The phrase "and ratepayers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing utility services, public finance, or any situation where individuals or entities are responsible for paying rates or fees for services.
Example: "The new policy will benefit both taxpayers and ratepayers by reducing overall costs."
Alternatives: "and bill payers" or "and customers".
Taxpayers and ratepayers are outraged about paying billions in subsidies for this so-called green energy.
Allan Drury, a spokesman for the Con Ed, said the utility was simply fulfilling its obligations to shareholders and ratepayers.
Division of costs between Edison's shareholders and ratepayers, its insurers and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which supplied the heat exchangers, has not been determined.
The report, "All Risk, No Reward for Taxpayers and Ratepayers," was a response to a legislative wish list developed by the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group.
She railed against local council free sheets as the "single biggest cannibal at the taxpayers and ratepayers expense of the market for [commercial] local papers".
The state would float bonds to finance the deal, in exchange for some kind of equity stake in the utilities, and ratepayers, too, would face extension of recent increases to help pay off the utilities' debts.
SACRAMENTO — Electricity customers in Southern California would receive $1.4 billion in refunds on their bills over the next eight years as part of an agreement between two utilities and ratepayer organizations over the closing of the San Onofre nuclear power plant.
Mr. Kessel said that what most impressed him during the complex negotiations -- planning the partial takeover, merging Lilco with Brooklyn Union Gas, and pleasing ratepayers, stockholders and the many political entities involved -- was Mr. Zarb's ability to keep an open mind.
Lawmakers behind the plan argued that they had hammered out a set of conditions that, if agreed to, could avert that risk and protect the city and its ratepayers.
Directory assistance operators and the equipment they used were costing the companies — and hence ratepayers — a lot of money, even though in most cases they were merely providing numbers that consumers could have easily looked up themselves.
Industrial customers of PG&E and Edison face rate increases of about 50percentt, while commercial and agricultural ratepayers will see less significant increases.
