Sentences with phrase «what electric utilities»

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It's true that 9.00 an hour isn't going to make anyone a millionaire, but what Skelos can't get straight in his mind is it might put food on the table for a hungry family, or pay an urgent bill to a utility so that family has electric..

In October 2011, Paladino filed a lawsuit against National Grid and Verizon (the primary electric and telephone utilities in Western New York, respectively) for what he alleged were exorbitant fees which the two companies charged for services.

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.

Instead of studying the impact daylight saving changes had on just one state, senior analyst Jeff Dowd and his colleagues at the U.S. Department of Energy investigated what effect it might have on national energy consumption, looking at 67 electric utilities across the country.

The Focus Electric five - door seats five but gives up a big chunk of its utility to the second of two battery packs, the one crammed into what used to be the cargo area of the Focus hatchback.

I recognize growth isn't everything and many of the electric utilities provide solid dividends, but I believe that what you pay for a company truly does matter.

So what now costs the utilities $ 65.50 will later cost them $ 65.50 + $ 30.80 = $ 96.30, pretty close to a 50 % increase, to produce the exact same amount of electric energy.

63 percent of respondents said the United States should move forward to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, regardless of what other countries do... In the same poll, the public supported — by a margin of 63 percent to 37 percent — requiring electric utilities to produce at least 20 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources, even if that would cost the average household an extra $ 100 per year.»

The French porteur bike and the Dutch semi-transportfiets bicycle are two similar designs that look and feel (mostly) like riding just about any other bike, yet can also carry heavy or bulky loads on frame - mounted racks, and new to that mid-sized cargo bike category is a fresh entry that adds the leverage of an electric drivetrain to create what the company calls «your new S.U.V. (Super Utility Vehicle).»

So what the proposal is really telling the electric utility industry is this: If you want to build a new coal - fired power plant, you'll have to build a natural gas combined cycle plant instead.

Utilities have installed more than 60 million smart electric meters in North America in the past decade, the Wall Street Journal recently noted, adding that the challenge now is figuring out what to do with all the information the devices are generating.

What can a small city do to advance clean energy locally, if its state commissioners and legislators are not willing to take their jobs regulating monopoly electric utilities seriously?

While the science on climate change was limited compared to what we know today, by 1971 electric utilities knew enough to include research into the «effects of CO2» in the industry's long - term research and development goals for through the year 2000.

We should look at what's happening in Germany to see how this line of thinking is destroying Germany's electric utility companies.

Cat, someone should ask CA electric utilities what they expect when their current interstate power purchase and transmission wheeling contracts run out.

Mohave Electric CEO Tyler Carlson argued that the trash - to - gas power plant could reduce costs to ratepayers by saving some of what the utility spends on solar.

And in the larger picture, it's intellectually dishonest for advocates of socializing electric utilities to promote the euphemistic «decoupling» as if it were some novel solution rather than what it really is — a subversion of our capitalistic system.

What the 92 - page report leaves out is that Vitter — an esteemed member of the Senate «Millionaires Club» — owns tens of thousands of dollars in stocks of the electric utility Wisconsin Energy Corporation (We Energies), which owns major coal - fired power plants in both Oak Creek, Wisc. and Pleasant Prairie, Wisc..

In the case of electric utilities, already a most heavily regulated enterprise, even greater government regulation of the industry will be required, which, of course, is what a good socialist like Browner would want.

But what makes the solar math work is a combination of high electric rates and financial incentives from your state and utility.

«Utility scale solar for utilities» is what the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) will be looking for as fifteen of its 900 - plus national members use SUNRISE funding to build 21 megawatts of projects ranging from 250 kilowatts to one megawatt, explained Project Advisor Peter Muhoro.

Florida: The Seminole Electric generation and transmission co-op serving Florida's rural Gulf Coast last August completed what is thought to be the largest community solar facility any utility in the Southeast.

One figure was apparently updated by Dr Michaels between 1995 and 2005 — the Edison Electric $ 15,000 seen in «Greenpeace USA née Ozone Action»» s scan of the CV he submitted to the 1995 Minnesota Public Utilities Commission hearings, compared to what Mother Jones quotes from his 2005 CV.

What happens when a city's franchise contracts with its incumbent electric and gas utilities expires?

That's what the Solar Energy Industries Association and Vote Solar are saying about a recent change to a rate design proposal from San Diego Gas & Electric, the first of the state's big three utilities to start the shift to time - of - use (TOU).

It is here that Tata, India's giant conglomerate and largest private electric utility, has been building what it hopes will be one of the largest coal power plants in the world, the 4,000 - megawatt Tata Mundra.

What can we expect from the first - in - the - nation clean energy partnership between the City of Minneapolis and its electric and gas utilities?

«What scares us is the prices for plasma sets are dropping so fast that people are saying, why get a 42 - inch plasma set when you can get a 60 - inch or 64 - inch one,» says Tom Reddoch, director of energy efficiency for the nonprofit Electric Power Research Institute's laboratory in Knoxville, Tenn., an independent organization that advises the utility sector.

What's more the residents at Silken Park will have the chance to charge their EVs and run their heat pumps for free: utility provider Electric Ireland has recognised the significance of the project, and is offering the occupants of the 59 homes three years worth of free night rate electricity, provided they sign up to the company's new Pay as You Go package within three months of moving in.