Sentences with phrase «pay higher electricity»

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.

As Lesser argues, «This course of action will cost jobs because businesses, forced to pay higher electricity prices, will either relocate, contract, or disappear altogether.»

Replacing existing capacity with new capacity means U.S. consumers will pay higher electricity prices, similar to what Ontario electricity consumers faced.

At the same time, he added, the government's feed - in tariff, the costs of which are shared by the government and electricity customers, has resulted in «more and more consumers hav [ing] to pay higher electricity charges to utilities.»

Perhaps most importantly, however, the energy reform transferred power from the traditional utility companies to some of those same private consumers who are paying those high electricity prices:

Danish consumers and companies pay the highest electricity prices within the EU, according to Eur electric, the European Electricity Association.

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiatve (RGGI), which the Northeast Democratic governors claim has been a great success has the region paying the highest electricity prices in the nation (along with green California).

As noted earlier, customers in New York City have for decades paid higher electricity rates than customers in Ontario.

Danes have to pay the highest electricity prices in the European Union, and they pay subsidies of nearly $ 400 million a year to wind producers (in a country with less than 2 percent of the population of the United States).

Not exact matches

Starting this year, owners of rooftop solar systems in Nevada must pay higher fees, and are paid lower rates for their electricity.

In an experiment, we tried sending people a price signal, where they were paying more in those peaks, and we saw a significant response: People use less electricity when the price is high.

Mining, a process by which individuals or groups get paid in new Bitcoins to run complex mathematical equations on high - powered computers in order to confirm the validity of transactions, has drawn scrutiny from environmentalists who say it's sucking up too much electricity.

There are also legitimate concerns that Puerto Ricans, who already pay some of the highest electricity rates in the US and are now facing widespread unemployment because of the storm, won't be able to afford to pay them.

However, consumers in California continue to pay average retail electricity prices that are among the highest in the nation.

Plattsburgh's Mayor Colin Read also detailed back in February that he would rather see high electricity consuming businesses pay real employees, rather than warehouses filled with just machines.

This is coming as the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, ANED, reveals that less than 40 percent of electricity bills are paid by consumers and as a result higher tariffs are expected to be levied in a bid to plug the loss in powElectricity Distributors, ANED, reveals that less than 40 percent of electricity bills are paid by consumers and as a result higher tariffs are expected to be levied in a bid to plug the loss in powelectricity bills are paid by consumers and as a result higher tariffs are expected to be levied in a bid to plug the loss in power revenue.

«LIPA ratepayers are still paying among the highest costs for electricity in the nation,» DiNapoli said, «The recent survey from the consumer satisfaction perspective shows that Long Islanders are still unhappy with the service.»

«Residents of the Hudson Valley already pay among the highest rates in the country for their electricity and other utilities,» Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman criticized on Friday a proposal by the Trump administration that would allow coal - burning power plans to be paid higher prices for electricity.

«New York households pay some of the highest electric bills in the nation, and the wholesale electricity market overseen by NYISO has a major impact on prices,» said Beth Finkel, state director for AARP in New York state.

Shortly after Cuomo announced the Ambit refunds, the AARP called on New York to hold hearings to investigate why New Yorkers are paying higher rates for electricity to independent energy service companies, or ESCOs, than they would pay to utilities.

Yesterday, New Jersey Business and Industry Association President Philip Kirschner praised the governor for pulling out of a program that increases costs for residents who «are already paying some of the highest electricity rates in the nation.»

Gas prices these days are higher in many places, which would increase savings, but for me VW's formula worked out to $ 569.94 in electricity for my year in an e-Golf versus the $ 913.30 I would have paid for gas in a comparable car.

Utilities: Homeowners typically pay higher utilities than renters; you may receive bills from water and sewer service, trash collection, electricity, gas, and heating fuel providers.

Because they pay out less in rent, employing tellers, electricity, and all the rest, online banks can pass along part of their savings to you in the form of the highest savings rates.

Some Indians are appalled talking about the inequity of, for example, electricity consumers in the U.S. not wanting to pay $ 100 - $ 200 a year in higher energy bills under a climate policy.

