Sentences with phrase «since electricity prices»

Mind you, this may need to be recalculated since electricity prices increased at the start of this month.

And, since electricity prices will continue to rise, your savings will continue to grow every year over the 25 + year lifespan of your solar panel system.

Not exact matches

A product of the largest private equity deal ever, Energy Future (formerly TXU) is heavy with debt and struggling to compete, since the boom in natural gas production has put a lid on electricity prices.

Instead, the net metering rate will be set at wholesale prices — even though the utility doesn't have to pay for any of the solar panels» hardware or maintenance, and transmission costs are negligible, since the electricity is being generated close to where it is used.

Since the right to fairly priced electricity is not a fundamental constitutional right and because HDL users are not part of a classification that have been subject to governmental discrimination historically, such as race, gender, national origin, etc., the PUD's decision will be allowed to stand unless a court finds that there was no «rational basis» for it.

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Roughly since [1906], Ontario has been embroiled in politics with the electricity sector — ...

Still, this accounts for at most a fraction of the increase in electricity prices, which are among the lowest in Europe despite a 20 per cent surge since 2007.

A study by the New York Affordable Reliable Electricity Alliance found that New York's wholesale electricity market prices (that is the price of fuel itself) went down by nearly 30 percent since 2008, but state energy taxes shot up 168 percent and transmission fees rose 55 percent over the exact same tElectricity Alliance found that New York's wholesale electricity market prices (that is the price of fuel itself) went down by nearly 30 percent since 2008, but state energy taxes shot up 168 percent and transmission fees rose 55 percent over the exact same telectricity market prices (that is the price of fuel itself) went down by nearly 30 percent since 2008, but state energy taxes shot up 168 percent and transmission fees rose 55 percent over the exact same time period.

Having generated power since 1951, Salem Station succumbed to low natural gas prices, weak electricity demand growth and tightening Federal pollution controls.

She found that night - time glow of the pirate home towns of Garoowe and Boosaaso has been climbing since 2008 (see photo)-- even as piracy took off and higher food prices forced other towns in the region to cut their electricity bills.

In the United States, the average price of wind - generated electricity has dropped 40 percent since 2009.

By Benjamin Flowers Staff Reporter Since the start of 2018, the cost of living has been steadily climbing in Belize, with the new fiscal year ushering in a number of price increases on Internet services, gas, butane and electricity with more increases to goods and services expected to follow.

But since most of the time there is so much renewable energy on the grid, the prices for electricity have fallen, especially during the day time.

«Since August, wholesale power prices in South Australia have been consistently cheaper than Victoria, and in September and October, SA had the cheapest wholesale prices of mainland states in the National Electricity Market,» he said.

Since North Carolina does not have any laws requiring virtual net metering for cooperatives or investor - owned utilities, these bill credits are nearly always based on the utility's avoided cost of energy as opposed to a credit calculated at the full retail rate of electricity (in other words, the per kWh credits are less than the per kWh price customers pay for their electricity consumption).

Germany, a world leader in aggressive renewable policies, faces an industrial exodus and economic recession, with electricity prices that have risen approximately 60 percent since 2007.

Because of renewable energy's subsidized production cost, wholesale electricity prices have dropped 60 percent since 2008.

By installing solar panels on their homes, consumers are able to effectively lock in the price of electricity they will pay in the years ahead, acting as an insulator against future rises in electricity prices since the systems installed in homes today are expected to last approximately thirty years.

At the same time, household electricity consumption has been going down by about 1 percent a year since 2005, as higher prices forced Germans to save energy.

Carbon capture could reduce emissions from the electricity sector as well, but since it will raise the cost of producing power, the technology will not be widely deployed until other nations adopt similar carbon prices.

For batteries with sufficient power and energy density for electric vehicles and electricity storage on the grid or in buildings, this «learning rate» translates into a price drop of around three and a half times since 2009.

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.

«Spiegel writes that the price of electricity in Germany has doubled since 2002 in large part because of the renewable energy feed - in surcharge.

