Sentences with phrase «competitive coal markets»

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GFI offers competitive intermediary services in a variety of energy and commodity markets around the world, including electricity, natural gas, coal, freight derivatives and metals.

Secretary Perry's attempts to tip the scale in favor of uneconomic coal and nuclear power plants to provide a «resilience» benefit that doesn't exist would have increased carbon emissions, raised costs to consumers, and distorted competitive markets.»

That, in turn, would create the mass markets and economies of scale for renewables that would bring down their prices and make them competitive with coal and oil.

An analysis of coal plants in Texas found that cheaper wind and solar on the grid is contributing to a market transformation where coal is no longer cost competitive.

PJM vice president Stu Bresler said the plan described in the grid operator's November 15 report was in the works well before the Department of Energy proposed rules to guarantee cost recovery for coal and nuclear plants in the PJM region and certain other competitive markets.

Australian coal is becoming less competitive, given its high cost operations in a highly competitive market.

For as of this year, solar has become cost - competitive with many energy sources — often beating natural gas on combined levelized costs and even edging out coal in a growing number of markets.

A host of recent studies have suggested much of the pipeline of new coal plants the coal mining industry is depending on may never be built as environmental concerns in key markets such as China and India escalate and competition from gas and increasingly cost - competitive renewables intensifies.

Moreover, building new coal plants has become uneconomic — it is very capital intensive, the EU energy market is experiencing an intense overcapacity and renewable energy technology has become more cost competitive.

Additionally, they argue that the terminal would help make United States coal more competitive by opening up Asian markets.

But again, on technologies like highly efficient ultra supercritical coal or combined cycle natural gas (which I supported in above comments)-- what are some policies that would make the U.S. more competitive in the $ 28 trillion world market on new energy?

For years, the federal government has leased that land to coal companies for below market value, with almost no competitive bidding.

Free markets would be preferred, but the US failed to create competitive power markets under deregulation because it awarded old coal and nuclear power plants all sorts of advantages including stranded cost subsidies, grandfather exemptions to environmental regs, preferential grid access, etc..

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.

Back in April, DOE Secretary Perry issued a memo calling for a reliability study of U.S. power systems, expressing concerns that competitive markets, renewables, and regulations were forcing retirement of baseload (i.e. coal and nuclear) power plants critical to reliability.

With the double of the coal tax, solar, wind and hydro electricity are all already now immediately competitive in the Indian electricity market against unsubsidized new imported coal - fired power generation.

In the background is a growing resistance to wholesale markets, led by utilities with substantial nuclear and coal - fired generation who are seeking state subsidies to essentially put their thumbs on the scale of the competitive wholesale markets.

Photo: Vlasta JuricekMore good news on the renewable energy front Monday: The cost of onshore wind power has dropped to record lows, and in some regions is competitive with electricity generated by coal - fired plants, according to a survey by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, a market research firm.

The international coal market is competitive and growing.

Conservatives are in a bit of an awkward position in that they support subsidies for «clean coal» (coal with carbon capture and sequestration) and nuclear power, but neither is competitive on today's energy markets.

While utilities in Ohio, New York and elsewhere have sought «around market» charges after affiliated coal and nuclear plants became less competitive, Germany's large utilities are charting new paths forward as that country curbs its reliance on fossil fuels.

This proposal would reward coal and nuclear plants in competitive markets that store fuel on site, with the rationale being that these fuel sources are more fuel secure.

Additionally, Shell Global Solutions International B.V. (Shell) also qualified three Chinese companies for the manufacture of key equipment for the Shell Coal Gasification Process (SCGP), in order to make the Shell technology more competitive in the Chinese market.