Sentences with phrase «reduction in energy prices»

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Troop reductions hit the United States Army hard and the drop in oil prices has not been kind to companies that serve the energy industry.

Investors have, on balance, concluded that the combination of a shift to very expansionary fiscal policy and major reductions in regulation in sectors ranging from energy to finance to drug pricing will raise demand and reflate the American economy.

However, should slowing global economic growth or recession result in a long - term reduction (three to five years) in energy prices, then U.S. Silica and its peers will face the prospect of their current lucrative contracts expiring and themselves sitting atop literal mountains of frac sand, while demand may have fallen off a cliff.

Solid majorities support all the energy price proposals made over the last few days, 72 % support Miliband's price freeze, 73 % Major's windfall tax, 64 % Cameron's reduction in green taxes.

The approval, which will allow government to invest in the mini-grid sector, is expected to increase the country's renewable energy generation capacity to achieve price reduction in electricity.

Oral Questions - UK's balance of trade with the EU Oral Questions - Office for National Statistics review of the methodology of calculating changes in prices Oral Questions - How the draft Energy Bill will deliver reductions in greenhouse gas emissions Legislation - Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill

With residential energy prices projected to increase this coming winter, the Governor stressed that a reduction in LIHEAP funding would be devastating to those who rely on this vital assistance.

«Using carbon pricing in combination with energy price reforms and renewable energy support, China could reach significant levels of emissions reduction without undermining economic growth,» says Valerie Karplus, an assistant professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a co-author of the new study.

Some of these risks include: a deterioration in national, regional, and local economies; tenant defaults; local real estate conditions, such as an oversupply of, or a reduction in demand for, rental space; property mismanagement; changes in operating costs and expenses, including increasing insurance costs, energy prices, real estate taxes, and costs of compliance with laws, regulations, and government policies.

But here's what's changed: the sharp cost reductions now beginning to take place in solar, wind, and geothermal power — coupled with the recent dramatic price increases for oil and coal — have radically changed the economics of energy.

The improvements in solar technology over the last few years have led to massive price reductions in mobile charging devices, and now, instead of being a marginal (and expensive) portable energy solution, they're rapidly becoming a must - have for anyone who spends time off the grid or who wants their gizmos to be powered with renewable energy.

In addition to its positive impact in utility prices, new and improved energy infrastructure will help our nation continue leading the world in the production of oil and natural gas and in the reduction of carbon emissions, which are near 20 - year lowIn addition to its positive impact in utility prices, new and improved energy infrastructure will help our nation continue leading the world in the production of oil and natural gas and in the reduction of carbon emissions, which are near 20 - year lowin utility prices, new and improved energy infrastructure will help our nation continue leading the world in the production of oil and natural gas and in the reduction of carbon emissions, which are near 20 - year lowin the production of oil and natural gas and in the reduction of carbon emissions, which are near 20 - year lowin the reduction of carbon emissions, which are near 20 - year lows.

Achieving a 28 % reduction in US emissions by 2025 can not be done without aggressive government intervention in the energy marketplace to raise the price of all carbon fuels and to constrain their supply, thus encouraging both significant energy conservation measures and an accelerated move towards adopting non-carbon energy resources.

If serious GHG reductions are to be achieved at all in this country, that goal must be accomplished through a centrally - coordinated effort managed by the EPA, one which simultaneously constrains the supply of carbon fuels and which raises their price, thus encouraging energy conservation and an eventual transition away from fossil fuels.

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.

It ignored the rapidly - compounding take up and the rapidly - compounding «Moore's Law» price reductions in new clean energy technologies, particularly sun and wind.

Belgium, France, and Japan from Seth Dunn, «King Coal's Weakening Grip on Power,» World Watch, September / October 1999, pp. 10 — 19; coal subsidy reduction in Germany from Robin Pomeroy, «EU Ministers Clear German Coal Subsidies,» Reuters, 10 June 2002; DOE, EIA, International Energy Annual 2005 (Washington, DC: June — October 2007), Table E. 4; Craig Whitlock, «German Hard - Coal Production to Cease by 2018,» Washington Post, 30 July 2007; China, Indonesia, and Nigeria subsidy cuts from GTZ Transport Policy Advisory Service, International Fuel Prices 2007 (Eschborn, Germany: April 2007), p. 3.

A price on carbon emissions will reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Washington State and spur the development of new, renewable energy alternatives, and represents an important first step toward making meaningful progress toward carbon reduction in Washington State and protecting both birds and people in a warming world.»

For energy specifically, full - cost pricing means putting a tax on carbon to reflect the full cost of burning fossil fuels and offsetting it with a reduction in the tax on income.

Policy at the national level must encourage the deployment of clean energy technologies, and include greenhouse gas emission reduction targets (such as those under the Paris Agreement), carbon pricing mechanisms, and investment in energy research, development and demonstration.

In a second analysis, I find that policy interventions can not achieve long - run reductions in energy use without increasing prices, implying that energy efficiency mandates and R&D subsidies have limited potential as tools for climate change mitigatioIn a second analysis, I find that policy interventions can not achieve long - run reductions in energy use without increasing prices, implying that energy efficiency mandates and R&D subsidies have limited potential as tools for climate change mitigatioin energy use without increasing prices, implying that energy efficiency mandates and R&D subsidies have limited potential as tools for climate change mitigation.

