"consumer rate" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the percentage or level at which consumers are purchasing or engaging with a particular product or service. Here is an example: "The new marketing campaign greatly increased the consumer rate for our company's latest product."
Gov. Gray Davis said the emergency consumer rate increase voted today "was unfortunately necessary," and added later, "Nobody in their right mind wants to see the utilities bankrupt".
Including Con Ed's transmission charges and other wholesale costs, that translates into a consumer rate of 23 or 24 cents per kilowatt-hour, or a monthly bill of about $120 for the average customer.
If the resorts do decide to separate from NV Energy, it will still cost them a combined $126.5m, a price set by the PUC which they say is necessary to prevent broad consumer rate hikes and to compensate the utility provider for losses incurred on power plants and other assets purchased with casino demand in mind.
Too reliant on sleepy federal regulators in the Bill Clinton Administration, Davis found himself on his own dealing with blackouts, regulated utilities in deep financial disarray, and the need for big emergency power buys and consumer rate increases.
A maximum consumer rate of increase λδ: (cf. Eq. 21) this rate is λ times the resource extraction rate and so is also modified by the current value of F. A maximum consumer rate of decay (m = µ-αln QX): although this rate may typically be in the range [µ,µ+10α] (note: ln QX<0), it can rise without bound if consumer quality plummets.
Is the Fed powerless to reduce those consumer rates further?
The law cut consumer rates by 10percentt and established future price caps.
All electrical utilities are publicly owned, and consumer rates are among the lowest in the country.
It tends to rank in the middle on consumer rates and has yet to introduce a free checking account.
The Exodus website homepage displayed a "4+" consumer rating from Apple, signifying "no objectionable material" in the app.
Mortgage rates and other consumer rates, he argued, are not yet high enough to dampen demand sufficiently to discourage price increases.
