Sentences with phrase «electricity market as»

History may judge the introduction of competition to the retail electricity market as an expensive mistake.

Secretary of State Edward Davey says, «Leaving the electricity market as it is would not be in the national interest.

Before REV, Zibelman helped create the nation's first wholesale electricity market as chief operating officer of the PJM Interconnection.

Diana Coleman is a native Austinite and works in the wholesale electricity market as a market specialist.

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That is a shame because the benefits of those rules exceed their costs by a substantial margin — not just nationally but within each individual electricity market region — as demonstrated in my latest paper with UT Austin Law Professor David Adelman.

«This is a much - needed, pragmatic look at U.S. electricity reliability and resilience, including the priority of maintaining critical clean baseload power as electricity markets change,» said Rich Powell, director of ClearPath, which advocates for nuclear and hydropower.

While the town has maintained much of its rustic charm (electricity in the city's «hotel zone» remains limited), it has also begun to attract a new wave of nomad — models, photographers and Wall Street brokers who gather for bikini boot camps, expensive dinners and far niente — to the delight of foreign investors, who have brandished the area's boho vibe as a persuasive marketing spiel.

Just as social media upended communications, the transition to clean energy is rapidly undoing century - old expectations around electricity, transportation and oil — and it's happening in market - shifting, often surprising ways.

Created in 2000 - 2001 as part of the deregulation of the electricity market, electricity buyers purchase the right to sell power from electricity generators.

As an energy investor, I'd rather be in a growing renewable energy business that's taking market share in electricity generation than a fossil fuel business that's losing market share every year.

As is, solar power is immediately cost effective when included in a home mortgage in all residential markets where electricity is over 12 cents per kwh, without local incentives or Cap - and - Trade.

Solvay serves diversified global end markets, including automotive and aerospace, consumer goods and healthcare, energy and environment, electricity and electronics, building and construction as well as industrial applications.

Electricity market reforms are being used as a cover for subsidising the nuclear industry, MPs have claimed.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in February that the state was taking tough new measures against energy marketing companies, also known as ESCOs, after data showed some were charging more than utilities for gas and electricity supply.

The state created the market for ESCOs as a way to encourage competition for wholesale electricity and natural gas.

«I think coal is at a very low place right now,» Barnett said in an interview, noting that coal has lost about 10 percent of its market share for electricity generation as more utilities convert their plants to burn natural gas.

The findings suggest that as the U.S. energy market continues to shift from coal to natural gas, the overall «toxicity burden» of the electricity sector will decrease, said study corresponding author Shelie Miller, an environmental engineer and an associate professor at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability's Center for Sustainable Systems.

Even the electric utility industry recognizes that where residential electricity costs reach 15 cents per kilowatt - hour — or roughly 16 percent of the U.S. retail electricity market — solar is already as cheap as grid electricity.

These, Warshay notes, are particularly popular outside the U.S., «where energy usage is significantly lower than here,» as the outsize electricity demands by American users would generally overtax the capacities of the first round of home - size heat and power models being marketed in Asia and Europe.

Of course, copper is the primary metal used around the world to move electricity and that's a route Hochschild followed as well, moving into energy products and, then, in 2003, starting to trade renewable energy credits — another government run market in chits that show a given electric utility has produced or bought a sufficient amount of electricity from renewable resources, such as the sun or wind, to meet a mandate.

The portal is a tool for moving beyond the commodity model of electricity delivery into a new era of energy services as diverse as those in today's dynamic telecommunications market.

As farmers become more aware of the opportunities — not just in crop production but also in ecosystem markets — they have the ability to use land in concert with a regulated industry [the electricity sector under the Clean Power Plan to satisfy that regulatory requirement through green infrastructure.

Dated Tuesday, the four groups — Advanced Energy Economy (AEE), American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), and Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA)-- expressed regret in a cover letter that the Department of Energy had ignored calls for «an open and transparent process for the review of reliability and electricity markets» as per a memo published by Secretary Perry on April 14.

Prior to joining EPIC, he worked on assessing the impact of intermittent renewable energies on electricity prices as a research assistant at the Chaire European Electricielectricity prices as a research assistant at the Chaire European ElectricityElectricity Markets.

This means it covers the direct cost of low - carbon subsidies, energy efficiency and carbon taxes, as well as indirect costs due to strengthening grids, backing up intermittent renewables, compensating conventional generation for lost revenue through the capacity market and savings due to the merit - order effect, which pushes down wholesale electricity prices.

Emerging market classroom issues such as low connectivity, minimal bandwidth, lack of hardware, limited electricity, and lack of teacher training need to be at the top of your agenda as you craft your solution.

