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.