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
  • With so few ratepayers, Bouse’s water co-op didn’t have the revenue to pay for the project.
    — Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 25 Nov. 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
  • The company’s ratepayers, in short, don’t only get hit with the cost of replacement pipe.
    — Paul G. Pinsky, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2025
  • 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 governor took the occasion to remind Bay State ratepayers that while the cold weather lasts the law protects them from seeing their heat turned off, no matter how much their bills might be.
    — Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 17 Feb. 2025
  • In total, the residential ratepayers would bear the cost of $634 million, averaging around an extra $5 per month per customer over a six-year period, Sullivan said.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'ratepayer.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: