Sentence examples for hourly prices from inspiring English sources

Until now, the only Wi-Fi network has been at tourist hotels at hourly prices that represent nearly a quarter of the average monthly salary for Cubans.

Mr. Fallon said he could not find a member who had embraced the program, in which Con Ed sets hourly prices one day in advance based on its own hourly costs.

Severin Borenstein, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley who studies electricity pricing, said that landlords tended to be more confident that hourly prices would move in a predictable range when a utility and regulator were friendly.

Participants in the program will be able to log onto a Web site that shows hourly prices for the next day, and then they can use that knowledge to choose how to use power.

The experts say that the grid must therefore be designed to moderate demand at times when there is less wind or sun available — for example, by allowing businesses or residential customers to volunteer to let the local utility turn down air-conditioners in office buildings or houses, when hourly prices rise.

As the summer ended, proponents of this kind of marketing said that the unanticipated price swings, especially in places like San Diego, where some customers faced bills that had tripled, showed the necessity for making hourly prices obvious to electricity users, so that they would not blithely continue with normal consumption patterns at times of extraordinary price spikes.

Still, ESCOs are likely to expand their own hourly pricing services, Ms. Carey said, and in that context Con Ed's hourly pricing program is important for the competition it will inspire.

Over the next several years, electricity experts say, hourly pricing or its variants will dominate the market.

The program, which Con Ed calls mandatory hourly pricing, has been available to owners of the largest buildings since 2007.

And, Mr. Bomke said, most landlords in the smaller buildings Con Ed will soon open to hourly pricing lack the staff to do this monitoring in house.

Owners list a vehicle on a website, together with its availability and an hourly price that includes insurance and an allotment of miles.