Sentences with phrase «current natural gas prices»

At current natural gas prices, these storage facilities have capital and operating costs of approximately 8 cents / kWh of electricity produced.

Not exact matches

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?

Natural gas - fired plants look attractive at current gas prices, certainly, but hands up — who wants a new gas plant in their neighbourhood?

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Further, there are hopes for relatively low - cost natural gas to revive U.S. industries — from steel to plastics — that could take advantage of current prices, which by world standards are cheap.

Current prices for natural gas are low, but natural gas prices have historically suffered from significant volatility.

When you compare current electricity and natural gas prices, the same unit of energy will cost you about three times more for electricity so you can expect to pay a little bit more on your utility bill, even with a sizable energy efficiency improvement.

That's an increase of less than 0.2 percent over current WTI crude oil prices and 0.7 percent over current NYMEX natural gas prices.

Replacing electricity from Taiwan's operational and mothballed nuclear plants with natural gas would cost $ 2.85 billion per year for the natural gas purchases alone, at current low prices.

Because natural gas is a considerably more expensive fuel than coal, it takes a substantial CO2 cost to overcome this fuel cost disadvantage — about $ 30 / ton, on current fuel price expectations in the U.S.. On the other hand, consider pending investments to add new generating capacity in the United States over the next few decades.

Fewer than 10 percent voted for an expansion of coal or natural gas power at current prices.

The current downward trend in coal - fired generation began in 2007, when increased U.S. production of natural gas (particularly from shale) led to a sustained downward shift in natural gas spot prices and increased generation from natural gas - fired generators.

It has received approval to do so from the Department of Energy, and given the current differential between US natural gas prices and LNG prices in other parts of the world, the terminal looks well - positioned to do brisk business.

In Sands» estimation, «natural gas prices would need to almost triple from the current levels of less than $ 3.00 / MMBtu for renewables to begin to be competitive on a total cost per megawatt - hour basis.»

Nobody is saying that nuclear would be cheaper than natural gas, especially at current gas prices.

... Lower current and projected natural gas prices also affect the competitiveness of renewables, especially once federal tax incentives expire.

The short version is that electricity from new natural gas plants costs about half as much as coal, and that's at gas prices approaching five dollars... two - and - a-half times the current price!

«Most U.S. natural gas basins do not generate sufficient returns to justify drilling in today's weak price environment, suggesting that the current growth pace is not sustainable in a market that is likely to see little near - term demand growth,» investment bank Credit Suisse said in a report earlier this year.

Current proposals by global warming advocates will likely cost billions of dollars and require a wholesale transformation of the nation's economy and society. Americans could be paying 30 percent more for natural gas in their homes and even more for electricity.  The cost of coal could quadruple and crude oil prices could rise by an additional -LSB-...]

GreatPoint told CNET in August that it can produce its natural gas product «bluegas» at about $ 4 per million BTUs (British thermal units), lower than the current market price of nearly $ 7 per million BTUs.

Vast quantities of coal — proven to exist — remain in the ground — but not included on the reserve tally because they are not economically recoverable at current prices — in part due to the availability of oil and natural gas.