Sentences with phrase «higher electricity market»

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How is that «free market» thing working out — if businesses don't want to come here because of high electricity prices (among other things)?

«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.

«If the market price fluctuates enough, you could put a storage device there and buy electricity to store it when the price is low and then sell it back when the price is high.

Is there a guarantee to ensure that the PPA will not be higher than the prevailing market price for electricity?

Moreover, widespread implementation of distributed, local electricity generation — especially low - cost, high - efficiency thin - film photovoltaics like those now being manufactured by Nanosolar for the municipal utility market, and other innovative PV technologies like the cylindrical PV modules being manufactured by Solyndra for commercial rooftop applications — will greatly reduce the need for large - scale, centralized baseload generation.

Release of the wholesale pricing data in South Australia — and data showing South Australia still has the highest prices in the National Electricity Market — prompted state opposition energy spokesman Dan van Holst Pellekaan to savage a claim by Mr Weatherill that his $ 550 million «self - sufficient» energy plan was producing the lowest power prices in the national mMarket — prompted state opposition energy spokesman Dan van Holst Pellekaan to savage a claim by Mr Weatherill that his $ 550 million «self - sufficient» energy plan was producing the lowest power prices in the national marketmarket.

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.

However, in the spirit of Chairman Smith's request, this report analyzes the Clean Power Plan in the context of the AEO2015 High Economic Growth and High Oil and Gas Resource cases as well as the Reference case in order to examine indicators of the proposed rule's impacts on energy markets under varying assumptions regarding economic growth, electricity demand, and fuel prices.

Community solar rates are still higher than average retail electricity rates in some places, but as the market matures and solar PV prices continue to fall, that is likely to change.

Electricity markets are undergoing massive transformation, as the push for low - carbon power generation shifts the industry towards high investment in renewables and other new technologies even as demand stagnates or declines in many countries.

Beatrice Bedeschi discusses how high rates of renewable generation drove electricity prices on the Italian power exchange to zero in June while the gas market faces low storage levels compared to previous years.

Then, depending on market conditions, it will either burn the methane in a combined - cycle power plant, making electricity at very high efficiency, or push the methane into a nearby natural gas pipeline and sell it as the final product.

Where electricity prices are sufficiently high, investment has generally flowed into the electricity market.

New research predicts the energy storage market in Germany will increase 11-fold in the next five years, with the residential market buoyed by declining feed - in tariffs, high electricity prices and $ 30 million in subsidies, while the primary reserve market boosts activity within the utilities sector.

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.

The electric vehicle market is one of the most rapidly changing and fastest - growing high - tech sectors in the global economy, representing the beginnings of a demand - side opportunity like no other: intelligent, interactive electricity demand.

Such measures create an artificial, high priced market that is available only to owners of facilities producing electricity from «renewable» energy.

Interestingly, the higher market price for electricity will reduce the cost of Germany's renewable energy program by decreasing the differential between the market price of electricity and the average cost of feed - in tariffs for renewable energy.

Through the process of integrating landfill methane with other solutions, the total addressable market for electricity generation technologies was adjusted to account for reduced demand resulting from the growth of more energy - efficient technologies, [8] as well as increased electrification from other solutions like electric vehicles and high - speed rail.

Using a «high - resolution electricity system planning model» of the DOE's two - year - old SunShot Initiative (meant to knock down the cost of solar electricity to market prices by 2020) alongside likely carbon - limitation policies, Kammen and company found that it's not unrealistic for solar to capture a third of the Western U.S. electricity market within 40 years, displacing currently more - attractive technologies like nuclear and natural gas.

Typical examples include: the expectation of high return on investment (short payback period); high capital costs and long project development times for some measures; lack of access to capital for energy efficiency improvements and feedstock / fuel change; fair market value for cogenerated electricity to the grid; and costs / lack of awareness of need for control of HFC leakage.

This would be through high - capacity High - Voltage Direct Current power lines connecting the Woomera Prohibited Area to electricity consumption markets of Ahigh - capacity High - Voltage Direct Current power lines connecting the Woomera Prohibited Area to electricity consumption markets of AHigh - Voltage Direct Current power lines connecting the Woomera Prohibited Area to electricity consumption markets of Asia.

Developed in consultation with local stakeholders, the Standard for Chile will allow electricity users to purchase and support high - quality renewables to accelerate the development of renewable generation and renewable electricity markets in Chile.

