Sentences with phrase «cap on electricity prices»

The public became increasingly skeptical as it saw its electricity bills going up, and politicians began discussing a cap on electricity prices.

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4) Price caps on utility charges will generally seem like a good idea to the people who currently benefit due to having lower electricity or water bills.

Interestingly, beyond this, despite considerable rhetoric about moving beyond debates about carbon - pricing, the report recommends that in order to avoid adding to the Federal debt, it would be necessary to impose new taxes, including increased royalties for oil and gas extraction, a tax on imported oil, a tax on electricity sales, and a «very small carbon price» (presumably from a modest carbon tax or unambitious cap - and - trade system).

He says this will be especially true if cap and trade can be shown to decrease electricity bills, as it has in all RGGI states, which have used proceeds on energy - saving programs to offset price hikes from the program.

For example, climate scientists are least well - placed to make a judgement on the timing and quantum of CO2 emissions that are exported from, say, Spain, as a result of higher electricity prices there resulting from wind and solar, and certainly very poorly placed to opine on the impact on global GHG emissions of cap - and - trade or any similar EU or even EU / USA - wide policy.