Sentences with phrase «for electricity regulation»

«The rule's restructuring of nearly every state's electric grid would exceed even the authority that Congress gave to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the federal agency responsible for electricity regulation,» they wrote in a filing.

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And the pace and breadth of his inventiveness is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that during those three critical years he was granted not only nearly 90 patents for incandescent filaments and lamps but also 60 patents for magneto or dynamo - electric machines and their regulation, 14 patents for the system of electric lighting, 12 patents for the distribution of electricity, and 10 patents for electric meters and motors.

The Canadian Electricity Association says in a statement that the new regulations add another layer of red tape for the sector, something that's sure to affect rates across the country.

Such serial cancellations «send a negative signal both to global manufacturers and Indian companies who are looking to diversify into lithium ion battery manufacturing,» Dash said, adding that «the Central Electricity Authority is considering regulation to make storage mandatory for large - scale solar projects ranging between 100 and 200 MW.»

It came with a suite of complementary policies that included a low - carbon fuel regulation, a ban on coal - fired electricity and a private sector power call for clean and renewable electricity.

She has built an enviable reputation in the West Australian electricity sector for economic and technical regulation, industry development and electricity entity valuation.

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government's announcement regarding electricity regulations and a just transition for workers: «The regulations announced today mark important progress in implementing the federal government's commitment to cut carbon pollution, but equally important is recognizing that clean growth...

As U.S. regulations on carbon - intensive coal electricity have gotten tougher, Hawesville's rationale for aluminum began to fade.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

Rolling back environmental regulations will not lead to a significant resurgence of the coal industry because those regulations played only a minor role relative to slowing demand for electricity and a surge in cheaper, cleaner sources of energy.

The bill has been stalled by political wrangling over a proposed amendment by Senator Mitch McConnell (R — KY) which would eliminate funding for enforcing new EPA climate regulations unless the secretary of energy certified that they would not cost jobs or raise the price of electricity.

Thanks to these regulations, automakers have prevented emissions of 130 million metric tons of carbon dioxide — equivalent to a year's worth of electricity use for 20 million homes.

Changes in regulatory approaches to restrict carbon emissions or tighten regulations on fracking could dramatically alter the cost - benefit analysis for using natural gas to generate electricity.

The decline of that industry and related employment has been caused by technological changes in mining, and competition from low - priced natural gas for electricity generation, not by environmental regulations.

An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in the regulations — meaning how much they would curb emissions beyond what's already happening to cut power plant carbon dioxide thanks to the natural gas boom, the shutdown of old coal - burning plants because of impending mercury - cutting rules (read the valuable Union of Concerned Scientists «Ripe for Retirement» report for more on this), improved energy efficiency and state mandates developing renewable electricity supplies.

After taking these existing environmental regulations into account, the projections for electricity generation and its resulting emissions are primarily determined by the available capacity and relative operating costs of the different technologies.

The government then passed a regulation in early 2017, which essentially capped the tariff for any renewable project at either 85 % or 100 % of the relevant region's average electricity supply cost.

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

This report addresses electricity market design and regulation considerations for systems with high volumes of variable renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar resources.

Here is the Estonian EU presidency's proposal for general approach on a Regulation on the internal market for electricity.

EPA regulations on mercury and other air pollutants currently under review are the subject of much debate for their potential costs and impacts on the electricity industry.

Within the power systems area, for example, MIT offers a wider range of optimization subjects, including a class focused on electricity markets and regulations, Zeineldin says.

In other countries in the EU where governments have made fewer direct interventions in the market but still adopted the EU - wide regulations, this has still reduced demand for electricity, to the surprise of some governments.

[10] Given the EPA's desire to transform the electricity sector, the original intentions of Section 111 (d), and the recent Supreme Court ruling on the tailoring rule, the regulations for existing power plants will face much - warranted legal scrutiny.

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.

Even when they tweaked that question to clarify what the regulations are, and to emphasize that they come at a cost to electricity prices, Americans continue to express support for the idea of allowing the government to «regulate carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas, as a pollutant» at a roughly 2 to 1 ratio.

The two main instruments of regulatory oversight provided for in the Electricity Act are, first, licences for power plant construction, generation, supply, etc., and secondly, ongoing regulation in the form of price regulation and regulatory resolutions.

More specifically, how can we shift policy and regulation to scale up distributed renewable energy — for example, solar home systems or village - scale solar power systems — that could help many of the world's poorest get access to electricity for the first time?

(Sec. 133) Requires the Secretary to promulgate regulations establishing a program to distribute allowances to Indian tribes on a competitive basis for: (1) cost - effective energy efficiency programs for end - use consumers of electricity, natural gas, home heating oil, or propane; and (2) deployment of technologies to generate electricity from renewable energy resources.

