Sentences with phrase «utility rates which»

Whatever we do will be paid for currently as a tax burden, utility rates which are effectively the same, or it will be passed down to the future generations.

The consumer ratings agency notes that pricing varies depending on where the individual lives, as geography dictates available sunshine and utility rates which ultimately determines if the innovative solar roof tiles makes sense as a purchase.

Not exact matches

The only sectors not participating are interest - rate sensitive REITs and utilities, which are bond proxies.

In addition to long - duration Treasuries, these classic «safe havens» include high - yielding defensive equities like utilities, as well as precious metals, both of which are sensitive to changes in real interest rates.

Best says prime short targets are interest rate - sensitive stocks such as REITs, utilities and infrastructure, which have rebounded strongly from the November lows.

Most likely it was the near doubling of interest rates, which tend to disproportionately impact those sectors, such as utilities, owned primarily for their dividend yield.

The big push for utility stocks came from interest rates, which unexpectedly dove in 2014 as the Federal Reserve's end of quantitative easing didn't have the rate - raising impact that most investors had believed it would.

Based on their valuations, Utilities are expected to grow at the same rate as the rest of the S&P 500, which seems unrealistic.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

The sun makes daylight, not only on our earth, but also on the other planets; and daylight is of the utmost utility to us; for by its means we can commodiously carry on those occupations which in the night - time would either be quite impossible, or at any rate impossible without our going to the expense of artificial light.

A vocal opponent of the federal government's capacity zones, which could raise utility rates in the Hudson Valley by 20 %, Dr. Murphy sees this as the opportunity to promote and incorporate green energy projects to stabilize our...

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.

The commission, which oversees utility rate hikes, may get to weigh in on the controversial plan if Con Ed sells its building on Park Place to mosque developer Sharif El - Gamal.

Greenport Electric isn't listed but its rates, which like Rockville Centre's and Freeport's are subsidized by cheap hydropower from New York Power Authority, are on par with those two Long Island municipal utilities.

State approval of ConEd's rate case, which contains funding for smart meters and incentives for cutting demand, includes some of the most concrete steps yet toward transforming New York's utilities.

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.

The utility, which serves nearly 10 million people in New York City and Westchester, wants to embark on an eight - year «advanced metering initiative,» as part of its recently filed rate case.

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.»

Under the guise of promoting renewable energy, Cuomo is attempting an end run around the legislature to impose a rate hike on state utility consumers in order to bail out four failing nuclear plants in the state, all of which are coincidently owned by the same corporation.

He noted that the mess in which Ghana's economy finds herself is evident in the rising cost of living, skyrocketing levels of inflation, high bank lending / interest rates, and hikes in petroleum and utility prices, amongst others, which have left Ghanaians reeling from unprecedented levels of hardships and suffering.

The Ford Flex got the second - best «acceptable,» rating in the test, which mimics what happens when a car's front corner collides with another vehicle or object such as a utility pole.

Here's the new Ford Expedition, a full - size sport - utility vehicle that is headed for showrooms this fall.Ford plans to offer the nine - passenger Expedition with a standard 215 - horsepower overhead cam V - 8 engine; an optional 5.4 - liter V - 8 powerplant is rated at 230 horsepower.The Expedition will be pitted against the full - size Chevrolet Tahoe, GMC Yukon and Chevrolet / GMC Suburban, which for years has had no competition.Ford says the Expedition will offer best - in - class highway fuel economy and towing capacity.

The TSP + rating also requires that a vehicle earn an Acceptable or Good rating on the IIHS» small frontal overlap test which simulates hitting a utility pole with the front corner of the car.

The 6.2 L EcoTec makes matting the throttle great fun, but its greatest utility lies in its torque, which helps the RST PP to achieve an 8,400 - pound tow rating — 1,800 pounds better than the next best tow rig in the lineup.

The Tesla Model S initially had earned an acceptable rating in the small overlap test, which represents the type of crash that occurs when the front driver - side corner of a vehicle hits a tree or utility pole or collides with another vehicle.

Vehicles on the best choices list must also have a good rating for roof strength to protect in rollover crashes and a good or acceptable rating in the small overlap test, which replicates what happens when the front, driver - side corner of a vehicle strikes another vehicle or an object such as a tree or utility pole.

