Sentences with phrase «utility rate increases»

The legislation also would give FERC power to institute «national cost sharing,» in which states that would need to pay for transmission lines in their territory could spread the costs across the entire country via utility rate increases, Olbeter said.

An amendment introduced by U.S. Representatives Chris Gibson (NY - 19) and Sean Maloney (NY - 18) that would repeal utility rate increases caused

National Fuel Gas CEO Ronald J. Tanski, stung by the rejection of a major pipeline expansion project and a steep reduction in the size of a utility rate increase request over the past month, told analysts that the Amherst - based energy company is «getting lousy regulatory treatment in New York State.»

With utility rates increasing and operating budgets falling under more scrutiny than ever, businesses are using solar to turn otherwise non-performing assets such as rooftops and undeveloped land into energy - saving, self - generating solar energy investments.

Not exact matches

The provincial Public Utilities Board has instead approved an average rate increase of 3.6 per cent as of June 1.

NB Power is soon expected to announce another in a series of rate increases in a bid to break even, but the province remains saddled with the utility's debt and with costly decisions about the future of its generators.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Only the Financials and Utilities sectors have seen increases in expected earnings growth rates since the start of the quarter.

Since utilities are not able to quickly raise prices as rates and inflation increase, shares get hammered and that can limit returns in dividend funds.

As a result, we recorded an income tax benefit of approximately $ 29.6 billion and we increased regulatory liabilities of our regulated utility subsidiaries by approximately $ 6.0 billion for the portion of the deferred income tax liability reduction that we will be required to, effectively, refund to customers in the rate setting process.

«Utilities have altered their rate structures such that demand charges are rising faster than overall energy rates, and businesses are bearing the bulk of those increases,» said Peter Rive, SolarCity's chief technology officer and chief operations officer.

Since utilities can not increase their rates quickly, their shares react like bonds when interest rates rise.

The price of utilities and property rates and charges, for example, both increased by more than 5 per cent over the year.

Despite the modestly slowing rate of cost declines for utility - scale alternative energy generation, the gap between the costs of certain alternative energy technologies (e.g., utility - scale solar and onshore wind) and conventional generation technologies continues to widen as the cost profiles of such conventional generation remain flat (e.g., coal) and, in certain instances, increase (e.g., nuclear).

If he can develop consistency in his increased contact rate and ability to draw walks, his other numbers should rise, also, maybe enough to produce at a major league level, even if as a utility player.

The reality is that utility rates have increased, there was additional baby - related laundry, and we used the air conditioners more in the summer of 2007 than we had in previous years.

«In the various ways that it plays out: higher prices, higher taxes, direct increase in their utility rates.»

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.

As workers, we are worried about the ever increasing utility tariffs which do not match the rate of increase in incomes.

NYPIRG's Blair Horner says the deal will result in $ 2.3 billion in increased payments for residential utility customers, and even more for businesses, according to a study by the Public Utility Law Project in a state that already has the among the highest utility rates in the utility customers, and even more for businesses, according to a study by the Public Utility Law Project in a state that already has the among the highest utility rates in the Utility Law Project in a state that already has the among the highest utility rates in the utility rates in the nation.

First, supporting the defeated candidate results in a negative utility shock, which would tend to increase the suicide rate in states that supported the losing candidate relative to states that supported the winning candidate.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City — The Rockland County legislature approved a motion calling on Albany to reject United Water's planned rate increase and surcharge in the latest blowback against the utility's plan to finance its proposed desalination plant and other plans.

Be careful — look at this YouGov poll which shows a majority of people would support renationalisation of the utilities, increasing the minimum wage to # 10 and the top rate of tax to 60 %... but also a total ban on immigration and benefits for anyone who turns down a job, making life mean life with no parole in prison sentences and stopping all international aid.

The pledge unanimously passed and signed by the Town Board at its April 11 meeting went on to ask «the New York State Legislature to commit to these same clean energy goals, which would represent a 20 percent increase over the current New York State Energy Plan targets» and to urge «Governor Cuomo to adopt a statewide minimum energy efficiency target of three percent per year of annual energy savings for New York's utilities as part of his comprehensive energy efficiency program, to be announced on Earth Day 2018, and further urges that this program be implemented through a centralized planning process rather than in separate utility rate cases.»

