Sentences with phrase «industrial electricity users»

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LNG projects would also be subject to new greenhouse gas emission standards and would have to pay general industrial electricity rates consistent with other industrial users in B.C., but the framework would repeal an LNG income tax introduced under the B.C. Liberals.

* Re-regulate the electricity system for all Albertans except large industrial users.

I WAS also interested to note the comparison in the same report of electricity, gas and water prices for industrial users.

There's steel, aluminum, cement, plastic, paper — all of which are big processes we're dependent on, some of which directly generate CO2, like cement production, and a lot of which are big industrial users of electricity or energy.

In a recent auction of wholesale electricity opened to industrial consumers and other large users, bidders ponied up more than $ 150 a megawatt - hour in an attempt to lock in their electricity supply for the new year.

According to company officials, the hike is needed to «comply with EPA environmental improvements to reduce polluting emissions from coal - fired plants, make up for a decline in demand for electricity from commercial and industrial users, and cover rising costs of health care for the utility's employees.»

But this patchwork of state rules — which now affects the electricity bills of about two - thirds of the U.S. population as well as countless businesses and industrial users — has sprung up in recent years without the benefit of the states fully calculating their costs.

Tim, I linked previously to a report from the Australian national electricity regulator showing that price of electricity to both domestic and industrial users is dramatically lower in Australia than in countries such as France and Japan which get a large proportion of their power from nuclear energy.

Coupled with the low and stable nature of electricity prices — which average $ 0.12 / kWh in the U.S. and can be significantly less for commercial and industrial users, falling to almost nothing when combined with local solar generation and storage — owners can expect to gain $ 200,000 or more in savings over a million miles based on fuel costs alone.

The first stage grants licenses to firms in the electricity and natural gas markets, while the second stage, which is expected to start March 3, 2003, will give large industrial users the right to choose their electricity provider.

He wants to give out many emission permits free to energy - intensive industries and to the local distribution companies (LDCs) that funnel electricity to users, rather than auctioning the permits off, and he wants permit giveaways to the industrial sector to continue throughout the whole length of the cap - and - trade program, rather than be phased out.

More than a quarter of US commercial and industrial (C&I) electricity users could potentially use energy storage to lower premium rates they are charged during periods of high demand, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has found.