Sentences with phrase «utility regulators on»

May 1 - Energy Transfer Partners LP said on Monday it filed with Pennsylvania utility regulators on Friday to restart its Sunoco Mariner East 1 natural gas liquids pipeline and hopes the line will return to service this week.

May 1 (Reuters)- Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP) said on Monday it filed with Pennsylvania utility regulators on Friday to restart its Sunoco Mariner East 1 natural gas liquids pipeline and hopes the line will return to service this week.

California's public utility regulator on Friday signaled it would allow self - driving car companies to transport passengers without a backup driver in the vehicle, a step forward for autonomous car developers just as the industry faces heightened scrutiny over safety concerns.

news.slashdot.org - According to Reuters, California's public utility regulator on Friday signaled it would allow passengers to ride in self - driving cars without a backup driver in the vehicle.

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DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Michigan regulators on Friday cleared DTE Energy's request to build a near - $ 1 billion natural gas power plant, the first approval of such a large facility for a regulated utility in decades and a move that coincides with the retirement of coal - fired plants.

Governor Sandoval appoints NV Energy's regulators and decides on legislation that impacts the utility.

Regulators typically set customer rates for utilities to ensure investors recover a fair return on capital and allows the businesses keep their systems well maintained.

They also comment on the underlying utility of these cryptocurrencies and what they would like to see from the regulators.

On Thursday, the utility filed a petition before the island's energy regulator for a new securitization charge, which would pay for the restructured debt following a planned bond exchange.

A report by the California Public Utilities Commission is due out this fall on the costs and benefits of rooftop solar that may help determine the direction regulators and lawmakers take on net metering programs in the state.

The meeting was skipped by top utility regulators, who pointed to the 24 public hearings they've had on the issue.

Wisconsin utility regulators removed references to climate change from their website months before state environmental officials altered global - warming language on their own site.

And a former utility commissioner was indicted on federal bribery charges last year, prompting fresh questioning about the relationship between Arizona regulators and the companies they oversee.

«Set it and forget it» a popular option Oncor's smart grid meter will cover $ 800 million, paid for by a $ 2.19 monthly charge on customers» utility bills that regulators approved.

Its regulators have traditionally allowed utilities to recover investments with a reasonable return on their investments.

The batteries are likely to become more useful if, as expected, more utilities and regulators allow power prices to change throughout the day based on market conditions.

Regulators typically set customer rates for utilities to ensure investors recover a fair return on capital and allows the businesses keep th...

To put a specific point on it, EPA's top air regulator, Gina McCarthy, told utility regulators Nov. 13 that it would be «at least several years» before EPA addressed a top priority of environmentalists: carbon emission standards for existing coal - fired power plants.

SAN JOSE, March 19 (Reuters)- Costa Rica will lower its electricity rates an average of 12 percent from April because it has met demand this year almost entirely with renewable energy, the state utilities regulator said on Thursday.

In Arizona, regulators voted for a nine - month pause on any new large gas - fired power plants and told the state's largest investor - owned utilities that their future plans relied too heavily on natural gas and should include more wind and solar, electricity storage, and energy efficiency.

Utility regulators must adopt new rules that allow the utilities to recover costs and earn comparable returns on local energy solutions.

Utilities and state regulators are expected to make a decision in January, 2018 on the Revolution Wind proposal.

The shift imposed by state renewables standards will, Sands said, cause utilities to pressure regulators to allow them to pass the increased costs for renewables on to ratepayers.

Lesser has provided expert testimony on energy - related matters before utility commissions in numerous states; before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; before international regulators; and in state and federal courts.

In pushing off their decision on solar compensation, regulators hoped find common ground in the valuation docket that could satisfy both utilities and solar installers.

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.

Hawaii's regulators are working with the HECO utilities on a 67 % renewables by 2030 mandate.

Regulators determined that both methods would be established in utility rate cases and updated on an annual basis.

Earlier this year, the company abandoned work on a high - profile clean coal project, and Georgia regulators will meet this week to decide whether the utility can finish work on a long - delayed nuclear project.

Under the «used and useful» construct, utility regulators have the option of taking a retired plant out of rates, even if the utility still carries substantial capital debt on that plant.

Although the failure of a transformer at the 1,346 Mw Krümmel nuclear facility on July 4 did not endanger the public, revelations that Vattenfall, the Swedish utility, failed to install a monitoring device or promptly inform its regulator have caused alarm.

Regulators and utilities in states reliant on coal power throughout the nation are already scrambling to figure out how to meet their state's emissions goals while still ensuring reliable electric service.

Travis Kavulla, a former president of National Association of Regulatory and Utility Commissioners, noted on Twitter that the Clean Power Plan also moved energy decision - making authority at the state level away from regulators and toward governors, creating more flexibility but less accountability for states.

The regulators then made their concerns explicit in an amendment that called on the utilities to consider a scenario where fossil fuel additions are capped at 20 percent.

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.

Leaked documents obtained by Greenpeace reveal that ALEC's anti-environmental jamboree was inundated with coal money and featured an Indiana regulator advising coal utilities on delaying US Environmental Protection Agency rules to control greenhouse gas emissions and hazardous air pollution.

Further, Southern warned that it may record a $ 3.4 billion loss for the project in the second quarter of 2017, depending on how negotiations with state utility regulators unfold.

In a historic vote this morning, Mississippi state regulators slammed the brakes on the Kemper coal power plant, saying they will refuse to ask utility customers to pay anything for Kemper's non-functional multi-billion dollar «clean coal» gasification technology and will re-designate the plant as a natural gas facility.

«By JASON DEAREN, Associated Press Jason Dearen, Associated Press — 20 mins ago SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California regulators on Thursday approved the first system in the nation to give polluting companies such as utilities and refineries financial incentives to emit fewer greenhouse gases.

California regulators on Thursday approved two power purchase contracts between solar thermal power plant developer BrightSource Energy and utility Southern California Edison but rejected three others.

To mitigate these integration costs, energy regulators, utilities, grid operators and policymakers are focusing their attention on advancing deployment of energy storage technologies.

Regulators approved some grid - facing modernization benefits, but ordered utilities back to the drawing board on automated metering infrastructure.

Reuters - California regulators on Thursday approved two power purchase contracts between solar thermal power plant developer BrightSource Energy and utility Southern California Edison but rejected three others.

On Monday Choi Jong - ku, the head regulator in South Korea, told the press that crypto exchanges provide, «zero utility to the national economy».