Sentences with phrase «wholesale electric rates»

It interferes with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's jurisdiction in regulating wholesale electric rates, and also because the measure unlawfully interferes with interstate commerce.»

The consortium has long argued that the state rules interfere with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) jurisdiction over wholesale electric rates and unlawfully interfere with interstate commerce.

Not exact matches

And as the EIA points out, this brief wholesale price drop hasn't been matched by overall drops in California's consumer electric rates, which remain well above average.

Suppose electric utilities in Nevada were to reduce the compensation for net metering from retail to wholesale rates to put solar panel users on a level playing field with other generators.

Your electric supplier sets your rates based on a variety of factors, in part through buying power from the larger wholesale electricity market.

So much wind power was being supplied that Texas» grid operator that the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) reported wholesale electricity prices reached near zero and, in some cases, rates went negative.

«The reimbursement rate should be changed from the retail rate to the rate the utility pays for wholesale solar generation from utility - scale projects connected to its distribution system,» argued Tucson Electric Power Energy Supply Senior Director Carmine Tilghman recently.

In most net metering states electric companies are required to buy this power at the retail rate, even though it would cost less to produce the electricity themselves or to buy the power on the wholesale market, and this arrangement leaves others to pay for infrastructure.

With wholesale rates that hover around $ 40 per MWh in ERCOT, a federal program that pays wind generators $ 23 per MWh ultimately destroys the economic underpinnings of the wholesale competitive electric market.