Sentence examples for utilities to impose from inspiring English sources

Arizona has some of the best solar exposure in the world, but it allows monopolistic utilities to impose a regressive surcharge on all customers to subsidize roof-panel installation by the well-heeled ones.

Oklahoma (one of the fastest-growing states for wind power, by the way) recently enacted a new law allowing the state's utilities to impose new rates or fees on solar users.

Despite those cuts, Southern California Edison, the island's water utility, plans to impose Stage 3 restrictions in October.

Amendment 1, which is supposedly about "Rights of Electricity Consumers Regarding Solar Energy Choice," actually allows utility companies to impose new charges on solar customers ― the same kinds of charges that have ruined the rooftop solar industry in Arizona.

The water utilities have had to impose rolling outages in its cities.

After losing several American court cases because the internet was held to be an unregulated information service, the FCC wants to reclassify it as an old-style utility in order to impose network-neutrality rules.The debate is, therefore, unlikely ever to end which means that trying to impose detailed rules or even utility-type regulation, as the FCC is likely to do, looks misguided.

Many utilities are asking regulators to impose a fixed monthly charge on consumers, rather than just let them pay variable tariffs.

Anecdotal evidence also suggests that privatization changes the utilities' approach toward conservation, private utilities generally being more reluctant to impose hardships on their users or to mandate cut-backs (Howarth 1999).

It thus seems odd for governments to impose blanket penalties on utilities for obeying government-imposed laws and regulations.JONATHAN LESSERWilliston,VermontCar poolSIR--You are right to draw attention to the protectionist response of Europe's governments to the massive over-capacity of the car industry (May 10th).

PAGE B7 A CALL FOR STANDARDS -- The Bush administration called on Congress to impose immediate standards for reliability on utilities to prevent further blackouts.

Between Utilities A and B, private B appeared more prepared to impose mandatory rationing since the responsibility would be borne by the regulator.