Sentences with phrase «falling fuel costs»

Three aspiring gold miners have announced an increase in projected free cash flow for their respective projects as a result of the strong gold price, coupled with falling fuel costs.

Falling fuel costs kept Japan's core consumer prices unchanged in January from a year earlier, well below the central bank's 2 % target, highlighting the daunting task policymakers face in attempting to lift Japan out of stagnation.

Not exact matches

«The falling pound is driving up the price of imports and rising oil prices are being reflected in higher fuel costs,» he added.

When fuel costs fell and the economy was strong, margins grew fatter, and airlines flooded the market with new flights («capacity,» in the industry's terminology) and splurged on equipment.

Transportation fuel costs have already fallen sharply in concert with the drop in crude prices: prices for jet fuel, for instance, which represents 26 percent of airlines» costs, fell by 52 percent between August 2014 and mid-January 2015.

[mainbodyad] With all of the talk of gas prices falling, I'm reminded of the situation a couple of years ago when fuel costs were on an upward trajectory.

With petrol prices last week climbing over 140p for a litre of unleaded fuel for the first time ever (according to Experian Catalist) and the cost of diesel lingering around record highs, sentiment towards the oil companies has unsurprisingly started to fall again.

In addition to a weaker euro, which helps fuel its export - oriented economy, the cost of financing its sovereign debt relative to its existing debt continues to fall while the smaller countries struggle with rising financing costs.

Construction costs for energy infrastructure are falling as Australia moves away from fossil fuels and invests in renewable power and new battery storage facilities.

«It's going to be six months or so before airlines are seeing lower fuel costs, and at that point consumers are likely to see a fall in travel costs,» Pearce told The Associated Press.

As FinAlternatives noted last week, some of Wall Street's biggest titans have been humbled by global volatility fueled by China and falling energy costs.

Earnings in Indonesia were also expected to fall this year because of increased competition from new rivals such as Big Cola, rising labour and fuel costs and currency depreciation.

Checks by citifmonline.com indicate that Ghanaians are not enjoying a drastic fall in fuel prices because taxes on fuel alone constitute about 70 % of the cost.

Exelon Corp., owner of Nine Mile Point, estimated it would cost about $ 125 million to resupply FitzPatrick with uranium fuel rods next fall, which would allow the plant to continue operating two years beyond when plant owner Entergy Corp. plans to shut it down, the administration official said.

In January, the government ended official fuel subsides saying the cost of oil had fallen so much that they were no longer required.

Low fuel costs and a mild winter meant landlords» costs actually fell over the last 12 months, for only the second time since 1969, at least according to the city's Rent Guidelines Board.

The ONS pointed out that fuel costs fell by just 0.7 per cent between September and October.

Tory Treasury spokesman Philip Hammond tells the Daily Mail that «Gordon Brown's legacy to Britain's hard - working families is falling take - home pay, soaring food and fuel costs.»

The cost benefits and climate advantages are among the reasons that five countries run national research programs on the technique; is the United States falling behind on the next big fossil fuel technology?

To work out the economic benefits and costs of switching to clean energy, the team estimated how much air pollution would fall if fossil fuel use was slashed.

And while wind energy had been growing at an average annual rate of 27 percent and solar photovoltaic, too, was surging as costs fell sharply, so - called clean coal remained a long way off and governments» ambitions for fuel efficiency and electric vehicles were well ahead of reality.

During the past decade, DNA sequencing costs have fallen dramatically, a drop largely fueled by tools, technologies and process improvements developed by genomic researchers.

DNA sequencing costs have fallen more than 100-fold over the past decade, fueled in large part by tools, technologies and process improvements developed as part of the successful effort to sequence the human genome.

With the exception of discontinuing the manual transmission, VW wisely didn't mess with the gasoline powertrains or the ride and handling for 2016, though fuel costs for both engines have fallen.

Businesses that value predictability for planning routinely hedge: airlines and shipping companies worried about fuel costs, farmers hedging against crop prices falling, etc..

Shares in BA fell 4.6 % to 316.75 p as analysts expressed fears that the group will fail to reach its 10 % margin target in the next financial year due to rising fuel costs.

Regardless, we see technology costs for renewables falling across the board and disrupting incumbent fuels.

With the benchmark price having fallen 86 % from its peak in 2006, coal generators, with their much lower fuel costs, have little trouble competing with gas.

They are also primary fuel sources for brown electricity generation, and so brown electricity prices rise and fall with the costs of these raw materials.

«One of the new and fundamental messages of this report is that renewable energies are no longer subject to the vagaries of rising and falling oil prices — they are becoming generating systems of choice for increasing numbers of power companies, communities and countries irrespective of the costs of fossil fuels,» said UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.

It just needs to delay the fossil fuel juggernaut, to create some time and space for clean energy to develop and continue falling in cost, to create some time and space for Congress to get its shit together.

We're at a transition which is where fossil fuel costs are rising and renewable energy costs are falling, and they are starting to cross over.

A 100 % renewable energy transition globally by 2050 is both technological possible and will reduce the average cost of energy by 30 % from current fossil fuel and nuclear power prices according to a comprehensive 2017 study of the European Energy Watch Group led by physicist and German PV pioneer Hans - Josef Fell and performed by Berlin's Lappeenranta University of Technology.

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.

During the 1990s and 2000s, the generation costs for plants fueled by natural gas fell dramatically as a result of lower natural gas fuel prices and the increased use of combined cycle technology for power generation.

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While the cost of wind and solar energy is falling dramatically, which could lead to a major shift in infrastructure46, the fossil fuel industry remains remarkably resilient, subsidized, and still capable of tipping us over the limit47.

The cost of renewable energy sources must fall so that they can compete with fossil fuels.

Total generating costs — which include fuel operations and capital costs but not «accounts or risk management» — have fallen consistently over the last five years and in 2017 stood at $ 33.60 / MWh.

The cause of this change of strategy is probably higher fuel costs (even if they went down a bit lately) and, especially, the fact that the global sales of Lexus fell 9 % on the year to 310,000 in the January - August period.

Among his contentions is that Stern «assumes we will continue to pump out carbon far into the 22nd century — a rather unlikely scenario given the falling cost of alternative fuels.»

Currently, the UPP fuel cell charger and cartridge bundle will available in the UK this fall for # 149 (and soon to be available in major US retailers at a rumored $ 200), and exchanging an empty cartridge for a full one will cost # 5.95 each.

Today's power systems evolved for fossil fuels rather than renewables, and as a result, present obstacles to capitalizing on the falling costs of wind and solar energy.

A report by the Maine Department of Transportation last fall indicated several advantages to the new proposed legislation which include: improving the environment, reduce transportation infrastructure costs, making businesses more competitive, increasing traffic safety, and saving on fuel costs.