Sentences with phrase «by importing electricity»

So we know what the result will be: not a «clean power» utopia, but less power that is more expensive, supplemented by importing electricity from our neighbors.

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Shocks to ratepayers In fact, Japan's electricity prices are now among the highest in Asia, a condition created partly by high - priced renewables, but also by its heavy reliance on imported energy fuels following the closure of its nuclear plants, which provided 26 percent of the country's power before 2011.

One reason is the high cost of electricity in Hawaii, where 93 percent of electricity is generated by burning imported oil.

For example, an «energy security fee» of $ 3.50 per barrel of imported oil would raise approximately $ 15 billion annually; reduced fossil fuel subsidies as proposed by the administration could generate upwards of $ 35 billion over ten years; a utilities electricity fee could raise at least $ 2 billion annually, as included in the Kerry - Lieberman American Power Act; and royalties on new offshore continental shelf drilling could raise more than $ 100 billion over twenty years.

For example: products that are manufactured from electricity produced by coal would be subject to import duties.

The state also has a five - year - old law banning power companies from importing coal - fired electricity by setting steep carbon emissions standards.

Like other analysts, BCG hasn't understood that within a decade, the choices for these nations with soaring vehicle populations will not be electricity from coal vs. imported gasoline but rather electricity from a evolving power grid vs. fuel made by liquefying domestic coal, with 2 - 3x the CO2 of coal - fueled plug - ins.)

The 17 % of SA electricity from local coal power will end March 2016 http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2015/10/7/resources-and-energy/jobs-go-alinta-closes-sa-sites Never fear the SA - Vic Heywood Interconnector will be uprated by 190 MW in July 2016 so as to help imports of east coast coal power.

Reason is, GWPF and Paul Homewood point out the current plan is to import via non-existant interconnectors 24 % of UK electricity by 2025.

The result: Though CSP requires the direct normal irradiance (DNI) found in abundance in the world's sunny high deserts, even importing generation from high - DNI deserts in Spain and Morocco, CSP with thermal energy storage could become an economically competitive option, due to its ability with storage to fill the gaps created by intermittent generation.Imports of thermal solar from Spain and Morocco would entail building HVDC (high Voltage Direct Current) lines, because direct current is the most effective way to transport large amounts of electricity long - distance.

As a recent report by the Carbon Tracker Initiative highlights, grid costs become prohibitive for coal in rural areas when the investment needed to build a thermal power plant is combined with the cost of building electricity grid extensions and importing fuel.

The French will agree and the French will build nukes but I bet those nukes will be in France and the UK will finish up importing electricity by wires across the channel at whatever price the French choose until «exportland for electricity» cuts in.

Rather than encouraging the building of more efficient power plants, the California regulatory scheme prevented building new efficient power plants by forcing utilities to rely on the unreliable availability and predatory prices for imported electricity.

Ottawa, Ontario, June 29, 2016 — Robert Hornung, President of the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) issued this statement following the release of a report by the global economic consulting firm The Brattle Group titled, Enabling Canadian Electricity Imports for Clean Power Plan Compliance — Technical Guidance for U.S. State Policymakers.

SA's plan to import electricity from Victoria a threat to stability: AEMO The Australian Michael Owen 21 January 2017 A plan for South Australia to import more baseload power from Victoria to ease its power crisis has been suspended by the national electricity market operator because of a «potential stability issue» linked to the state's -LSB-...]

By engaging in this practice — known as resource shuffling — electricity importers are able to preferentially replace high - emitting coal power imports with lower - emitting natural gas and renewable energy sources.

Plugging the nuclear shortfall with imports of fossil fuels, could raise local electricity fares up to five-fold by 2030, according to local media.

If Germany would import half of it's electricity you would not assume that the CO2 output in that sector decreased by 50 %, would you?

Years ago, its brains trust determined to shutter its safe and reliable fleet of nuclear power plants by 2022; hypocritically, Germany still imports plenty of nuclear generated electricity from France and will do for decades to come.

The lawsuit, filed with with ATP's sister organization, the American Tradition Institute (ATI), argues that the RPS unconstitutionally discriminates against coal power by regulating commerce outside state borders — which makes it tough for utilities to import electricity from out - of - state coal plants.

The United States must change the way it produces and uses energy by shifting away from its dependence on imported oil and coal - fired electricity and by increasing the efficiency with which energy is extracted, captured, converted, and used if it is to meet the urgent challenges facing the energy system, of which climate change and energy security are the most pressing.

But what makes the project attractive on Kaua'i might not play in Peoria, or any other locale where electric rates are not constrained by the geographic necessity of importing oil to generate electricity.

California has been very self - satisfied about their energy generation for decades, but get their «no coal in Cali» merit badge by importing coal generated electricity from 4 corners power plants in Ariz / NM and by importing PNW hydro power.

Heavily reliant on oil imports and with an annual energy deficit of 3,478 GWh as of 2009, electricity in Lebanon is for the most part generated by hydroelectric and thermal generation at present and in addition, there are power reliability issues «such as load shedding, technical losses, and the aging of power plants», which again the addition of dispatchable renewable energy facilities is intended to counteract.

Much of the «on paper» emissions reductions will be made up by increased emissions in bordering states, as energy intensive industries relocate and electricity producers import energy from out of state.

The link suggests that a protracted wind / solar lull can be overcome by yet - to - be-built pumped hydro storage and electricity imports.

As the president has stated, his goal is to reduce oil imports by a third by 2025 and produce 80 percent of America's electricity from alternative and renewable sources by 2035.

By boosting the amount of renewable, domestic energy sources used to generate the country's electricity, the DOE may be aiming to accomplish two goals: (1) ensure that electric vehicles live up to their full, low - carbon potential, and (2) reduce net oil imports, which are significant.

For the first time in decades, the nation's treasured trade surplus is gone, eroded by soaring imports of fossil fuels needed to replace the 30 percent of the nation's electricity once supplied by more than 50 nuclear reactors idled since last March's disaster.

However, the Court goes on to note that the arrangement curbs imports also, because domestic producers of green electricity might create obstacles to trade as a result of inaction by the Swedish government by analogy to the Angry Farmers case (where the Court found that there was a positive duty to act to ensure the free movement of goods).

What matters is the protection of the environment, which is served just as much by importing green electricity from other Member States as using domestic sources.

97 % of all lignite extracted in Greece was used by DEI, whereas 85 % of the electricity sold on the wholesale market was produced by DEI and imports represented only 7 % of the electricity sold on the market.

Our aim is to accelerate the shift to plug - in vehicles powered by clean, affordable, domestic electricity to reduce our country's dependence on imported oil and thus improve the global environment.