Sentences with phrase «caused electricity consumers»

This has caused electricity consumers to look for energy efficiencies at a time when things like compact fluorescent and LED light bulbs became financially viable.

Not exact matches

«In just the last decade, we've had a technology bubble, an oil bubble and a housing bubble, not to mention the Enron fiasco and California's electricity crisis, each of which was least partially caused by speculators and manipulators trying to make a buck at the expense of consumers,» English said.

«Maybe we can have the best of both worlds: a price on carbon to create an innovative environment for clean technology in California and keep businesses within state lines and not cause an adverse impact on consumers through radically higher prices for transportation fuels or electricity.»

There was some bad news for Drax recently as the UK government decided that biomass subsidies would not keep climbing as the «carbon price floor» — levied on fossil fuel production (and due to rise further)-- on electricity consumption has caused a backlash from manufacturers, consumer groups and energy suppliers who are concerned that the «tax will push up prices, make the UK uncompetitive and force the premature closure of coal - fired power plants, increasing the risk of blackouts.»

In the UK both the politicians and power utilities have bumped into resistance towards higher electricity prices and they all know that it is green levies causing them but they are pretending to the consumers that that is not the case.

It is expected that consumers will be able to choose electricity from renewable sources instead of fossil fuel - powered thermal (along with its problems in terms of climate change) or nuclear power generation (whose great risks again became evident with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, caused by the tsunami after the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011).

This tax shift has caused household energy costs to increase, which has resulted in a 15 - percent reduction in consumer electricity use and a 5 - to 10 - percent decrease in fuel usage.

Vast sums spent, little actual usable power, and rapidly increasing electricity bills for consumers, all due to (in my view, unfounded) fears of carbon - caused global warming.

We've already seen, for example, how reducing electricity consumption can sometimes cause fixed - cost burdens to become worse on the remaining consumers.

Based on these Energy Economic findings, the CPP should not be replaced with anything because increasing the fraction of electricity generation from Intermittent Renewables will cause (1) enormous consumer electricity price increases, (2) the Grid to become even less reliable and less resilient, and (3) even more serious negative micro and macroeconomic impacts — but would have zero impact on the climate.

The idea is that increasing the supply of «cheap» electricity causes market prices to decrease so that consumers benefit.