Many companies want to be allowed to recoup these costs from rate payers, while consumer groups say the burden should instead fall on the companies and their shareholders.
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It also reduced the tax for residential electric rate payers by $ 75 million immediately and $ 50 million to be phased in over the next five years.
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"Our rate payers might pay fewer taxes on April 15, but they'd be paying a lot more for electricity every month out of the year, " she said.
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Residential-and small-business rate payers received credits on their utility bills, though the credits are really a postponed debt that is expected to come due as soon as 2002.
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The governor said Friday he prefers a plan under which rate payers or the state would receive stock options that could be cashed in when the utilities'financial condition improved.
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He said with the inclusion of the " new " rate payers in the 1998 financial year, the council will also recover substantial revenue not recorded in previous years.
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What the Peco attempt shows, however, is that even the willingness to pay a premium and give assurances that rate payers and jobs would be protected are not enough.
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More is coming from rate payers and stockholders, since the utilities could choose instead to sell their extra sulfur allowances for a profit rather than donating them to charity.
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Scientists have been studying the site ever since, and the government has spent $ 6 billion from a nuclear energy fund, collected from nuclear energy rate payers, for the research.
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A meeting of rate payers was held in November 1905 and it was voted to rename the original town Pearcedale, to avoid confusion with this new settlement of New Langwarrin.
