Sentences with phrase «utility ratepayers in»

The bailout is expected to cost some $ 7.6 billion, borne by utility ratepayers in New York.

Not exact matches

To what extent governments and ratepayers should support rooftop solar is a matter of debate in several state legislatures and utility commissions.

Under Cuomo, the PSC has undertaken an ambitious reimagining of the utility industry, called Reforming the Energy Vision, has backed subsidies for renewable and nuclear energy and has set up a ratepayer - funded program to invest in clean energy technology.

Under Cuomo, the PSC has undertaken an ambitious reimagining of the utility industry, has backed subsidies for renewable and nuclear energy and has set up a ratepayer - funded program to invest in clean energy technology.

LIPA customers are among the highest ratepayers in the nation, but they're being poorly served by a utility that bows to «political influence,» according to findings released by the committee at last week's meeting.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham wants to put a stop to Florida utility ratepayers paying for nuclear power plants that were never built or which never worked, or for paying for fracking exploration in Florida.

Cuomo personally traveled to Western New York to announce a repowering agreement for a coal - burning facility in Dunkirk that would switch it to natural gas and keep the town's revenue base intact, largely by forcing utility ratepayers o pay a little extra on their monthly bills.

The grievances LIPA has filed in court on behalf of its ratepayers should be settled because a likely court judgment in favor of the utility would require Huntington to pay tens of millions of dollars in refunds.

And while he's at it, how about a pitch to explain why ratepayers need to spend billions more in utility payments to prop up three plants built in the 1960s and which were headed for the scrap heap?

Some stakeholders are concerned that utility proposals for cost recovery of smart grid investments would lead to significantly higher monthly bills and a shift in the risk of investment from utilities to ratepayers.

And to avoid brownouts and absorb these surges, utilities will need to spend between $ 70 billion and $ 180 billion in grid upgrades — power plants and futuristic energy storage systems for which ratepayers would ultimately foot the bill.

While consumers in the neighboring states benefit from lower electricity costs, California's ratepayers are footing the bill for the utility generators that produce the power.

But irrespective of this accounting legerdemain, ratepayers and taxpayers are still paying in excess of $ 120.00 / MWh for wind energy, either in taxes, utility fees or increased cost of goods and services that depend upon electricity to be delivered.

Much like the California Solar Initiative created a market for rooftop solar and is now driving rapid declines in the cost of rooftop solar across the nation, this mandate will create a market for storage that is expected to, in the words of CPUC President Michael Peevey «tear down barriers that prevent cost - effective energy storage resources from competing and providing benefits to California customers, ratepayers of California utilities.»

Instead of cutting residents a break for helping solve the climate crisis, in state after state utility corporations — led by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Edison Electric Institute (whose political advocacy efforts ratepayers actually underwrite)-- are passing legislation that pre-empts «net - metering» laws, which let customers sell their excess power back to the grid.

The utilities» compliance with the REPS is expected to save ratepayers $ 651 million by 2029, and in 2014, the average residential customer saved over $ 8 due to REPS — a number that factors in the less than $ 1 / average monthly REPS compliance fee on customers» electric bills.

We expect the REPS, a bipartisan measure passed in 2007 that requires 12.5 % of North Carolina's electricity to come from renewable energy and energy efficiency by 2021, to remain under fire (but not from industry, ratepayers, or utilities) as we enter the upcoming 2016 short session.

The PSC also indicated it had concerns about regulating a larger utility based outside the District and the financial risk for ratepayers in Exelon's generation portfolio.

«By passing peak demand reduction mandates into law, or creating peak demand reduction programs, policymakers and utilities in Massachusetts, Illinois, and neighboring states could significantly reduce costs for ratepayers, strengthen reliability, and facilitate compliance with the Clean Power Plan,» the report concluded.

In recognition of the utility monopoly and the lack of a free market, NCSEA encourages ratepayers across the state to consider the complex nature of energy policy and reject efforts to change the rules for companies and investors without considerable study of the effects to existing companies, investments and jobs in North CarolinIn recognition of the utility monopoly and the lack of a free market, NCSEA encourages ratepayers across the state to consider the complex nature of energy policy and reject efforts to change the rules for companies and investors without considerable study of the effects to existing companies, investments and jobs in North Carolinin North Carolina.

In 2016, leaning on his experience as a state utility regulator, Rep. Kevin Cramer explained that «when ratepayers are subsidizing with an additional cost because of a mandate, that's different.

The mission of the Southeastern Wind Coalition is to advance the wind industry in ways that result in net economic benefits to industry, utilities, ratepayers, and citizens of the Southeast.

UARG, along with EEI, receives financial support from ratepayers across the country (see this invoice from EEI to Arizona Public Service for UARG dues; or Kentucky Utilities» listing of UARG in its recent rate case).

Every dollar spent will result in three dollars of benefits for ratepayers, David Kolata, executive director of the Citizens Utility Board, said.

The company's aggressiveness in pursuit of that goal is the subject of an inquiry by the Office of Ratepayer Advocates (ORA) at the California Public Utilities Commission.

Utilities in the south that miss out on 2016 — The Year of the Wind aren't just missing out on a great opportunity for their ratepayers, they risk losing billions of dollars in wind energy savings as the tax benefits begin to phase out in 2017.

The installation serves as a foundation for future smart grid actions like real - time pricing «The potential benefits of advanced metering to ratepayers and the company are too great to delay,» said the Idaho Public Utilities Commission in a released statement.

When utilities come to the MPSC asking for $ 1 billion in ratepayer dollars (including a guaranteed 10 percent rate of return), the MPSC must hold them to a high standard of proof that the investment is a smart one for ratepayers.

The appellants, electricity ratepayers required to pay debt retirement charges to the Ontario Electricity Financial Corporation, brought an action seeking damages and declaratory relief concerning the sale of shares in Hydro One, pursuant to a plan to privatize the electricity utility.