Sentences with phrase «cost electricity producers»

Dam removal is cheaper than building fish ladders, yet Pacificorp, one of the lowest - cost electricity producers in the United States, would prefer to transport migrating salmon by semi-truck around the dams.

Not exact matches

Thus, the solar electricity producer with storage might have a total cost of 5.5 cents per kWh, assuming no further improvements in the photovoltaic cells.

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Jiang Kejun, a researcher from the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that power producers in China face difficulties in passing along their emissions costs to fossil fuel consumers, due to the country's fixed electricity prices.

One of the reasons Ohio's nuclear plants are going bankrupt is because they — as reliable, 24/7 producers of power — are literally forced to pay the high cost of the grid absorbing electricity coming from wind turbines that have been heavily - subsidized for a quarter - century.

Showing data from financial firm Lazard and other sources, their presentation said natural gas, coal and even some nuclear power plants were the lowest - cost producers of electricity on the planet, cheaper than wind or solar.

A standard way of thinking about the cost of electricity is «total system levelized cost» — basically, how much a power producer would have to charge for electricity to earn back the money spent building a new generating facility.

A detailed analysis of more than 4 million absorbent minerals has determined that new materials could help electricity producers slash as much as 30 percent of the «parasitic energy» costs associated with removing carbon dioxide from power plant emissions.

There are three key drivers that close deals between independent power producers and corporate buyers, McIntyre explained: Cost savings from increasingly competitive renewables, management of electricity price volatility risk due to rising natural gas penetration, and corporate sustainability goals.

ALEC's new attacks on rooftop solar electricity producer are right in line with Duke Energy's attempt to pay back 29 % less to homeowners whose solar panels feed extra electricity back into the grid, despite the fact that these homeowners fronted the costs of installing and maintaining solar panels themselves.

These erratic surges of part - time power drive short - term electricity prices so low that even low - cost full - time producers like coal can not operate profitably at those times.

As costs for those alternative sources of power have fallen, renewable power producers are now able to sell electricity into certain markets — depending on factors such as transmission availability and weather — at a price that is competitive or in some cases lower than natural gas - fired generation.

Who wants to buy high - cost electricity from producer A if producer B has low - cost power to sell?