Sentence examples for customers utilities from inspiring English sources

While rates may remain relatively low, pleasing customers, utilities have little incentive to encourage energy conservation.

It serves construction and industrial customers, utilities, municipalities and homeowners, according to the company's Web site.

Currently regulating the energy grid presents a large set of unique challenges in coordinating between customers, utilities, state governments, and FERC.

Performance-based regulation is one possible alternative to traditional regulation that starts with the outcomes that matter to customers, utilities, and other industry participants.

In contrast, other customers' utility increases with the rising number of other customers.

Customers' utility functions buying at different periods are defined in Table 1.

At one point New York legislators even banned Con Ed from itemizing the add-ons in customers' utility bills.

Thus there exist negative consumption externalities which means that customers' utility decreases with the number of users.

Such a behavior can dramatically minimize the ISP revenue while on the other hand it can maximize the customers' utility.

The social welfare increases very significantly with DRL = 1.88% because the customers' utility loss from DR is compensated by the cost savings of the generation side.

All of these result in positive consumption externalities from the "network effect," whereby customers' utility increases with the number of users (Katz and Shapiro 1985).