Sentences with phrase «falling price of both natural gas»

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The difference has now widened enormously with the advent of $ 1.70 natural gas, $ 30 oil, and falling coal prices.

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.

In the last few years it has made even less given the rapid fall of oil, coal, and natural gas prices, which have made «green energy» even less economically competitive with fossil fuels than it already was.

Coal producers say they are scaling back operations and laying off thousands of workers due to fierce competition from natural gas, falling coal prices and tougher power plant regulations.

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.

A recent report from the Institute for Policy Integrity shows that the rapidly falling cost of renewable energy technologies (wind and solar, but not only wind and solar), coupled with the stubbornly low price of natural gas, mean that CPP compliance is likely to be cheaper than anyone projected.

Skeptical Science notes that when the coal externalities of the study are included in coal's price, it increases the levalized costs to approximately 28 cents per kWh, which is more than the 2009 U.S. Energy Information Administration cost of hydroelectric, wind (onshore and offshore), geothermal, biomass, nuclear, natural gas, and solar photovoltaics, and is on par with solar thermal, although the costs of solar thermal are falling.

Heading into the 2013 spring shoulder season (between winter and summer), when demand for electricity typically falls, higher prices for natural gas reduced the fuel's share of total generation below the record levels of last April.

Natural gas generation fell further than coal despite a net addition of 5.9 GW of new gas generation capacity, due to higher gas prices earlier in the year.

As a result, long - term forecasts — the ones that help determine the price of oil or natural gas futures, the ones that determine how much road salt your town buys this fall — are looking a bit like guesswork.

Natural gas fired plants are much less expensive to build and the price of gas may fall even more.

As the price of natural gas has fallen, utilities are dropping coal.

In contrast to wind - generated electricity, where costs are falling, the price of natural gas is on its way up.

As costs for those alternative sources of power have fallen, renewable power producers are now able to sell electricity into certain markets — depending on factors such as transmission availability and weather — at a price that is competitive or in some cases lower than natural gas - fired generation.