Sentences with phrase «electricity retailer agl»

They claim that this will «provide direct access to power at cost and without the additional charges and costs associated with transmission, of power including; grid costs, poles and wires, electricity retailer margins to supply to the end user.»
A MAJOR electricity retailer has announced a $ 130 - a-year price hike and blamed closing coal - fire power plants, among other factors, as some government MPs dig in their heels on the Finkel report.
The Sunraysia Solar Farm is set to begin construction later this year; in addition to the PPA with UNSW, energy generated on the farm will also fulfil a deal that Maoneng inked with electricity retailer AGL in December 2017 to supply 800,000 MWh of renewable energy annually for 15 years.
For every kilowatt hour of green electricity that an electricity retailer sells, it is committed to buy a kilowatt from a an electrical generator that produces power by a greenhouse friendly method; that is, by a method that does not produce greenhouse gasses.
The procedure for registration as an electricity retailer is now being performed based on screening by the Electricity and Gas Market Surveillance Commission (EGC), which was established for the liberalization and reform of the energy market.
France is happy because it can flog its nuclear to suckers like Spain (France now the world's biggest electricity retailer) and it wins in any carbon trade offs.
I also recommend that you take that money, double it and set up an electricity retailer that offers the highest possible feed back reward for renewable energy.
So now Rio and BHP Billiton have joined the lengthening line of companies asking for a carbon price, such as electricity retailer AGL and technology company Siemens which were co-signatories of an open letter earlier this year.
The law states that each electricity retailer must provide a certain amount of renewable energy to its customers, paid for by renewable energy certificates, and that includes Queensland utilities.
With that now expired, Johnny Rivers had been courting Western Australian electricity retailer Alinta (whose CEO Jeff Dimery, perfectly named — besides the «y» — to run a power company, ran the Liddell power station in his previous gig at AGL).
Energy Future Holdings Corp. manages a portfolio of competitive and regulated energy subsidiaries consisting of TXU Energy, a competitive electricity retailer, Luminant, a competitive power generation business, including mining, wholesale marketing and trading, and construction, and Oncor, a regulated electric distribution and transmission business.
Wesfarmers is boosting its executive team in readiness for an expansion of its energy business, including a possible move into electricity retailing and generation.
The power is generated through rooftop solar panels owned and operated by Singapore's Sun Electric, the first solar company given an electricity retail licence, it was announced at an event held by Sun Electric and Singapore's electricity regulator, the Energy Market Authority (EMA).
«The EMA will continue its efforts to facilitate the entry of independent electricity retailers,» said Loh Khum Yean, chairman of EMA.
Against this, the ACCC considers that the proposed acquisition would result, or be likely to result, in substantial public detriment constituted by a lessening of competition, due to raised barriers to entry and expansion for smaller electricity retailers in NSW and a material risk of increased generator market power.
To summarise, electricity retailers will need more renewable capacity over the next nine years (see graph below).
The oversupply of renewable energy certificates has also held electricity retailers back from new investment.
Australia's renewable energy certificate scheme requires electricity retailers to sell a certain number of annual gigawatt hours of renewable energy, increasing on a growing trajectory.
Bullfrog pioneered the concept of an annual audit for green electricity retailers when we launched in 2005.
Major electricity retailers will still be obliged to meet emissions reduction obligations of 26 % lower than 2005 by 2030, while also meeting a reliability obligation.
The core of the government's plan is a requirement that all electricity retailers should provide a certain proportion of dispatchable electricity — a term that has now been arbitrarily defined to include coal.
Currently, Japan needs to expand the scale and contents of transactions of the small - scale wholesale electricity market, including the Japan Electric Power Exchange (JEPX), and create a situation where electricity retailers procure and sell the required types and volumes of electricity in a fair manner, like in European countries.
Disclosure of information on energy mix details including the share of renewable energy sources and the amount of nuclear waste (both of which are already mandatory disclosure items in Europe) is not specified in the Guidelines Concerning the Management of the Electricity Retail Business issued in January 2016, but it is indicated as a «desired practice» for retail electricity suppliers.
All consumers, including general households and small - scale business establishments (low - voltage contract consumers), can now choose freely among power companies (electricity retailers) for their electricity, and do not have to simply buy from the regional power utilities that monopolized the market until now.
Many electricity retailing authorities offer «green» electricity for sale.
The electricity from renewable energy power stations is generally more expensive than from fossil - fuelled power stations, so electricity retailers have to have incentives to buy renewable energy.
The country has a flexible power system, but future growth requires fine - tuning of market rules in favour of even more flexibility, demand response, smart and effective electricity retail and distribution.
And electricity retailers are also accused of picking up more profits from exports of excess electricity back to the grid from rooftop solar systems — for which they pay 6c / kWh (and in some cases nothing at all) and then sell it to the houses in the same street for up to five times as much.
As of April 2016 there was an agreement between the operators and Diamond Energy, an electricity retailing company.
I believe he is also correct when he notes that «Mandating electricity retailers to source 80 percent of their power from renewables does not answer the question how that power might be produced, integrated into the grid, or who will do the work.»
Electricity retailers are required to buy enough certificates from renewables to meet the target.

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Anglo - Dutch driller Shell's guidance on capital spending essentially rules out big deals, according to Wood Mackenzie — though it has been actively investing in alternative energy and retail electricity lately.
It acquired such companies as Edison Mission Energy and Alta Wind, making it one of the largest retail electricity providers in the U.S., and which had the added benefit of coming with over half a million new customers.
Under existing VOS program designs, solar customers continue to purchase all of their electricity from the grid at the utility's retail rate and receive credit for the solar electricity exported to the grid at the approved VOS rate.
Additionally, with the new products that we have shown, we expect that solar's share of the nation's $ 400 billion in annual retail electricity sales will increase more than anyone currently expects.
Up to this point, solar customers in Nevada were paid retail rate for electricity they back on the grid.
Solar customers in Nevada will no longer be paid for their excess electricity at a retail rate.
Energy Future's power generation and retail electricity business were separated from Oncor and emerged from bankruptcy last year.
ACCC chairman Rod Sims put big power companies on notice that the agency will tackle surging retail costs in its final report on electricity due next month.
However, consumers in California continue to pay average retail electricity prices that are among the highest in the nation.
In just one year, this branch — the 16th building and first retail location in the world to earn this recognition — generated enough electricity to power seven homes for a year.
We also looked at 2015 commercial prices of electricity from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the 2014 costs of purchasing and renting industrial, office, and retail space per square foot from CoStar Group Inc..
Retailers then sell this electricity to consumers.
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.
«An ERM acquisition of Macquarie Generation has the potential to enhance competition in generation and retailing of electricity,» Mr Sims said.
«The ACCC formed the view that an acquisition of Macquarie Generation by ERM was not likely to substantially reduce the competitiveness of generators or retailers or otherwise raise barriers to entry in the relevant electricity markets.»
The ACCC has announced it will not opposed this proposed acquisition after forming the view that «an acquisition of Macquarie Generation by ERM was not likely to substantially reduce the competitiveness of generators or retailers or otherwise raise barriers to entry in the relevant electricity markets».
The ACCC considers the proposed acquisition will substantially lessen competition in «the market for the retail supply of electricity in New South Wales».
The ACCC says its position is based on the fact that the deal means three of NSW's largest generators will be sold to the three largest retailers, reducing competition in the electricity market.
Of the eighteen sub-sectors, eleven reported growth in the following order: finance & insurance; agriculture; health care & social assistance; wholesale trade; retail trade; transportation & warehousing; public administration; electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply; educational services; accommodation & food services and arts, entertainment & recreation.
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