Sentences with phrase «facing higher electricity»

This wouldn't affect the cap, but it would constrain CARB's ability to raise money for initiatives elsewhere, such as high - speed rail or easing the burden on low - income households facing higher electricity bills.

Cryptocurrency mining firms in New York State could face higher electricity bills after a ruling from the public utilities regulator.

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There are also legitimate concerns that Puerto Ricans, who already pay some of the highest electricity rates in the US and are now facing widespread unemployment because of the storm, won't be able to afford to pay them.

«Today, the energy sector faces an unprecedented financial crisis in Ghana's history... the cost of electricity to industry has been alarmingly high, and this has led to the collapse of some factories»

Replacing existing capacity with new capacity means U.S. consumers will pay higher electricity prices, similar to what Ontario electricity consumers faced.

Along with high electricity costs, C&I customers face business interruption from unplanned outages.

Native American communities face some of the highest poverty and unemployment rates in the United States, and as many as 15,000 families live with no access to electricity.

Beatrice Bedeschi discusses how high rates of renewable generation drove electricity prices on the Italian power exchange to zero in June while the gas market faces low storage levels compared to previous years.

But those gas - fired plants face commodity and carbon price risks that will expose Albertans to higher electricity bills over the long term, something wind energy, with no fuel costs and no carbon emissions, can protect against.

On September 14, 2017, academics, policy makers, representatives of Independent System Operators / Regional Transmission Organizations and other stakeholders engaged in a discussion of the future of electricity markets over the next two decades, with an emphasis on the potential for high penetrations of zero and low marginal cost generation, and various options for organizing wholesale electricity transactions in the face of rapid technological change.

At the same time, we face a daunting partisan environment in Congress for legislation of any type, as well as the added challenge of responding to higher prices for fuels and electricity that are being occasioned both by the energy demand created by global economic recovery and by instability in North Africa and the Middle East.

«Extraordinarily high retail electricity prices, combined with dramatic cost declines in renewable energy and storage technologies, have combined to transform the competitive landscape facing the State's electric utilities,» the commission wrote.

Conclusions When placed in remote areas, «wind farms» may face little, if any, public opposition, despite the higher costs of electricity from wind energy, the environmental disadvantages, and the adverse operational impacts on other electricity generating units and transmission systems.

Since the 2011 earthquake and the subsequent Fukushima nuclear accident, Japan has had to contend with various challenges in its energy sector: shutdown of all nuclear power plants has meant that Japan has faced increased fuel imports coupled with higher electricity prices.

Bitcoin miners face this critical task of higher electricity consumption and hence many miners have been chosing places like Canada which has cheaper electricity cost.

Following a closed - door meeting in December, there is talk of mining operators facing power restrictions in certain regions of China, where there is higher electricity usage.