Sentences with phrase «where utility has»

This is particularly so where utility has been demonstrated, but the demonstrated utility defines the invention in a manner not reflected in the patent description.
If you or your business is in one of 17 states where utilities have been deregulated, check the rates with independent suppliers for additional savings.
They responded by capping retail prices (which hamstrung utility income) even as wholesale prices (where the utilities had to spend their cash) continued to soar.
It does three main things: First, it can store solar energy if you have solar panels; second, it can store energy from the grid off - peak when power is cheapest (in places where utilities have time - of - use dynamic pricing) and release it when power is most expensive, saving you money and smoothing out the demand peak, which is good for the grid overall.

Not exact matches

The building boom is biggest on the East Coast, where the grid operator PJM has a new market that incentivizes utilities to add energy storage, followed by California.
«The hope is to help power utilities find out where their networks have weaknesses, how their systems might respond, and how they could alleviate problems,» Love said.
The computer and the car have become utilities where the manufacturers are given great value by society.
And Buffett and Musk have butted heads, most notably in Nevada, where Berkshire - owned NV Energy provides utility - scale solar energy and where SolarCity was previously selling solar roofs.
Instead, the net metering rate will be set at wholesale prices — even though the utility doesn't have to pay for any of the solar panels» hardware or maintenance, and transmission costs are negligible, since the electricity is being generated close to where it is used.
We advocate reducing popular positions where prices have moved beyond fundamentals (examples are gilts and bond - proxies such as utility stocks).
If our device could be moved close to where it is needed, but still on the energy producer's side of that equation, yet just outside the meter, then the energy producers could have millions of these small devices that they own and operate, because grandma doesn't want to become her own utility company because she has a solar panel, but if the utility companies and energy providers could compete with each other to have small units that are so close to the loads, they still get the full advantage of being a supplier of energy, except with just millions of little plants, they can avoid needing transmission lines, distribution lines, substations, et cetera, that everybody is talking about being expensive, unreliable, and subject to issues.
The Progressive Era developed the view that public utilities and other natural monopolies rightly belonged in the public sector, where governments would provide their basic services at a subsidized price or even freely as in the case of roads.
In a new collaborative report, «An Underappreciated Disruptor,» Morgan Stanley's Utility and Clean Tech analyst, Stephen Byrd and Shared Mobility & Auto analyst, Adam Jonas, argue that the price of both solar and wind energy, as well as new storage units, have reached a point where renewable energy can finally become a dependable rather than an unpredictable source of energy.
Our staff has also found months where the total installed utility - scale solar capacity estimated by FERC has been smaller than individual projects which we have observed coming online in a given month.
Schwartz borrowed this concept from Nobel laureate Herbert Simon, who developed it as a realistic alternative to the notion of the «utility maximizer» presupposed by classical economics: For example, if a supermarket chain attempted to calculate the very best alternative before deciding where to place a new store, the research costs would bankrupt it, while more intrepid competitors would move in.
As an Arsenal fan I would love to see us get to the point where we have 2 WC players (1 «old» and 1 in prime) for every spot, 22 players who need to be registered and this allows an allowance of 3 players for the squad, utility players / big personality... Use kids to make a 3rd man for every spot, get them ready to step into the shoes of an older WC player.
So the second would probably need to be a central midfielder (or another wing back if Ox stays and is used as a utility player where he plays across the wing back positions both sides or central midfield if needed)
the problem is because of the economic reasons, US was the place where it was possible commericialise the sport, hence the US approach (profit maximising Vs utility maximing) has been applied.
Many parents who have purchased the Sport Utility live out in the country where there are no sidewalks and they can still take their child out and get some exercise.
Ryan described it as being similar to a department store layaway plan, where New York would front the cost of the installation, and consumers would pay it off over time through balanced rates on their utility bills.
-- 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.
«At that point, the United Nations and its members should help the Libyan people as they rebuild where Gaddafi has destroyed - to repair homes and hospitals, to restore basic utilities, and to assist Libyans as they develop the institutions to underpin a prosperous and open society.
Observers said they could not recall a time when Arizona's utility commission, where Republicans control all five seats, had rebuffed a long - term plan from one of the state's utilities.
Liquid - phase precursors had been demonstrated before, but the materials had to be enclosed in a tiny capsule where the reaction took place, limiting fabrication flexibility, capacity and utility of the approach for 3D nanofabrication.
