Sentences with phrase «higher electricity prices for»

That said, in either case, the EPA Clean Power Plan will result in much higher electricity prices for American consumers and gain less than a.02 degree Centigrade benefit in temperature based on EPA models.

They contend that the EPA is overstepping its authority and that the Clean Power Plan will lead to higher electricity prices for consumers.

Not exact matches

Inflation is likely to continue to move higher gradually, with the headline measure boosted by higher prices for tobacco, electricity and gas.

After running the numbers through Tesla's Solar Roof calculator which you can do for yourself, Consumer Reports found that the installation in New York would payout and save the homeowner money over 30 years, largely due to the high price of electricity in the area.

The higher prices for gas, electricity and gasoline that will result from the crisis will provide economic incentives to support the moral imperative to do all we can to protect the environment.

There are also significant price differences within Europe: for example, Italy's industrial electricity prices are among the highest in Europe.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman criticized on Friday a proposal by the Trump administration that would allow coal - burning power plans to be paid higher prices for electricity.

«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.

It said that LIPA's average retail price for residential electricity is over 22 percent higher than the state median and 78 percent above the nationwide median for 2013.

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.

«The reduction in demand that has to occur has to be driven by price signals — a much higher cost for electricity,» James said.

«Maybe we can have the best of both worlds: a price on carbon to create an innovative environment for clean technology in California and keep businesses within state lines and not cause an adverse impact on consumers through radically higher prices for transportation fuels or electricity.»

Prices for high - grade silicon (that can generate electricity from sunlight) shot up in 2004 in response to growing demand, reaching as high as $ 500 per kilogram (2.2 pounds) this year.

However, the deployment of these new supply technologies is very likely to result in higher consumer prices for electricity.

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

Gas prices these days are higher in many places, which would increase savings, but for me VW's formula worked out to $ 569.94 in electricity for my year in an e-Golf versus the $ 913.30 I would have paid for gas in a comparable car.

«Refuelling» the Audi metroproject quattro from power sockets alone, therefore, produces an unequivocal result: even allowing for the relatively high domestic electricity costs in Germany, it is still possible to achieve a saving of around $ 6.50 for every 100 km — or 70 percent — compared to the price of premium fuel.

Solar power is more costly than wind, watt for watt, experts say, but delivers the energy at a time of day when electricity prices are higher and is more valuable even if it is more costly.

Fossil fuel prices are held artificially low, but we are paying for them in full plus, if not fully at the pump, then on April 15th and in higher health / environment costs, even if we drive EVs and have wind - powered electricity.

The problem in New England, which has resulted in electricity prices that are four times higher than normal for sustained periods, is that all of the pipeline transmission capacity has been purchased by the local gas distribution companies that sell gas for home heating and retail uses.

Electricity expenditures also generally rise with Clean Power Plan implementation, but expenditure changes are smaller in percentage terms than price changes as the combination of energy - efficiency programs pursued for compliance purposes and higher electricity prices tends to reduce electricity consumption relative tElectricity expenditures also generally rise with Clean Power Plan implementation, but expenditure changes are smaller in percentage terms than price changes as the combination of energy - efficiency programs pursued for compliance purposes and higher electricity prices tends to reduce electricity consumption relative telectricity prices tends to reduce electricity consumption relative telectricity consumption relative to baseline.

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He blames wind power for high electricity prices, ignoring a statement from the Chief Executive of the Energy Supply Association of Australia (ESAA), Matthew Warren, who has said:

As a result, Danish and German consumers are paying some of the highest residential electricity prices in Europe — three times as high as in the United States — for the «benefit» of having wind and solar power generated in their country regardless of whether that power can be used domestically.

And even though the state's residential home electricity consumption ranks among the lowest (due in part to those high prices and generally lower air conditioning needs in summer and the use of gas and oil for heating loads in the winter rather than electricity), the average monthly electric bill in 2016 was just over $ 142 per month, third highest in the nation.

The solar installations will lessen those costs in replacing higher priced electricity from the power grid and are leading to even greater savings by allowing the Food Bank warehouses to stagger the recharging schedule for their battery - powered forklifts.

