about when and how they use power, but 20 percent are willing to pay for real - time information, according to the survey of 604 U.S. customers and 200 utility managers (Greenwire, March 9).

Arizona's utility regulator last month approved a hike in the surcharge that solar customers with net metering pay the state's largest utility.

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.

«Set it and forget it» a popular option Oncor's smart grid meter will cover $ 800 million, paid for by a $ 2.19 monthly charge on customers» utility bills that regulators approved.

It also relieves anxiety for utilities concerned with overproduction of electricity by solar power plants during the day, which sometimes forces them to curtail electricity production or pay customers to take the extra power.

A 6 - 2 ruling upholds a regulation that requires utilities to pay more to customers who conserve power during times of peak demand

At the same time, he added, the government's feed - in tariff, the costs of which are shared by the government and electricity customers, has resulted in «more and more consumers hav [ing] to pay higher electricity charges to utilities.»

In order to provide a benefit to the customer and GM, someone — whether a utility or grid operator — will have to pay for the service.

In some cases, customers can get denied with utility services due to poor credit score or they may be required to pay security deposit and other upfront fees to be able to afford the service.

If you're a new customer, be prepared to pay a deposit of up to $ 300 per utility when you sign up for your services.

Other insurance providers also passed on rising costs, while municipalities started to tack on upgrade costs to customer utility bills to pay for much - needed upgrades.

All costs are paid by the participating charities, not the utility customer.

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.

In fact, there are already incentives in place that pay utilities MORE for putting fewer kWh through the wires than for selling them to customers.

«If you have customers paying near zero bills but still using the grid, you can't scale that to a large percentage of customers,» said Matthew Freedman, an attorney with The Utility Reform Network, a ratepayer advocacy group that proposed an alternative to net metering to the PUC.

The growth of solar and wind power has highlighted the issue of negative pricing on the wholesale markets, where in some instances the availability of wind or solar power depresses prices to the point where wholesalers pay their utility customers to take the electricity off their hands.

Minimum Delivery Charge: This is a charge that some utilities require solar customers to pay to support the cost of maintaining and upgrading the grid.

This new development has led to debate around what the appropriate level of compensation should be for distributed solar generation fed to the grid and what distributed generation customers ought to pay to utilities for non-electricity services, such as grid maintenance, as well as for electricity when their distributed generation system is not producing power (e.g., when the sun isn't shining).

However, they may have to pay some monthly fees to remain connected to the grid, as is the case for customers of major California utilities.

Senate File 2311 (formerly SSB 3093) would effectively eliminate all funding for utility energy efficiency programs and allow future funding for programs only if customers voluntarily paid into the energy efficiency fund.

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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).

As a result, a TPO solar lease customer in some instances could wind up paying more over the 10 - or 20 - year term of a residential solar lease than they would have paid a utility for electricity over the same period of time, pointed out Stanley Fishbein, the co-founder and one of two managing partners of CleanView Capital, a solar energy finance company focused primarily on the commercial and industrial segments of the solar energy market.

That was despite the utility, Florida's largest, investing nearly $ 3 billion over the past decade to modernize and harden its grid infrastructure — costs, as well as a regulatory profit of between 9.6 and 11.6 percent, that its customers will continue to pay for many years to come.

In addition to all this, in August investor - owned Duke Energy, the state's second largest utility, announced a proposed settlement with consumer, environmental and public interest groups that entails scrapping plans to complete construction of the Levy nuclear power plant without customers or the state having to pay for any more costs incurred.

To help pay for the plant, in the poorest state in the nation, the utility has already raised rates 18 percent — about $ 270 a year for its average customer.

Each March 31, the utility pays the customer for remaining credits at the avoided cost of wholesale power.

Utilities on the other hand get to pay lower net metering rates per customers.

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.

The law states that each electricity retailer must provide a certain amount of renewable energy to its customers, paid for by renewable energy certificates, and that includes Queensland utilities.

The utilities hate paying their retail price for customer excess solar electricity.

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

The utility is also requesting that prospective net - metering customers pay a $ 60 application fee, saying it's necessary to recoup the more than half a million the company has spent processing the recent influx of rooftop solar in Utah.

Net - metering customers are refunded for each kilowatt hour of electricity they generate themselves, which the utility says averages out to it paying 10.6 cents per kilowatt hour for customers» solar power.

Nonetheless, those same FPL customers are on tap to pay a total of $ 816,518 for the utility's funding of the Chamber for 2015 - 2018.

This would allow utilities to reclaim up to 100 % of the carbon tax paid by their customers if they spend the revenue on a carbon reduction plan approved by the Utilities and Transportation Commission (for private utilities) or the Department of Commerce (for public ututilities to reclaim up to 100 % of the carbon tax paid by their customers if they spend the revenue on a carbon reduction plan approved by the Utilities and Transportation Commission (for private utilities) or the Department of Commerce (for public utUtilities and Transportation Commission (for private utilities) or the Department of Commerce (for public ututilities) or the Department of Commerce (for public utilitiesutilities).