Sentences with phrase «because electricity prices»

That is because electricity prices are so low, incentives are low and prices for solar are high due to lack of scale in installation.

[16] Throughout Europe, countries are backing away as fast as possible from subsidies and mandates because the electricity prices are driving businesses to other countries and they can't afford it.

This happened largely because its electricity prices have increased over 200 percent since 2002.

Heartland Institute's James Taylor claims that because electricity prices in Ohio have risen slightly faster than the national average since 2008, the state's clean energy standard is the culprit causing a spike in electricity prices.

Because electricity prices can be unpredictable, they make managing your budget difficult.

Not exact matches

SunPower has argued that its premium - priced panels, which are among the most efficient in the industry at transforming sunlight into electricity, should receive an exemption from the tariffs because their unique technology can not be compared with that of more conventional models, including those made by the companies that sought the tariffs, Suniva and SolarWorld.

«I think it's pretty exciting because you don't have to worry about the gas price anymore and the electricity price is always stable,» he said.

Since the right to fairly priced electricity is not a fundamental constitutional right and because HDL users are not part of a classification that have been subject to governmental discrimination historically, such as race, gender, national origin, etc., the PUD's decision will be allowed to stand unless a court finds that there was no «rational basis» for it.

How is that «free market» thing working out — if businesses don't want to come here because of high electricity prices (among other things)?

He explained that the nation does not need any price regulator for the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) because there are not too many companies offering such services.

Because of its failure, until recently, to put its power needs out to bid, it has been paying a premium price to National Grid for its electricity.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

Ultimately, Kovacs said, because the town does not have a municipal - owned utility — Windham is served by two electricity distribution companies — the best the city can do right now is to choose renewable energy for government buildings if the price is right.

«We plan on expanding this on our own,» explained Randall, because the university is interested in saving money by cutting higher electricity prices charged during peak demand times.

Gronet declined to reveal the cost of manufacturing solar cylinders or the price tag of electricity it delivers — primarily because if they are able to deliver lower cost electricity they want to preserve that extra profit for their customers, he admits.

NEI spokesman John Keeley said reactors are closing because «we've got an unquestioned free market for electricity» and a system that's «a combination of quotas for some other emission - free sources, and a price for electricity regardless of whether the supply is clean or dependable.»

That's been the goal of solar panel makers for a long time, because as those prices decline electricity from the sun costs the same as, or is even cheaper than electricity from burning fossil fuels.

«Moving from transition metal elements to synthesized molecules is a significant advancement because it links battery costs to manufacturing rather than commodity metals pricing» said Imre Gyuk, energy storage program manager for the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE), which funded this research.

Wind generators can offer their electricity for bid into the Texas wholesale market at a zero price because they pay no fuel costs.

The industry has faltered because of declining global demand and low natural gas prices, which have encouraged electric power companies to use gas instead of coal to generate electricity, said Ray Rasker, executive director of Headwaters Economics, an independent research group focusing on the economic implications of land management decisions in the West.

Analyzing the Chevy Volt, the new sedan that is supposed to go 40 miles on batteries and then use a gasoline engine, he calculated that because of inefficiencies in electricity generation, its fuel economy was no better than a Toyota Prius hybrid running on gasoline, while its price was roughly double that of the Prius.

Because of the balance of powers under the constitution the United States has so far avoided the economically disastrous rush to control of CO2 emissions and move to renewable energy seen in the UK and Germany The resultant increase in electricity prices is now forcing these countries to reconsider their entire energy policy.

New Jersey, Massachusetts, and New York are top distributed solar states despite relatively less favorable solar resources because of consistent state solar PV policies and incentives and some of the highest residential electricity prices in the country.

... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....

As Lesser argues, «This course of action will cost jobs because businesses, forced to pay higher electricity prices, will either relocate, contract, or disappear altogether.»

Solar PV is even less of an issue, because it can sit on existing rooftops, and it has the advantage that it's competing with the end - user retail price of electricity.

