Sentences with phrase «expects electricity prices»

Can lock in long - term costs for electricity, which could be a major benefit if the homeowner expects electricity prices to rise in the future.

Unlike most utilities, it doesn't pay a dividend, but with many expecting electricity prices to rise, Miller doesn't think the lack of income is a problem.

Not exact matches

The government has raised the prices of fuel and commercial electricity — and bread and water are expected to follow soon.

The wholesale price of electricity is down 50 % and not expected to rise anytime soon.

The approval, which will allow government to invest in the mini-grid sector, is expected to increase the country's renewable energy generation capacity to achieve price reduction in electricity.

Blaming an increase in wholesale energy prices, Npower has told its four million customers to expect average gas prices to rise by 17.2 per cent and electricity by 12.7 per cent, with other suppliers expected to follow suit.

Upstate electricity prices will go «materially higher» by the summer of 2017 if both the FitzPatrick and Ginna nuclear plants shut down as expected, a Wall Street analyst predicts.

For example, conventional geologic storage of CO2 is expected to increase electricity prices 30 to 50 percent.

The hike comes as inflation remains below the bank's two per cent target, however it said it believes the recent softness is temporary, with the effects of food price competition, electricity rebates in Ontario and changes in automobile pricing expected to fade.

By Benjamin Flowers Staff Reporter Since the start of 2018, the cost of living has been steadily climbing in Belize, with the new fiscal year ushering in a number of price increases on Internet services, gas, butane and electricity with more increases to goods and services expected to follow.

When you compare current electricity and natural gas prices, the same unit of energy will cost you about three times more for electricity so you can expect to pay a little bit more on your utility bill, even with a sizable energy efficiency improvement.

Expect more skyrocketing electricity prices, blackouts and load - shedding as Australia's virtue - signalling, climate theory - obsessed politicians continue their jihad against what was Australia's once proud boast — cheap, reliable, efficient baseload power.

Having said that, it's generally expected to pass — the Labor Party, The Greens, and several independents have said they'll support it, and the opposition (generally opposed to anything climate - related) don't have the numbers to block it, although they've promised to repeal it if elected in 2013 (although the total package has been cleverly built, so to repeal it, they'll have to promise to raise taxes on the low & middle income brackets, cut aged & disability pensions, and rely on the «goodwill» of large corporations to lower prices for electricity & other carbon - intensive goods).

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.

Solar photovoltaic power has already reached grid parity (when the cost of the energy matches market electricity prices) in several countries (Australia, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Portugal, and Brazil) and is expected to reach grid parity in many other coutries within the next few years.

By installing solar panels on their homes, consumers are able to effectively lock in the price of electricity they will pay in the years ahead, acting as an insulator against future rises in electricity prices since the systems installed in homes today are expected to last approximately thirty years.

Together these cost components comprise around 5 % of residential electricity prices at a national level and are not expected to have a significant impact on the total residential electricity price over the reporting period in most jurisdictions.»

Rational consumers, unregulated by government, can be expected to weigh the up - front price of appliances against the anticipated operating costs of electricity versus gas.

The report argues that, even if electricity demand were to grow at around 1 to 1.5 per cent per annum between 2010 and 2020 and fossil fuel prices were to remain relatively high, the share of renewables in UK electricity sales is only expected to increase to around 10.25 per cent by 2015.

Coupled with the low and stable nature of electricity prices — which average $ 0.12 / kWh in the U.S. and can be significantly less for commercial and industrial users, falling to almost nothing when combined with local solar generation and storage — owners can expect to gain $ 200,000 or more in savings over a million miles based on fuel costs alone.

Participating homeowners who remain on tiered pricing plans are expected to have cheaper electricity from their rooftop panels than average grid electricity by 2015.

The value of energy your Solar Roof is expected to produce over 30 years is based on the average price of electricity in your area, adjusted for inflation by 2 % annually.

Sure enough, over time sulfur - dioxide emissions from power plants were cut almost in half, at a much lower cost than even optimists expected; electricity prices fell instead of rising.

Currently South Australia is exporting around 600 megawatts and at around 3 am EST the price of electricity is expected to go negative as SA demand falls around 400 megawatts below what it is now and presumably the state will be producing more electricity that will consume and can export.

Instead of a single or other simple (e.g. night and day) tariff, dynamic pricing and more complex tariff structures are expected to be introduced to allow «demand response», in other words, to allow customers to buy electricity at constantly changing prices, thereby cutting demand at peak times, and thus, resulting in a lower need for peak capacity as well as better integration of renewable energy sources.

The escalators raise the cost of the solar power slightly on an annual basis and are designed to keep the cost of power from the solar installation at levels lower than the expected prices of electricity from utility companies.

As renewable power projects connect to the power grid over the next few years, expect the price of electricity in Ontario to rise as consumers start paying for more expensive green energy.

However, with extended irregular rainfall affecting the country, and especially the Western Cape, along with the continued hikes expected in electricity and fuel prices, the right thing to do is also often the most financially prudent.

Once stranded costs have been recovered, it is reasonable to expect that competition will drive electricity prices lower.