Sentence examples for a tiered rate from inspiring English sources

The energy managers, the Public Utilities Commission, said the highest increases, based on a tiered rate system to go into effect in May, would go to "electricity hogs".

Ms. Lynch said that under a tiered rate system that would be hammered out within the next 30 days, heavy power users would face the greatest increases while light users would face little or no increases.

An appeals court last month struck down a tiered rate system in one city that charged more for water than the cost of providing it — a decision that has broad implications across the state.

A tiered rating system is applied; basic and fresh foods are zero-rated, while other less healthy food items are taxed at varying higher rates [ 114].

Second, it's created a whole system of corruption -- a three-tiered rate and a black market in which people, often times close to the government, are arbitraging these different rates.

If you charge for access, will you have a tiered subscription rate?

Even with the recent batch of rainstorms, the ongoing drought has grown so severe that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday called for increased citywide water restrictions and the adoption of a tiered water rate that would punish Department of Water and Power customers who fail to conserve.

In October 2007, the utility switched to a tiered block rate for residential customers starting at $1.98 per thousand gallons for the first 2,999 gallons.

Tiered rate structures from Moulton Niguel Water District, which charges residents for excess water use, have helped control the amount of urban runoff, Palmer said.

The district wrote an amicus brief in support of the San Juan Capistrano residents to explain why the tiered rate structure in question was "not cost based and … how it would look if it were".

"Tiered rate structures are not all the same," he says.