Sentences with phrase «mean higher energy costs»

But the hurdle of convincing business leaders and others that clean or renewable energy doesn't automatically mean higher energy costs remains.

A bigger home means higher energy costs, maintenance costs and property taxes.

Not exact matches

He added that a combination of cheap land, reasonable energy prices and other incentives means that, despite higher manufacturing costs, he can still make more money by making glass in the U.S. than by exporting Chinese - made panes to the U.S. market.

And rising energy prices, of course, also mean higher input costs for all consumer goods.

Of course, oil means energy, which means that higher oil costs will translate into higher prices for just about everything, not just at the fuel pump.

To at least a small extent that would mean higher heating costs for U.S. consumers and higher energy costs for U.S. producers.

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Our incomes are high in MY meaning a much lower share of income needs to be dedicated to energy costs than in most states.

«When people talk about cost competitive, they really mean over the life of the vehicle, meaning that it will be more expensive up front, but eventually (in this case, by 2025) the lower energy and maintenance costs will offset the higher purchase cost,» Sperling said in an email.

But current methods to desalinate water come at a very high cost in terms of energy, which means more greenhouse gases and more global warming.

«Our forager ancestors sought out high - energy (meaning high - calorie, high - fat) foods that could be obtained at the lowest energy cost,» De Vany says in his book.

What is means is that an investor could be right that the price of natural gas is going higher, but wrong on the timing and completely miss out on the rebound as this energy ETF's value is eaten away by rolling costs.

Further, they refer to «recent estimates and case studies» that suggest «energy - saving technologies may backfire, meaning that increased energy consumption associated with lower energy costs because of higher efficiency may in fact result in higher energy consumption than there would have been without those technologies.»

Further, increased human - caused CO2 emissions mean more energy use, which results in more human productivity since humans generally use fossil fuel energy to increase their productivity and reduce their dependency on other less reliable and higher cost energy sources.

However, I've revised the cost estimates and they are far higher than in my previous estimates.The inefficiencies in the cooling system mean that the cost per tonne CO2 removed would be around $ 5,000 / t CO2 (based on a simple factoring up of my previous estimate to allow for the energy inefficiencies).

This means that as Duke Energy and other providers that are doing the same thing — building generation facilities with high capital costs relative to their probable return using our tax dollars, more or less directly transporting those dollars into their pockets — sell the electricity built with the resources we helped them build, they will charge us more money for all the electricity they sell.

Fukushima presented an opportunity for AGL Energy because it meant that Tepco, the plant's operator, was no longer in a position to invest in Loy Yang A and was a distressed seller of its one third stake in Loy Yang A. AGL Energy, which already had a 32.5 per cent stake in the plant, says Loy Yang A will remain one of the lowest cost generators in the NEM because of cheap coal at the doorstep — it pays just $ 6 / t for brown coal, which would give it a massive advantage over black coal generators in NSW, which are facing costs of $ 45 / t and will go higher in future years.

However, higher fixed charges are an inequitable and inefficient means to address utility revenue concerns: they reduce customer control, disproportionately impact low - usage and low - income customers, dilute incentives for energy efficiency and distributed generation, and increase electric system costs.

This means a duplication of capacity and more than doubling of the costs (because the renewable energy generators are much higher cost than the fossil fuel generators which are essential back up and could do the job on their own).

«Japan achieved very high level of energy efficiency in the 1980s so that means the additional reduction from 1990 will mean tremendous extra cost for Japan compared with other countries that can easily achieve more energy efficiency.»

But, the reason they're rejecting it is that they're already ripened to the implications - that climate change legislation will mean higher costs, which means that they'll either have to pay more for energy, or cut back on stuff - things they don't think that other people should be able to tell them to do.

The other thing I was hoping to emphasise was that, just as higher energy costs means a harder time for homes, it means that jobs in the energy - intensive sector are also vulnerable.

The ideas are still very much at the drawing board stage - and the report acknowledges that the high cost, high energy use, and the relatively low volumes of CO2 likely to be used, means that CCU is unlikely to be a big global player on the carbon reduction front any time soon.

The radiator from Lancey Energy Storage is described as a plug - and - play space heater, which means that even though it integrates a lithium battery and can allow users to charge it during times of cheaper electricity, and then use that electricity when grid prices are higher, no additional wiring is necessary to install it, and it can cost up to 75 % less than installing a gas heater.

It's only when deforestation and other land use changes made a net shift of carbon in the short term carbon cycle from plants back into the atmosphere, that humans began to make a net positive return of CO2 into the atmosphere (although deforestation is essentially reversible in principle), and it's very true to point out that industrial scale animal husbandry with its high cost in fossil - fuel - derived energy does mean that what might otherwise be a relatively closed system of cycling CO2 from the atmosphere through plants and then animals and back to the atmosphere, does become net positive with respect to CO2 emissions.

Higher energy costs almost inevitably means more people on low (residual) incomes and more poverty, illness and premature death now -LRB-- ish).

The Alberta Energy Regulator recently increased the liability management ratio required for acquiring companies to 2.0 or higher, which means that the value of a company's producing wells must be twice the cost of abandonment.

The great thing about Avea, Philips Hue et al is that the bulbs are incredibly energy efficient, meaning they'll last for much longer than your typical everyday offerings, and as such, the considerably higher cost may seem worthwhile given the numerous other perks.

Similar to a home inspection that can reveal flaws in a property, Gallegos maintains that energy audits, where blower door tests and infrared technologies are used to diagnose the energy efficiency of a home, are an equally important tool for homebuyers because they can reveal areas in a home that waste energy which means higher costs.