Your business must act now because the utilities in over a dozen states are projecting 5 - 15 % annual electricity price increases.

Because of this, the poorest will actually receive more money than they spend in increased electricity prices (about $ 4 in rebate for every $ 1 in fee).

Because of renewable energy's subsidized production cost, wholesale electricity prices have dropped 60 percent since 2008.

Folsom said Hawaii is «an even better business case» because of its high electricity price.»

Stanwell Corp, the Queensland government owned electricity generator, has failed to make any money in the past year from its 4,000 MW of coal and gas fired generation because rooftop solar has taken away demand and pushed down wholesale electricity prices.

Mr. Makansi and others say a result is that consumers, already paying more for electricity because the price of coal and especially natural gas is up, will pay even more for new generating stations.

The reason both countries, who have large readily available coal reserves are so heavily reliant on fossil fueled electricity generation is because, without carbon pricing, it's slightly cheaper than nuclear power.

That is because, as Moody's notes, natural gas often determines the marginal price of electricity.

It is far from clear whether Trump can do much more for coal than remove most or even all the climate - related regulations discouraging the use of coal, and this may not have a huge effect since to date the major adverse effects of the «war on coal» on raising electricity prices have not yet occurred because of the Supreme Court's stay on the so - called Clean Power Plan.

«Spiegel writes that the price of electricity in Germany has doubled since 2002 in large part because of the renewable energy feed - in surcharge.

We don't have to worry about future electricity price increases because we included it in our home mortgage when the home was built and our mortgage is fixed for 30 years.»

It disproportionately hurts low income communities and seniors — The carbon tax is by nature regressive, because it will raise the prices of gasoline, electricity, and other goods by the same dollar amount for all consumers, regardless of their incomes.

Because the price of electricity varies sharply over the course of a day, and the price of natural gas runs all over the map but is generally higher in winter, the plant could end up changing modes daily and certainly seasonally.

Agenda 21 is likely a proposal to raise energy prices by Heavily Carbon Taxing them into competition with higher cost and less reliable GREEN ENERGY then altogether eliminating CO2 producing energy sources until electricity can not be produced for 21 of the 24 hours of each day but that won't matter because 3 hours per day is all anyone will be able to afford.

We estimate that electricity prices were about $ 10 / MWh higher because of gas - fired generators» higher input costs.

Fuel price is far more stable than fossil fuels because the fuels is effectively unlimited and the fuel price is effectively irrelevant anyway because it comprises only about 5 % of the cost of nuclear generated electricity.

On some of America's most idyllic shorelines between Vermont and California lie several behemoths of the past, shuttered nuclear power plants closed prematurely because they could no longer compete in electricity markets upended by record - low natural gas prices or because they had technical issues that made them too expensive or scientifically challenging to repair.

Dave — If its not the price of gasoline, it can't be U.S. electricity because GW regs haven't been written yet.

(Renewables are also reducing wholesale electricity prices, though not necessarily the full cost of electricity, because they still depend on subsidies and mandates that don't show up in wholesale prices.)

While the overall CPI increase is relatively low because electricity is only a portion of operating cost for businesses; the majority of this «passing on the cost» price rise is in the electricity industry.

Because utilities respond to price incentives, this caused fuel - switching of baseload electricity production from coal to natural gas, leading to a time in April 2012 when natural gas equaled coal as an energy source for the first time.

That's because they can — for instance — send «gas by wire» in the form of electricity in response to price and market congestion signals.

While US emissions are decreasing slightly — both as a result of the administration's policies on renewable energy and vehicle fuel economy standards and because of sharply lower natural gas prices that have reduced coal use for electricity generation — it is unlikely that without additional regulation or legislation that the US will meet its 2020 target.

Second, because the power plants regulated by RGGI were operating in restructured electricity markets — in which power generators compete on open wholesale markets — they were going to capture the extra carbon value in their wholesale price bids anyway.