Sentences with phrase «require cheaper electricity»

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This would still require a major investment in new electricity generation from renewable resources, particularly wind power because it is a well - established and relatively cheap technology.

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

Although the electricity from wind farms is cheap and clean, setting - up costs can be considerable and this will generally require some form of government subsidy.

But he wholly fails to explain what the implications of the variability problem is (the need for overbuild of generation capacity and expensive / unfeasible large - scale energy storage), nor whether, if an effort is made to deal practically with these problems in real national electricity grids, the «increasingly cheaper» renewables will ever become cheap enough (when all relevant real - world factors are considered) and reliable enough (without natural gas «backup»), to actually substitute for and displace fossil fuels (or nuclear) at the scale required.

Being able to deliver cheaper electricity some of the time and with favorable rules requiring the grid to accept that electricity just shifts the cost burden to established utilities that can't maintain margins because they are forced to idle when the wind is blowing or the sun is shinning.

Under home hydrogen it was suggested that water could be broken up into water hydrogen and oxygen in a home - scale plant when power was cheap and plentiful and these could then be recombined in a fuel - cell with regeneration of electricity as required.

The results show that all or mostly nuclear is the cheapest way to decarbonise electricity, but the cost is huge — more than $ 100 / t CO2 would be required to emissions intensity down to the same as France.