Sentences with phrase «on electricity regulation»

Ari began by providing some history on electricity regulation.

«Because of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York state is leading the way on electricity regulation reform,» Gore said to applause.

Not exact matches

At an energy summit meeting Monday, the EU yet again watered down an initiative to end the regulation of electricity prices and gave grid operators powers to stop new entrants encroaching on their businesses.

The order does not call on regional authorities to shut down mining operations directly, but instead to put the squeeze on them by strictly enforcing policies on electricity consumption, land use, tax collection and environmental regulation.

It came with a suite of complementary policies that included a low - carbon fuel regulation, a ban on coal - fired electricity and a private sector power call for clean and renewable electricity.

The regulation will spike residential, commercial, and industrial electricity rates which, in turn, will put a drag on the economy.

As U.S. regulations on carbon - intensive coal electricity have gotten tougher, Hawesville's rationale for aluminum began to fade.

The glut of cheap gas and tightening regulations on air pollutants have prompted the planned closure of 175 coal - fired power plants by 2016, representing 8.5 percent of all coal - fueled electricity capacity in the country.

EPA's forthcoming regulations on new and existing power plants are no exception, especially in regions dependent on coal - fired electricity.

Changes in regulatory approaches to restrict carbon emissions or tighten regulations on fracking could dramatically alter the cost - benefit analysis for using natural gas to generate electricity.

BMW determined the data on fuel consumption, CO2 emissions, electricity consumption and range have been determined in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2007/715, as amended.

Worse than that, in related «horse trading» that the industry insisted on before it would allow the regulations to happen, they managed to grandfather old coal plants — so today we are still stuck with emissions from old coal plants — most of the electricity form coal is from plants that were built before 1970, indeed, most built before 1950, I believe....

Perhaps instead of focusing on regulation and instead focusing on incenting positive behavior, we could get more digesters in place which would produce clean energy, reduce the amount of nitrogen and other nutrient pollution and provide farmers with another couple sources of revenue (electricity sales, fiber bedding sales (or savings) and increased fertilizer value of the liquid digestate as compared to raw manure.

An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in the regulations — meaning how much they would curb emissions beyond what's already happening to cut power plant carbon dioxide thanks to the natural gas boom, the shutdown of old coal - burning plants because of impending mercury - cutting rules (read the valuable Union of Concerned Scientists «Ripe for Retirement» report for more on this), improved energy efficiency and state mandates developing renewable electricity supplies.

The election of Barack Obama and a Democrat controlled Congress has put the Greens in the driver's seat and we face at least four and possibly eight years of executive orders, legislation, and regulation based on a scientifically baseless lie that will introduce Americans to what life is like in Third World nations where electricity is both costly and unpredictable.

«Alec is very concerned about the potential economic impact of greenhouse gas regulation on electricity prices and the harm EPA regulations may have on the economic recovery,» the resolution reads.

Although U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions associated with electricity generation have fallen from the 2005 level, they are projected to increase in the coming decades, based on analysis in EIA's Annual Energy Outlook 2015 (AEO2015) that reflects current laws and regulations, and therefore does not include proposed rules such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan.

He has written extensively about electricity regulation, on issues ranging from electric vehicles to Constitutional challenges to states» energy laws.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued the first - ever limits on heat - trapping pollution from new power plants in March, ignoring protests from the energy industry and Republicans who fear regulation will raise electricity prices and kill off coal as an energy source.

The governor said he is concerned about the proposed regulations» impact on electricity prices.

Last year, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad surrendered a $ 1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that would have been used to help cut costs and ease regulations on Iowans wanting to generate their own electricity.

Here is the Estonian EU presidency's proposal for general approach on a Regulation on the internal market for electricity.

EPA regulations on mercury and other air pollutants currently under review are the subject of much debate for their potential costs and impacts on the electricity industry.

Within the power systems area, for example, MIT offers a wider range of optimization subjects, including a class focused on electricity markets and regulations, Zeineldin says.

DOER must issue regulations to keep Massachusetts on track toward 100 percent renewable energy (not just electricity!)

[10] Given the EPA's desire to transform the electricity sector, the original intentions of Section 111 (d), and the recent Supreme Court ruling on the tailoring rule, the regulations for existing power plants will face much - warranted legal scrutiny.

That's because it sees the latest international agreement on Global Warming as a way to help defend its sweeping new regulations on generating electricity, which are themselves unlawful under the Clean Air Act.

Not allowing facts to get in the way of its agenda, the Obama EPA just released its new power plant regulations, which will effectively end the use of coal in new power plants and force consumers to pay higher electricity rates, predicated on coal's contribution to climate change.

