Sentences with phrase «expensive electricity prices»

For businesses not covered by the tax, this translated to more expensive electricity prices as well as higher prices for certain Australian commodities.

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Other downstream implications of CCS or other policy will depend on how they affect the relative price of electricity... and more expensive emissions reductions will make electricity more expensive than it needs to be, thereby limiting potential uptake of electrification.

CCS really amounts to a combined GHG and natural gas hedge which, in a world of really expensive gas, allows you to maintain lower electricity prices than you perhaps otherwise would be able to as you can continue to use relatively cheap and plentiful coal while capturing and storing the emissions.

gas world, and so I would argue that a policy focusing on CCS as opposed to a broader policy on de-carbonizing electricity through a carbon price would lead to more expensive electricity than need be the case in a carbon - constrained world.

Expensive batteries and limited recharging stations are the big impediments to making EVs cost - competitive with non-hybrid internal combustion vehicles, but new electricity pricing and distribution models may help break the logjam

Under the Solar Community Initiative administered by the World Wildlife Fund and executed by solar firm Geostellar, employees of the four firms can install rooftop solar PV at prices that average 35 percent below the national average for solar and nearly 50 percent less expensive than average grid - delivered electricity, according to WWF and Geostellar.

If the full cost of burning fossil fuels, including health effects and the costs of climate change, were incorporated into the price of electricity, PV would quickly be revealed as one of the least expensive sources of power.

Due to this expensive trade, we who live in the south of Sweden, have to pay almost the same high prices as the Danes, although Sweden produces low cost electricity from mostly Hydro and Nuclear.

So as California was doubling its share of electricity from costly renewables, its retail electricity prices rose in line with the rest of the nation as the cheaper natural - gas - generated electricity covered for the more expensive green energy.

The system of regulated end - user prices, however, is subsidising electricity consumption at a time when low - carbon power supply is becoming more constrained and expensive.

As shown above, alternative energy produced only 5.7 % of Pennsylvania's power while 56 % of Pennsylvania's electricity comes from coal, requiring more electricity to come from more expensive resources will inevitably raise prices.

When power prices are most expensive, the system automatically reduces the use of utility - provided electricity and instead draws from the battery.

If customers were forced to pay the actual price at the time they use electricity, they would be motivated to shift some of their usage to lower - price hours, which would reduce the need for some expensive peaking capacity.

-- 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.

By comparison, the contract for the wind - generated electricity started at 24.4 cents per kwh and includes a guaranteed 3.5 % price increase bringing the wind - generated electricity to 47 cents per kwh in twenty years — making the wind - generated electricity roughly 4 - 8 times more expensive than the natural gas - fueled electricity.

That would put pressure on gas and coal prices, which would in turn make electricity generation more expensive.

On some of America's most idyllic shorelines between Vermont and California lie several behemoths of the past, shuttered nuclear power plants closed prematurely because they could no longer compete in electricity markets upended by record - low natural gas prices or because they had technical issues that made them too expensive or scientifically challenging to repair.

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.

A loose - loose to take heavy measures at this stage, since f.ex carbon storage is extremely expensive, might create carcinogens, raise the price of electricity enormously and is a one - way - solution, totally useless if CAGW should be proven to be wrong.

One hypothesis might be that while electricity from solar and wind became cheaper, other energy sources like coal, nuclear, and natural gas became more expensive, eliminating any savings, and raising the overall price of electricity.

If electricity was dynamically priced, price fluctuations would be arbitraged by those market participants who could shift their demand or supply at least cost; among other things, this would remove the need for expensive peak - load plants and make solar and wind energy much more practical.

Under time - of - use pricing, consumers pay a lower price for electricity when it is least expensive — and higher when electricity costs more to produce.

Yes, the # 92.50 / MWh of electricity from Hinkley point is expensive — at twice the current price of electricity.

The only time it makes economic sense to call on these more expensive resources is when demand pushes electricity prices high enough, as it did during the bomb cyclone.

Looking at the average wholesale spot price for June for the National Electricity Market the states in order of most expensive to least expensive are SA, TAS, VIC, NSW, QLD.

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.

Expensive appliances, spendy materials for countertops, plumbing, and electricity all likely contribute to those high prices, but Ikea's survey might shed some light on why so many people make the kitchen the focal point.

The Bitcoin mining industry has a razor - thin profit margin as it is and having a price of electricity that is even a few tenths of a cent more expensive over the competition can mean getting beaten out of the market.