If you look at, you know, 30, 40, 50 years ago, we had a system where you had primarily local utilities that were serving local loads with local generation.
We had a partnership with Microsoft for value charging where Microsoft works with the utility companies to define charging rates and times a day, so this application you can set it up to say, hey, I want to charge with the lowest rates and it will know what time at night that is and it will come on and charge for you and shut off.
The challenges of supplying sufficient water has led authorities, water utility companies, technology suppliers, and knowledge institutions from all over the world to coin the phrase «fit for purpose water» — where water of a quality other than drinking water is used for washing clothes, watering lawns, and cleaning the car, for example.
Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) projects would add additional value of 5 or 6 cents per kilowatt hour to utility - scale solar energy in California where 33 percent renewables will be mandated in six years, a new report by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has found.
Such a solution would make it possible for utility companies to keep the lights on in neighborhoods where the parrots live, without the cost of repeated nest removals and the damages that result when nests catch fire.
That legislation would phase - out a state's Renewable Portfolio Standards and instead create a renewable «market» where consumers can choose to pay for renewable energy, and allow utilities to purchase energy credits from outside the state.
This document would have strong utility value wherever there is responsible conduct of research, but particularly so in societies where there is a paucity of research.
Immunobased assays such as ELISA or Western blots may also be used for targeted approaches, but will likely have more utility during a clinical validation phase where much larger sample cohorts are used.
People are terrible at reporting food intake and studies that have shown this over and over and over and over and over, over, over, over again... and again, because nobody knows how many calories are in foods and that's where the utility in calorie trackers lies — they make the impalpable palpable.
Though the writers strike caused problems, the film had script problems that should have been sorted out long before (this is a Bond film where the plot revolves around a utilities contract), and Forster's handling of the action was fairly poor, despite the presence of «Bourne» action supremo Dan Bradley as second - unit director.
It all comes at a price: roughly $ 8000 more than comparably equipped 5 - series sedans and about ten grand more than the X5, such that the 535i GT will likely start in the high $ 50,000 s and the 550i GT in the high $ 60,000 s. Given those tariffs, it's hard to say whether the 5 - series GT will find much of an audience here in America, where BMW finds only a few hundred buyers each year for the 5 - series wagon and where other premium - priced, unconventional utility vehicles, such as the Mercedes - Benz R - Class, have bombed.
The SUV has dominated this market, offering similar utility and space as wagons in a class where gas mileage matters little.
The F - Pace will establish a foothold where no Jag has before — in the land of constantly evolving utility vehicles — and the J - Pace will follow close behind.
The Enclave has been a nice enough seven - passenger utility since it launched, but this 2013 Buick Enclave Premium Group adds loads of stitching, soft - touch materials, ambient lighting and other luxury touches that really put it in a class above where it previously played.
Where SUVs were really meant to be able to go off - road; used crossovers are meant to drive like cars but have the utility of a SUV.
Stability control has become one of the new must - have items on new vehicles, particularly sport utilities, where the higher center of gravity often makes them more susceptible to rolling over.
Naturally, the 2018 Fit retains the utility that has made it a standout in the subcompact segment, where Honda claims it accounts for half of all retail sales to the typical consumer.
This is the best Explorer yet, and deserves to stay at the front of the sport utility vehicle pack, where the Explorer has been since shortly after its introduction for 1991.
It's the interior, the area where last year's model really showed how out of date and out of touch Chevy's compact sport - utility had become.
And last fall, a significantly redesigned CR - V earned the Motor Trend Sport Utility of the Year award... which is where our step - by - step effort to increase our light truck leadership really began.
But besides being an SUV in a time where the global market started to love this type of vehicle, the Cayenne had something else going for it: the fact that, unlike many other similar models, it truly was (and remains) a sports utility vehicle — with a big emphasis on «sports.»
Combining the front trunk and space where the rear seats would be on a standard 911, the GT3 offers 14 cubic feet of cargo volume — exceeding the utility of each of its main rivals.
I worked in the energy industry where third party energy marketing arms had to be totally separate on paper and physically housed apart from its affiliate, the regulated utility.
Ever have that life moment where bills are piling up and you just can't seem to get ahead enough to pay the mortgage, rent, or utility bills.
If you've been living with family or renting a condo where utilities are included, your first batch of utility bills can send you into shock.
Because their prices can be so sensitive to interest rates, strategists at BlackRock generally prefer stocks outside what they call the «RUST» belt of real estate, utilities, staples and telecoms — where low - volatility funds tend to have bigger concentrations than S&P 500 index funds.
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