Sentences with phrase «caused natural gas price»

That summer, the California energy crisis erupted, causing natural gas prices to triple — along with electricity made with gas.

Cheap shale gas flooded the market causing natural gas prices to dive 80 percent since 2008, pricing out coal in electricity supply

Dominion proposed its Virginia wind farms back before fracking caused natural gas prices to nosedive, undercutting the economic case for wind.

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So we asked in our research: What would happen if current low natural gas prices or pollution control policies caused all US coal - burning power plants to be replaced by natural gas generators?

It's one of the country's largest oil and gas producers, but, says Cheng, price differentials between Canadian and world oil prices, low natural gas prices, cost inflation and project delays caused investors to get antsy.

The low natural gas prices caused coal's share of the power grid to fall from 42 % in 2011 to 37 % in 2012.

A boom in natural gas drilling in the U.S. has caused prices of that commodity to fall precipitously in recent years.

Walker said he would emphasize that pipeline with Obama, as well as the state's need to extract natural gas resources and address financial challenges caused by low oil prices.

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The decline of that industry and related employment has been caused by technological changes in mining, and competition from low - priced natural gas for electricity generation, not by environmental regulations.

Ethanol makers experienced improved financial performance because of changes out of their control - as in the case of natural gas prices falling drastically in response to increased fracking for natural gas production - but lost money because of increased corn prices caused by escalating Chinese grain demand.

Wholesale electric power prices in the US are starting 2017 by ticking upward, lifted by firmer natural gas prices, which overall has caused coal generation to take some of gas generation's share in the overall fuel mix.

Because utilities respond to price incentives, this caused fuel - switching of baseload electricity production from coal to natural gas, leading to a time in April 2012 when natural gas equaled coal as an energy source for the first time.

It's already causing hunger and even starvation in poorer countries (the ethanol program driving up grain prices) and deaths from freezing in Europe when people can't afford $ 100 / MMBtu ($ 10 / therm) natural gas and can't burn coal during some of the coldest winters on record.

The shortage of natural gas was clear earlier this year when a cold snap caused prices for natural gas to spike and the purchase of Russian LNG to supply the Everest LNG import terminal a few miles north of Boston.

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As cold - weather demand for gas caused the price of natural gas to increase, coal became more competitive in the market and was dispatched earlier in the resource stack.

The study found that the EPA rules, combined with a recent drop in the price of natural gas, could over the next four to five years cause the utility industry to accelerate retirement of old coal - fired power plants rather than spend to upgrade the plants» emissions controls.

The plunge in natural gas prices caused a collapse in the price of natural gas - fueled electricity, which has slumped below the production costs of nuclear plants.

«That's an extremely high and dangerous level of dependence on any fuel, much less one that, when you look at 40 years of natural gas prices, is famous for having price spikes that can cause significant problems to the economy and significant energy shortages,» Shellenberger said.

Contrary to Exelon claims, it is not low natural gas prices or negative power market prices caused by wind's production tax credit that are the cause of its plants» financial problems, Bradford said.

The «polar vortex» experienced in late 2013 also caused additional problems associated with natural gas prices which spiked as Ontario's storage was depleted and Ontario's and the Eastern US gas generation plants were ramped up just as demand for heating fuel was high.