Sentences with phrase «renewable on a cost basis»

Take your pick — oil shales in the US, Orinoco heavy from VZ, Madagascar, offshore Brazil — these all trump anything renewable on a cost basis today without a meaningful carbon price, and so with KXL blocked, that's what will fill the void, which is the point of my piece.

Not exact matches

John also served as the VP and Head of Corporate Development for an early - stage renewable energy and feed company based in Florida as well as a Director in Business Development at Valens Capital, a billion dollar hedge fund focused on providing flexible, custom - tailored and cost - effective debt and equity growth financing solutions to small - cap public and private companies.

The company claims its technology can produce steam at a cost of $ 3 per million BTUs, based on U.S. National Renewable Laboratory calculations; natural gas currently costs some $ 4 per million BTUs, though that price may continue to fall as natural gas freed up by fracking floods the market.

SAM develops cost - of - energy estimates for grid - connected power projects based on local weather conditions, installation and operating costs, and system design parameters for a range of renewable energy technologies, including solar photovoltaics (PV), concentrating solar power (CSP), wind, and geothermal.

«We're finding that it's competitive» on a cost basis, Duke Energy company spokesman Randy Wheeless has said of renewables.

For more than a decade the wind industry and its political enablers have trotted out mythical figures, all based on fanciful modelling, claiming that the total cost of renewable power to consumers is less than -LSB-...]

(Sec. 133) Requires the Secretary to promulgate regulations establishing a program to distribute allowances to Indian tribes on a competitive basis for: (1) cost - effective energy efficiency programs for end - use consumers of electricity, natural gas, home heating oil, or propane; and (2) deployment of technologies to generate electricity from renewable energy resources.

And at that price, there's no chance nuclear would be competitive on a cost basis with natural gas or renewable energy.

First of all there was EU Energy Commissioner saying that completely decarboning the energy grid by 2050 would be no more expensive than BAU, based on the declining cost of renewable technologies and efficiency measures, and the rising cost of the fossil alternatives.

Basing his estimates on costs involved in the ACT's proposed 90 % renewable energy by 2020, he wrote:

In any event, even using such inflated claims of «subsidies», on a joule / subsidy - cost basis, fossil fuels beat the snot out of renewables.

In Sands» estimation, «natural gas prices would need to almost triple from the current levels of less than $ 3.00 / MMBtu for renewables to begin to be competitive on a total cost per megawatt - hour basis.»

Because renewables do not require fuel and because they are based on technologies that benefit from both advancement and economies of scale, they are able to continuously increase efficiency and reduce cost over time.

Her plan is based entirely on other means of achieving the target - even though wind is by far the lowest cost form of renewable energy, and solar is likely to become cheaper by 2020 with continued support to the point where it competes directly against fossil fuel generation.

«Based on these results, I can more confidently state that there is no technical or economic barrier to transitioning the entire world to 100 percent clean, renewable energy with a stable electric grid at low cost,» said Jacobson, who is also a senior fellow at the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

The market for wind blows hot and cold based on local energy pricing, available tax incentives, market production, transportation costs, and so on, but generally, it has been a fast - growing renewable energy sector.

(9) develop strategies for overcoming the split incentives between builders and purchasers, and landlords and tenants, to ensure that energy - efficiency and renewable technology investments are made that are cost - effective on a lifecycle basis; and

If the SCC can be shown to be negative at current levels of abatement (and bear in mind that your excellent chart of net benefits for various abatement paths refers to benefits relative to the 2010 policy stance) then I'd be content to freeze policy at current levels but to steadily transfer all policies to a carbon tax, or at least to cost them on a common basis, ie to treat renewable subsidies as implicit carbon taxes.

New analysis shows that an energy transition based on strong renewable energy and energy efficiency policies, together with a vigorous carbon emissions trading program, would constitute a cost - effective pathway, or «Clean Path Case,» for Illinois.

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Large - scale use of renewable energy in the transport sector should be based on life - cycle analysis of its costs and benefits.

The new estimate appears likely to be far more accurate since it is based on actual experience in Western Europe where similar efforts have been pursued for a number of years and rates have increased rapidly where there has been extensive use of non-hydro «renewables,» and includes all the hidden costs such as rebuilding the electric grid that are so difficult to model using engineering studies.

Implicit carbon price: This is calculated based on how much it costs a company to implement emissions reduction projects, such as renewable energy purchases or energy - efficiency upgrades.

Already on this thread, I showed that claims about the «prohibitive» cost of Indian nuclear power had little basis and the levies on nuclear power generation in the US for decommissioning and spent fuel management to be small fraction of the renewables levy in Germany

This strategy rests on the assumption that investments and follow - up can reduce the costs of renewable energy technologies and enable them to become competitive with conventional fossil fuel - based technologies.

The report (publication # CEC -300-2010-006) analyzes: implications of project finance on feed - in tariffs, feed - in tariffs application to competitive renewable energy zones and data requirements to determine a cost - based feed - in tariff.

Along with a strengthened renewable energy target, energy - efficiency measures, and stopping the waste of public money on subsidies that encourage pollution, a cost - effective, market - based mechanism can deliver these targets.

Earlier this summer, San Antonio, Texas made a big splash in the renewable energy world, announcing that plans for a 50MW solar power plant were being upgraded to 400MW on the basis of surprisingly favorable costs.

Renewable energy just won't cut it and the world will continue to rely on carbon based energy sources, albeit at a «cost».

The analysis does include more use of new renewable energy than at proposal based on up - to - date information clearly demonstrating the lower cost and greater availability of clean generation than was evident at proposal.

New analysis shows that an energy transition based on strong renewable energy and energy efficiency policies, together with a vigorous carbon emissions trading program, would constitute a cost - effective pathway, or «Clean Path Case,» for Pennsylvania.

This cost is based on the summed cost of each year's annual renewable term rates, with a time value of money adjustment made by the insurer.

With universal life, the cost of insurance is based on annual renewable term insurance rates that increase annually as the age of the insured increases.

However, the fact that you'll never have to reapply for coverage based on age or health can make a permanent policy more cost effective compared to renewable term life.

Insurance costs, like annual renewable term insurance, can increase annually based on the age of the covered individual.

Think of it as a way to purchase annually renewable term insurance (although you can lock in a 10 - year fixed term cost under the policy if you wish) by having the term insurance premiums deducted, on a tax - free basis, from the interest growth on your deposit into the policy.

Annual Renewable Term Life Insurance — Costs less than other types of life insurance for the first year, and allows you to renew your policy but the rate increases each year based on your age.

This is also a renewable term insurance, and the premium is based on the total cost of each year's annual renewable term rates.