Meter plan loses by any measure
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If you do the math on the meters, you are just about breaking even on them the first year. What makes the city believe that the maintenance will be $800 ("New meters raising revenues and hackles ," Nov. 20 )? How about the replacement factor for meters that are broken beyond repair? This sounds like a loser to me. I ...
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By Steve Kuchera, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Jan. 30--Central Hillside residents hoping for relief from new parking meters probably will be disappointed.
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Boston's new multispace parking meters along Newbury Street stopped accepting credit and debit cards yesterday, as city officials acknowledged that their minimum payment requirement appeared to violate Visa and MasterCard regulations.
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A think-tank calls for more water metering after reporting that efforts to conserve water are not having much impact.
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Mike Tidwell's electric meter was spinning in reverse.
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Neglect some important savings plan components at your own risk.
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Rolling electricity blackouts have created a national emergency with dire consequences for the economy. And there's no quick fix
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Company hasn't said when the device will be available.
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While cable thefts and vandalism are a problem for utility companies nationwide, Verizon says the problem is especially bad in West Virginia, where over 17,000 customers, including first responders, have lost service for up to five days.
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Managing Watt? Reg Tech Panel As the green debate rages on, one of the findings that came from our recent survey of Reg Readers revealed that despite all the talk about energy savings and IT, the majority of IT departments are not accountable for spending on electricity to run systems.â¦
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Alternative currents Sending broadband signals over electricity cable has always confused people.â¦
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NStar , the Boston gas and electric utility, lost all ability to take incoming customer-service calls for four hours yesterday morning after an AT&amp;T Inc. cable failure, the company said. NStar spokeswoman Caroline Allen estimated that based on normal Monday call volumes, 2,000 customers were probably unable to reach NStar. Allen said the problem began about 9 a.m. and wasn't ...
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WEATHERFORD, Texas - Perhaps his $24 billion electric bill will teach Richard Redden not to leave the heat running. Thanks to a printing error, Redden and more than 1,300 Weatherford utility customers this week received billion-dollar electric bills marked as late notices.
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By PATRICK CONDON MINNETONKA, Minn. - When officials in this Minneapolis suburb didn't like the two eye-popping digital billboards that Clear Channel erected along the freeway, they pulled the plug. They had the power company cut off the electricity.
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One year on and deregulation disappoints
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The electronic audience measurement tool, the âpeople meter,â has so far produced odd results.
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THE REGION NStar Electric is cutting power rates 21.2 percent for 3,600 big commercial and industrial customers April 1. The Boston utility said the rate change for customers who use over 25,000 kilowatt-hours monthly will cut prices to 10.147 cents per kilowatt hour from 12.803 cents now, separate from an additional charge for delivery that is not changing. The big ...