Sentences with phrase «utilities prices over»

This reflects partly the brief period of high inflation in 2007 — 08, and some big swings in oil and utilities prices over the decade.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile the utilities sector fell 1.37 percent, with United Utilities Group tumbling over 4 percent, after HSBC slashed its target price and rating on tutilities sector fell 1.37 percent, with United Utilities Group tumbling over 4 percent, after HSBC slashed its target price and rating on tUtilities Group tumbling over 4 percent, after HSBC slashed its target price and rating on the stock.

Even with a system efficiency of 80 % the 1.4 GW array would generate about 7.28 GWh of electricity daily (or 2,657.2 GWh annually)-- worth over $ 106 million per year via a competitive utility - scale Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) at $ 40 / MWh (i.e. a contract between the electricity seller and buyer that sets the price of the solar energy from the grid).

Natural gas prices have climbed to around $ 3.80 / MCF in the U.S., getting close to the switch - over price for utilities.

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In particular, valuations for many of the electric utilities appear to leave room for little upside in their share prices over the next 3 to 5 years.

The rise in share prices has been broadly based with all sectors apart from the consumer staples and utilities sectors rising over the three months.

The price of utilities and property rates and charges, for example, both increased by more than 5 per cent over the year.

«We've been watching the market over the years, seen the prices go down,» said David Byrne, manager of electric system integrated planning for Tallahassee's electric utility.

Still, its price, utility and fuel ratings won over the intellectual in each of us, even if our enthusiast side had us pining for the Mazda CX - 3.

While Bollinger Motors has received over 10,000 reservations for the B1 electric sport utility truck, the company has not announced the pricing for the B1, which isn't expected to enter production until at least a year and half from now.

Crossovers have pretty much taken over the Sport Utility Vehicle market, thanks to lower prices, better fuel efficiency and the handling that comes part - in - parcel with being based on a car platform versus truck architecture.

On the other hand, when it comes to rugged trucks and go - anywhere sport - utility vehicles, buyers want them fully loaded, pushing prices well over $ 30,000 for Nissan Pathfinders, Toyota 4Runners, Jeep Grand Cherokees and Ford Explorers.

Strategic Dividend Value is hedged at about half the value of its stock holdings, and Strategic Total Return continues to hold a duration of just over 3.5 years (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact Fund value by about 3.5 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), with less than 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in utility shares.

In a previous job I used FactSet to pull historical monthly pricing and quarterly fundamental data for a universe of over 100 regulated utility stocks (both current and past public firms).

In taking a look at the Utility ETF (XLU) vs. (SPY) as a proxy for the S&P 500, here's total share price performance over various time periods:

Everything from Comcast (120.00 to now 163.00), utility bills will be going up by at least 40 % when rate caps come off, food prices shot up 32 % and I haven't got a raise or cost of living for over a year.

Strategic Total Return has a duration of about 3 years in Treasury securities (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to affect Fund value by about 3 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), just over 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in utility shares.

But this utility and ease doesn't come cheap at a price tag of just over US$ 6,600.

Eliminating the utility's $ 112.50 market price premium over book value, the market price of the investment trust would be $ 50 without a premium.

While still profitable, Germany's biggest utilities E.ON, RWE and EnBW have seen share prices plunge by up to 60 percent over the last three years.

The surge in production has pushed gas prices to historic lows, leading utilities increasingly to choose it over coal.

Your business must act now because the utilities in over a dozen states are projecting 5 - 15 % annual electricity price increases.

With solar prices coming down, utility - scale solar is popping up all over the state, but the utility has little incentive to switch its power supply to this lower cost alternative because they are guaranteed a reasonable rate of return by the state's public utility commission.

The tussle over prices in a decentralized electricity market continued last week, as David Roberts deconstructed the arcane world of demand response, in which utilities pay customers to cut their power use during times of peak demand.

Solar has surpassed a variety of milestones — for example, utility scale solar is growing at a rate faster than other generation technologies, wind and solar provided over 10 % of U.S. power in March, and utility scale solar has already broke the $ 1 / watt pricing goal set up by the U.S. DOE.

Over the past two years higher utilities prices contributed an average 0.27 ppts to QIII CPI growth.

The Telegraph and British Gas also ignore recent findings from energy regulator Ofgem, which show that wholesale energy price rises over the past 12 months have raised costs for utility firms.

The study found that the EPA rules, combined with a recent drop in the price of natural gas, could over the next four to five years cause the utility industry to accelerate retirement of old coal - fired power plants rather than spend to upgrade the plants» emissions controls.

For example, while ALEC purports to present low, mid, and high price scenarios for wind energy, even their low case is well above the costs of 216 actual wind contracts — representing approximately 17,000 MW of wind capacity — signed by utilities over the last ten years.

For an added price, you can often choose to buy green energy over conventionally - derived energy from your electricity utility company.

The Sunday Times (2/17/13) reports: «The payout — equal to # 158 for each of the Scottish utility's 5.6 m customers — will inflame the debate over soaring gas and electricity prices.

The dream of using the sun's abundant energy 24/7 took a major step closer to reality recently when utility company Tucson Electric signed a power purchase agreement last week for solar plus storage at a price of less than 4.5 cents per kilowatt - hour (kWh) over 20 years.

As explained on the Japan for Sustainability website, the FiT law requires Japanese electric utilities to purchase electricity generated from renewable energy sources at set prices that cover costs plus a margin over a set period of time.

The truth is, the price of installing solar panels for your home has fallen drastically over the last few years and is now one of the most cost competitive forms of energy production for both utility and residential use.

Apple has been known in the past to keep devices around long past their obvious utility to consumers and advantage over similarly priced but superior products.

In Saskatchewan, even with slower house price growth, the province still saw a mild deterioration in affordability as a result of a slowdown in the pace of year over year income growth, higher utility costs and higher mortgage rates, says the report.