Both times he declined, explaining that the final decision was up to the local utility regulators.
Social media channels, consumer education and loyalty programs from the local utility can certainly help.
Customers typically continue to buy about 30% of their power from the local utility.
On Long Island, more than 800, 000 customers lost power, a new record for the local utility.
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He rigged local utility prices to bring profits to middle-men, while coalminers and power stations went unpaid.
Start with New York State's 406 jurisdictions requiring monthly local utility tax returns.
It can work with smart grid devices if the local utility uses them.
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Assuming financial incentives, plentiful sunshine and high local utility rates, a PV system could pay for itself within about five years.
In Trieste, for example, a right-wing council has caused controversy by interfering in the affairs of the partly floated local utility.
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The oil spill was eventually discovered by a local utility worker and reported to Enbridge's control center, where the flow was stopped.
In other words, instead of paying the local utility for its electricity, a base would pay a solar energy company like SolarCity or Sungevity.
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In many areas local utility companies will even cut back your wayward tree branches free of charge if they sit too close to electrical lines.
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These platforms are also increasingly capable of providing ancillary services to the local utility such as spinning reserve, load-following regulation, and intermittency management for wind and solar energy.
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Because of the potential for significant power outages, FEMA is encouraging state and local authorities responsible for coordinating with local utility companies to do so ahead of any impacts.
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Fraunhofer also will design a system to allow the solar energy equipment to check itself for proper installation and to send its power generation data to the local utility.
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Collaboration with Microsoft resulted in a feature that lets Focus owners punch in their zip code and see if their local utility offers lower rates for electricity use when demand is low.
In particular, Hines noted that they underestimated the complexity involved in working through the California state subsidies, with the local utility rules, and dealing with issues related to biogas supply for the fuel cells.
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The local utility, Xcel Energy, did not skimp.
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The author went on to ask the State regulators to allow the cruise ships to connect to sources of shore-side power without paying debatably excessive fees to the local utility, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, to do so.
The investigation into last year's North American blackout revealed that during the precious minutes following the first outages in Ohio, when action might have been taken to prevent the blackout spreading, the local utility's managers had to ask the regional system operator by phone what was happening on their own wires.
Residential systems tend to be more expensive because they are smaller in size (5 kilowatts is typical), yet they still need local government and utility permits for each installation.
By learning about the benefits from solar power systems from a trusted peer who faces many of the same local challenges (utility, construction, permitting options, siting), research from Yale and New York University demonstrates that social solar has already been shown to boost adoption rates by close to a percentage point.
Before some of you go nuts finding exceptions, yes, many local governments do effectively provide utility-type services.
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The grid makes the former Yugoslavia look simple: local municipalities, the individual state utility commissions, the North America Electric Reliability Council, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and other agencies all have a say.
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Since the two recent storms, five separate investigations have begun examining the tree upkeep of utility companies and state and local governments.
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The markets were chosen for several reasons including current hybrid purchasing trends, the acceptance of electric vehicle technology by local governments and the potential to collaborate with utility companies.
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For instance, electric power could be restored more quickly if local independent licensed electricians could be deputized to support utility crews in conducting damage assessments and making repairs.
The local unit of Toyota has also raised the prices of its Innova utility vehicle and Fortuner SUV, company executives said.
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