Sentences with phrase «absence of a price on carbon»

Coal remains cheaper, but when you factor in the reduced capital cost (gas plants cost between a quarter and a third what coal plants of equivalent output do), the life - cycle costs point to gas, even in the absence of a price on carbon emissions.

The argument is simply that those efforts will be insufficient; alongside them should be a concerted push for more public investment in disruptive clean energy tech, to drive prices down and make clean energy competitive with dirty, even in the absence of a price on carbon (in, say, China).

In the absence of a price on carbon dioxide emissions, the cheapest method of generating electricity is a coal fired power station.

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Our carbon tax spreadsheet model predicts that after an initial rapid 15 % drop due to the bill's aggressive starting price, CO2 emissions would rise on account of increased affluence and the rise in energy demand that tends to accompany it in the absence of continuing price incentives.