(Sec. 133) Requires the Secretary to promulgate regulations establishing a program to distribute allowances to Indian tribes on a competitive basis for: (1) cost - effective energy efficiency programs for end - use consumers of electricity, natural gas, home heating oil, or propane; and (2) deployment of technologies to generate electricity from renewable energy resources.

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.

An EERS can apply to either electricity or natural gas utilities, or both, depending on the state, and can be adopted through either legislation or regulation.

EPA continues to ignore the damage that its new regulations are causing to the U.S. economy and to states that depend on coal for jobs and affordable electricity,»

WCO vice-president Parker Gallant and president Jane Wilson speak on Ontario's mismanaged electricity sector, energy poverty, wind turbine noise regulation, and what's ahead for 2017

• Kyoto Protocol • EU ETS • Australian CO2 tax and ETS • Mandating and heavily subsidising ($ / TWh delivered) renewable energy • Masses of inappropriate regulations that have inhibited the development of nuclear power, made it perhaps five times more expensive now than it should be, slowed its development, slowed its roll out, caused global CO2 emissions to be 10 % to 20 % higher now than they would otherwise have been, meaning we are on a much slower trajectory to reduce emissions than we would be and, most importantly, we are locked in to fossil fuel electricity generation that causes 10 to 100 times more fatalities per TWh than would be the case if we allowed nuclear to develop (or perhaps 1000 times according to this: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html • Making building regulations that effectively prevent people from selling, refurbishing or updating their houses if they are close to sea level (the damage to property values and to property owners» life savings is enormous as many examples in Australia are already demonstrating.

However, recent regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act threaten to upend the competitive markets that guarantee just and reasonable wholesale rates in many parts of the U.S. Those organized wholesale markets are based on using the least - cost generation to satisfy demand, whereas the EPA continues to impose tighter and more complex environmental constraints on the electricity generation sector.

This fiscal year, we have achieved our per capita electricity reduction target and made significant progress on renewable energy, considering the challenges posed by government policies and open access regulations.

When US President Obama announced revised regulations on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from US power plants on August 3, 2015 in a laudable speech supporting the new rules, as he predicted opponents of US climate change policy strongly attacked the new rules on grounds that they would wreck the US economy, destroy jobs, and raise electricity prices.

He listed how the country has withdrawn from the Paris Climate Treaty, the regulations the administration has repealed, and that together with the DOE Report on Electricity Markets and Reliability he is seeing a «tremendous attitude change» and a «positive atmosphere» in Washington.

By his own admission, meeting Canada's GHG goals will be a daunting challenge and will require stringent regulations on oil and gas, electricity generation, transportation, and -LSB-...]

First Climate professionals are well - versed in national, regional and global regulations, requirements and guidelines on green electricity.

Under the Ontario Fair Hydro Plan Regulation, the OEB sets an amount — the GA Modifier — that electricity distributors and others will apply to reduce the GA payable by eligible customers on electricity consumed between May 1, 2018 and April 30, 2019.

While US emissions are decreasing slightly — both as a result of the administration's policies on renewable energy and vehicle fuel economy standards and because of sharply lower natural gas prices that have reduced coal use for electricity generation — it is unlikely that without additional regulation or legislation that the US will meet its 2020 target.

The change was made to comply with Ontario Regulation 405/12 and we surmise was to deflect on rising electricity costs caused by more and more renewable energy added to the grid.

Commenting on agreements reached on the Internal Electricity regulation, Molly Walsh said «Today EU governments have made the fossil fuel industry proud, by locking us into decades more of burning fossil fuels.

We will examine how public utility regulation and environmental law have traditionally balanced cost, reliability and environmental performance in the electric generation mix, and how that balance is changing as (i) wholesale electricity markets (and some retail markets) have come to rely more on competition and market pricing of electricity, and (ii) renewable generation replaces more traditional, dispatchable resources.

The paper presents the contextual elements of China's power generation (trends, regulations and challenges); a primer on emissions trading in electricity; how a price on CO2 emissions could affect electricity in the near term, and illustrates the implications for generation cost and prices.

As a country, we should focus on ways to make electricity more affordable, not on implementing regulations that will raise energy costs, which hit the poor and middle class the hardest.»

It then identifies the key parameters of an ETS fit for implementation in China's electricity sector, and concludes on the interplay of the ETS and electricity regulation in China.

That report predicted that without new carbon regulations, the U.S. would still have an electricity system in 2040 based largely on coal and natural gas:

Ultimately a plug on a hydrogen FCV could allow the vehicle to sell back hydrogen produced electricity for peak power needs or provide valuable voltage regulation services through the battery to further benefit the California electric grid.