Sentences with phrase «increasing wholesale energy prices»

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A 3.0 % advance (1.1 % y / y) in energy prices led the increase in wholesale prices last month.

It is because of the price increases that we need a swift investigation by the Competition Commission into the relationship between the wholesale price of fuel and what the energy companies charge their customers.

Blaming an increase in wholesale energy prices, Npower has told its four million customers to expect average gas prices to rise by 17.2 per cent and electricity by 12.7 per cent, with other suppliers expected to follow suit.

Fully contracted renewable energy projects have the least transition risk while older, inefficient merchant coal plants are likely to suffer disproportionately from the financial effects of carbon transition such as lower wholesale prices, the cost of carbon credits, lower capacity factors and increased operating or capital costs, according to the report.

AVERAGE wholesale energy prices in Victoria and South Australia have more than doubled since this time last year, as experts warn that blackouts and supply issues are likely to increase as state governments chase aggressive renewable energy targets.

He quoted the Chief Executive of the Energy Supply Association of Australia (ESAA), Matthew Warren, as saying «One of the major effects of this increased supply of renewable energy in a shrinking national market is to suppress the wholesale price of electricity.&Energy Supply Association of Australia (ESAA), Matthew Warren, as saying «One of the major effects of this increased supply of renewable energy in a shrinking national market is to suppress the wholesale price of electricity.&energy in a shrinking national market is to suppress the wholesale price of electricity.»

In recent years, expanded supply of low cost natural gas, increased energy efficiency, growing market penetration of renewable electricity sources, and substantial reserve margins have contributed to low prices reflecting low marginal costs in wholesale energy and capacity markets.

Based on that model and other calculations, the IRC found that the rollout of 1 million plug - in vehicles — most of them clustering initially in urban areas of the West Coast and Northeast — could cause wholesale energy prices in the near term to increase by as much as 10 percent.

So if 1 million plug in cars «could cause wholesale energy prices in the near term to increase by as much as 10 percent,» what will happen if we change over the 250 million cars in the U.S. today?

«One of the major effects of this increased supply of renewable energy in a shrinking national market is to suppress the wholesale price of electricity.»

Ironically, at the same time, an increased amount of renewable energy on the grid is forcing wholesale power prices down.

Australia's Energy Council noted in early September that increasing use of solar and wind power in the state «has not only led to a series of technical challenges» but «also increased wholesale price volatility as the state rebalances its supply from dispatchable plant to...

Now, let's assume that the «right» amount of margin for a duel fuel energy company is # 50, and then that the current October price was caused by increases in wholesale costs, and the other actual rises.