Matthew Wing, a spokesman for Mr. Cuomo, said the governor was considering creating a consumer advocate for utility customers on Long Island.
New York is one of only 10 states — and by far the biggest of them — that lack public advocates for utility customers.
After three months of negotiations, New Jersey regulators and the state's advocate for utility customers agreed to the GPU purchase by FirstEnergy.
We demonstrate how a viable business model can be designed to improve the business case while retaining sizable benefits for utility customers.
City officials said features like plantings would help reduce the sewage overflows by 40 percent by 2030 and cut the city's sewer management costs by $2.4 billion over 20 years, helping to keep water bills down for utility customers.
Some of Kleiner's later clean-technology investments have a more digital focus, like Nest Labs, which makes smart thermostats, OPower, which offers energy-efficiency strategies for utility customers, and Clean Power Finance, which finances solar-power installations.
The savings are to be achieved largely through $1.6 billion in incentives for utility customers who take certain steps to conserve energy, like insulating their houses or replacing conventional light bulbs with compact fluorescent ones.
America was founded on the principles of liberty and freedom, but unfortunately in many states there are regulatory barriers erected by the government that prohibits the freedom of choice for utility customers – especially when it comes to switching to solar.
But there were also misgivings about what the closing would mean for utility customers, Indian Point employees and the nearby schools that rely on the plant's tax dollars.
A report from GTM Research (The U.S. Utility PV Market: Demand…and Project Economics Through 2015) predicts that: U.S. utilities will increase their investments in solar power generation each year through 2015 to meet states' demands for solar energy; and installations of solar projects for utility customers could reach about 3,000 megawatts annually, worth some $8 billion over the same period.
