Sentences with phrase «hydro costs»

Rather than a report of hydro costs he wanted to see the hydro bills.

For example: We bought an underperforming, mismanaged four - plex, where hydro costs were paid for by the landlord.

If the price of wind power falls far enough and my estimates of new pumped hydro costs are correct, then by the end of the decade, for CF = 32 % wind sites near suitable land to be sacrificed for pumped hydro, such wind + storage solutions will become price competative with nuclear.

The other event affecting hydro costs was an amendment to change «unregulated» hydro to regulated pricing.

Even costly negotiated buy - outs will reduce hydro costs significantly, due to the high cost of disposing of surplus power.

Likewise, for the full - time employee, as they may very well need that pay increase simply to keep up with the large increases in housing and hydro costs that Ontario residents have seen in recent years.

Three days of nuclear and hydro cost $ 61.9 million or 6.1 cents / kWh.

Not exact matches

All projects boast excellent infrastructure and access to some of the lowest cost and cleanest power globally from Quebec hydro power.

«This is one in the list of things that we are doing to remove costs from the system, whether it's the suspension of the long - term energy plan, whether it's renegotiating the Samsung (green energy) deal... and removing the eight per cent provincial portion of the HST (from hydro bills) as of January,» she said.

Cheap natural gas has been an important source of fuel for the oilsands, but most of Canada already had abundant hydro - electrical endowments to power homes and businesses at relatively low cost, so shale hasn't been much of a revolution over here (pdf).

By 2017, B.C. families and industries will have seen their power costs increase by 80 per cent on the B.C. Liberal's watch, including as a result of Premier Clark's broken election promises on hydro rates.

«My heat and hydro now cost me more than my mortgage,» Katula tearfully explained.

«There are massive costs involved in setting up the bores, then monitoring them, making sure everything's sustainable, the ongoing hydro - geological tests... There are very big costs involved,» Loane says, adding that the company has invested heavily in producing light plastic bottles.

This is even factoring the costs of water, hydro and detergent used to launder your own diapers.

Cloth diapering has many components to it and the cost is difficult to calculate but I created a cloth vs disposable diaper calculator on our blog (http://www.groceryalerts.ca/cloth-vs-disposable-diaper-calculator/) and the calculator looks closely at the cleaning costs, electricity, and hydro and looks at diaper use estimates from several sources (13).

The hydro plants Reliant sold to Brookfield cost even less to run.

Strong fit with strategic focus on the best assets in the aluminium industry - competitively positioned operations with improving cost position backed by hydro power..

The report also provides a closer look at the environmental impact of building roads and bringing in construction equipment to develop hydro power in Africa and South America; the land - use advantages of solar technology; and the costs of large - scale energy storage.

Is the «business as usual» approach — subsidizing fossil - fuel supply and nuclear energy and large hydro projects, maintaining low energy prices to consumers by keeping environmental and political costs «external,» propping up oil supply by every available means — part of the solution or part of the problem?

Wheeler examined International Energy Agency data for 174 countries on investments in six low - carbon power sources (hydro, geothermal, nuclear, biomass, wind and solar) to find the incremental costs of clean power compared to a cheaper, carbon - intensive option like a conventional coal - fired power plant.

The latest version of the Sensor Fish — a small tubular device filled with sensors that analyze the physical stresses fish experience — measures more forces, costs about 80 percent less and can be used in more hydro structures than its predecessor, according to a paper published today in the American Institute of Physics» Review of Scientific Instruments.

The device's latest version costs about 80 percent less and can be used in more hydro structures than its predecessor, according to a paper published in the journal Review of Scientific Instruments.

In the long - run, he says the added inherent costs won't be a problem and it saves on the need for a full hydro - mechanical transmission.

Some are more cost effective than others, with hydro being one of the most cost effective.

* The cost to pay the mortgage, your heat and hydro, the condo fees (if applicable) and property taxes can not exceed more than 32 % of your gross taxable income — this is your Gross Debt Service ratio, or the GDS.

Like Jeffery, she added up all her expenses to see where she was overspending, but she only separated her expenses into two categories: direct costs, which include rent and hydro, and indirect costs, like concerts and clothes.

«Basically, you want enough coverage to meet your living expenses — meaning mortgage payments, taxes, hydro, food and transportation costs,» says Lorne Marr, an independent insurance broker and founder of LSM Insurance Services in Markham, Ont.

