Sentences with phrase «generation costs calculated»

Using estimates of capital and generation costs calculated by the Indian government's Integrated Energy Policy - Expert Committee, our report finds that between $ 9.5 billion and 12.7 billion will be required between 2007 and 2012 if the 2012 target is to be met.

Not exact matches

The Cuomo administration estimates the Clean Energy Standard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.

We aim to have fresh, lively, contemporary work, but it also has to be affordable in terms of fabrication costs; it has to be something that can be there for a very long time, for multiple generations, and we try to calculate who the best candidates for that might be.

However, these global studies do not assess the ability of variable generation to meet real hourly demand within a single transmission region, nor do they calculate the lowest cost mix of technologies.

-- In calculating the incremental cost of compliance of an electric utility under this section, the Secretary shall take into account the reduction, if any, on the cost of electricity generated with fossil fuels associated with increased reliance on renewable electric energy generation.

A 2009 study on the negative effects of power generation by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), «The hidden costs of electricity: externalities of power generation in Australia» calculated the greenhouse impacts and health damage costs of different power generation technologies including coal, gas, wind, solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, geothermal, carbon capture and storage, and nuclear energy, and determined that health costs of burning coal are equivalent to a national health burden of around $ A2.6 billion per annum.

But NEM should not be «consigned to history» until distributed generation penetrations impose a calculated and significant cost shift and the LNBA is «vetted by the market,» he added.

Supposing four hours of pumping at 250MW and eight hours generating at 125MW each day, an effeciency in each operation of 85 % (combined efficiency about 72 %, which I believe is conservative), we can calculate annual pumping costs of about $ 64m, generation income about $ 140m, a gross profit of $ 75m and a pay - back time of 5 years.