Sentences with phrase «on electricity trade»

She mused about legal challenges and economic measures, particularly on electricity trade.

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** JPMorgan Chase & Co's commodity trading arm is looking to sell more of the electricity deals it has with U.S. power plants and wind farms, a source familiar with the business said on Wednesday, at a time when Wall Street's involvement in physical commodity markets is under heightened scrutiny.

It also allows for trading of electricity on EPC tokens.

The World Bank Ease of Doing Business rankings assessed countries based on 11 indicators such as starting a business, access to a credit facility, registering a property, access to electricity, paying taxes, protecting minority investors, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency.

The price of gas that trades on U.S. commodity exchanges has been famously volatile, and multiple spikes in the past decade have caused electricity prices to skyrocket.

Enron helped pioneer the trade in «physical» electricity, actual power available for purchase on the grid and only physical in the sense that the infrastructure to transport it is more visible than an odorless, colorless greenhouse gas.

«Gazprom's customers in Europe — in particular utilities that burn gas to generate electricity — often need to offset their emissions under a European Union pollution trading scheme or the broader Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

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....

So I call on the world to join us as we mobilize billions of dollars in new trade and investment and development in Africa — and that includes Power Africa, our initiative to bring electricity and greater opportunity to more than 60 million African homes and businesses.

The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

«From cap and trade, to a ban on coal - fired electricity generation... From world - leading innovation on carbon capture and storage to a revenue - neutral carbon tax, we can learn and build on these models.»

It also calls for a strong signal on the EU level for proper functioning of the European Emissions Trading System (EU - ETS) and a new market - oriented electricity market design on the federal level and in the states.

In terms of support for renewable - electricity projects, feed - in - tariffs have been more effective than green certificate trading systems based on quotas.

Canada, which generates over 77 % of its electricity from renewable - energy sources, has a lot to offer African countries in terms of technical skills and expertise in the renewable - energy space, Canadian Minister of International Trade Ed Fast said on Tuesday.

In order to get back on track with decarbonisation of the electricity sector in a manageable way, policymakers across the EU will have to address this market failure by turning the focus from subsidies back to the emissions trading system.

He makes his money not just from book sales, but by giving talks on climate change at conferences across the country largely for various trade groups, from electricity to oil and gas to plastics.

The company is also focusing on grid services, electricity trading, and constructing and decommissioning different types of generation.

In the fourth quarter of last year alone, over $ 28 million in electricity was traded on the market, and two more grid operators in Idaho and Oregon are expected to joint the market in 2017 and 2018.

The broad - brush elements are familiar: they set an initial ceiling on the amount of climate - warming emissions allowed in the industrial, electricity, transportation and other sectors, then gradually lower this ceiling over the years, while creating emission allowances that can be traded among polluting industries.

The agency will go through a comment period for its two proposed strategies: either assign a cap on emissions and allow for the trading of pollution credits or require a state to meet an average emissions rate across its electricity fleet.

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) is the only national trade organization whose sole mission is to advocate at the federal and state levels on behalf of coal - fueled electricity and the Electricity (ACCCE) is the only national trade organization whose sole mission is to advocate at the federal and state levels on behalf of coal - fueled electricity and the electricity and the coal fleet.

MMA 2006, Report to National Emissions Trading Taskforce: Impacts of a National Emissions Trading Scheme on Australia's Electricity Markets, McLennan Magasanik Associates Pty Ltd..

The current focus in Washington is on the possibility of using cap - and - trade for the electricity sector only.

Paul Bailey is the president and CEO of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, the only national trade organization whose sole mission is to advocate at the federal and state levels on behalf of coal - fueled electricity and the Electricity, the only national trade organization whose sole mission is to advocate at the federal and state levels on behalf of coal - fueled electricity and the electricity and the coal fleet.

States can draw from a number of options, including joining or starting a cap - and - trade program, which sets limits on emissions, then allows for the purchase and sale of pollution permits; boosting their share of renewable energy in electricity generation; and tightening efficiency standards on plants and energy users.

SPAIN has business leakage, California has banned all coal - based electricity, cap and trade creates vested interests in property rights — these are some of the issues economist Alan Moran reports on in his summary of the recent Climate Change Conference in New York.

The President has said electricity rates will «necessarily skyrocket,» coal companies will face bankruptcy, and if Congress does not act on climate change and cap - tax - and - trade, he will.

Interestingly, beyond this, despite considerable rhetoric about moving beyond debates about carbon - pricing, the report recommends that in order to avoid adding to the Federal debt, it would be necessary to impose new taxes, including increased royalties for oil and gas extraction, a tax on imported oil, a tax on electricity sales, and a «very small carbon price» (presumably from a modest carbon tax or unambitious cap - and - trade system).

