Sentences with phrase «for electricity export»

The country's enormous hydropower capacity allows for electricity export; Canada sells some 50 billion kilowatt - hours to the United States every year — enough to power more than 4 million American homes.
Another 3,563 homes added solar in the south east corner in June, despite the fact that they would only get paid 8c / kWh for electricity they export back into the grid.
From 2005 to the end of our audit in 2011, Ontario received $ 1.8 billion less for its electricity exports than what it actually cost electricity ratepayers of Ontario 28.

Not exact matches

Similar prophecies have proved wrong before and doubters point out that electricity bills for American factories will rise if the U.S. starts selling its growing supply of natural gas abroad and lifts current curbs on gasoline exports.
Under existing VOS program designs, solar customers continue to purchase all of their electricity from the grid at the utility's retail rate and receive credit for the solar electricity exported to the grid at the approved VOS rate.
All of the electricity is exported to offset the 53 gigawatt - hours of energy Samsø uses for transportation.
They made comparisons within the five sectors they studied — power plants, furnaces, exports for electricity generation overseas, buses and cars — and across sectors to see which use of natural gas pays the greatest dividend for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
«We shouldn't be exporting our forests to be burned for electricity in the U.K.,» Scot Quaranda, a spokesman for the Dogwood Alliance, said before the protest Wednesday.
Bernard Ses - trienka, head of energy for the Slovak Ministry of Economics, has told the German press that with Mochovce, Slovakia could export electricity at only 60 per cent of its price in the West.
The export of wind energy to the United States — a recent request for proposals for clean electricity in Massachusetts has clearly demonstrated strong interest in exports of Canadian wind energy on both sides of the border
This electricity can be converted to alternating current (AC) power for use in the building or if more power is generated, the surplus will be exported to the National Grid.
[1] DECC will reduce the upper end to 21p for systems installed after 3rd March [2] The amount paid for excess electricity exported to the grid, such as during school holidays (see chart on previous page).
The system owner is paid an additional rate, called the export tariff, for electricity that is not used on - site.
Not only will the converted Komatsu HD 605 - 7 dump truck be able to export electricity to the grid each day, but it will make for a much quieter and cleaner vehicle than anything else on the site.
I have done it for average person not affluent, and for consumer energy figures which exclude energy transform losses in converting to electricity, and exported energy but also exclude imported embodied energy which is important for people bleating about China's emissions.
So if the world moves toward a system for tracking emissions, who is responsible for a particular batch of carbon dioxide — the company that mined and sold the coal, the power plant that burned it, the consumer who buys the exported widget made with the electricity generated by that combustion, or...?
they have increased the burning of lignite coal, largely for generation of electricity exports.
Wind energy will be an important player in cleaning electricity grids in Alberta and Saskatchewan and across Canada clean electricity grids will be needed for reducing fossil fuel use in other sectors through electrification and in the United States through clean energy exports.
Or that the US exports more oil than we use for electricity.
The structure would remunerate distributed generation owners at approximately the wholesale rate for exported energy and charge them the retail rate for electricity.
In Mississippi this winter, for instance, after the state Public Service Commission for the first time offered rules allowing net metering for solar owners — that practice enables solar owners to get a fair price for excess electricity they export to the grid — legislators introduced bills that would remove the PSC's right to regulate 70 percent of the state's electricity service, including creating net metering rules.
Customer Grid Supply, is intended only for solar PV installations that are designed to not export any electricity to the grid.
Solar owners would still pay the retail rate for consumed electricity but would earn the value of the RET — yet to be determined — for their exported power.
Distributed solar owners, the CES reported, get the $ 0.18 / kWh retail rate compensation for exported electricity and other incentives that can bring the total cost to «over $ 0.20 / kWh on a levelized basis over the life of the project.»
• Current expectations for a low cost, gas - driven electricity economy and significant deployment of natural gas vehicles could be foregone due to LNG exports.
Net metering policies also allow end - users to receive a credit or payment for the net excess electricity that is generated and exported to the grid.
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation, which monitors and regulates grid stability in Canada and the U.S., estimated in a report last April that net Canadian electricity exports under the Clean Power Plan could grow three-fold between 2020 and 2030 as demand for renewable power grows in states such as Ohio, Michigan, New York and jurisdictions in New England.
