Sentences with phrase «electricity policy shows»
November 10th serves as a perfect example of what's happening to electricity customers in Ontario: that day, the government's electricity policy shows we reward huge corporate wind power developers and it also highlights the intermittent nature of power generation from wind — it is out of phase with demand.
http://www.windconcernsontario.ca/ Not exact matches
«This also shows that wholesale costs were the main driver of price rises; however the range of policy - related costs pressures is estimated to have been responsible for 7 % of the gas price rise and 28 % of the electricity price rise during this period.»
Indeed, a Greenpeace policy paper from 2001 shows Greenpeace's initial enthusiasm for the project: «Instead of cutting tax on fuels that wreck the climate, Gordon Brown should use this week's budget to boost genuine green fuels like biodiesel, hydrogen and green electricity.»
I Guess the Bush Administration Doesn't Think Highly of Pickens» or Gore's Proposals The fact that this proposal is announced just days after Al Gore calls for all U.S. electricity be generated renewably within 10 years, and two weeks after T. Boone Pickens unveiled his plan to radically increase U.S. wind power and use natural gas to offset petroleum in transportation, shows how mired in business - as - usual thinking regarding energy and environmental policy the current administration is.
The potential is practically without limit: a 2011 article published in Energy Policy shows that solar PV deployed in suitable locations could generate 30 times the electricity currently produced worldwide.
Show me Primary energy demand Electricity generation Generation capacity Electric vehicles Oil demand Energy investment CO ₂ emissions CO ₂ emissions reductions in the New Policies Scenario Sustainable Development Scenario
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.
Analyses of these measures by the American Council for Capital Formation, which studies economic and environmental policy, show that they will raise electricity rates as well as gas prices - costing jobs and hurting the economy - even as the EPA admits that these choices will have an insignificant impact on global climate change (a point former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson confessed during a Senate hearing in 2009).
UCS» core policy case in the analysis shows that a fully diversified electricity resource mix portfolio is 14 percent less sensitive to long - term fluctuations in fossil fuel prices.
According to the analyst, popular opinion against German Chancellor Angela Merkel's «Energiewende» (energy transition) policies, which had doubled electricity prices, played no small part in Merkel's terrible showing in last month's national elections.
Australia emissions rise for 3rd year, with electricity the only sector to show a fall, thanks to a policy mechanism the government tried to kill.