Sentences with phrase «so electricity retailers»

The electricity from renewable energy power stations is generally more expensive than from fossil - fuelled power stations, so electricity retailers have to have incentives to buy renewable energy.

Not exact matches

Re 273 — not that I am prone to agreeing with Edward Greisch, but those numbers are presumably before profit, or... Well, the number for coal seems about right, so far as I know, though it is much less than what anyone pays for retail electricity now.

This involves adjusting retail electricity prices dynamically as the amount of power in the grid changes so that consumers can modify their times of electricity use to better match consumption with generation.

So as California was doubling its share of electricity from costly renewables, its retail electricity prices rose in line with the rest of the nation as the cheaper natural - gas - generated electricity covered for the more expensive green energy.

So now Rio and BHP Billiton have joined the lengthening line of companies asking for a carbon price, such as electricity retailer AGL and technology company Siemens which were co-signatories of an open letter earlier this year.

Because DC is a competitive retail electricity market, this will provide an incentive for suppliers to secure cleaner sources of energy so that they can avoid the carbon fee and offer lower rates for customers.

It would be quite possible, and highly desirable, to set up the charging stations so that power from the grid would go into the batteries when the retail electricity price is low and power could be taken out of the batteries when the retail price is unusually high.

-- The term «distribution utility» means an entity that distributes electricity directly to retail consumers under a legal, regulatory, or contractual obligation to do so.

(But one must remember that renewables are suppressing the wholesale price of electricity, so it is questionable if the retail price is increased by renewables at all.)

Our modelling indicates strongly that a tax at this low level will have no effect upon coal - fired generation and, given the relatively low price elasticity of demand for electricity at the retail level (probably because electricity has been so cheap in Australia), the demand side effect would be negligible and difficult to spot given the srong secular growth in demand.