Sentences with phrase «peak energy prices»

Making use of off - peak energy prices to pump water to an upper reservoir at Highbury Quarry, water will flow back down through turbines to generate power when prices are high.

* This will, however, socialize peak energy prices and privatize off - peak energy prices by «asking people in areas with low / negligible penetration of intermittent renewables to shoulder a substantial part of this cost burden.»

Not exact matches

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Economists agreed almost unanimously at a recent provincial economic summit that a consumption tax would help level out the peaks and valleys of provincial revenue tied to energy prices.

The reason the S&P 500's recent performance looks so good is that earnings cratered for six quarters (stretching from that peak in late 2014 to early 2016), thanks to a collapse in oil prices that pushed earnings for energy giants deeply into the red.

Last year, when load - shedding reached its peak over a three - year period, the economy recorded its lowest growth in 15 years: expanding by 3.9 percent mainly, on due to a slump in commodities prices and energy supply deficit, which affected the manufacturing, industries and services sectors... the biggest contributors to the country's GDP.

The result is that you can use large amounts of energy at night to heat up the thermal mass of the building, after which you can turn off the heating altogether in the morning peak and during the daytime, when the total power consumption and energy price are at their highest.

A new analysis concludes that easily extracted oil peaked in 2005, suggesting that dirtier fossil fuels will be burned and energy prices will rise

The world's largest private - sector coal firm, along with other U.S. giants like Arch Coal Inc., Cloud Peak Energy Inc. and Alpha Natural Resources Inc., are swimming against a powerful current of regulatory and economic change that has shrunk markets and driven down stock prices to unprecedented lows.

We know the peak hours for schools in terms of energy usage are during the day, so we look for deals which provide the best market prices to suit your timetable.

It's been worse in Canada, with the energy - dependent S&P / TSX composite index down 10 per cent since its September peak, anchored by falling oil prices.

«The MPC still expects inflation to peak above 3.0 % in October, as the past depreciation of sterling and recent increases in energy prices continue to pass through to consumer prices.

«As of January 5, 2015, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported that the price of regular gasoline was $ 2.20 / gallon, the lowest since gas prices peaked to about $ 4 / gallon in May 2011.»

Inflation appears to have moderated since earlier in the year as prices of energy and some commodities have declined from their peaks.

More recently, inflation has moderated as prices of energy and some commodities have declined from their earlier peaks.

I doubt that politicians truely understand the problem at hand, it is not as if we have a new energy technology ready to fill in for fossil fusl at the present time and whilst I am sure than energy efficiency can reduce carbon emissions by around 25 % it will be left to the markets to decide this and that means awaiting the onset of peak fossil fuels to push up the price of it that will make other energy sources more viable.

Because U.S. coal production peaked in 2002 (in terms of energy provided by coal), the U.S. will experience significantly higher coal and electric prices in future years.

Even if you trim off the ends of the curve of squalor and overindulgence, you end up with a huge energy gap, which may already be what is helping drive up oil and coal prices (keep in mind most experts on fossil fuels I talk to see no signs of «peak coal» any time soon).

Some utilities offer incentives for using less energy, while others have different pricing for different times of day where energy consumed during peak hours is more expensive.

Climate and energy policies are well connected — reducing oil depletion and dependency should be achieved through deploying renewable sources and in effect will bring reducing of carbon dioxide — thus what climate policies were (yet) not able to bring, peak oil and high oil prices (however with more negative impacts, like social unrest and geo - political instability) certainly will.

While a fixed rate plan charges the same amount for every kWh consumed, under TOU rates and tiered rates the price per kWh changes depending on the time of day (peak vs. off - peak) or the total amount of energy consumed, respectively.

Using targeted communication like phone calls — and no price signals or in - home devices — the company showed consistent peak load reductions across a test that involved Consumers Energy in Michigan, Efficiency Vermont / Green Mountain Power, and Glendale Water & Power in California.

Under such pricing models, researchers at the Rocky Mountain Institute, an energy think tank, found that peak rates typically run as high as seven times more than off - peak rates.

This will allow solar energy generators to store energy during peak generation times, and use the stored energy at peak price times.

Yesterday, Andy Tobin of the state's regulator, the Corporation Commission, presented a plan that includes a goal to generate 80 % of Arizona's power from renewable sources by 2050, a commitment to review the existing Renewable Energy Standard and Tariff (REST) policy, to use renewables to mitigate peaks establishing a «Clean Peak» standard and to deploy 3,000 MW of energy storage to «leverage low priced energy during the day&rEnergy Standard and Tariff (REST) policy, to use renewables to mitigate peaks establishing a «Clean Peak» standard and to deploy 3,000 MW of energy storage to «leverage low priced energy during the day&renergy storage to «leverage low priced energy during the day&renergy during the day».

