«Alec is very concerned about the potential economic impact of greenhouse gas
regulation on electricity prices and the harm EPA regulations may have on the economic recovery,» the resolution reads.
Not exact matches
At an energy summit meeting Monday, the EU yet again watered down an initiative to end the
regulation of
electricity prices and gave grid operators powers to stop new entrants encroaching
on their businesses.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued the first - ever limits
on heat - trapping pollution from new power plants in March, ignoring protests from the energy industry and Republicans who fear
regulation will raise
electricity prices and kill off coal as an energy source.
The governor said he is concerned about the proposed
regulations» impact
on electricity prices.
It is far from clear whether Trump can do much more for coal than remove most or even all the climate - related
regulations discouraging the use of coal, and this may not have a huge effect since to date the major adverse effects of the «war
on coal»
on raising
electricity prices have not yet occurred because of the Supreme Court's stay
on the so - called Clean Power Plan.
When US President Obama announced revised
regulations on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from US power plants
on August 3, 2015 in a laudable speech supporting the new rules, as he predicted opponents of US climate change policy strongly attacked the new rules
on grounds that they would wreck the US economy, destroy jobs, and raise
electricity prices.
While US emissions are decreasing slightly — both as a result of the administration's policies
on renewable energy and vehicle fuel economy standards and because of sharply lower natural gas
prices that have reduced coal use for
electricity generation — it is unlikely that without additional
regulation or legislation that the US will meet its 2020 target.
We will examine how public utility
regulation and environmental law have traditionally balanced cost, reliability and environmental performance in the electric generation mix, and how that balance is changing as (i) wholesale
electricity markets (and some retail markets) have come to rely more
on competition and market
pricing of
electricity, and (ii) renewable generation replaces more traditional, dispatchable resources.
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.
Now
on version 6.0, CAVT estimates the costs for individual coal units to comply with environmental
regulations and compares these costs to
electricity market
prices.