Sentences with phrase «electricity prices in»

Take for example the rise, and rise, of electricity prices in South Africa.

Bloomberg reported last year that soaring electricity prices in the country caused by tariffs are leaving many households paying more than factories for energy.

Danes have to pay the highest electricity prices in the European Union, and they pay subsidies of nearly $ 400 million a year to wind producers (in a country with less than 2 percent of the population of the United States).

Electricity Prices: How do electricity prices in states that use more coal compare with prices in states that use less coal?

The changes will increase electricity prices 3 - 7 % in the 2020 - 2025 period relative to a reference case, but by 2030, electricity prices in the CPP and reference cases will be similar in most regions.

(Take note of which countries make up 2 of the top 3 in terms of electricity prices in Europe.

«Household electricity prices in Australia have risen by more than 40 percent between 2007 and 2012, the same period when the government offered lucrative wind subsidies.

Meanwhile, electricity prices in the country have dropped, and gross domestic product growth has consistently come in above three percent.

The winter of 2012 - 13 saw spikes in wholesale electricity prices in New England and New York as demand for natural gas from both electric generators and natural gas distribution companies taxed the capacity to bring natural gas into these markets.

Electricity prices in the nuclear sensitivity case are the same or slightly less than in the compliance case where new wind and solar capacity are the major compliance options.

[1] In 2030, residential electricity prices in both the nuclear case and the compliance case are 14.2 cents per kilowatt hour in real prices — 16 percent higher than in 2013.

A study from an economic, financial, and strategy consulting group says the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a multi-state program designed to cap emissions from power plants in the northeastern U.S., has generated $ 4 billion in net economic activity even as it has increased electricity prices in the region.

As a result of the Clean Power Plan, EIA projects that average electricity prices in the years 2025 to 2030 will be 3 percent higher than a future with no Clean Power Plan.

---- 2011b, Modelling of PV & Electricity Prices in the Australian Residential Sector, 2011, The Australian PV Association.

APVA 2011a, Modelling of PV & Electricity Prices in the Australian Commercial Sector, 2011, The Australian PV Association.

The proposed policy would affect electricity prices in two main ways.

Heartland Institute's James Taylor claims that because electricity prices in Ohio have risen slightly faster than the national average since 2008, the state's clean energy standard is the culprit causing a spike in electricity prices.

Our electricity prices in The Netherlands are among the highest in the world.

I should have added above Davidson not only compared a constant price forecast to a current price outcome he also compared electricity prices in the CPI to a rise generated just by the ETS.

Since the program launched, electricity prices in the region have fallen even as customers in non-RGGI states have seen higher prices, and the RGGI states» economies have grown faster than the rest of the country.

From the article:... Germans pay some of the highest electricity prices in Europe — 31 cents per kWhr compared to 17 cents in France and 18 cents in the UK (Economic Times).

Weatherill said that South Australia is moving ahead to a clean energy future regardless of Turnbull's plan, arguing that investments in renewables have helped lower wholesale electricity prices in his state already.

«The UK ranks so low despite the fact that it has among the lowest gas and electricity prices in Europe and relatively high household incomes compared to the other countries,» ACE says.

With its considerable wind energy resources, Oklahoma had the lowest electricity prices in the country last year.

• France: nuclear 76 %, wind 1 %; lowest electricity prices in Europe; lowest CO2 emissions from electricity in Europe

Subsidized electricity prices in some economies are a reason for the poor financial state of utilities, undermining their ability to invest in new energy infrastructure.

• Denmark: wind 19 % (2009); highest electricity prices in Europe, CO2 emissions from electricity generation are nine times higher than France's and near the highest in Europe.

As the graph below shows, Germany and Denmark have the largest amount of solar and wind power and the highest electricity prices in Europe, which are about three times higher than those in the United States.

Reduced nuclear generation due to outages and reduced hydropower generation both served to moderate declining electricity prices in much of the country.

PJM has said the changes are a way to «respect individual state interests while protecting consumers in other states from potential cost shifts,» but critics say the changes could increase electricity prices in Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and 10 other states where it operates.

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiatve (RGGI), which the Northeast Democratic governors claim has been a great success has the region paying the highest electricity prices in the nation (along with green California).

Still others say the wind projects have failed to lower electricity prices in Hawaii, the highest in the nation.

The reason the solar payback is so quick in Hawaii is due to the fact that Hawaii has the highest electricity prices in the USA.

I had an online discussion with Cloete at The Energy Collective website regarding his Jan. 9 article «The Effect of Intermittent Renewables on Electricity Prices in Germany.»

My research uncovered that electricity prices in all four states rose much more rapidly than the national average after the states enacted their renewable power mandates.

Electricity prices in California have increased faster than in the rest of the United States and they are over 40 percent higher than the national average.

Susan Williams Sloan, director of state relations for the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), wrote and circulated an articlein response to a series of articles I wrote on electricity prices in states with renewable power mandates.

As a result, Danish and German consumers are paying some of the highest residential electricity prices in Europe — three times as high as in the United States — for the «benefit» of having wind and solar power generated in their country regardless of whether that power can be used domestically.

In Florida and the Southeast, the Southern Plains, and the Southwest regions the projected electricity prices in 2030 are roughly 10 % above baseline in the Base Policy case (CPP).

New Jersey, Massachusetts, and New York are top distributed solar states despite relatively less favorable solar resources because of consistent state solar PV policies and incentives and some of the highest residential electricity prices in the country.

Moreover, grid electricity prices in Georgia are among the cheapest in the country, so getting people to agree to pay a higher rate — no matter how slight — might be a challenge.

California already has the highest electricity prices in the nation.

Tesla promoted it as a convenient way for homeowners to store their solar energy and take their homes off the grid, have backup power for emergencies or offset electricity prices in places where there's time - of - day pricing.

The hybrid systems cost 15 % more to install but are cheaper to run and recoup the extra expense in 2 years, based on electricity prices in Singapore, says Chia.

Wholesale electricity prices in Central New York tend to be much lower than Downstate prices.

Despite ample wind and sun, some of the highest electricity prices in the country, and the steep cost decline in renewable energy technologies, Puerto Rico has fallen far behind other US regions in renewable energy investment, forming barely 2 percent of its generation mix.

* And electricity prices in most areas have been rising.

Today, electricity prices in Germany, Denmark and other European countries are around four times as high as the price in India and China.

Douglas Porter, chief economist and managing director of BMO Financial Group, had similar concerns when it came to his take on the current state of electricity pricing in Ontario.

The result of these policies in Germany, businesses and families now pay the second highest electricity price in Europe, after Denmark: 45 cents per kilowatt - hour — five times what Americans pay for coal and gas - fueled electricity and nearly three times what they pay in California, Connecticut and New York.