How to Use ratepayer in a Sentence

ratepayer

noun

• If the money is lost or misspent, the ratepayer is on the hook for that.
  — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2018
• Many also oppose the use of ratepayer funds for the project.
  — Gillian Flaccus, oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2020
• But ratepayers may also have to pick up some of that tab.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Apr. 2024
• Employees and ratepayers would each get a seat on the PG&E board.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• But then why should ratepayers be forced to, Fisher asked.
  — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 3 Feb. 2020
• How much that means to a ratepayer’s bill is still uncertain.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2022
• They must be forced to return the profits to ratepayers as refunds.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
• That’s billions of dollars spent to put pipes in the ground for at least the next 50 years, paid for on the monthly bills of Maryland ratepayers.
  — Shawn Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2024
• The project is expected to cost $639 million that will be paid for by ratepayers.
  — J. Harry Jones, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 June 2017
• The monies will come from shareholder funds, not ratepayer funds.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2021
• The average ratepayer would pay an extra $1 per month over the first decade.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2023
• The monies come from shareholder funds, not ratepayer funds.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2022
• The rest will be paid for with a low interest loan (2 percent) paid by ratepayers.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 23 Apr. 2018
• By increasing the cap, more ratepayers would be able to pursue these projects.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 26 July 2023
• The utility will pay $110 million over the life of the agreement from shareholder, not ratepayer, funds to the city.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2021
• The cost of each tree comes from SDG&E shareholder dollars, not ratepayers.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2023
• Including the treatment plant in the sale would cost ratepayers more than $1 million per year.
  — Carole Carlson, Post-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2018
• At the start of the year, the average ratepayer in San Diego saw their electric bill spike 7.8 percent from the previous month.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2022
• Critics noted that the Vogtle project could still be plagued by cost overruns, which would be passed on to ratepayers.
  — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2017
• That is not in dispute, though there’s disagreement about how much the exit will cost ratepayers.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2023
• As for coal ash, Duke has noted that its shareholders, not ratepayers, will bear the costs of coal ash fines and cleanup costs from the Dan River spill.
  — Deon Roberts, charlotteobserver, 30 Jan. 2018
• Kightlinger said that even if none of the farming groups sign off, the most Southern California ratepayers would pay is $4.80 a month.
  — Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 27 Mar. 2018
• The dispute over the $379 million dates back more than a decade, when SDG&E first applied to recover the money from ratepayers.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2019
• The scheme involved buying cheap, dirty sludge to burn in the island’s power plants, but billing ratepayers for clean, high-grade fuel.
  — Mary Williams Walsh, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
• The council will hold a public hearing on the matter at the meeting, where ratepayers can discuss the issue.
  — Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, 8 Sep. 2017
• The project was estimated to cost $639 million, paid for by ratepayers.
  — Rob Nikolewski, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 May 2018
• The company and numerous stakeholders are battling right now over the cost of the plan and how much of it ratepayers should have to shoulder.
  — Scott Dance, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
• For example, with a carbon tax, a utility might get dinged for spewing CO2 and then pass those costs on to the ratepayer in the form of a higher bill.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 4 Aug. 2020
• The state can allow the debt to be securitized by issuing bonds that will be paid off by ratepayers over time.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
• With today's new rules, prison telecoms will be barred from recovering the cost of the majority of such services from ratepayers.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 18 July 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024