Sentences with phrase «tax on electricity prices»

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carbon price floor tax: a tax on fossil fuels used in electricity generation.

There was some bad news for Drax recently as the UK government decided that biomass subsidies would not keep climbing as the «carbon price floor» — levied on fossil fuel production (and due to rise further)-- on electricity consumption has caused a backlash from manufacturers, consumer groups and energy suppliers who are concerned that the «tax will push up prices, make the UK uncompetitive and force the premature closure of coal - fired power plants, increasing the risk of blackouts.»

A carbon tax on coal destined to be burned will increase the price of electricity, but income tax, GST, or other taxes could be reduced so that the cost of living, and the total tax take, would remain the same.

If you're thinking about installing solar panels on your home or business, it's helpful to think in terms of three broad categories: sunlight, electricity prices and incentives, like solar rebates and tax credits.

Having said that, it's generally expected to pass — the Labor Party, The Greens, and several independents have said they'll support it, and the opposition (generally opposed to anything climate - related) don't have the numbers to block it, although they've promised to repeal it if elected in 2013 (although the total package has been cleverly built, so to repeal it, they'll have to promise to raise taxes on the low & middle income brackets, cut aged & disability pensions, and rely on the «goodwill» of large corporations to lower prices for electricity & other carbon - intensive goods).

DC's proposed carbon price would thus be an incentive to switch to cleaner fuels and reduce emissions from non-electricity sources like heating and transportation, while Boulder's carbon tax is non-bypassable charge on electricity that applies even if one switches to cleaner energy.

In the UK, an additional factor is the 2015 introduction of an # 18 - per - tonne carbon floor price, a tax on carbon emissions that is paid by electricity generators.

There is much debate as to the extent that the carbon tax itself caused prices to rise, as opposed to other factors like capital upgrades, with one estimate putting the tax's increase on electricity prices at a modest 9 %.

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.

Interestingly, beyond this, despite considerable rhetoric about moving beyond debates about carbon - pricing, the report recommends that in order to avoid adding to the Federal debt, it would be necessary to impose new taxes, including increased royalties for oil and gas extraction, a tax on imported oil, a tax on electricity sales, and a «very small carbon price» (presumably from a modest carbon tax or unambitious cap - and - trade system).

I've been following discussions of solar energy on - and - off for quite a while, and it has always seemed as if it would be quite a long time, even assuming an emissions trading scheme or carbon tax, before solar photovoltaics could be a cost - competitive source of electricity without special support such as capital subsidies or feed - in tariffs set above market prices.

Find the total nuclear electricity ever generated, put a price on carbon — say the $ 23 carbon tax -, assume nuclear has displaced black coal.

Experts suggest that a carbon tax will produce the most efficient carbon reductions throughout the economy — whether from electricity production or transportation — because as a uniform price on CO2 emissions, the tax is the same regardless of source of the emissions.

As RGGI has forced electricity generators to purchase annual carbon allowances, it has raised the price of electricity for New York residents, effectively acting as a tax on electricity producers (those who produce more than 25 megawatts annually) in New York.

Because the proposed carbon tax is on only one sector of the economy, the overall goal of carbon reductions could fail simply because driving up the price of electricity makes the conversion to electric based residential heating and transportation more difficult.

Such a tax would be imposed not just on gasoline but on all fossil fuels — from the coal used to generate electricity to the diesel used to run tractors — so it would affect the price of nearly everything, including food and manufactured goods.

When businesses decide how much to spend on insulation, they will take into account the costs of heating and air - conditioning that include the price of emissions licenses or taxes for electricity generation.

The fixing of a maximum price in the case at hand, by limiting the ability of electricity providers to pass on the extra costs to final users, means that the supply obligation must be complied with by means of the electricity providers» own financial resources; by contrast, the national legislation at issue in Association Vent de Colère, by enabling the electricity distributors to cash in a tax imposed on the consumers, guaranteed that the additional costs resulting from an obligation to purchase wind - generated electricity would be offset.

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