Besides continuous technical improvements of the plants it is of vital importance for a broad market introduction to predict the electricity outcome and thus the financial revenues in high quality.

The country has the highest level of electricity interconnection capacity within Central Europe and is equally well connected to neighbouring natural gas markets.

Fuel price reform and fuel taxes, and electricity price reform are key examples (see previous posts «China Announces Dramatic Energy Price Reforms» and «More Petroleum Price Reforms: Move towards the Market and Higher Fuel Tax «-RRB-.

This was followed by a session delving into the market realities of high wind integration in Alberta, including the findings of CanWEA's ground - breaking Pan-Canadian Wind Integration Study, which demonstrated how Canada can get more than one - third of its electricity from wind energy without compromising grid reliability, and at the same time dramatically cut emissions, save billions in fossil fuel costs and generate new export opportunities.

This would ensure a «level playing field» for competition in the electricity and heat industries by guaranteeing non-discriminatory access to the high - and low - voltage grids, by setting transparent tariffs based on full costs and providing clear licensing rules for new players in the markets.

Despite the growth in renewables, carbon emissions from the electricity sector continue remain high because the market is allowed to favour the most polluting fuels such as coal and peat to generate electricity.

«Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy» creates a framework for calculating the air pollution externalities of industries, called «gross external damages» (GED), and estimates that coal creates roughly $ 53 billion in damages a year - a cost that is over twice as high as the market price of the electricity.

Germany has already started a subsidy for fossil - fueled plants bankrupted by the plunge in electricity prices — a subsidy that will just add to the very high surcharges levied on captive German rate - payers to reimburse renewable sources for costs they can't recover from market.

In the spot market for electricity, if the renewables have gone AWOL, then nuclear electricity may command a higher price offsetting a lower capacity factor to some extent.

BrightSource Energy, Inc. designs, develops, and deploys solar thermal technology to produce high - value electricity and steam for power, petroleum, and industrial - process markets worldwide.

This leads to a divergence between the true cost of the system and the evolution of price of electricity in wholesale markets, in markets with high penetration of renewable energy.»

Tuckey is an enthusiast for the tidal power potential of the Kimberley region, as indeed am I. Given the incentives associated with a high enough price for carbon, and reforms to the National Electricity Market to encourage more investment in long - distance transmission lines, there is huge potential in tidal energy.

Consider the fact that Ontario, Canada — which neither has particularly high electricity prices nor receives exceptional amounts of sunlight — is one of the fastest - growing solar energy markets in North America.

Because transactions in the real - time market represent only a small portion of total electricity supplied, high real - time prices rarely translate into significant increases in retail power prices.

As an example, CSP with thermal energy storage has the flexibility to target output in high cost periods of the electricity market, irrespective of whether the sun is shining.

«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.

But every MWh of electricity that is exported from BC to California will wear a GHG change of at least 0.315 TCO2e / MWh, and to maintain — let alone grow — the BC clean power share of the California energy market, starting in 2013 BC Hydro / Powerex will have to start buying CA GHG quota from the CA heavy oil and similar high - GHG CA energy producers.

Choosing a future with similar cost but far lower risk, while fitting and speeding powerful market trends, can restore American energy leadership and security by building the electricity system of the 21st century with high skill and ambition, just as we did with the technology of more than a century ago.»

In the case of solar power, while utility - scale solar is just becoming cheaper than fossil fuels on the wholesale electricity market, rooftop solar panels have long competed with much - higher retail electricity prices.

Cutler, NJ, Boerema, ND, MacGill, IF & Outhred, HR 2011, «High penetration wind generation impacts on spot prices in the Australian national electricity market», Energy Policy, vol.

WWF say that going beyond 60 % depends on whether there's a market in other countries for the excess electricity the UK would generate at times of high renewable production / low demand.

In order to give a new political impulse to regional co-operation on energy, the 43 UfM member states decided in May 2015 to establish three high level UfM Energy Platforms on gas, regional electricity markets, and renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Given high electricity prices, solar resources and its population density, the solar industry is focused on the northeast for its substantial market potential.

Though it would be possible for Cape Wind to sell the remaining 22.5 percent of its output in New England's high demand electricity spot markets, the «preferred option,» Rodgers said, «would be to find other long - term power purchase agreements.»

And with 1 BTC earning more than $ 10,000 in today's market, high electricity bills can justify the payoff.