Sentences with phrase «because cheap natural gas»

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It expects to lose about $ 60 million annually on the plant because of competition from cheap natural gas.

FitzPatrick, which has 600 workers, has been losing money because of low wholesale power prices based on cheap and plentiful natural gas.

Gas turbines are also attractive because natural gas is relatively cheap and abundant, due in part to the introduction of hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, which uses high - pressure water to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible shale deposiGas turbines are also attractive because natural gas is relatively cheap and abundant, due in part to the introduction of hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, which uses high - pressure water to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible shale deposigas is relatively cheap and abundant, due in part to the introduction of hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, which uses high - pressure water to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible shale deposits.

They never caught on, however, because they could not compete with those powered by cheap electricity and because their heat source — burning biomass or natural gas — is difficult to manage.

This has happened in part because much of the Northeast relies on readily available hydropower from Canada and rapidly expanding natural - gas - fired electricity generation made possible by cheap natural gas from newly exploited shale deposits in Pennsylvania.

I suspect that we will be hearing a lot more about hydrogen cars too; the fossil fuel companies might well fund a fake «hydrogen economy» because the cheapest hydrogen is made by steam reforming of natural gas; people think that this is somehow better than just running a car on CNG.

«Increasingly, power plants are turning to natural gas because it has become abundant, and therefore cheap.

Xcel Energy, one of the country's biggest utilities, has just announced a planned major expansion of its solar and wind investments — because they are «cheaper and more reliable» than natural gas.

It's been because natural gas got really cheap as a consequence of fracking.

Energy efficiency's stunning success in lowering carbon emissions should get more attention, and not just because it is cheaper than building new natural gas - fired power plants.

The simple reason is because the fracking boom has flooded the market with cheap natural gas.

It takes six decades between the time the decision is made to go with a particular energy generation form and the time it's end of life; committing to coal or natural gas right now, today, is the less economical choice, and fiscally irresponsible, because by the time the plant is built, there will be a 50:1 ratio of cheaper solar / wind / hydro / geothermal / wave years of service committed to.

Because domestic energy is more abundant, Americans have renewed mobility — literally, in the form of cheaper gasoline that's largely the result of U.S. crude oil impacting global markets and economically, because of oil and natural gas industry - supported job creation and investment, and a manufacturing renaissance spurred by affordable fuels and feedBecause domestic energy is more abundant, Americans have renewed mobility — literally, in the form of cheaper gasoline that's largely the result of U.S. crude oil impacting global markets and economically, because of oil and natural gas industry - supported job creation and investment, and a manufacturing renaissance spurred by affordable fuels and feedbecause of oil and natural gas industry - supported job creation and investment, and a manufacturing renaissance spurred by affordable fuels and feedstocks.

Suppose further that because of resource depletion and technological change including cheap fracked gas, the coal - miner's job is ultimately unsustainable; in contrast, the farmer's job was sustainable if very difficult in the face of natural weather events, but is being made ultimately unsustainable by the additional stress from climate change.

fracking is good because it allows us to produce natural gas cheaper than coal, and that allows a rapid decrease in greenhouse gas emissions from electricity.

President Obama: «We should strengthen our position as the top natural gas producer because, in the medium term, at least, it not only can provide safe, cheap power, it can help reduce our carbon emissions.»

«Americans should not have to accept unsafe drinking water just because natural gas is cheaper than Coal.

Because compressed natural gas is likely to be much cheaper than gasoline, it is only a matter of time before the infrastructure is completed to allow this substitution.

But the reason coal use is down in the US is not because of environmentalists but because of cheap abundant natural gas.