But, I do know that here in Ottawa, long - term returns for real - estate based on a 49 year price - history available with the Real Estate Board, not adjusted for inflation and not taking into account all the costs associated with real - estate like transfer fees, commissions, local taxes, maintenance, insurance, hydro, heating, water etc. is... 6.03 %.

We are currently in closing on a $ 330k, 4 bed 3 bath house with property taxes of $ 4k a year and utility costs estimated at $ 250 a month (we've hopefully estimated high there — currently we only pay about $ 33 a month for hydro, and our building management takes care of water).

Slalom effectively replaces the hot lap events from Riptide GP2 in which you are the only rider on circuit attempting to set a fastest time as the A.I. have already set their respective lap times with the added stipulation of having to navigate blue and orange gates that indicate which side of the gate you have to steer your hydro jet towards, although if you miss the corresponding side of the gate a time penalty will be incurred resulting in a risk and reward factor in which pushing your pace as much as possible, especially through the corners may actually cost you time if not absolutely precise in your approach to each gate.

I'm not saying give a blanket okay to every wind mill and hydro, regardless of bioversity cost, but want to consider the biodiversity losses if we DO NT get off fossil fuels?

Where you're mixing in low - cost hydro sources or things that have been fully depreciated with new things that are very expensive, it's very complicated; when people are actually subsidizing some deployment, they don't see it as much.

Wind turbines are huge structures, true, as are hydro or solar or nuclear installations, but they pay back the cost in CO2 of their own construction already very early in their useful life.

Localization will help solve required transitions from high fossil fuel and nuclear energy costs and global problems created by Peak Oil.This will be done by moving quickly to mass public and commercial use of economic and greener energy supplies from solar, wind, hydro and geothermal energy sources.

«Renewable energies (including) micro hydro, solar and biomass have high capital costs in the short - term,» Scott told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Successive studies have shown that CCS is generally more expensive than old hydro and on - shore wind but generally competitive with utility - scale solar PV, geothermal, and new hydro while being lower in cost than small - scale PV, off - shore wind, nuclear, and the many other nascent technologies — especially when the real cost of filling - in for intermittency is included.

Time will tell, but for Germany it appears that a lack of low cost storage would necessitate a vast oversupply of Solar and Wind power in order to supply the grid without backup from fossil fuel, hydro, and / or nuclear.

• Solar generating capacity continues to be rolled out, as costs decline expanding to supply the seasonal maximum of daily average, with pumped hydro to provide daily balancing until superior technologies come on - line, and open - cycle gas turbines shifting to a purely back - up function, with consequent substantial reductions in overall fossil CO2 emissions.

Sweden, which currently gets about 40 % of its energy from hydro power and so on, will be asked to find more than half its energy from renewables, pushing it into unknown territory at unknown cost.

An accurate cost - benefit analysis would show that imported hydro has much higher transmission costs than offshore wind because resources developed off Connecticut's coast «could take advantage of existing infrastructure,» she added.

Initial assessments in the report show the cost - effectiveness of strengthening national hydro - meteorological services through regional cooperation for reducing adverse impacts of natural hazard - induced disasters and climate change which know no national boundaries.

The very cost - effective storage in CST or pumped hydro are found be more cost - effective for the longer durations like evening peaks which tend to be 5 or 6 hours.

Total costs of their generation (HOEP + GA) fell to Ontario's ratepayers along with the cost of any spilled hydro, steamed off nuclear and idling gas plants.

Renewables do not meet the requirements al lower long run marginal cost (LRMC) than fossil fuels and hydro.

Gas and hydro are dispatchable and best able to respond to rapid changes in demand to meet peak and shoulder requirements at least cost.

It also estimates the cost if NAS batteries were used instead of pumped hydro.

Therefore, intermittent renewables are not a suitable source of power for pumped hydro, except in a few special, extraordinary cases --(such as El Heiro island where they have a 700 m high extinct volcano crater providing a large upper reservoir, good wind resource and are replacing high - cost diesel generation.)

Some of the denizens discussing pumped hydro might be interested in this; «Pumped - Hydro Energy Storage — Tantangara - Blowering Cost Estimate» http://bravenewclimate.com/2010/04/05/pumped-hydro-system-cost/ See also the reviewers comments.

Avoidance * costs for ecosystems and global warming are listed separately and are estimated at (in EUR / MWh) coal 18 lignite 27.8 gas 7.7 nuclear 0.8 PV 3.7 wind 0.8 hydro 0.6

An electricity grid powered b y mostly nuclear power (like France) with some pumped hydro and some gas for peaking, abates more CO2 than a mostly renewable energy powered grid, and does so ant about 1/3 the abatement cost.