Sentences with phrase «on cheap natural gas»

By August, DOE released the study, which pinned coal and nuclear retirements on cheap natural gas, debunked reliability concerns, and identified opportunities to improve grid resilience.

In last week's Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were How to Acquire Accurate Energy Data and Statistics, Investment Opportunities in Indian Energy Infrastructure, and a Subscriber Question on Cheap Natural Gas — A Threat to Chemical and Biofuels Producers.

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He went on, «You are 75 percent cheaper than the rest of the world on natural gas, you are 10 percent cheaper on oil and you are half the price of gasoline as the rest of the world.

The reasons are familiar by now: cheap natural gas, cheap renewables, stagnant electricity demand, and old coal plants getting outcompeted on the market.

It expects to lose about $ 60 million annually on the plant because of competition from cheap natural gas.

Ulster County Executive Mike Hein issued an executive order last week banning the use of fracking brine — a residue of drilling for natural gas, cheaper than salt — on county roads.

FitzPatrick, which has 600 workers, has been losing money because of low wholesale power prices based on cheap and plentiful natural gas.

2 Fusion On Tap Plasma physicist Eric Lerner has a dream: a form of nuclear energy so clean it generates no radioactive waste, so safe it can be located in the heart of a city, and so inexpensive it provides virtually unlimited power for the dirt - cheap price of $ 60 per kilowatt — far below the $ 1,000 - per - kilowatt cost of electricity from natural gas.

They never caught on, however, because they could not compete with those powered by cheap electricity and because their heat source — burning biomass or natural gas — is difficult to manage.

This has happened in part because much of the Northeast relies on readily available hydropower from Canada and rapidly expanding natural - gas - fired electricity generation made possible by cheap natural gas from newly exploited shale deposits in Pennsylvania.

But it currently offers one of the safest plays in the sector, and longer - term it may also offer an interesting derivative play on cheap US natural gas.

I like its strategy of trying to pick up mature natural gas properties on the cheap, while natural gas futures prices are low.

A lot of the systems design that people are looking at — like Christopher Clack — even if you can get the renewables up to 80 percent, then you have a piece there probably natural gas «peakers» [power plants that run in periods of high electricity demand], at least based on current technology, are way cheaper than any [energy] storage.

Subsidies were biggest in Russia, with about $ 40 billion a year spent mainly on making natural gas cheaper, ahead of Iran with $ 37 billion.

I suspect that we will be hearing a lot more about hydrogen cars too; the fossil fuel companies might well fund a fake «hydrogen economy» because the cheapest hydrogen is made by steam reforming of natural gas; people think that this is somehow better than just running a car on CNG.

[W] ith the inability of the Connecticut House to pass a bill that would have allowed the state's only nuclear power plant, Millstone, to compete on equal footing with cheap natural gas and heavily subsidized renewables earlier this month, Connecticut is now in danger of losing its largest source of zero - carbon energy.

Between January and May, U.S. carbon emissions fell to a 20 - year low; 48 percent of that resulted from substituting coal for cheap shale natural gas, while little, if any, came from deploying subsidized wind and solar, according to Michael Levi, the director of the climate change program at the Council on Foreign Relations.

«In the U.S., we've known that wind energy can be cheaper than (natural) gas in some states, but solar is now inching toward that same milestone,» said Jacqueline Lilinshtein, U.S. analyst for Bloomberg New Energy Finance, a firm that advises industry clients on energy issues.

Coal companies have lost more than 90 percent of their value since the global coal bubble in 2011, and many companies have declared bankruptcy due to collapsing demand, oversupply on the international market, cheap natural gas prices, and new environmental regulations.

due to collapsing demand, oversupply on the international market, cheap natural gas prices, and new environmental regulations.

Showing data from financial firm Lazard and other sources, their presentation said natural gas, coal and even some nuclear power plants were the lowest - cost producers of electricity on the planet, cheaper than wind or solar.

In a new report from Moody's, and reported on by SNL, the ratings agency predicts that cheap natural gas could lead to another massive wave of coal - fired power plant closures over the next year and a half.

While natural gas is much less carbon - intense than coal or oil, a burgeoning industry based on cheap shale gas easily could swamp those gains in the long run.

Look at the charts starting on page 6, and you will find that for energy sources you might be considering investing in today, wind is always reported to be the cheapest, generally about 10 % less than the next cheapest which is natural gas.

Cheaper natural gas has pushed out older, less - efficient coal and oil generation; however, the region's increasing overreliance on natural gas will provide few additional emissions benefits and increases risks of price volatility or supply disruption.

In many parts of the U.S., wind energy is now the cheapest form of electricity generation — cheaper than natural gas and even coal, NextEra chief financial office Moray P. Dewhurst recently stated on an earnings call.

On a per KW basis, the cheapest plants to build are natural gas at around $ 1,100 per KW.

Regulation of carbon emissions from the power sector under provisions of the Clean Air Act depends almost entirely on the Environmental Protection Agency's determination that cheap natural gas generation is the «best available» alternative to coal power plants.

In an op - ed for the New York Times, Michael E. Webber, deputy director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, blames coal's struggles on cheap and plentiful natural gas, cheap renewables and air - quality regulations launched under the George W. Bush administration, as well as weaker - than - expected demand for coal in Asia.

Enron bought, on the cheap of course, the world's largest windmill company (now GE Wind) and the world's second - largest solar panel interest (now BP) to join Enron's natural gas pipeline network, which was the second largest in the world....

Despite continued economic growth, emissions in the U.S. are on a steady decline thanks in large part to cheap natural gas.

Furthermore, the IEA report makes it clear that abundant cheap natural gas could push renewables out of the market unless there is a price on carbon or aggressive economic support for non-fossil renewable energy.

It's hard for me to take an article on practical solutions to AGW seriously if it doesn't mention nuclear power or fracking and other cheap natural gas.

As I wrote last year when the rule was initially announced, many states are already well on their way to achieving the required reductions, thanks in part to a recent boom in cheap natural gas and the Obama administration's choice of 2005 as the basis year for cuts, which was close to America's all - time peak in carbon emissions.

The state's largest electric utilities are proposing a steadily increasing dependence on natural gas, which, while cleaner than coal, is still a fossil fuel — and not the cheapest option.

Saudi Basic, the Middle East's dominant chemical maker, said on Saturday that it wants to build a Houston headquarters for its Western Hemisphere operations as the company capitalizes on the surge in cheap natural gas supplies from North American shale fields.

With cheap natural gas substituting coal for electricity production, a sustained downturn in coal demand in China, and tough new regulations on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, pure play coal companies like Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) and Arch Coal (NYSE: ACI), are having a horrible run of it.

«Whatever President Trump may say, U.S. coal's main problem has been cheap natural gas and renewable power, not a politically driven «war on coal,»» explain BNEF chair Michael Liebreich and chief editor Angus McCrone.

So, on top of retrofitting old alarms, you can buy a Roost Smart Smoke Alarm that can detect CO, all types of smoke (Roost uses a modified ionization sensor, called IoPhic, made by Universal Security Instruments), and natural gas, or you can get a cheaper smoke - only alarm.