Sentences with phrase «from lower electricity prices»

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Results from the first round results of Alberta's Renewable Electricity Program were record - breaking, with the lowest wind power prices in Canadian history, making them competitive with natural gas power prices.

While the Ontario government's recently updated long - term energy plan said the province's industrial electricity consumers currently face prices lower than that of the average for the Great Lakes region, the plan also showed that the cost will rise to $ 116 per megawatt hour by 2035, a nearly 40 per cent increase from the projected 2017 price of $ 83 per megawatt hour.

And low prices are also putting a dent into the budget of the New York Power Authority, which sells electricity from the state's massive hydropower system along the Niagara and St. Lawrence rivers, and from several smaller downstate fossil fuel power plants.

To retain West Virginia's role as an electricity exporter to other states, to limit job losses and to keep power prices low for customers, the state should «maximize whatever flexibility is offered under the Clean Power Plan,» stated comments from Commerce Department Secretary J. Keith Burdette, who works under the governor.

The campaign for new nuclear projects has run into depressed electricity demand due to the recession and the prospect of competition from low - priced natural gas from shale deposits.

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.

We have an obligation to use some of the money that we generate to shield low - income and fixed - income individuals from high electricity prices, but we're also going to have to ask the American people to change how they use energy.

To operate the plant, Northland plans to purchase electricity from Ontario's grid at night when prices are low and use it to pump water from the mine pit up to a newly constructed reservoir.

The electricity industry already is — and has been for years — in a rapid transition away from coal and towards cleaner generation — a transition driven mainly by fundamental market forces such as lower gas prices, lower costs for wind and solar power and energy efficiency, and by state and federal policies and company planning decisions that long predated the Clean Power Plan.

Power companies are well on their way to meet the Plan's targets, thanks to the fact that the electricity industry has already started rapidly moving away from coal and towards cleaner generation — a transition driven mainly by fundamental market forces such as lower gas prices, lower costs for wind and solar power and energy efficiency, and by state and federal policies and company planning decisions that long predated the Plan.

Replacing electricity from Taiwan's operational and mothballed nuclear plants with natural gas would cost $ 2.85 billion per year for the natural gas purchases alone, at current low prices.

When it comes to financials, SolarCity's executive team wagers that the combination of existing panels and new storage technologies will produce lower electricity prices — at least during peak demand hours — than power from conventional utilities.

Due to this expensive trade, we who live in the south of Sweden, have to pay almost the same high prices as the Danes, although Sweden produces low cost electricity from mostly Hydro and Nuclear.

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.

Unfortunately the wholesale price of electricity has fallen from around $ 60 / MWh to closer to $ 40 during the planning and construction period and the price of the Large Scale Renewable Energy Certificates that the scheme will generate is also low.

A system based on price - responsive - load would be able to remove this insurance component from at least some of the electricity supply and thus provide lower prices to consumers without reducing income to generators.

With lower electricity prices and triple the heating degree days, Texans use twice the electricity per capita of Californians; 37 percent of Texans» electricity is generated from coal compared to 15 percent in California.

It would be quite possible, and highly desirable, to set up the charging stations so that power from the grid would go into the batteries when the retail electricity price is low and power could be taken out of the batteries when the retail price is unusually high.

• France: nuclear 76 %, wind 1 %; lowest electricity prices in Europe; lowest CO2 emissions from electricity in Europe

Existing U.S. nuclear power generating plants operate under increasingly competitive market conditions brought on by relatively low natural gas prices, increasing electricity generation from renewable energy sources, and limited growth in electric power demand.

Tim, I linked previously to a report from the Australian national electricity regulator showing that price of electricity to both domestic and industrial users is dramatically lower in Australia than in countries such as France and Japan which get a large proportion of their power from nuclear energy.

Several companies came along and broke that barrier down by offering $ 0 - down solar loans, with the price of the systems paid back over time but in monthly payments that are lower than the price of electricity from the grid.

This analytical document shows that Uganda's GET FiT Solar Facility will provide a performance - based subsidy of USc 5.37 / kWh to lower the cost to Ugandan consumers of the electricity produced from four 5 MW solar plants bid by two developers at an average price of USc 16.37 / kWh.

Sure enough, over time sulfur - dioxide emissions from power plants were cut almost in half, at a much lower cost than even optimists expected; electricity prices fell instead of rising.

This record low price of green electricity on earth, just beats out the 1.79 cents / kWh from Saudi Arabia, and is part of a pattern marching toward 1 cents / kWh bids that are coming in 2019 (or sooner).

The CPUC therefore set California's per kilowatt - hour electricity payment to generators of renewable energy projects of up to 20 megawatts at the lowest estimated price a utility would have to pay to obtain power from a new, industry - standard natural gas plant.

The escalators raise the cost of the solar power slightly on an annual basis and are designed to keep the cost of power from the solar installation at levels lower than the expected prices of electricity from utility companies.