Sentences with phrase «not on electricity prices»

Third, the focus of my comment was also on climate, not on electricity prices, although the two (with respect to this subject) are very interlinked, as you've pointed out in the past and as your own point about competitiveness with respect to coal in China underscores.

Not exact matches

The deal is already favourable to the French: the agreed - on strike price for Hinkley C's electricity — around $ 150 per megawatt hour — is double current energy rates and could increase further if another U.K. nuclear plant currently on the drawing board is not built.

In a speech to her party on Saturday, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne acknowledged rising electricity prices that are roiling ratepayers in province, calling it her «mistake» and taking responsibility for «for not paying close enough attention to some of the daily stresses in Ontarians» lives.»

«Last week they told us oh don't worry; we promised we were going to reduce electricity tariff; it's coming, we are going to reduce it drastically... look under the current circumstance, when we are shifting from hydro to thermal, and with the kind of prices crude oil is achieving on the international market, if anybody tells you that they are going to reduce electricity tariff in the face of the privatisation of the ECG, and you believe them, it is up to you.

«Maybe we can have the best of both worlds: a price on carbon to create an innovative environment for clean technology in California and keep businesses within state lines and not cause an adverse impact on consumers through radically higher prices for transportation fuels or electricity.»

Fossil fuel prices are held artificially low, but we are paying for them in full plus, if not fully at the pump, then on April 15th and in higher health / environment costs, even if we drive EVs and have wind - powered electricity.

Since North Carolina does not have any laws requiring virtual net metering for cooperatives or investor - owned utilities, these bill credits are nearly always based on the utility's avoided cost of energy as opposed to a credit calculated at the full retail rate of electricity (in other words, the per kWh credits are less than the per kWh price customers pay for their electricity consumption).

... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....

There was some bad news for Drax recently as the UK government decided that biomass subsidies would not keep climbing as the «carbon price floor» — levied on fossil fuel production (and due to rise further)-- on electricity consumption has caused a backlash from manufacturers, consumer groups and energy suppliers who are concerned that the «tax will push up prices, make the UK uncompetitive and force the premature closure of coal - fired power plants, increasing the risk of blackouts.»

Having said that, it's generally expected to pass — the Labor Party, The Greens, and several independents have said they'll support it, and the opposition (generally opposed to anything climate - related) don't have the numbers to block it, although they've promised to repeal it if elected in 2013 (although the total package has been cleverly built, so to repeal it, they'll have to promise to raise taxes on the low & middle income brackets, cut aged & disability pensions, and rely on the «goodwill» of large corporations to lower prices for electricity & other carbon - intensive goods).

On the other hand the price paid for electricity used is not directly regulated.

Together these cost components comprise around 5 % of residential electricity prices at a national level and are not expected to have a significant impact on the total residential electricity price over the reporting period in most jurisdictions.»

It is far from clear whether Trump can do much more for coal than remove most or even all the climate - related regulations discouraging the use of coal, and this may not have a huge effect since to date the major adverse effects of the «war on coal» on raising electricity prices have not yet occurred because of the Supreme Court's stay on the so - called Clean Power Plan.

«(i) a facility with 1 or more sales or tolling agreements executed before March 1, 2007, that govern the facility's electricity sales and provide for sales at a price (whether a fixed price or a price formula) for electricity that does not allow for recovery of the costs of compliance with the limitation on greenhouse gas emissions under this title, provided that such agreements are not between entities that are affiliates of one another; or

Here are the positives of not putting a price on carbon, but instead, allowing clean electricity to be cheaper than dirty electricity:

Usual investment criteria may not deliver the super low - cost, clean, renewable energy soon enough to avoid the worst effects of climate change,» said Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, «Google.org's hope is that by funding research on promising technologies, investing in promising new companies, and doing a lot of R&D ourselves, we may help spark a green electricity revolution that will deliver breakthrough technologies priced lower than coal.»

Solar power, being a fuel - free electricity source, is not subject to the price increases associated with electricity generated by power plants that run on gas or coal.

This does not even mean that the price of electricity to consumers is being pushed up 1 cents / kWh by wind power, the Chief Executive of the Energy Supply Association of Australia is on record as saying that renewables are suppressing the wholesale price of electricity.

Not long ago, I noted that Opposition Environment spokesman Greg Hunt was out by a factor of five in his estimate of the effects of a carbon price on the average household's electricity bill.

But the group isn't entirely certain about the details, and calls for more research on consumer behavior, to understand how consumers will likely respond to price signals baked into retail electricity rates, especially when electric vehicles «result in significant fuel cost savings.»

