Follow with utilities, cost of capital, training, advertising, maintenance, insurance, and the rest until you have accounted for all the overhead, leaving those few lonesome pennies of profit that you have risked everything to make.
Once the guidelines go into effect, no coal plants will be built unless utilities can develop a cost-effective way to capture carbon dioxide, analysts say.
Smart meter readings offer utilities and consumers energy and cost savings.
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It is a source of base load, low-carbon and largely fixed-cost power for many utilities.
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It comes as utilities have been turning to increasingly cost-competitive photovoltaic farms to meet their renewable energy mandates.
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Many utilities lack the depth of data needed to implement more cost-effective asset-management systems like condition-based monitoring and maintenance methods, which utilities in Europe and Asia are adopting to enhance the efficient use of capital and reduce operations and maintenance costs.
Despite the high cost of burying lines, utilities in Florida that have endured their fair share of hurricanes are going increasingly underground.
Proponents say driving up the cost of coal generation will push utilities to seek out cleaner alternatives.
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The cost of living ranking, also from Economy.com, includes the cost of housing, transportation, utilities and other necessities.
Building them was a major headache at the time, and utilities and ratepayers paid dearly to cover construction cost overruns throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Cost overruns and construction delays sent utilities into bankruptcy, led to the cancelation of 63 planned reactors and set back governments and ratepayers billions of dollars.
All three, however, work with utilities, who subsidize all or part of the cost of the hardware and software.
Many factory owners who couldn't afford to build new buildings because of the high cost of land and limited access to utilities converted hundreds of residential and other buildings into makeshift garment factories to keep up with the demand from Western retailers, labor groups say.
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Utilities, of course, want to drive down the cost of everything from paperclips to borrowing.
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But when the brownouts and cost-spikes occur, don't blame the utilities.
In trading on Monday, bargain hunters could buy shares of Chesapeake Utilities Corp. ( NYSE: CPK) and achieve a cost basis 2.8% cheaper than Morgan Jr.
With deregulation bringing in unexpected competitors and increased demand, large, grounded utilities must evolve from traditional business practices in order to lower the total cost of doing business .
Based on the results of cost-benefit analysis, state regulators would potentially require investor-owned utilities to enter long-term contracts to buy offshore wind power.
That means that the tax is paid after you take practically everything else out: utilities, rents, insurances, travel, promotion and advertising, other taxes and the overall cost of doing business.
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The bill proves that nuclear power is too risky and expensive for private capital markets, says the Tribune, so utilities that want to build plants and developers who want the electricity are trying to shuffle the cost onto ratepayers.
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Lyman also questioned claims that about the cost advantages of the smaller reactors, noting that the boom in natural gas is squeezing even established nuclear utilities.
With formerly private insurers converted into public utilities, for instance, they'll inevitably be banned from selling products like health savings accounts that encourage more cost-conscious decisions.
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