Sentences with phrase «pay higher electricity prices»

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.

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).

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

The monitored energy use figures work out at 3,519 kWh per annum at the electricity meter, or # 521 (excluding standing charges and levies) based on the comparatively high unit price of # 0.15 p that Clare and Oscar pay for guaranteed renewable electricity supply.

Their citizens will be forced to pay greatly increased rates for less reliable electricity, probably three to four times higher in current prices under the new EPA «Clean Power Plan» (CPP) regulations (much more accurately described as the Skyrocketing Rates Power Plan or SRPP), and their manufacturing industries may be forced to move to states that do not succumb to the intimidation or to foreign countries in order to survive economically.

Under time - of - use pricing, consumers pay a lower price for electricity when it is least expensive — and higher when electricity costs more to produce.

But wind and solar are not cost - competitive yet and we should let the technologies improve instead of mandate their use and pay the price with higher electricity rates.

Ontario hopes the program will attract a diverse range of renewable energy producers including homeowners, community - based and First Nations groups, and larger - scale commercial generators by paying producers some of the highest prices for electricity in North America.