Sentences with phrase «electricty prices»

Solar can't produce electricity at night, but as we've seen in Germany and Australia it doesn't take a lot of solar capacity to start pushing down electricty prices during the day and that is very bad for the economics of nuclear power as it's a high capital cost, low fuel cost source of energy and reducing output during periods of low demand doesn't do much to reduce costs.

With a 5 % discount rate, which is about what one would expect a lot of homeowners to have for a home improvement like this, rooftop solar in Melbourne still produces electricity for less than half the cost of their low low retail electricty prices.

In the USA and Australia electricty prices are amongst the cheapest in the world so consumers there would notice this price rise much more than those of us in Europe.

The Labour conference is over, and the caravan has left Brighton, but the controversy about Ed Miliband's plan to freeze gas and electricty prices is still raging.