Sentences with phrase «utility interests»

The requirement to have a 90 - day fuel supply on site echoes what coal and utility interests advocated for while speaking at energy conferences last week.

Scott Segal, executive director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, which represents utility interests in Washington, said Bloomberg's findings about the effect of the new EPA rule on coal plants are «very consistent» with what his group concluded in its own review of the regulation.

It was tabled after a protracted floor battle and opposition from utility interests like Duke Energy and the Edison Electric Institute, a trade group.

In many cases, Brown and the publications fail to disclose that his organization receives funding from utility interests.

The battle at the American Legislative Exchange Council shows how utility interests are diverging from those of the oil and gas sector.

«In the U.K., it's quite difficult to get the power utilities interested in this,» Grant says.

Other political organizations in the Koch machine which have worked closely with utility interests, and could be other venues for internecine strife, include:

Despite this early knowledge, by 1989 some powerful utility interests had joined...

By contrast, utility interests expressed a desire for «alternatives.»

Consumer sentiment and improving economics for renewables are helping to drive utility interest in wind, solar and distributed energy, the survey showed, strengthening trends present in past Utility Dive surveys.

In the latest attempt to rollback pro-clean energy policies, fossil fuel and utility interests operating through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) are proposing new model legislation to slow the rise of the clean energy industry by weakening net metering policies.

The Sullivan & Cromwell memos also serve as a reminder that state attorneys general will undoubtedly continue with their efforts to hold fossil fuel and utility interests accountable on climate change, regardless of what direction the SEC takes on the issue moving forward.

Since 1991, water utilities interested in profit have seduced at least 144 cities and towns into privatizing their domestic water systems.

The campaign contributions that fossil fuel and electric utility interests have made in Ohio's race for governor during the first four months of 2018 have largely gone to Republican candidate Mike DeWine.

The battle at ALEC, a secretive group that convenes private companies and conservative legislators, shows how utility interests are diverging from those of the oil and gas sector in an era of low - priced renewable energy and proliferating electric vehicles.

Utilities interested in tapping into tidal power will have to spend money to create the energy - delivery infrastructure, or at least convince government to pay for it.

The standards will now be unfrozen on January 1, 2017, a significant win for supporters of renewable energy and energy efficiency standards and a notable loss for the fossil fuel and utility interests that lobbied behind the scenes to continue the freeze.

Lobbyists for industry associations that represent fossil fuel and utility interests have also lobbied on SB 320 and HB 554, including:

, the primary sponsors of HB 554 and SB 310 have received 2016 campaign contributions from some of the same fossil fuel and utility interests that have lobbied on their bills:

Fossil fuel and utility interests have used lobbyists and 2016 campaign contributions to influence state legislators in Ohio, and to drive renewed attacks on clean energy policies in the Buckeye State.

CEA's membership also includes a long list of fossil fuel and utility interests, as well as industry trade groups.

The rift may already be opening in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a group heavily driven by both Koch and utility interests.

There has been no shortage of public support for unfreezing Ohio's clean energy standards, but behind the scenes, fossil fuel and utility interests have been using money to influence the debate in Columbus.

Earlier this year, PolluterWatch provided a useful roundup of the campaign cash that Senator Seitz and Representative Amstutz have previously received from fossil fuel and utility interests.

of the campaign cash that Senator Seitz and Representative Amstutz have previously received from fossil fuel and utility interests.

In fact, most states with renewable energy standards have chosen to stand by their bipartisan commitments to clean energy, and reject the disinformation campaign funded by fossil fuel and utility interests.

funded by fossil fuel and utility interests.

According to Ohio's campaign finance database, the primary sponsors of HB 554 and SB 310 have received 2016 campaign contributions from some of the same fossil fuel and utility interests that have lobbied on their bills:

Furthermore, fossil fuel and utility interests that have a stake in coal or natural gas plants simply want to slow the growth of their competition: for every solar installation on a home, means approximately one less customer paying for the electricity produced from fossil fuel plants.

«The rapid growth of community solar projects across the country once again underlines the intense customer and utility interest in putting more solar on the grid in ways that benefit all stakeholders.

In an effort to block progress on reducing carbon emissions, fossil fuel and utility interests are rolling out disinformation campaigns and misleading studies that exaggerate the costs of the Clean Power Plan.

ALEC's Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force, whose members include fossil fuel and utility interests, has produced model legislation attacking state level clean energy laws and solar net metering policies and distributed those model bills to legislators across the country.

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) serves as a front group for coal and utility interests.