The first phase of the EU ETS — from 2005 to 2007 — drew criticism for not achieving substantial cuts in emissions, excessive allowance price volatility and for resulting in windfall profits for some utility firms that received carbon allowances for free but were able to pass through their full cost to consumers in the form of higher electricity prices.

the highest proportion of taxes in the final price of electricity for consumers was recorded in Denmark, where more than half (55.8 %) of the final price was made up of VAT, taxes and levies

«In the case of Eversource, this is all regulated generation so they're not benefiting from a higher wholesale electricity price,» Marks said, «though there are some indirect pathways that we think are really relevant which may mean higher prices may be good for them.»

In mid December 2014 PM Abbott was dishonestly blaming renewables for the high price of electricity.

«In spite of calls for urgent reform and broad recognition that the current rules penalised solar power and rewarded network gold - plating, governments have not even made glacial progress in the past five years, with the unpopular result of high electricity prices driven by the cost of network infrastructure to service people's desire for air conditioning.

Meanwhile, German households picked up the growing bill for the wholesale subsidies for renewables that German industry enjoys, accounting for 18 percent of the average price that consumers paid for electricity last year — twice as high a proportion as in 2010.

«We make (our product) with electricity, we bake it with gas, we refrigerate and freeze it with electricity and we distribute it with gas and oil,» said McArthur, who said he worries that high prices could cost his company up to $ 15,000 a year in an industry with a very tight margin for profit.

Wind farm operators, or solar power producers could use such as system to even out their power production rates and so command a higher price for their electricity.

The result of these policies in Germany, businesses and families now pay the second highest electricity price in Europe, after Denmark: 45 cents per kilowatt - hour — five times what Americans pay for coal and gas - fueled electricity and nearly three times what they pay in California, Connecticut and New York.

If you wanted to build any sort of power station and you had a choice of where to build it, you would, of course, go somewhere you were going to get a high price for the electricity you generated.

You would look for places with high electricity prices.

But more likely the fact that anti-GHG emissions policies led to huge increase in electricity prices, belief that rain would cease led to costly but unused desal plants, etc, we are bearing high costs for no benefit.

It would also be possible for the battery charging system to be set up so that power could be sold from the battery back into the grid when electricity prices were very high — to the profit of the battery owner.

Since electric utilities were required to pay above world prices for British - produced coal, electricity prices became excessively high, and the British coal industry in essence became dependent on the electricity industry for its survival.

Agenda 21 is likely a proposal to raise energy prices by Heavily Carbon Taxing them into competition with higher cost and less reliable GREEN ENERGY then altogether eliminating CO2 producing energy sources until electricity can not be produced for 21 of the 24 hours of each day but that won't matter because 3 hours per day is all anyone will be able to afford.

The interesting fact is that this «new business» for the LADWP could result in lower prices than would otherwise be the case, both for regular users of electricity and for motorists currently stuck with high - priced gasoline.

Barnes, in Queensland solar rooftop installations are not only heavily subsidised, their (highly variable) surplus electricity is fed back into the grid at an extremely high price, guaranteed for 20 years or so, causing a number of grid problems.

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.

U.S. competitiveness is affected due to higher prices for U.S. goods and services stemming from increased fuel and electricity costs.

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.

For businesses not covered by the tax, this translated to more expensive electricity prices as well as higher prices for certain Australian commoditiFor businesses not covered by the tax, this translated to more expensive electricity prices as well as higher prices for certain Australian commoditifor certain Australian commodities.

Solar job estimates fail to account for jobs lost as a result of «the crowding out of cheaper forms of conventional energy generation,» «indirect impacts on upstream industries,» and from «the drain on economic activity precipitated by higher electricity prices.»

Renewables have driven electricity costs so high that EU manufacturers are moving production to the US, which has cheap natural gas AND cheaper electricity prices, for the same reason: fracking for oil and natural gas.

Local power storage can also be used for load - shifting in areas with tiered electricity rates, where higher prices charged for power during peak periods and off - peak periods have lower rates.