Sentences with phrase «falling natural gas prices»

Falling natural gas prices have been major factor in utilities scrapping plans to build

The second one shows how coal moves in response to falling natural gas prices.

The trend of decreasing coal generation can be attributed to both falling natural gas prices and stagnant demand for electricity, but it can also be partially attributed to the increasing role of solar and wind generation: March 2016 set records for both the highest amount of monthly wind generation ever measured and the highest amount of monthly utility - scale solar generation ever measured.

However, mild weather during the winter of 2011/2012 combined with falling natural gas prices dampened demand for coal - fired electricity.

At the same time, falling natural gas prices — combined with warm temperatures in much of the country — will mean big savings on heating bills.

NRG initiated and abandoned plans to build at least two new large reactors in the last five years, thanks to falling natural gas prices and uncertainty surrounding U.S. government policy.

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Its coal volumes have been falling for several years, and the combination of tougher environmental regulations and, in all probability, continued low natural - gas prices make it likely that the decline will persist.

Bitumen and natural gas led the increase, even as prices fell from earlier in the year.

In its early days, when natural gas prices rose and fell in lockstep with oil, investors questioned its business plan.

Falling within his portfolio are the company's Canadian operations, including the Athabasca oilsands project and its growing interests in liquefied natural gas (LNG), including a proposed export terminal in Kitimat, B.C., with a rumoured price tag of more than $ 12 billion.

Since the ship set off from London three weeks ago, natural gas prices in the northeast U.S. have fallen from record levels, which may make it more profitable to send the cargo to Asia or another higher - price market, even considering shipping costs.

The gold and copper miner, which also drills for oil and gas, has seen its bottom line dry up as the price of each of those natural resources has fallen sharply recently.

The first was that natural gas prices also fell hard in 2012, hitting a 21st - century low of around $ 2 per thousand cubic feet (MCF) last June.

The low natural gas prices caused coal's share of the power grid to fall from 42 % in 2011 to 37 % in 2012.

The dollar's weakness, however, failed to help global oil prices, which continued to fall in Monday trading following last Friday's data from Baker Hughes (BHI) showed U.S. oil and natural gas producers added 21 rigs over the past week,

We have contracted nearly 50 % of our natural gas and electricity usage through the fall and the deregulated markets in which we operate at prices favorable to calendar 2011.

This is one of the main factors why the price of natural gas has fallen and remained relatively low.

Coal had made me money but companies in the industry had fallen on hard times due to low natural gas prices and environmental regulations.

A boom in natural gas drilling in the U.S. has caused prices of that commodity to fall precipitously in recent years.

As domestic oil and natural gas production fall, energy prices will rebound.

And as we have moved through 2009 the downward trend in gas prices has continued accelerating in recent weeks to leave prices hovering around the $ 2.60 mark at today's close — that's a massive 80 % fall in the price of natural gas since July 2008 and it's lowest price in since March 2002!

I think sooner or later this price divergence will have to close, either by natural gas prices rising, oil prices falling or a combination of the two.

FitzPatrick has been hurt by Central New York's low wholesale power prices, which have fallen along with the price of natural gas, a common fuel for power plants.

Others have noted the falling price of natural gas as a reason not to pursue natural gas exploration.

«In electric power,» Fratus says, «the price of natural gas is the big driver,» and since fall 2005 the wholesale price of natural gas — though its still high in historical terms — has fallen significantly.

In 2012, when natural gas spot prices fell below $ 2 per thousand cubic feet, «I think people were thinking those prices were the new normal, that we were in a different world,» he says.

With coal prices falling and natural gas prices rising, the EIA says coal's share of U.S. power generation in the first four months of 2013 averaged 39.5 percent, compared with 35.4 percent in the same period last year.

President - elect Donald Trump has vowed to revive the flagging U.S. coal industry, but a new analysis suggests cheap natural gas and falling prices for wind and solar power mean there are few places where it makes sense to build a new coal - fired power plant.

Crude oil and natural gas prices have historically risen and fallen in concert.

The company claims its technology can produce steam at a cost of $ 3 per million BTUs, based on U.S. National Renewable Laboratory calculations; natural gas currently costs some $ 4 per million BTUs, though that price may continue to fall as natural gas freed up by fracking floods the market.

While the share prices certainly rise and fall (as do all stocks), oil and natural gas entities have proven themselves to be very secure.

The fall in natural gas prices has been unbelievable.

When oil prices fall, it can rely on strong amounts of natural gas, its transporting division, and its chemical division to provide the profits to continue the dividend growth.

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Another notable finding is the influence of a big switch from coal to natural gas for electricity generation, as gas prices fell nearly 50 percent while coal prices rose 6.8 percent relative to 2008.

Ethanol makers experienced improved financial performance because of changes out of their control - as in the case of natural gas prices falling drastically in response to increased fracking for natural gas production - but lost money because of increased corn prices caused by escalating Chinese grain demand.

But if natural gas continues growing at the pace it has, the price will keep falling and coal power will lose even more market share and clout in Washington.

A decade or two into the future, electricity generated through solar power is projected to fall to half the price of that from coal or natural gas.

But several factors have changed grid economics, among them the falling price of both natural gas and renewable energy (fuels that are often used in microgrids), environmental rules and declining use of electricity in the U.S.

Cheap natural gas, stagnant power demand, and power prices that have fallen significantly since 2008 have jeopardized the economics of about two - thirds of the nation's 100 - GW nuclear capacity, according to a working paper from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.

In recent years power companies have tended to choose natural gas when allowed to do so as the price has fallen.

There is evidence that the Midwest is steadily decarbonizing its electricity generation through a combination of new state - level policies (for example, energy efficiency and renewable energy standards) and will continue to do so in response to low natural gas prices, falling prices for renewable electricity (for example, wind and solar), greater market demand for lower - carbon energy from consumers, and new EPA regulations governing new power plants.

US natural gas editors discuss carbon emission caps, falling NYMEX July gas prices, contract expirations looming for gas pipelines, and fracking fluids in Wyoming.

The fall in oil - indexed natural gas prices, continued growth in renewables, the impact of EU air quality directives, and the introduction of a carbon price floor in the UK have all contributed to coal generation retreating in Europe.

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The generation utilities that sell into wholesale electricity markets (also under pressure from falling power prices; thanks to natural gas and renewables, wholesale power prices are down 70 percent from 2007) have reacted by cutting costs and merging.

The company cited cheaper natural gas, falling prices for alternative energy, and uncertainty over state and federal energy regulation.

Carbon prices fell in early October, along with the price of oil and natural gas, but not nearly as far as stocks.

Falling wind prices and a natural gas glut have pushed overall energy prices down since then.

With new competition from Illinois Basin and ongoing natural gas displacement, annual average Central and Northern Appalachia prices reflected their most significant declines since 2009, falling 18 % and 14 %, respectively, from 2011.