California's Energy Imbalancing Market is a strategy to buy cheap out - of - state hydropower from federal dams to replace the government - induced high price for natural gas peaker power as a result of shifting to green power.

If you would have large price peaks that reflect the variable supply of renewable energy, leaving the refrigerator on when you leave the house on a windless night might ruin you.

Powerpack systems can be charged when energy prices are low and discharged during peak demand when utility rates are high.

Protect energy retailers from energy price peaks by facilitating access to stored energy and interruptible loads through automatically discharging energy or removing demand, to reduce costs during peak price hours.

The impact on utilities will be profound, and will be made worse by the emergence of cheap battery storage, which would allow households — and businesses — to consumer more of their own energy, and effectively remove the morning and evening peak in pricing, as well as the midday peaks, as we revealed in a dramatic graph in our article last May of Why generators are terrified of solar.

Climate change concerns coupled with high oil prices, peak oil and increasing government support are driving increasing renewable energy legislation, incentives and commercialization.

Coal at night might be 10 to 20 mils / kwh while the price of energy on peak was 30 to 40 mils / kwh.

This month China suspended price adjustments for fuel as a way to curb automobile exhaust and it has pledged to peak carbon emissions around 2030, by which time it aims to derive 20 percent of the energy it uses from clean sources.

Time - of - use (TOU) rates, even without net energy metering, could change the value proposition in places like California and Texas because solar output is «so in line with peak pricing, especially during those late afternoon summer hours,» he said.

Similarly, on the demand — or customer — side, the idea is that Californians, buildings, appliances and electric vehicles create an intricate, synergetic web that can be made more efficient and flexible with customer education and empowerment, customer - focused energy pricing policies and demand - response programs (which allows customers to voluntarily reduce peak electricity use in response to a signal from their electric utilities and receive a payment for doing so).

But higher energy prices helped slow that advance, and emissions in developed countries began to decline in 2007 and are now 8 % below the 2007 peak.

Energy Storage Association (ESA) Policy and Advocacy Director Jason Burwen likes the concept because it offers a price signal for clean peak capacity and grid flexibility.

Charles Maxwell, a former energy exec who is now an analyst at Weeden & Co., says «peak oil» will drive oil prices to $ 300 a barrel over the next decade.

Similarly, Reuters doesn't discuss whether Birol has any coal estimates or not, but the USGS has pointed out that the U.S. could be approaching «peak coal» as well, after which the price of energy would skyrocket.

If electricity was dynamically priced, price fluctuations would be arbitraged by those market participants who could shift their demand or supply at least cost; among other things, this would remove the need for expensive peak - load plants and make solar and wind energy much more practical.

Since hitting its peak in March 2011, the BlackRock iShares Oil Sands Index Fund, which tracks the biggest energy companies operating in Alberta's oil sands, has lost more than two - thirds of its value — and roughly half its value since oil prices began plunging last August.

However, energy price arbitrage and other applications such as peak load reduction which could require multiple hours of storage may still be some way off from being economically viable in many cases, Regen found.

There have been peaks and troughs, of course — most notably in 2008, when all energy prices rose, thanks to a speculative bubble.

In addition, energy efficiency reduces the cost of meeting peak demand during periods of high temperatures and high prices.

Other provisions in the act — such as tax incentives that encourage the adoption of energy - efficient technologies, a shift to more combined heat and power generation, and the adoption of real - time pricing of electricity (a measure that will discourage optional electricity use during peak demand periods)-- would cut electricity demand enough to avoid building an additional 37 coal - fired power plants.

It does three main things: First, it can store solar energy if you have solar panels; second, it can store energy from the grid off - peak when power is cheapest (in places where utilities have time - of - use dynamic pricing) and release it when power is most expensive, saving you money and smoothing out the demand peak, which is good for the grid overall.

With oil prices down from where they were a year ago (though rising steadily in the past few weeks) and the constant stream of project announcements in the renewable energy sector still flowing in I'll forgive you if you haven't thought about peak oil

The Mars manufacturing plant simply contracted for the output of the system, providing them with a fixed price for energy during peak hours.

(Peak hours, by the way, are when most people are drawing energy from the grid, and the price of electricity is at its highest).

The rebates were «superior» in terms of customer satisfaction compared with peak time pricing, but achieved the same energy saving results.