-- The Office of the State Comptroller said the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority increased sewer and water rates over an eight - year time period, a time where it had multimillion budget surpluses, after failing to conduct yearly financial reviews.

Consumer advocates and Connecticut officials are lining up against a request by the state's largest utility to raise $ 232 million from a rate increase.

NYPIRG's Blair Horner says the deal will result in $ 2.3 billion dollars in increased payments for residential utility customers, and even more for businesses, according to a study by the Public Utility Law Project, in a state that already has the among the highest utility rates in the utility customers, and even more for businesses, according to a study by the Public Utility Law Project, in a state that already has the among the highest utility rates in the Utility Law Project, in a state that already has the among the highest utility rates in the utility rates in the nation.

Long Islanders are blasting PSEG Long Island's proposed rate increase plan and say current utility costs are already too high.

Extreme weather contributed to cost problem Electricity rates have increased 18 percent because of Kemper, and the result of the prudency review before the Public Service Commission could force the utility to absorb more of the costs (ClimateWire, April 30).

As adoption increases, utilities will have to figure out the best way to have enough electricity on the grid to charge more and more cars without affecting rates and reliability for those with and without electric cars, he said.

Any increase, however, isn't likely to show up until at least January, Schnure says, because utilities could not raise rates without the permission of the Vermont Public Service Commission.

Costello says the utilities have yet to decide whether to seek a rate increase.

Our survey data should be interpreted with caution given response rates of around 50 percent, but the data suggest that statistics students showed significant increases on the Interest, Growth, and Utility domains.

[3] To further increase the utility and validity of evaluation systems, states should require that evaluation instruments differentiate among various levels of teacher performance rather than only giving binary satisfactory / unsatisfactory ratings.

At any rate, crossover shoppers can look forward to an all - new Ford Explorer and the first - ever Ford Explorer ST debuting before 2020, as Ford increases its focus on the truck and utility segments over the coming years.

The information technology sector is cyclical and generally has performed well in increased interest rate periods, while the utilities sector has significantly underperformed.

The increase in net income was due to the approval of a 9.2 % rate increase by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).

One obvious difference is that the principal and interest on a fixed - rate mortgage won't go up (although taxes and utilities will, and insurance probably will) whereas rents can and usually do increase whenever one's lease is renewed.

Rising rates can put pressure on dividend stock valuations and also increase costs for utilities, pipelines and other companies that borrow money.

My goals are to increase my cash position and to increase my size in utilities when interest rates are raised.

One risk to utility companies that you will want to watch out for is increasing interest rates.

BEL Proposes to Recover Increase in Cost of Power The Belize Electricity Limited (BEL) Company submitted a request to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to increase electricity rates for the annual Tariff Period from July 1, 2018, to June 3Increase in Cost of Power The Belize Electricity Limited (BEL) Company submitted a request to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to increase electricity rates for the annual Tariff Period from July 1, 2018, to June 3increase electricity rates for the annual Tariff Period from July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019.

On March 18, 2009, the Ohio PUC approved rate increases for two AEP companies, but the hikes are only about half of of what the utility had requested.

Next year you'll pay an increased per - kilowatt rate, according to Tux Turkel, the well - informed utilities writer for the MaineToday newspapers.

Of course, sizable rate increases recently approved by the Michigan Public Service Commission also ensure Michigan's two major utilities will generate handsome profits on any newly constructed generation.

The utilities, on the other hand, were able to increase fees on solar energy for people with solar panels and recently have been shifting to time - of - use rates.

According to Pentland, increasing demand is unlikely to be the cause of rising electricity rates, due to the simple fact that «many if not most utilities are selling less — not more — electricity than they used to sell.»

This post compares the proposed costs relative to recent rate requests and approved rate increases by New York State (NYS) electric utilities.

California, for example, increased its utility - scale solar capacity by 3,500 MW in just two years — nearly the growth needed in New England over the next 14 years.2 Texas increased its onshore wind capacity by 7,300 MW in five years, which is more than both New England and New York would need to add by 2030.3 For offshore wind, Europe has exceeded the growth rate needed in the Northeast, increasing capacity roughly 16-fold in just 10 years.4

Since they make a marginal profit at a rate that they can not easily vary (as a public utility) this is one of the only ways they have of increasing their profitability.