«Gross Revenues» means the total monies received by Grantee from a utility company or other power purchaser (provided, however, that if electricity is sold to a subsidiary or affiliate of Grantee, then, and only then, the gross receipts from the sale of electricity under such contract shall be calculated using a sale of not less than the arithmetical average of the prices quoted by market sources of information, which information may be based upon the price paid by any purchaser or purchasers, including Grantee or any subsidiary or affiliate of Grantee, for electricity produced in the Iowa region of the Midwest Independent System Operator («MISO») from operation of wind turbines during the calendar year immediate!y preceding the year in which such electricity production from the Wind Energy Project occurs, taking into account the aggregate terms associated with such transaction) derived from the sale of electric energy and capacity produced and sold from the WTG's installed on the Premises, net of proportional energy losses associated with the power collection system or utility interconnection.

(Renewables are also reducing wholesale electricity prices, though not necessarily the full cost of electricity, because they still depend on subsidies and mandates that don't show up in wholesale prices.)

Energy bills: Estimated in SAP at # 496 per year / # 41 per month (for heating, lighting, hot water, ventilation but not appliances) & with PHPP at # 240 per year / # 20 per month for space heating only (based on electricity price of 15.4 p per kWh, inc VAT but not standing charges).

Apergis, N & Lau, MCK 2015, «Structural breaks and electricity prices: Further evidence on the role of climate policy uncertainties in the Australian electricity market», Energy Economics, vol.

If you want it sooner in Australia, although it is not a government vote winner, bring on higher retail electricity prices!

On May 26th, in sunny weather, Germany's 22GW of PV solar - generation capacity supplied 50 % of the country's electricity, and around the world PV looks like it may become a major energy option in the years ahead, accelerating past 50GW of grid - linked capacity, with price parity with conventional sources not far away.

The NAS National Research Council calculates that the health costs from fossil fuel combustion are in the billions: «WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Research Council examines and, when possible, estimates «hidden» costs of energy production and use — such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health — that are not reflected in market prices of coal, oil, other energy sources, or the electricity and gasoline produced from them.

Baseload plants such as coal and nuclear are hit particularly hard by reduced wholesale electricity prices as they have low fuel costs and so don't save much money by shutting down or reducing output on sunny days.

«If electricity prices do not rise over the next decade, only a few plants will survive on the market without subsidies,» says an analysis by the Berlin - based consulting firm Energy Brainpool.»

Germany has already started a subsidy for fossil - fueled plants bankrupted by the plunge in electricity prices — a subsidy that will just add to the very high surcharges levied on captive German rate - payers to reimburse renewable sources for costs they can't recover from market.

While DECC predict that climate change and energy policies will cause gas prices to go up by 18 % and electricity prices by 33 % by 2020, they estimate (as of July 2010) that because of reductions in energy use «compared to the counterfactual scenario in which climate change and energy policies do not have an impact on energy bills, on average, domestic energy bills will be 1 % higher in 2020.»

In a world where some of the utilities» most profitable corporate customers — from Apple to Ikea to Mars — are investing massively in their own electricity generation capacity (and imposing carbon prices on themselves); where smart home technology promises to cut bills, even for those folks who can't be bothered in programming their thermostat; where LEDs are becoming so cheap they are a no - brainer, even for the anti-environmental crowd; where solar prices keep dropping dramatically and battery - storage innovation is just ramping up, there's good reason for investors to consider alternative options to traditionally «safe» investment in utilities.

The monthly savings (pretending I didn't have solar already...) would be on the order of $ 400 at current electricity and gasoline prices.

The price of the electric Smart hasn't yet been released, but Daimler claims that operating costs will be low: «Based on German electricity prices it costs approximately two euros to drive the smart fortwo electric drive for 100 kilometres (even cheaper with off - peak electricity).

So while the average eGallon price of $ 1.14 might technically be correct based on average electricity prices and EV energy - efficiency, that doesn't mean that it's what you would pay.

Based on these Energy Economic findings, the CPP should not be replaced with anything because increasing the fraction of electricity generation from Intermittent Renewables will cause (1) enormous consumer electricity price increases, (2) the Grid to become even less reliable and less resilient, and (3) even more serious negative micro and macroeconomic impacts — but would have zero impact on the climate.

Such a tax would be imposed not just on gasoline but on all fossil fuels — from the coal used to generate electricity to the diesel used to run tractors — so it would affect the price of nearly everything, including food and manufactured goods.

Some other forecasts from the report: Electricity prices increase, regardless of whether a price on carbon is established or not: +30 % by 2030 and +45 % by 2050.

Consumers must have access to the price at all times, and have the option of using electricity or not depending on the price;

It is precisely the function of the fixing of the maximum price provided by Polish legislation to limiting the ability of electricity providers to pass on the extra costs resulting from the supply obligation to end users, so that they are not eventually compensated for the costs incurred in discharging that obligation.

It's undoubtedly true that bitcoin doesn't have any fair value to support its price on exchanges; the cost of mining each coin stands below $ 1000 in some countries — which depends mainly on electricity prices.

The sudden crash in bitcoin prices heading into January appears not to have deterred opportunistic students seeking to take advantage of campus electricity, with the report adding that «Even as the value of bitcoin fell 50 % from its peak -LSB-...], the number of computers performing cryptocurrency mining» on campuses did not decline.

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