Even amid this prolonged recession and depressingly high unemployment (9.5 % in PA), families and businesses in the Keystone State are still paying just 9.4 cents a kilowatt hour for 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.

Even though people without electricity access often pay a lot for their energy sources, such as kerosene and candles — sometimes more than they would pay for the same service if they had electricity access — the upfront costs for off - grid systems may still be higher than most consumers are willing or able to pay.

Americans will have to pay much higher electricity prices despite the minuscule benefits of the Clean Power Plan, which reduces global carbon dioxide emissions by less than 1 percent and global temperatures by 0.02 degrees Celsius by 2100, according to EPA's own models.

Moreover, grid electricity prices in Georgia are among the cheapest in the country, so getting people to agree to pay a higher rate — no matter how slight — might be a challenge.

One of the reasons Ohio's nuclear plants are going bankrupt is because they — as reliable, 24/7 producers of power — are literally forced to pay the high cost of the grid absorbing electricity coming from wind turbines that have been heavily - subsidized for a quarter - century.

Put another way Ontario's ratepayers will be paying in excess of 40 cents per kWh, placing them on a par with Denmark, which suffers the highest cost of electricity in the developed world.

As a result, Danish and German consumers are paying some of the highest residential electricity prices in Europe — three times as high as in the United States — for the «benefit» of having wind and solar power generated in their country regardless of whether that power can be used domestically.

Due to this expensive trade, we who live in the south of Sweden, have to pay almost the same high prices as the Danes, although Sweden produces low cost electricity from mostly Hydro and Nuclear.

In Queensland, over the first five months of this year, electricity consumers paid the highest wholesale prices in the NEM, 30 per cent above the average.

Meanwhile, German households picked up the growing bill for the wholesale subsidies for renewables that German industry enjoys, accounting for 18 percent of the average price that consumers paid for electricity last year — twice as high a proportion as in 2010.

The result of these policies in Germany, businesses and families now pay the second highest electricity price in Europe, after Denmark: 45 cents per kilowatt - hour — five times what Americans pay for coal and gas - fueled electricity and nearly three times what they pay in California, Connecticut and New York.

The Daily Telegraph Reports that a Norwegian wind company was paid # 1.2 million to not produce electricity during a period of high winds.

Since electric utilities were required to pay above world prices for British - produced coal, electricity prices became excessively high, and the British coal industry in essence became dependent on the electricity industry for its survival.

Germany, which is attempting to go carbon - free, is already experiencing high costs for electricity with German consumers paying four times more than the average American...

Good point on the cost thing, although the Hyperion site makes it abundantly clear that it's not targeted at commercial / residential uses (even though everyone converts the electricity output to «houses powered», including me)-- they're targeting high energy - use industrial customers, and such customers might find paying $ 30 million for a 20 MW transportable, pre-fab power plant that doesn't need hundreds of miles of power lines or a year to build a bargain.

The company pays the owners of commercial and industrial buildings to let it periodically reduce their power consumption when the grid is overburdened, or to avoid high electricity prices.

The American public would end up having to pay this charge, either through increased taxes or higher electricity bills.

To put a perspective on the current comparative cost burdens that the state's families and businesses suffered last year, Californians paid 62 percent higher electrical costs than the national average for electricity.

To connect this to the attack on renewable energy, STAMP assumes that an increase in electricity rates is paid by businesses everywhere and passed on to customers in higher prices.

From the article:... Germans pay some of the highest electricity prices in Europe — 31 cents per kWhr compared to 17 cents in France and 18 cents in the UK (Economic Times).

It's a specious assertion since consumers will still pay higher rates for the electricity they use.

Parker Gallant and Scott Luft have both looked at the report from the Independent Electricity System Operator or IESO, and found that not only was demand at an all - time low that month (the lowest since the IESO began keeping records) but also that curtailed wind power (power we pay the wind power developers for, but do not accept on the grid because it isn't needed) was at an all - time high.

Most utilities do NOT like wind energy because they do not like: a. Paying the higher costs of electricity from «renewable» sources.