Second Street Station by Lawrence H. Levy Brooklyn's first woman detective, Mary Handley, finds herself tangled in a mystery in the late 19th century, just as the notorious Edison / Tesla feud over the electricity market unfolds.

It also provides transmission services to third parties as well as the generation and sale of electricity into the wholesale market.

Although mainly marketed as a quick cleaner, this little bottle performs miracles in controlling static electricity, matting and dry skin — and it does so without leaving any residue.

I need convincing that the 10 cent to 20 cent electricity that you quote from CSP will be competitite as a market choice without major government assistance.

The cumbersome process of providing electricity access through grid extension alone is becoming obsolete as new business models and technologies enable the development of off - grid markets.

The emerging model is that the utilities (distribution companies) that are responsible for providing electricity service to their customers act as portfolio managers, integrating all of the resources needed to provide that service, including electricity from spot market purchases, independent power producers, utility owned generation, and demand side management.

I was sort of surprised when in the early 90s the Jewel food chain in the Chicago area went on the gov's Green Lights program, got a low interest loan to change all their conventional tube lights to ones with reflectors and electronic ballasts (reducing lighting electricity by 3/4 & saving the food chain $ 1 million per year, paying off the loan within the 1st year), that they didn't use that as a marketing strategy: «Jewel cares about the Earth!»

The electricity industry already is — and has been for years — in a rapid transition away from coal and towards cleaner generation — a transition driven mainly by fundamental market forces such as lower gas prices, lower costs for wind and solar power and energy efficiency, and by state and federal policies and company planning decisions that long predated the Clean Power Plan.

Power companies are well on their way to meet the Plan's targets, thanks to the fact that the electricity industry has already started rapidly moving away from coal and towards cleaner generation — a transition driven mainly by fundamental market forces such as lower gas prices, lower costs for wind and solar power and energy efficiency, and by state and federal policies and company planning decisions that long predated the Plan.

Nonetheless, the DOE proposal is widely viewed as an unheard - of intrusion into the principle of letting markets determine which resources best serve society with low - cost and low - environmental impact electricity, and one that's almost certain to increase costs to consumers.

Eager as usual to be a team player, I'll be contributing some thoughts on the failure of electricity market reform to the Guardian, hopefully appearing tomorrow.

As president and chief executive officer, Mr. Ott oversees the largest power grid in North America and the largest electricity market in the world.

This report addresses electricity market design and regulation considerations for systems with high volumes of variable renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar resources.

As a result, a TPO solar lease customer in some instances could wind up paying more over the 10 - or 20 - year term of a residential solar lease than they would have paid a utility for electricity over the same period of time, pointed out Stanley Fishbein, the co-founder and one of two managing partners of CleanView Capital, a solar energy finance company focused primarily on the commercial and industrial segments of the solar energy market.

The RET was set up to encourage the entry of renewable energy, such as wind farms, solar and hydro, into the electricity market to cut emissions.

However, in the spirit of Chairman Smith's request, this report analyzes the Clean Power Plan in the context of the AEO2015 High Economic Growth and High Oil and Gas Resource cases as well as the Reference case in order to examine indicators of the proposed rule's impacts on energy markets under varying assumptions regarding economic growth, electricity demand, and fuel prices.

It's another acknowledgement of the tough operating environment for nuclear facilities as gas - fired and renewable energy sources continue to grab more power generation market share in an era of lower electricity costs and slowing demand for electricity.

The Electricity Market Module (EMM) builds and dispatches electric generating capacity in twenty - two distinct geographic regions, as shown in Figure 1 and described in Table 1.18

Costs of generating electricity from coal and natural gas are rising as renewables penetrate the market and fossil fuel plants run less, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

The demand - side response potential in industry and large commercial buildings can be more accessible, as energy management systems optimize decisions to consume electricity or offer demand - side response services to the market.

Friedman... would have viewed climate change as a negative externality associated with burning fossil fuels and would have believed that society was entitled to recover its losses from those who emit carbon to advance their economic interests... While there is a market for the products that are associated with greenhouse gas emissions — like electricity, fuel and steel — there is no market for the pollution inflicted by their manufacturers on the public.

Natural gas delivered to market as LNG has life - cycle greenhouse gas emissions (ie extraction, pipelining, liquefaction, shipping, regasification, pipelining and burning for electricity) of roughly 600 - 800 kg of carbon per megawatt - hour of electricity.

Life - cycle carbon emissions of 600 - 700 kgs per mwh result from natural gas electricity delivered to market as LNG.

Unlike other CSP developers who leverage the heat of the sun as the «fuel» for a power block that then generates electricity to the grid; GlassPoint's enclosed troughs are simply employed in the direct production of steam, focusing on what the company sees as an ignored market for heat.