The latter part is more original stuff, as I (i) make the case for how China's clean energy push is in fact consistent with its overall economic reform, e.g. Scientific Development, reduction of excess industrial capacity, natural resource price reform, western development, boosting domestic consumption, and Going Out strategy; (ii) describe China's activities in innovation and R&D and its desire to create, not just produce, energy technologies of the 21st century; (iii) address criticisms that China's «indigenous innovation» policies are protectionist in nature by pointing out the myopia of such observations from a US (or EU for that matter) policymakers point of view; (iv) provide thoughts about what the proper U.S. policy response should be.

Buried in the agency's analysis is its prediction that the stringent new rule will be a money loser for a majority of consumers - that is, the higher purchase price of refrigerators meeting the new energy use limits won't be earned back by the reduction in electric bills.

I stand to be corrected as I wouldnt follow things as closely as you guys would, but the net result is surely that the US have a clear need to generate energy at the lowest possible price in order to remain compettitive which is likely to impact on your carbon reduction plans and also you must rein in the various projects that will increase state spending.

The results have been very positive: 100 percent of permits were sold in their most recent auction, at higher prices than expected, and evidence suggests that the ambitious emission reductions have been compatible with economic growth and have ensuring affordable access to energy.

But independent analysis by the Stanford Energy Modeling Forum suggests that Sanders» carbon tax proposal would establish a price on carbon one - third of what would be necessary to achieve the 80 % reduction in emissions that he claims.

In the simulated world of Hopenhagen, below - cost energy efficiency can deliver emissions reductions too cheap to meter; solar and wind power are already cheaper than coal; and «political will» along with new regulations and a modest carbon price will deliver technological miracles.

However, it will also cause the price of renewable energy certificates to rise to offset the reduction in the carbon price.

Even if switching to natural gas in the short term reduces the US carbon footprint somewhat, it is still not sufficient by itself to put the US on an emissions reduction pathway consistent with its ethical obligations without other policy interventions including putting a price on carbon or rapid ramp up of renewable energy.

The market has now clearly signaled that fossil fuel energy will remain lower cost than «green» energy despite some reductions in green energy prices in recent decades.

The Progressive push for a reduction in take - home pay and increase in the global price of energy will, as you implied, force rich and poor alike to accept a lower standard of living.

Price, L., 2005: Voluntary agreements for energy efficiency or GHG emission reduction in industry: An assessment of programs around the world.

This is well above the price of emissions in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and the cost of emission reduction through energy efficiency.

While some of the reduction from the big oil companies is probably due to the crash in oil prices that began in 2014, leading to lower activity across the energy industry, all five majors have enacted climate and efficiency policies, as well as anti-pollution measures, the report said.

«New carbon - trading programmes are emerging in China and South Korea, and policy - makers in Europe are taking clear steps to ensure that carbon prices drive future emission reductions,» said Konrad Hanschmidt, head of carbon analysis at Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

In January 2008, the Harvard Law and Policy Review published «Fast, Clean and Cheap,» which argues that the vast price gap between fossil fuels and clean energy sources combines with public resistance to higher energy prices to create a fundamental constraint on the efficacy of carbon pricing to drive emissions reductions everywhere in the worlIn January 2008, the Harvard Law and Policy Review published «Fast, Clean and Cheap,» which argues that the vast price gap between fossil fuels and clean energy sources combines with public resistance to higher energy prices to create a fundamental constraint on the efficacy of carbon pricing to drive emissions reductions everywhere in the worlin the world.

In January 2008, the Harvard Law and Policy Review published «Fast, Clean, and Cheap,» which argued that the vast price gap between fossil fuels and clean energy sources combines with public resistance to higher energy prices to create a fundamental constraint on the efficacy of carbon pricing to drive emissions reductions everywhere in the worlIn January 2008, the Harvard Law and Policy Review published «Fast, Clean, and Cheap,» which argued that the vast price gap between fossil fuels and clean energy sources combines with public resistance to higher energy prices to create a fundamental constraint on the efficacy of carbon pricing to drive emissions reductions everywhere in the worlin the world.

Of course, these figures include reductions in areas other than electricity, as well as higher energy prices» total cost to the economy.

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.

The most cost - efficient way to choose options for emissions reductions is to ensure that investors in energy infrastructure, public or private, face a price for each tonne of carbon they emit, and earn a return for each tonne they prevent.

While DECC predict that climate change and energy policies will cause gas prices to go up by 18 % and electricity prices by 33 % by 2020, they estimate (as of July 2010) that because of reductions in energy use «compared to the counterfactual scenario in which climate change and energy policies do not have an impact on energy bills, on average, domestic energy bills will be 1 % higher in 2020.»

While DECC predict that climate change and energy policies will cause gas prices to go up by 18 % and electricity prices by 33 % by 2020, they estimate (as of July 2010) that because of reductions in energy use

The energy use reductions for higher - income households are small, and the net present value of savings is an order of magnitude smaller than the increase in home prices, even if we assume a high marginal price of electricity.

How buildings are used, in energy terms, is becoming a crucial issue: energy costs are rising; various policy drivers (such as display energy certificates) mean that there is increasing awareness of the environmental impact of the built environment; and the pricing and rationing from the CRC (carbon reduction commitment) will begin to bite over the next few years.