Sentences with phrase «low electricity demand growth»

Increased energy efficiency in homes and business led to lower electricity demand growth, reducing the need to generate electricity.

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Having generated power since 1951, Salem Station succumbed to low natural gas prices, weak electricity demand growth and tightening Federal pollution controls.

In the High Economic Growth case, electricity demand, fossil - fired generation, and resulting CO2 emissions are all higher, while the reverse is true in the Low Economic Growth case.

Existing U.S. nuclear power generating plants operate under increasingly competitive market conditions brought on by relatively low natural gas prices, increasing electricity generation from renewable energy sources, and limited growth in electric power demand.

This reflects both seasonal growth and added renewable generation capacity, as well as maintenance and refueling schedules for nuclear power plants, which normally undergo maintenance during spring and fall months, when overall electricity demand is lower.

And though we burn 8 billion tons of coal every year to fuel around 33 percent of the nation's electricity generation, the industry has been slumping in the face of low natural gas prices and sluggish growth in electricity demand.

The multiplier effect will help to shape electricity markets in areas where direct demand from RE100 members is low but supply chains are vast, and where coal still features strongly in national growth plans.

Our modelling indicates strongly that a tax at this low level will have no effect upon coal - fired generation and, given the relatively low price elasticity of demand for electricity at the retail level (probably because electricity has been so cheap in Australia), the demand side effect would be negligible and difficult to spot given the srong secular growth in demand.