Sentences with phrase «electricity prices without»

Right now, many analysts are focused on when solar will hit «grid parity» and become competitive with retail electricity prices without subsidies.

In Ontario, with limited economic hydro and expensive storage, it is mathematically impossible to achieve low CO2 emissions at reasonable electricity prices without nuclear generation.

-- In Ontario, with limited economic hydro and expensive storage, it is mathematically impossible to achieve low CO2 emissions at reasonable electricity prices without nuclear generation.

Not exact matches

The government also plays an important role in encouraging value - added products and renewable energy initiatives, as well as easing electricity price swings without imposing arbitrary taxes that disadvantage retailers.

We deliver photovoltaic panel installation without any investment from our clients to sell the client electricity below Chilean grid prices.

Without a way to save electricity and heat for later use, intermittent renewable energy will struggle to close price and performance differences with fossil fuels.

Arias says Torresol can either run the plant until the battery is exhausted, or it can modulate the power of the turbine during darkness so it is at its maximum between 11 and 11.30 pm, when electricity demand — and price — peaks, «so we are able to reach the next day without stopping the turbine».

The U.S. experience suggests that a more efficient gas market, marked by flexible pricing and fueled by indigenous unconventional resources that are produced sustainably, can reduce coal use, CO2 emissions and consumers» electricity bills, without harming energy security.

In April, Germany approved bids for the first offshore farms that promise to supply electricity at market prices without any subsidy.

Currently they estimate that adding CCS capabilities to a coal - fired power plant would increase the price of the electricity produced by upwards of 60 percent, without including the cost of CO2 transportation, injection or monitoring.

The reason both countries, who have large readily available coal reserves are so heavily reliant on fossil fueled electricity generation is because, without carbon pricing, it's slightly cheaper than nuclear power.

A system based on price - responsive - load would be able to remove this insurance component from at least some of the electricity supply and thus provide lower prices to consumers without reducing income to generators.

Some programs may instead «lock in» a set rate for solar over the duration of the contract, with or without gradual increases tied to an agreed - upon electricity price inflation rate.

In Europe: more interconnection and cheaper electricity prices are convenient,... but, without explanation / justification: a 40 % CO2 emissions reduction (in comparison to 1990's) has been scheduled for the 2030 framework.

Without decisive action to ensure the networks are as cost - efficient as possible, network costs will push up electricity prices even further.

While US emissions are decreasing slightly — both as a result of the administration's policies on renewable energy and vehicle fuel economy standards and because of sharply lower natural gas prices that have reduced coal use for electricity generation — it is unlikely that without additional regulation or legislation that the US will meet its 2020 target.

Kenya streamlined the process of getting electricity by introducing a geographic information system that allows the utility to provide price quotes to customers without conducting a site visit.

A series of electricity industry reports has highlighted the inequity in existing power pricing where customers without solar panels are unfairly subsidising those with them.

Industry experts realized that low wholesale electricity market prices weren't going away any time soon and that coal plants were now facing the prospect of never breaking even, even without additional environmental compliance obligations.

But in March 2011 the Federal Environment Agency, said that in principle «all of Germany's nuclear power stations could be taken offline permanently by 2017,» without resulting in «supply bottlenecks or in appreciably higher electricity prices.»

I've been following discussions of solar energy on - and - off for quite a while, and it has always seemed as if it would be quite a long time, even assuming an emissions trading scheme or carbon tax, before solar photovoltaics could be a cost - competitive source of electricity without special support such as capital subsidies or feed - in tariffs set above market prices.

Minneapolis, MN — Within a decade, more than 35 million buildings may be generating their own solar electricity (without subsidies) at prices lower than their utility offers, sufficient to power almost 10 % of the country.

It is not very honest to compare cost of new nuclear to current wholesale price of electricity without also comparing that of other technologies for new build.

«If electricity prices do not rise over the next decade, only a few plants will survive on the market without subsidies,» says an analysis by the Berlin - based consulting firm Energy Brainpool.»

Energy poverty is spread across the developing world, but it is particularly severe in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 620 million people live without access to electricity and for those who do have access to modern energy, very high prices, insufficiency and unreliability is a constant plague.

If those homeowners live in a place where there is time - of - use pricing (the cost of electricity varying by time of day), they already are paying less than homeowners without solar power.

Currently, states that have renewable mandates have residential electricity prices 27 percent higher than states without these mandates.