Sentences with phrase «declining electricity demand»

These additional costs come as gas is already under pressure due to flat - to - declining electricity demand and increasing renewable energy adoption in states like California and Texas.

For now, the quagmire of declining electricity demand remains.

Not exact matches

By Sean Ryan Wisconsin Public Service Corp. is considering furloughs and layoffs to offset declining revenue yet still supports green construction that will cut into demand for the utility's electricity.

The fleet's net output of electricity has declined from 429 terawatt hours in 2005 to 404 TWh last year, though this could be for a range of reasons, including weak energy demand.

The International Energy Agency estimated last year that both the decline in China's coal use and falling electricity demand reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5 percent in 2014, leading to a 0.2 percent reduction in global emissions.

(Reuters)- Carbon emissions and electricity demand in Australia have risen in the two months since the government repealed a tax on emissions, bucking a nearly six - year long trend of decline, an energy consultancy said on Thursday.

The industry has faltered because of declining global demand and low natural gas prices, which have encouraged electric power companies to use gas instead of coal to generate electricity, said Ray Rasker, executive director of Headwaters Economics, an independent research group focusing on the economic implications of land management decisions in the West.

With the economic downturn and increasing energy efficiency, French electricity demand has remained level or declined in some instances.

«Cheap natural gas, the rapid decline in the cost of solar and wind generation, and continued flat electricity demand make it next to impossible that U.S. coal production will significantly increase in coming years.»

The CO2 Scorecard report, by contrast, examined changes in electricity at the regional level using data from grid operators, which showed researchers greater detail about where natural gas had replaced coal or renewables; where renewables replaced coal; and where electricity consumption simply declined because of reduced demand.

At the same time the shift in fuels for electricity generation began lowering the carbon intensity of electricity in the region, demand for electricity in the Northeast became stagnant or started declining.

In developing Asia, the share of biomass in the residential sector declines from around 50 % today to 33 % in 2030 as demand for gas and electricity for cooking increases in the New Policies Scenario.

By ten years of age the contribution of an average UK windfarm to meeting electricity demand has declined by a third»

Electricity markets are undergoing massive transformation, as the push for low - carbon power generation shifts the industry towards high investment in renewables and other new technologies even as demand stagnates or declines in many countries.

According to company officials, the hike is needed to «comply with EPA environmental improvements to reduce polluting emissions from coal - fired plants, make up for a decline in demand for electricity from commercial and industrial users, and cover rising costs of health care for the utility's employees.»

Domestic solar power has helped to decrease the average demand for power from the electricity grid, but peak power consumption, so far as I know, has not declined, and the generation and transmission system has to be able to cover peak demand.

The rise of some sources of alternative energy such as renewables, storage, energy efficiency, and demand response, and decline in others — specifically nuclear — will continue to impact regional gas and electricity prices throughout the rest of 2017.

Nearly $ 1 trillion (# 700bn) is being invested in new coal - fired power plants worldwide despite the fact that the demand for electricity generated from coal has declined for two years in a row, shows a new report released today.

There are three likely suspects: (1) cheap natural gas; (2) the growth of subsidized wind generation in the American Midwest; and (3) stagnant or declining demand for electricity.

However, low natural gas prices, increasingly affordable renewable technologies and grid improvements, declining demand for electricity, and costly age - and safety - related power plant repairs have led to some nuclear reactors being retiring abruptly, with little or no advance planning.

Soon after its cancellation, electricity demand in Ontario peaked and has declined steadily since.

Most discussion of declining demand for US coal focuses on the US electricity sector (which is responsible for 93 percent of domestic coal consumption), specifically the twin booms in natural gas and renewables.

While coal - to - gas switching played a major role in reducing emissions in previous years, last year the drop was the result of higher renewables - based electricity generation and a decline in electricity demand.

As with annual energy consumption, ISO New England's forecasts for peak summer demand have steadily declined, with CELT 2018 forecasting that New England's peak demand for electricity will be below 2004 levels by 2027 (on a weather - normalized basis).

Looking forward in CELT 2018, ISO New England estimates that over the next decade, annual demand for electricity will decline by 0.86 percent per year, on average (see Figure 1).

The output of all the main sources of thermal electricity generation declined in the first nine months of this year, as hydro, wind and solar boomed and demand fell.

Thanks to a rise in cheap, renewable energy, as well as natural gas production, utilities are experiencing an unprecedented decline in demand for electricity.

Although, according to Terry Barker of the University of Cambridge, it could also lead to a collapse of the European emissions trading scheme as declining demand for electricity leads to a plummeting price for emissions credits.

Flat or declining Illinois electricity demand has resulted in an electricity oversupply thanks to Exelon's 11 - plant nuclear fleet, Dynegy and NRG coal fleets, existing, retrofitted, and new natural gas facilities, and a growing wind portfolio, according to Learner.

With the economic downturn and increasing energy efficiency, French electricity demand has remained level or declined in some instances.

This has all led to a decline in demand for electricity from the grid and this, in turn, has impacted heavily on the profitability of coal - fired power stations in particular.

When demand increases or generation declines, the water is allowed back down through the turbines to generate more electricity.

His remarks covered the need for investment in upstream oil to meet rising demand and offset decline in mature fields, how competitive prices are vital for growth in gas markets, the rapid growth in solar and wind, and prospects for reaching universal access to electricity, including India's significant achievements over recent years in this respect.

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) in the draft 2011 South Australian Supply and Demand Outlook report showed that emissions from electricity generation in SA declined by about 20 % over the same period as generation by wind farms increased from near zero to 20 % of total generation.

Occurrences of wind - related negative real - time electricity prices have similarly declined as the CREZ transmission expansions have allowed wind power to flow to more electricity demand areas in the state.

Bigger, cleaner supply: A regional grid makes it easier to access flexible generation from a larger pool of resources, which will make it easier to meet electricity demands when renewables are not as plentiful (like when solar generation declines in the evening).

In the 25 years after Chernobyl, nuclear construction declined while global demand for electricity more than doubled.