Sentences with phrase «utility customers still»

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

Not exact matches

Some corporations use customer surveys to impress their stockholders, others, such as public utilities, show the information to regulatory commissions, while still more use it to track trends over years.

And there are still 61,000 utility customers who've been completely without power since September, the US Department of Energy reported earlier this month.

The threat, often referred to as the «utility death spiral,» goes like this: as customers choose to install solar panels or adopt energy efficiency measures, a utility will sell fewer units of energy and has to increase what it charges for electricity to ensure that it can still cover its fixed costs, such as grid maintenance and labor.

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

Power is still out for thousands of utility customers in the Southern Tier in the wake of the late week snowstorm that dumped up to two feet of heavy, wet snow

The last of the federal government's power restoration crews are scheduled to leave Puerto Rico when their contract expires next week, leaving the island's power utility with the task of energizing the last 1.5 percent of customers still waiting eight months after Hurricane Maria.

The utility is reporting more than 2500 customers still without power, many in the northtowns and in Niagara County.

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.

«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.

Finally, Georgia Power — an investor - owned utility company that serves 2.35 million customers throughout the state — is said to still be testing solar energy and trying to figure out how much its use would benefit both its customers and the environment.

Sadly with the new NEM - 2 rules new solar customers with an Investor Owned Utility (most people) must switch to time of use billing reducing the returns by about 10 % however, with declining equipment prices and great solar production in San Ramon installing a solar system is still a great investment.

DTE Energy customers can still install solar energy systems — and work with the utility to connect them to their electric system.

Smart thermostats help utility customers manage their heating and cooling so that they aren't wasting energy but can still maintain a comfortable environment in their homes.

With on - bill repayments, a third party lender provides the funds, but the customer can still repay the loan through their utility bill.

Solar customers still rely on the utility's grid power during cloudy days or at night.

«More than 5 million of our utility customers are still exposed to the uncertainties of competitive markets,» he said.

Home to recurring, often acrimonious debates over how to compensate rooftop solar customers for the excess energy they send to the grid, Arizona regulators, utilities and the rooftop solar sector are still struggling to settle on a method that can satisfy both sides.

Across all customer segments, more utilities expect their net load to increase, rather than decrease, though most still expect load to stay stagnant.

It's Mobile: Community solar allows customers to move within the utility territory and still retain their participation in the community solar project, making it an easy, portable energy solution.

The other problem is that the funds collected from consumers served by utilities and alternative energy suppliers are maintained in separate accounts, and the agency can't spend funds from alternative suppliers unless it is simultaneously acquiring renewable energy for customers who still buy energy at the default rate from utilities.

Utility customers that do not pay into the SBC may still be eligible for NYSERDA programs.

Restructuring: The process of replacing a monopoly system of electric utilities with competing sellers, allowing individual retail customers to choose their electricity supplier but still receive delivery over the power lines of the local utility.

And for utilities, it is a way to give customers the solar that they want, at a lower cost than paying for residential solar and while still staying in the transaction.

This means that many solar customers will still have a $ 10 - $ 20 monthly charge from the utility even if they have no electric charge or even receive credits.