As efficiencies continue to climb, the prices of installing solar will continue to come down, making it the first electricity source since the Industrial Revolution that you will be able to own yourself.

Since electric utilities were required to pay above world prices for British - produced coal, electricity prices became excessively high, and the British coal industry in essence became dependent on the electricity industry for its survival.

Cheap shale gas flooded the market causing natural gas prices to dive 80 percent since 2008, pricing out coal in electricity supply

* since 2000, Europe has added 47 GW of new wind energy, but only 9.6 GW of coal and a mere 1.2 GW of nuclear * The carbon price required for large scale expansion in wind power (to 20 per cent of all US electricity by 2030) is estimated at $ 50 / ton

It's important to bear in mind that when building new sources of green electricity, it is difficult to compete on price with existing sources of brown energy — where the capital cost of the project has long since been written off (for brown) but needs factoring into the energy price for green.

While the price of residential electricity in the United States has increased only 30 percent since 1995, the price of natural gas has more than tripled due to rising demand and production costs.

In the new renewable energy economy, electricity prices will be insulated against fuel shocks, since energy from the wind and the sun is abundant and free.

While prices for electricity from renewable sources have fallen sharply in recent years, coal remains the cheapest source of power, and India's coal industry has embarked on a building boom, doubling installed capacity since 2008.

Since the program launched, electricity prices in the region have fallen even as customers in non-RGGI states have seen higher prices, and the RGGI states» economies have grown faster than the rest of the country.

Low natural gas market prices and their impacts on wholesale electricity prices, along with low energy growth since 2008 and a lack of stability in federal policy (such as the production tax credit), have influenced wind power deployment.

A loose - loose to take heavy measures at this stage, since f.ex carbon storage is extremely expensive, might create carcinogens, raise the price of electricity enormously and is a one - way - solution, totally useless if CAGW should be proven to be wrong.

He said the combination of the carbon price, Renewable Energy Target and energy efficiency policies have made an important contribution to turning around the growth of electricity sector emissions since Labor was elected in November 2007.

Climate Change Minister Greg Combet said emissions decreased one per cent in the six months to December 2012 — the period since the introduction of the carbon price — for the major sectors covered by the scheme — electricity, other stationary energy, fugitives, industrial process emissions and waste.

Heartland Institute's James Taylor claims that because electricity prices in Ohio have risen slightly faster than the national average since 2008, the state's clean energy standard is the culprit causing a spike in electricity prices.

«The average annual wholesale price of electricity in South Australia has fallen by 40 % since 2007 - 08.

He makes much of South Australia's (retail) electricity prices having risen by around 40 % since 2007 and implies that much of the blame for this is due to the Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) that are received by wind farmers.

Since May 2012, a combination of higher prices for natural gas and increased demand for electricity during the summer months led electric systems across much of the country to increase their use of coal - fired units.

This happened largely because its electricity prices have increased over 200 percent since 2002.

Since the 2011 earthquake and the subsequent Fukushima nuclear accident, Japan has had to contend with various challenges in its energy sector: shutdown of all nuclear power plants has meant that Japan has faced increased fuel imports coupled with higher electricity prices.

Indeed, in Europe the price of electricity is forcing entire industries to close down, including aluminum, ceramics and steel, for minimal reductions in Europe's carbon dioxide emissions, and none worldwide since the shuttered industries simply move to other countries where emission controls and electricity generation efficiencies are much lower.

Since 80 % of Denmarks electricity comes from coal this does nt really say much about wind wholesale prices.

And this is especially important during the winter, when the demand for natural gas for home heating spikes in some parts of the country, leading to higher prices and less natural gas available for electricity generation (since home heating takes priority over electricity generation in terms of natural gas pipeline delivery contracts).

Petroleum's price collapse since mid-last year will not affect U.S. electricity markets because it makes up only around 1 percent of power supply today.

Minister Frydenberg has notoriously criticised South Australia's renewable energy for pushing prices up, but since South Australia's electricity demand is about 7 % of Australia's total it plays very little part in Australia - wide electricity prices.