Sentences with phrase «for wholesale electricity markets»

While regional variations exist, most utilities indicated a desire for wholesale electricity markets to decide what generation is sited and dispatched, but also want some plants to be allowed traditional cost recovery in those markets.

Not exact matches

The state created the market for ESCOs as a way to encourage competition for wholesale electricity and natural gas.

«New York households pay some of the highest electric bills in the nation, and the wholesale electricity market overseen by NYISO has a major impact on prices,» said Beth Finkel, state director for AARP in New York state.

Wind generators can offer their electricity for bid into the Texas wholesale market at a zero price because they pay no fuel costs.

This means it covers the direct cost of low - carbon subsidies, energy efficiency and carbon taxes, as well as indirect costs due to strengthening grids, backing up intermittent renewables, compensating conventional generation for lost revenue through the capacity market and savings due to the merit - order effect, which pushes down wholesale electricity prices.

This is especially true for solar PV, where in Germany and Spain FIT payments have caused serious energy policy turmoil, and in the US, where net metering policies have caused public utility backlash against PV deployment in states like Arizona and California (a result of utilities being forced to pay 15 - 30ckWh for PV electricity instead of purchasing on the wholesale markets for 4 - 6c / kWh).

A revenue gap analysis conducted by the national laboratory for 79 of 99 operational reactors that are in a region where public wholesale electricity market prices are available suggests that 63 units would have lost money in 2016.

Henry Yoshimura is the Director of Demand Resource Strategy for ISO New England where he is responsible for integrating distributed energy resources (energy efficiency, demand response, distributed generation) into the New England wholesale electricity market.

Enabling Concentrating Solar Power in Australia: An Implementation Pathway for a Low - wholesale Electricity Market.

The report's wider appeal is the techniques and methods used to model the Australian National Electricity Market's (NEM) demand and wholesale spot prices for the lifetime of the proposed plant.

On September 14, 2017, academics, policy makers, representatives of Independent System Operators / Regional Transmission Organizations and other stakeholders engaged in a discussion of the future of electricity markets over the next two decades, with an emphasis on the potential for high penetrations of zero and low marginal cost generation, and various options for organizing wholesale electricity transactions in the face of rapid technological change.

Hence the CPP either forces a radical (and as - yet undeveloped) restructuring of wholesale electricity markets, or it provides a back door for a carbon tax — a politically toxic policy that IER has consistently shown to be all pain, no gain, and a legislative non-starter for good reason.

After all, it's easier to anger voters by saying generally that we're paying 80.2 cents per kilowatt - hour under the FIT and that this is 10 times more than the wholesale market rate for electricity.

After the release of the trade association - funded report, EEI Executive Vice President Phil Moeller, a former FERC Commissioner, said, «wholesale electricity markets should address price formation and the valuation of essential reliability services for customers.»

For now, Germany's government appears confident that free price formation on the wholesale electricity market will ensure investment and reliability.

The subcommittee's market improvement working group has begun to consider the introduction of a «capacity market» system, which improves the accessibility and adjustment ability for the base load electricity in the wholesale electricity market, and also a «non-fossil value trading market» system, which aims to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

There are retail and wholesale markets for electricity; homes and businesses buy in the retail market, power plants like this wind farm transact in the wholesale market.

note 1; wholesale electricity price from DOE, Wholesale Market Data, electronic database at www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity, updated 22 April 2009; Renewable Fuels Association, Homegrown for the Homeland: Ethanol Industry Outlook 2005 (Washington, DC: 2005); corn per acre and ethanol per bushel approximated from Allen Baker et al., «Ethanol Reshapes the Corn Market,» Amber Wawholesale electricity price from DOE, Wholesale Market Data, electronic database at www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity, updated 22 April 2009; Renewable Fuels Association, Homegrown for the Homeland: Ethanol Industry Outlook 2005 (Washington, DC: 2005); corn per acre and ethanol per bushel approximated from Allen Baker et al., «Ethanol Reshapes the Corn Market,» Amber WaWholesale Market Data, electronic database at www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity, updated 22 April 2009; Renewable Fuels Association, Homegrown for the Homeland: Ethanol Industry Outlook 2005 (Washington, DC: 2005); corn per acre and ethanol per bushel approximated from Allen Baker et al., «Ethanol Reshapes the Corn Market,» Amber Waves, vol.

The Perry proposal, in contrast, would: pick winners and losers, cause significant price distortions in wholesale electricity markets, constitute government interference in markets, punish ratepayers, create obstacles to private investment in generation, and increase prices for customers.

The winter of 2012 - 13 saw spikes in wholesale electricity prices in New England and New York as demand for natural gas from both electric generators and natural gas distribution companies taxed the capacity to bring natural gas into these markets.

These alternative revenue streams make it possible for wind generators to offer their wind power into the wholesale electricity market at prices lower than other generators, and even at negative prices.

Using Market Analytics, Synapse modeled base and alternative scenarios for energy efficiency targets and renewable procurement, in order to estimate the changes in wholesale electricity costs.

And under the hugely costly scheme, the National Grid is set to pay up to 12 times the normal wholesale market rate for the electricity they generate.»

Unfortunately for customers, this has meant that few have enjoyed the benefits of the lowest wholesale electricity markets since the start of the NEM.

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.

That's less than half the price of retail electricity power and a price low enough to compete with natural gas, coal, and nuclear power head to head in wholesale markets for what some might call «baseload» power.

Looking at the average wholesale spot price for June for the National Electricity Market the states in order of most expensive to least expensive are SA, TAS, VIC, NSW, QLD.

And new market rules for behind - the - meter generation are «expected to introduce more than 100 megawatts of existing capacity that was previously unable to participate in New York's wholesale electricity markets.»

The recently formed Affordable Energy Coalition (AEC), for example, says the plan would shake up wholesale electricity markets and raise electricity rates.

In most net metering states electric companies are required to buy this power at the retail rate, even though it would cost less to produce the electricity themselves or to buy the power on the wholesale market, and this arrangement leaves others to pay for infrastructure.

Amazon contracted directly with a developer for an 80 MW solar farm, avoiding Dominion's monopoly restrictions with a plan to sell the electricity directly into the PJM (wholesale) market.

Under the Renewable Energy Act, which has been imitated around the world, any renewable power investor — be it a household installing a solar array on the roof, a cooperative erecting a windmill, a farmer running a biogas installation, or an institutional investor operating an offshore wind park — could sell their green electricity at a guaranteed price above wholesale market price, fixed in advance for 20 years (for more details, see the factsheet Defining features of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG)-RRB-.

The wholesale market for electricity is operated by the Independent System Operator established under the Electric Utilities Act, [104] which is known as the Alberta Electric System Operator («ISO» or «AESO»).

In line with the European recipe, Greece has liberalised its electricity market among others by creating a wholesale electricity market where electricity producers can bid for the right to sell a certain amount of electricity the next day.

-LSB-...] by granting DEI and maintaining in its favour quasi-monopolistic lignite exploration rights which ensure that it has privileged access to the most attractive fuel in Greece for the purposes of generating electricity, the Hellenic Republic thereby created inequality of opportunity between economic operators on the wholesale electricity market and thus distorted competition, maintaining or reinforcing DEI's dominant position and excluding or hindering any new entrants, despite the liberalisation of the wholesale electricity market.

The Commission often prefers to settle abuse of dominance cases if it can obtain acceptable binding commitments from the defendants, for example, the recent commitments by Bulgarian Energy Holding to open up the Bulgarian wholesale electricity market).

On the incremental side, blockchain technology can be used to reduce the cost of utility bills or the need for working capital in wholesale market gas or electricity transactions.

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