It is far from clear whether Trump can do much more for coal than remove most or even all the climate - related regulations discouraging the use of coal, and this may not have a huge effect since to date the major adverse effects of the «war on coal» on raising electricity prices have not yet occurred because of the Supreme Court's stay on the so - called Clean Power Plan.

Changes to market rules and to environmental regulations are also required for accommodating distributed generation into liberalised electricity markets.

The Clean Power Plan might be more aptly named the Grab Power Plan — as its intent is to empower the EPA to grab power over electricity regulation and force a shift toward unproven renewable energy (if it were clearly a better deal, there would be no need for mandates).

The whole argument for an emissions trading scheme as opposed to cutting emissions via a carbon tax or simply by regulation is that it is cheaper - in other words electricity prices will rise by less to achieve the same level of emission reductions.

-- Not later than 3 months after the date of adoption by the Commission of national electricity grid planning principles pursuant to paragraph (1), entities that conduct or may conduct transmission planning pursuant to State, tribal, or Federal law or regulation, including States, Indian tribes, entities designated by States and Indian tribes, Federal Power Marketing Administrations, transmission providers, operators and owners, regional organizations, and electric utilities, and that are willing to incorporate the national electricity grid planning principles adopted by the Commission in their electric grid planning, shall identify themselves and the regions for which they propose to develop plans to the Commission.

EPA continues to ignore the damage that its new regulations are causing to the U.S. economy and to states that depend on coal for jobs and affordable electricity,»

virtually all increases in the generation of electricity from biomass are a result of regulations (e.g., federal requirements for the capture of methane from landfills)....

WCO vice-president Parker Gallant and president Jane Wilson speak on Ontario's mismanaged electricity sector, energy poverty, wind turbine noise regulation, and what's ahead for 2017

Swiss Green Electricity Management Group (SGEM), an investor in energy storage projects, has announced a 20MW / 10MWh battery storage system for PJM Interconnection's frequency regulation market, to be supplied and built by Leclanché.

The proposed changes included revising registration, recordkeeping and reporting provisions for compressed natural gas and liquefied natural gas; a lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions analysis for renewable electricity, renewable diesel and naphtha produced from landfill biogas; changes to deal with issues related to crop residue and corn kernel fiber when determining volumes of cellulosic feedstocks; a lifecycle analysis of advanced butanol; and changes to the E15 misfueling mitigation regulations.

By 2030 the regulations will cost 224,000 jobs, force US consumers to pay $ 289 billion more for electricity, and lower disposable incomes for American households by $ 586 billion, the US Chamber of Commerce calculates.

But since endangering utility profits would likely galvanize the industry once and for all against emissions regulation, the green dilemma boils down to figuring out a way to reduce electricity sales while guaranteeing utility profits.

The only problem is that regulations give utilities a monopoly over the production of electricity, making it hard for more efficient alternatives to compete.

Forecasts of electricity demand are essential for analyses of utility regulation and planning.

While US emissions are decreasing slightly — both as a result of the administration's policies on renewable energy and vehicle fuel economy standards and because of sharply lower natural gas prices that have reduced coal use for electricity generation — it is unlikely that without additional regulation or legislation that the US will meet its 2020 target.

If the Department had established the regulations required by the GWSA and set declining annual aggregate emissions limits in the electricity and heating sectors, for example, power plant developers, like Footprint, and pipeline developers, like Kinder Morgan, would have a clear standard to meet in demonstrating that their projects will comply with the mandates of the GWSA.

The paper presents the contextual elements of China's power generation (trends, regulations and challenges); a primer on emissions trading in electricity; how a price on CO2 emissions could affect electricity in the near term, and illustrates the implications for generation cost and prices.

Their citizens will be forced to pay greatly increased rates for less reliable electricity, probably three to four times higher in current prices under the new EPA «Clean Power Plan» (CPP) regulations (much more accurately described as the Skyrocketing Rates Power Plan or SRPP), and their manufacturing industries may be forced to move to states that do not succumb to the intimidation or to foreign countries in order to survive economically.

Two days earlier EPA announced final regulations (which I call the Skyrocketing Rates Power Plan or SRPP, but which EPA calls the «Clean Power Plan» or CPP for obvious reasons) requiring states to decrease CO2 emissions from electricity production and use primarily by increasing the capacity of non-hydro «remewable» (wind and solar) sources of electric power from 4 percent to 28 percent by 2030.

It then identifies the key parameters of an ETS fit for implementation in China's electricity sector, and concludes on the interplay of the ETS and electricity regulation in China.

Ultimately a plug on a hydrogen FCV could allow the vehicle to sell back hydrogen produced electricity for peak power needs or provide valuable voltage regulation services through the battery to further benefit the California electric grid.