Sentences with phrase «electricity markets»

New regulatory proposals for carbon and US electricity markets present options for system - wide thinking in the sector.

«Three FirstEnergy nuclear plants aren't needed to provide reliable electric service for customers in Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to PJM's finding,» said John Moore, who heads a group focused on the electricity markets within the Natural Resources Defense Council.

On some of America's most idyllic shorelines between Vermont and California lie several behemoths of the past, shuttered nuclear power plants closed prematurely because they could no longer compete in electricity markets upended by record - low natural gas prices or because they had technical issues that made them too expensive or scientifically challenging to repair.

While regional variations exist, most utilities indicated a desire for wholesale electricity markets to decide what generation is sited and dispatched, but also want some plants to be allowed traditional cost recovery in those markets.

A $ 3.6 billion transfer from electricity customers to generators in New England highlights the need for greater coordination across natural gas and electricity markets.

Electricity markets in ASEAN undeniably face a very different set of challenges compared to more mature markets.

The British Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) also published new feed - in tariff rates that will apply as of April 1, 2014.

But that goal was considered more aspirational than real, given the company's expansive geographic footprint — 10,500 stores in 27 countries — and the complexity of electricity markets across the many regions and states where Walmart operates.

Today's electricity markets must balance growing consumer demand with regulatory or market - based policy requirements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Wind energy pricing remains attractive to utility and commercial purchasers, according to an annual report released by the U.S. Department of Energy and prepared by the Electricity Markets & Policy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

Hence the CPP either forces a radical (and as - yet undeveloped) restructuring of wholesale electricity markets, or it provides a back door for a carbon tax — a politically toxic policy that IER has consistently shown to be all pain, no gain, and a legislative non-starter for good reason.

Investment in generation and network infrastructures has taken place and OECD electricity markets are generally reliable.

«The trend of rotors and the swept area of rotors scaling faster than the nameplate capacity of the turbines themselves is an ongoing trend in both US and global markets,» says Ryan Wiser, senior scientist and group leader of the Electricity Markets and Policy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).

On September 14, 2017, academics, policy makers, representatives of Independent System Operators / Regional Transmission Organizations and other stakeholders engaged in a discussion of the future of electricity markets over the next two decades, with an emphasis on the potential for high penetrations of zero and low marginal cost generation, and various options for organizing wholesale electricity transactions in the face of rapid technological change.

The generation utilities that sell into wholesale electricity markets (also under pressure from falling power prices; thanks to natural gas and renewables, wholesale power prices are down 70 percent from 2007) have reacted by cutting costs and merging.

Emphasizing the business case for corporates to transition to 100 % renewable power, Jarnail Singh, India Director, The Climate Group said, «RE100 stands testimony to the fact that corporate demand for renewable power is bringing forth a shift in electricity markets, globally.

[31] C. Harris, Electricity markets: pricing, structures and economics, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester; Hoboken, NJ, 2006.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) released today Security of Supply in Electricity Markets: Evidence and Policy Issues, which analyses the impact of market reform on investment in the power industry.

MMA 2006, Report to National Emissions Trading Taskforce: Impacts of a National Emissions Trading Scheme on Australia's Electricity Markets, McLennan Magasanik Associates Pty Ltd..

Security of Supply in Electricity Markets: Evidence and Policy Issues also identifies some areas, including the further development of transmission networks, where investment is urgently needed to eliminate bottlenecks, facilitate trade and increase reliability.

A major contribution from the economics of regulatory practice in electricity markets is the usefulness of marginal cost pricing.

O'Mahoney, Amy and Denny, Eleanor (2011): Electricity Prices and Generator Behaviour in Gross Pool Electricity Markets.

The new electricity markets are not yet fully developed and three areas require particular attention:

The capacity market, like PJM's other electricity markets, is meant to promote efficiency and encourage new competitive resources to enter the market, with everyone competing on an even playing field.

The IEA, in close collaboration with the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, works with countries around the world to analyse the cost of nuclear technologies, the place of nuclear power in competitive electricity markets, and its role in meeting long - term power sector decarbonisation objectives.

, like PJM's other electricity markets, is meant to promote efficiency and encourage new competitive resources to enter the market, with everyone competing on an even playing field.

I expect, therefore, that DTE will now join me in pushing for the repeal of Public Act 286's onerous restrictions on customer choice in electricity providers and demand the deregulation of Michigan's electricity markets.

So the advantage renewables have over conventional sources is even larger in the rapidly growing electricity markets like India and China.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) published today Distributed Generation in Liberalised Electricity Markets, which analyses this growing phenomenon.

Joining up EU electricity markets is another energy union priority.

Her recent research focused on electricity markets and energy consumption behavior.

Changes to market rules and to environmental regulations are also required for accommodating distributed generation into liberalised electricity markets.

Distributed Generation in Liberalised Electricity Markets also looks ahead to a future where government policies and further technological developments could lead to a substantial share of electricity being produced by distributed generation.

WASHINGTON — Today the Department of Energy (DOE) released a new report on electricity markets and reliability, as directed by Secretary...

This report examines these costs in electricity markets and demonstrates the value of energy efficiency as a low - risk supply option.

Re-powering Markets is part of the IEA Electricity Markets Series.

(CPI 2013) In liberalized electricity markets, FITs can result in the de facto creation of a separate market for renewable generators.

FITs have evolved over time from reliance on strict fixed, long - term prices to more innovative models that better enable participation in liberalized electricity markets, such as premium FITs, market premiums, and contracts for differences.

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.

This webinar will cover the basics of deregulated US electricity markets and focus on the virtual power purchase agreement (PPA) structure.

Building the electricity markets of the future, Re-powering Markets explains, requires a comprehensive framework that encourages low - carbon investments and operational efficiency but also keeps security of supply as a top priority.

Carefully targeted climate finance can help shape electricity markets and create the enabling conditions to unlock low - carbon, low - cost energy investment.

Wind and solar power are booming, rapidly becoming serious players in electricity markets around the world.

Mike Jacobs is leading the Union of Concerned Scientists's work on electricity markets and regulatory reform.

This cost difference is not terribly accurate, but it is base on the Department of Energy's cost data and on financing assumptions used in major regulatory cases by two major electricity markets.

Within the power systems area, for example, MIT offers a wider range of optimization subjects, including a class focused on electricity markets and regulations, Zeineldin says.

In competitive electricity markets, changes in any number of variables, including fuel prices, weather, and plant and system operational changes, can cause variations in the level of electricity dispatched by a given power plant (or group of plants) from year to year.

The US and European electricity markets are quite mature and the growth rates are almost non-existant.

There's been no appetite since then for opening up electricity markets, which could be a boon to the growing solar industry.

Simply opening up electricity markets to competition would be far better than these hobbled - together policies of regulation, tax incentives, and renewable - friendly rate structures, but at least these standard - issue policies are designed around incentives rather than edicts.