"utility" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Many utilities already charge different prices for peak-use hours and non-peak hours.
- California, the most extreme case, let generators charge market prices for power, but froze the rates that the utilities could charge consumers.
- If the Millstone plants are allowed to operate longer, he said, the utility would charge less money a year for decommissioning.
- Under traditional rate making, if regulators say that a new power plant is surplus the utility generally cannot charge its customers for the plant's cost.
- Under utility regulation, utilities can charge their customers for increased interest costs.
- Because they are legal monopolies, utilities must charge rates set by state regulators.
- As a result, the utilities say, they have been paying as much $1 for each kilowatt of power, but can charge only about 6.5 cents.
- That is, government agencies permit most utilities to charge enough for electricity and the like to cover their costs along with a reasonable profit.
- Municipal utilities are tax-exempt, and therefore can charge less.
- At such peak times, utilities charge businesses a premium for electricity, helping to make solar that much more attractive.
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