In addition to wind curtailments, the regional supply and demand imbalances caused real -
time wholesale electricity prices at the West Hub in ERCOT to drop, and even go negative, during periods of substantial wind generation.
Utilities that sign up to the 800 million - euro ($ 1.1 billion) balancing market can be paid as much as 400
times wholesale electricity prices, the data show.
Not exact matches
Calpine's deal comes at a
time when the U.S.
wholesale power generation industry is struggling with margin pressure as cheap natural gas from shale fields in recent years has been driving down
electricity prices.
The cancellation of the 100.5 - megawatt Noble Allegany wind park was blamed on low
wholesale electricity prices, which have made it more difficult to justify the project's costs at a
time when the economy is weak and financing remains tight.
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 t
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 t
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
time period.
Wholesale electricity price maps are a useful resource for visualizing location - specific
prices and transmission constraints in real
time.
Federal Coalition politicians have hinted darkly that this «indivisibility» hides AGL's true intent to boost the
wholesale electricity price for Bayswater (and all other generators) by reducing supply when Liddell's generators grind to a halt for the last
time.
That is, the
wholesale cost of
electricity for the simulated system would be seven
times more than now, with an abatement cost that is 13
times the starting
price of the Australian carbon tax and 30
times the European carbon
price.
«These projects will undercut gas generation, which has commonly set the
wholesale electricity price in recent
times.
Industry experts realized that low
wholesale electricity market
prices weren't going away any
time soon and that coal plants were now facing the prospect of never breaking even, even without additional environmental compliance obligations.