That would jack up utility rates by 30% in the Carolinas, Rogers says.
Assuming financial incentives, plentiful sunshine and high local utility rates, a PV system could pay for itself within about five years.
As more plug-in vehicles become available, they are likely to become popular since the Southeast is home to some of the lowest electric utility rates in the country.
Utilities are clearly aware of their public images and how their CEO compensation packages might be construed against a backdrop of hard economic times and rising utility rates.
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The coal plant owners complied, mercury pollution dropped significantly, the lights stayed on, utility rates didn't go up, and there was no a wave of plants shutting down.
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In Connecticut, where utility rates are the highest in the U.S. after Hawaii, residents who once adored living in an urban forest are getting increasingly frustrated by massive power failures that many fear could become a chronic problem.
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Dishwashers and water heaters that are programmed to do most of their high energy tasks at night, for instance, or Ford's Value charging system, which leverages a cloud database to charge electric vehicles when utility rates are at their lowest.
Value charging is a unique feature that harnesses the power of cloud computing to automatically charge the vehicle when utility rates are lowest, thus helping to minimize the cost to charge the vehicle and the potential ownership costs of an electric vehicle.
But with a smart grid in place, a utility could restructure rates, and then offer all its customers products that allow either the customer, or the utility, to control usage based on demand and hourly rates.
But then the state utility commission set rates for the three utilities below the wholesale market price, in effect killing competition.
He has started populist battles against developers over tax subsidies for a downtown sports stadium, against the city utility over electricity rates for the old and against landlords over rent.
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.
If a utility offers variable electricity rates, OnStar can notify drivers by e-mail and tell the Volt to begin charging its battery when prices are cheaper.
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Forced by a new law to publish the electricity rates of utility contracts it has approved, the California Public Utilities Commission on Friday issued a report detailing what green energy costs consumers.
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Even a late utility bill can trigger higher credit card rates through universal default.
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Lower interest rates lead to higher bond and utility stock prices.
Higher interest rates lead to lower bond and utility stock prices.
When imports are factored in, this author calculates that average emissions rates for on-grid electricity in Vermont, Washington and Oregon still fall below that of the Bloom fuel cell (but emissions rates vary within each state from utility to utility as well).
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In addition, utility payments (blame bigger houses and higher electricity rates) and health care expenditures increased (insurance premiums nearly doubled).
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Mr Kirchner has hardly wooed external direct investors: his government is yet to lift the freeze imposed during the crisis on rates charged by most foreign-owned utility firms.
In that same month, Google Energy, a subsidiary of Google, received the go ahead from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to buy and sell energy at market rates, as if it were a utility company.
With the corresponding decline in revenues, this could also lead to a 20% increase in rates for ratepayers burdened with continuing to support the utility infrastructure.
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Citi analyst Brian Chin doesn't anticipate that the tax cuts will completely disappear and that the potential is for an upside surprise in utility stocks when some kind of compromise to maintain preferential tax rates is struck.
The hurdles: agreeing on a price and guaranteeing that the municipal rates would be at least equal to that of the utility.
Fed up with increasing rates, customers, notably chemical, coal, agribusiness and utility companies, are complaining that these are evidence that the railroads are abusing their market power.
We are trying, with all our discount rates and studies and concerns for the future, to maximise human utility over time.
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Low tax rates make it easier to get to the point of diminishing marginal utility from extra work and incremental investment risk.
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If, as predicted, utility prices rise by as much as 40% later this year and interest rates are increased to control rising inflation, consumers and consumer facing businesses will face even bleaker times.
The corporation then signs a long-term contract to buy the solar electric power from the third party at rates that are almost always less than what it would pay its traditional utility.
Fixed at uneconomic rates, these price controls amount to a default on Argentina's contractual obligations to the utility companies, many of them foreign-owned.
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