Sentences with phrase «brown electricity prices»

They are also primary fuel sources for brown electricity generation, and so brown electricity prices rise and fall with the costs of these raw materials.

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Between 2011 and 2016, Gov. Jerry Brown's time in office, electricity prices rose nearly four times more (16.7 percent) in California than they did nationally (3.7 percent).

5 Aug: Australian: Sid Maher: Land for carbon reforestation to take big cut But if the carbon price started at $ 47 a tonne, under a more ambitious scenario, the report estimates more than 60 million tonnes of carbon could be shed through plantation forests and carbon plantings by 2021... The modelling was released as Resources Minister Martin Ferguson named three leading corporate advisory firms to help the Gillard government negotiate a billion - dollar closure of a brown - coal electricity generator as it seeks to cut carbon emissions.

It's important to bear in mind that when building new sources of green electricity, it is difficult to compete on price with existing sources of brown energy — where the capital cost of the project has long since been written off (for brown) but needs factoring into the energy price for green.

But why should the price of green electricity follow that of fossil fuels and brown?

I often get asked to explain why the price of green electricity rises when the price of brown electricity does.