On August 19, 2016, Tom Tanton, E&E Legal's Director of Science and Technology Assessment, filed comments with the Federal Trade Commission regarding solar electricity (Project Number P161200).

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.

July 9, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on National Energy Board of CanadaNote: A small amount of electricity is traded by states outside the regions shown.

A «call for evidence» from the UK government on how to reform the energy sector, calling for information and commentary by industry and other stakeholders, has been welcomed by the country's Electricity Storage Network trade association.

I've been following discussions of solar energy on - and - off for quite a while, and it has always seemed as if it would be quite a long time, even assuming an emissions trading scheme or carbon tax, before solar photovoltaics could be a cost - competitive source of electricity without special support such as capital subsidies or feed - in tariffs set above market prices.

He says this will be especially true if cap and trade can be shown to decrease electricity bills, as it has in all RGGI states, which have used proceeds on energy - saving programs to offset price hikes from the program.

Following on the heels of NAFTA entering into force, a large two - year study by the University of Texas in 1996 examined the goal of facilitating the free flow of cross-border trade in natural gas and electricity.

The report highlights: Trends in domestic energy demand and supply prospects to 2040, broken down by fuel and sector The outlook for the power sector and the increasing share of coal in the region's electricity generation The role that Southeast Asia will play in international energy trade and the implications for its energy expenditures The potential energy and environmental benefits of implementing pragmatic measures that would help limit the rise in the region's greenhouse - gas emissions An in - depth analysis of energy prospects in Malaysia to 2040 A focus on four key issues that will shape the direction of the region's energy system: power grid interconnection, energy investment, energy access and fossil - fuel subsidies

California's Cap - and - Trade Program sets a collective limit (or «cap») on carbon emissions from transportation and electricity generation, among other sectors.

«Gazprom's customers in Europe — in particular utilities that burn gas to generate electricity — often need to offset their emissions under a European Union pollution trading scheme or the broader Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

I certainly don't want to become dependent on French electricity — in my view reducing our trade deficit is more important than appeasing NIMBYs.

It also recommends a new emissions trading scheme for electricity generation based on an emissions - intensity baseline.

For example, climate scientists are least well - placed to make a judgement on the timing and quantum of CO2 emissions that are exported from, say, Spain, as a result of higher electricity prices there resulting from wind and solar, and certainly very poorly placed to opine on the impact on global GHG emissions of cap - and - trade or any similar EU or even EU / USA - wide policy.

Venezuela is a major exporter of oil to the USA, and large trading partner with the US State of Florida, itself highly reliant on burning oil to generate electricity (an oddity among US states).

All these methods depend on opening the electricity market to free trade, similarly to most other markets.

According to the Court, the Dutch measures aimed at «combating cross-subsidisation in the broad sense», ensuring «undistorted competition on the markets for the generation / production, supply and trade of electricity and gas» and guaranteeing» adequate investment in the electricity and gas distribution systems».

Interestingly, the Court here refers to EVN Wienstrom and uses green electricity as an analogy for its reasoning, whereas earlier on it had distinguished fair trade products from environmentally friendly products:

However, the Court goes on to note that the arrangement curbs imports also, because domestic producers of green electricity might create obstacles to trade as a result of inaction by the Swedish government by analogy to the Angry Farmers case (where the Court found that there was a positive duty to act to ensure the free movement of goods).

One could just simply be content with the observation that the system gives Swedish producers a competitive advantage over foreign producers of green electricity on the Swedish market, and therefore was liable to at least indirectly and potentially create an obstacle to trade in electricity from another Member State.

Ten of these areas are included in this year's ranking on the ease of doing business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency.

Notwithstanding the above, recognition and enforcement has been refused on grounds of public policy for the following reasons: the award was obtained by fraud (see Westacre Investments Inc v Jugoimport - SPDR Holding Co Ltd [1999] 2 Lloyd's Rep 65 (CA) and Tamil Nadu Electricity Board v ST - CMS Electric Company Private Ltd [2008] 1 Lloyd's Rep 93); the award was tainted by illegality (Soleimany v Soleimany [1998] 3 WLR 811); the underlying agreement was contrary to principles of EU law, in particular competition law as set out in Articles 101 and 102 of the TFEU (Eco Swiss China Time Ltd v Benetton International NV (1999)(Case C - 126 / 97); and the award was unclear as to the obligations imposed on the parties (Tongyuan (USA) International Trading Group v Uni-Clan Ltd (2001, unreported, 26 Yearbook of Commercial Arbitration 886).