On the same day Denmark produced 101 % of its electricity demand from its wind turbines, even leaving a small amount for export.
«Support for expansion of electricity generation and transmission facilities — on a vastly increased scale — as part of a deliberate national «export driven» strategy is either limited or all too often met with derision or outright hostility,» Nathwani wrote.
Ukraine has been a net energy exporting country, for example in 2011, 3.3 % of electricity produced were exported, [274] but also one of Europe's largest energy consumers.
After accounting for all the methane leakage factors mentioned by the Post, the NETL study clearly demonstrates that life cycle GHG emissions from LNG exports from the U.S. are significantly less than emissions from coal generated electricity in China and in Europe.
In the related The Power of Scotland Secured document, green campaigners Friends of the Earth commissioned a report saying that by 2030 renewable methods could provide enough electricity for all of Scotland's energy needs plus 85 % extra for export.
(The Gaurdian, 2010) Germany's Environment Agency's study found that switching to 100 % green electricity by 2050 would have economic advantages, especially for the vital export - oriented manufacturing industry (The Gaurdian, 2010) It would also create tens of thousands of jobs.
When you examine the Independent Electricity System Operator's data you quickly learn why the Ministry no longer brags about earning revenue from exports or keeping costs down for ratepayers.
Because Ontario is contractually obligated to pay for most of the production costs of curtailed and exported energy, OSPE believes it would be better to find productive uses for the surplus clean electricity to displace fossil fuel consumption in other economic sectors.
«Taken together, those total exports represent nearly enough electricity to power every home in Ontario for an entire year,» said Acchione.
The export tariff will be market determined — it's currently at # 0.05 / kWh, for electricity delivered to the grid.
«This represents a 58 per cent increase in the amount of clean electricity that Ontario wasted in 2015 — 4.8 TWh — all while the province continues to export more than 2 million homes - worth of electricity to neighbouring jurisdictions for a price less than what it cost to produce,» said Paul Acchione, P.Eng., energy expert and former President and Chair of OSPE.
Export customers paid only about 3 cents / kWh to 4 cents / kWh for Ontario power; electricity ratepayers of Ontario paid more than 8 cents / kWh for this power to be generated 27.
Such compensation would remunerate distributed generation (DG) owners at approximately the wholesale rate for exported energy and charge them the retail rate for electricity.
By focusing on generating clean electricity, the Kingdom can move away from a reliance on domestic consumption of fossil fuels for electricity and use the saved resources to strengthen its exports.
As the market for coal - fired electricity generation here in North America shrinks due to the rise of cheap natural gas - fired power (thanks to fracking for shale - gas), exports of coal from the US to overseas markets in Europe and Asia are sharply increasing.
And electricity retailers are also accused of picking up more profits from exports of excess electricity back to the grid from rooftop solar systems — for which they pay 6c / kWh (and in some cases nothing at all) and then sell it to the houses in the same street for up to five times as much.
BC's natural gas exports will be hit with a big CA carbon tax, even though the BC natural gas supplies displace demand for higher - emitting oil products and coal - fired electricity imports.
Clean Line's «Grain Belt Express,» for example, would allow wind - rich Kansas to export renewable electricity eastward to Missouri, Illinois, and beyond.
So if you buy in 1000 kWh of electricity over a month at times when your solar is either not generating (night time), or not generating enough energy to cover all of your needs (say a cloudy day) but you export 500 kWh of energy to the grid in the same month at other times when your solar is producing more energy than your house is using, then you would be billed for only 500 kWh.
«While some of the billions of cubic feet of natural gas planned for export from the United States will certainly be used in generating electricity in CFE's Mexico facilities, much of that natural gas appears to be subject to temporary storage, and redirection into Pemex liquefaction LNG facilities for export to higher - priced markets in Asia / Oceania,» the document continues.
If in any given month your solar system exports to the Excel grid more electricity than what your home drew from the grid Excel will pay you for this excess.
RFF experts, in partnership with the the Instituto Technológico Autónomo de Mexico in Mexico and the International Institute for Sustainable Development in Canada, are exploring a number of issues, including onshore oil and gas regulations, enhanced integration of the electricity grid and competitive wholesale power markets, options for coordinated action on climate change, and fossil energy export strategies.
For example, climate scientists are least well - placed to make a judgement on the timing and quantum of CO2 emissions that are exported from, say, Spain, as a result of higher electricity prices there resulting from wind and solar, and certainly very poorly placed to opine on the impact on global GHG emissions of cap - and - trade or any similar EU or even EU / USA - wide policy.
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