Sentences with phrase «natural gas prices also»

... Lower current and projected natural gas prices also affect the competitiveness of renewables, especially once federal tax incentives expire.

The first was that natural gas prices also fell hard in 2012, hitting a 21st - century low of around $ 2 per thousand cubic feet (MCF) last June.

Not exact matches

Drilling has also substantially slowed because of the dramatic decline in natural gas prices.

The gold and copper miner, which also drills for oil and gas, has seen its bottom line dry up as the price of each of those natural resources has fallen sharply recently.

Not only does this rising production directly boost real GDP, but also the large drop in natural gas prices has significantly improved the industrial competitiveness of U.S. - based businesses.

Food prices decreased 0.2 % (+1.0 % y / y) while services prices also were up 0.2 % (1.8 % y / y), including the natural gas item.

I really like that D has shifted its portfolio in recent years to reduce its exposure to commodity prices and that 90 % of the company's sales are from regulated operations, Also, I'm a high believer in natural gass (partly because that's what I studied in engineering so probably biased), but Management is investing heavily in natural gas, including massive projects such as the Cove Point LNG export terminal and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

Also important was our failure to foresee that exploration and production company stocks would become mere proxies for the price movements of natural gas, despite their attractive valuations.

The report also looks at the opportunity for natural gas in transportation, now in its infancy, and notes that never before has oil's dominance in vehicles been challenged by such low gas prices.

The next quarter will also be rough for Precision Drilling if natural gas prices do not increase.

Natural - gas prices have crashed, the price of oil the companies also transport has declined and the outlook for growth in the pipeline industry has dimmed.

The US glass packaging sector is also being hit by higher natural gas prices and increased soda ash prices.

Russian oil companies have benefited greatly from rising international oil prices and the country has also succeeded in signing lucrative natural gas energy supply deals with European countries.

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Many owners and managers also worried about market volatility around natural gas pricing compared with prices for residual oil, which they knew to be stable and historically less expensive than other fuels.

But higher petroleum prices have also lifted those of natural gas.

Among other things, Obama needs to spell out more clearly how he plans to clamp down on leakage from natural gas production, sustain investments in basic energy research despite lower energy prices and also overcome barriers to the deployment of non-polluting energy technologies.

Low natural gas (and crude) prices also make it an easier call.

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The pass - through of lower wholesale prices for natural gas into rates paid by retail customers may also be reducing expenditures.

The Obama Administration's «Clean Power Plant» would also prematurely shutter U.S. coal - fired power plants and replace them with wind, solar, and natural gas - fired power plants, raising electricity prices to U.S. consumers.

With the advent of hydraulic fracturing we are able to produce oil and gas at much greater levels here in the United States that puts downward pressure on price, which helps consumers and also makes natural gas more abundant.

Natural gas subsidies were also significant, amounting to around USD 50 billion, affecting the price paid for 22 % of gas consumption.

Analysis from the Heritage Foundation (in a forthcoming paper that will also examine the effects on natural gas prices and manufacturing jobs) finds that significantly reducing coal's share in America's energy mix would, before 2030:

Substituting wind, solar, and other low - density energy sources for coal, oil, and natural gas therefore hurts the poor not only by raising energy (and all other) prices but also by reducing food production.

These export terminals for LNG in Canada is also needed to increase the price of natural gas in Canada and thereby make the renewable energy option for tar sands more viable.

The generation utilities that sell into wholesale electricity markets (also under pressure from falling power prices; thanks to natural gas and renewables, wholesale power prices are down 70 percent from 2007) have reacted by cutting costs and merging.

It also avoids the price volatility that has plagued oil and natural gas in recent decades.

It also helps explain the vehemence with which the Australian natural gas industry has in the sought exemptions for LNG exemptions from carbon pricing on the potentially specious basis it's cleaner than coal.

One reason for lower wholesale power prices is that prices of natural gas at the Sumas trading point have averaged 36 % below the 5 - year average, and also have been below the 5 - year range.

Fracking has also contributed to the drop in the price of natural gas.

I can also forward my slides which have attached spreadsheets where it was necessary to calculate graphed values directly from the EIA data (such as the ratio of oil prices to natural gas prices) if you'll just add a request for them.

Energy companies are also seeking new liquefied natural gas terminals for export to global markets where they can demand higher prices for LNG — a far more potent contributor to global warming than ordinary natural gas.

The trend of decreasing coal generation can be attributed to both falling natural gas prices and stagnant demand for electricity, but it can also be partially attributed to the increasing role of solar and wind generation: March 2016 set records for both the highest amount of monthly wind generation ever measured and the highest amount of monthly utility - scale solar generation ever measured.

However, the collapse of high natural gas and oil prices due to the recession resulted in a rethink of «peak oil», and hence lower CO2 sales prices for EOR, and also of the need for a «dash for coal».

This is also true in Alberta, where the independent electric system operator's most recent forecast shows wind is second only to natural gas, even at today's historical low gas prices.

To be sure, nuclear has also been hurt in the U.S. by low natural gas prices.

The natural gas price to the electric power sector also dropped nearly 50 % primarily because of increases in natural gas production in 2009 (Tables 7a, 7b).

While there is widespread agreement that the physical market factors of supply and demand are primary contributors to natural gas prices and volatility, there also is growing interest and concern about the influence financial market factors, particularly commodity speculation, have on natural gas prices and volatility.

These state - level initiatives, along with fluctuations in the supply and demand of natural gas and oil, may also lead to electricity price increases in the future — although it is worth noting these increases would be less significant than if the CPP is implemented.

The «polar vortex» experienced in late 2013 also caused additional problems associated with natural gas prices which spiked as Ontario's storage was depleted and Ontario's and the Eastern US gas generation plants were ramped up just as demand for heating fuel was high.

We also drive up the price of natural gas.

Other states have not been so direct, but nonetheless, coal plants have been shutting down in droves even as multiple nuclear plants have also opted to wind down operations in the past five years, citing difficult market structures and competition from low - priced natural gas.

But if clean tech developers look with envy at low natural gas prices, they should also take a lesson from the path the shale gas industry took to achieve commercial maturity.