Expected Utility Approach: Also the Morningstar Rating uses an enhanced risk - adjusted return measure based on «expected utility theory,» which accounts for all variations in a separate account's monthly performance, with more emphasis on downward varUtility Approach: Also the Morningstar Rating uses an enhanced risk - adjusted return measure based on «expected utility theory,» which accounts for all variations in a separate account's monthly performance, with more emphasis on downward varutility theory,» which accounts for all variations in a separate account's monthly performance, with more emphasis on downward variation.

Cove Point and the ACP contribute to Dominion being the only utility to receive a «wide» moat rating from Morningstar, which believes those operations will give the company «sustainable competitive advantages.»

After substantial criticism of the rating agencies for the Enron fiasco, S&P responded by a wholesale downgrade of the utilities industry which now seemed much more risky to their analysts.

Utility stocks tanked hard starting in mid-November on worries about rising interest rates, which can be bad for supposed «bond proxies» like utes.

Conversely slower growth companies like real estate investment trusts (REITs), utilities and telecom companies, which are seen as bond proxies because they deliver a steady cash flow to investors, have a tendency to lag as rate climb.

From an economic perspective, faster GDP growth historically benefits cyclical sectors, which include financials and energy, while the defensive sectors like utilities have historically underperformed in a faster growth environment due to rising interest rates.

Not sure what you mean by «rate» and «commercially available solar» covers a lot of territory from 5 KW residential rooftop installations to gigawatt - class utility - scale power plants (both PV and thermal)-- but the cost of electricity from rooftop PV is approaching parity with the retail cost of grid electricity, and that's the point at which distributed PV will explode like cell phones and personal computers did.

The state's three investor - owned utilities, Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric, initially argued for fixed charges for solar customers, but in the last month authored a new proposal that would preserve net metering but reduce the rate at which solar customers are compensated for the power they export.

Large commercial and industrial customers sometimes obtain interruptible rates, which provide a discount in return for the consumer's agreement to cut electric loads upon request from the utility (usually during critical periods, such as summer afternoons when the system demand approaches the utility's generating capability).

If the FIT payment rate is set to be higher than the utility avoided cost, it may incur additional costs which will need to be recovered (e.g. from ratepayers).

Profit - conscious utilities across the country, however, are concerned about the rates at which they are crediting customers for producing solar power.

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.

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

Thirdly, utilities will start devising their rates to reflect battery storage, which helps them by taking critical load off the grid when they need load to be managed more effectively.

Those that were completed saw huge cost overruns, which were passed on to utility customers in the form of rate increases.

California is in the midst of shifting all of its big utilities to time - of - use rates by 2020, and CAISO is working with the California Public Utilities Commission to «develop the rate tiers to incentivize people to use excess energy when we have it, which is now in the mid-mornings to mid-afternoons,» Greenutilities to time - of - use rates by 2020, and CAISO is working with the California Public Utilities Commission to «develop the rate tiers to incentivize people to use excess energy when we have it, which is now in the mid-mornings to mid-afternoons,» GreenUtilities Commission to «develop the rate tiers to incentivize people to use excess energy when we have it, which is now in the mid-mornings to mid-afternoons,» Greenlee said.

Residential customers did get a 20 percent rate cut under the deregulation act, which saved customers of ComEd, Exelon's grid - utility arm, $ 4.27 billion dollars from 1998 to 2006, while ComEd recouped just $ 1.2 billion in transition charges.

Their theory goes like this: Homeowners install solar panels, which reduces the amount of electricity they buy from the electric utility, thereby reducing the amount of fees that customers pay for grid maintenance, which then causes the utility to raise rates and, ultimately, encourages more and more customers to go solar which... causes rates to soar.

It is important that we know which utility you are with because we have the residential electricity rates for each of the utility companies in our database and this means if you tell us your average monthly bill we can work out how many kilowatt hours of power you need your solar panels to produce.

Under «net - metering» billing regimes, solar power producers can sell their excess electricity (i.e., that which exceeds their demand) back to the utility, for which they [the rooftop solar owners] usually are credited the full - retail rate of electricity.

But opponents, led by the CARE Coalition, which was funded largely by the parent companies of the state's two large utilities, Consumers Energy and Detroit Edison, argued that the measure would cost consumers $ 12 billion in higher rates — a number renewable energy advocates strongly disputed.

Compounding the problem, Ledford and others say, is that Duke wants to recoup nearly all of its grid costs through a bill add - on or «rider,» which isn't subject to the same type of scrutiny at the utilities commission as base electricity rates or proposals for new power plants.