Sentences with phrase «when natural gas prices»

Proof is that wind and solar have boomed over the last five years when natural gas prices have been very low.

Like ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil shares have underperformed in recent years because of the company's ill - timed $ 41 billion buyout of natural gas producer XTO Energy in 2009 — when natural gas prices were around $ 6 per MMBtu.

Why in the world would Honda be pursuing the extraction of Hydrogen from natural gas, when natural gas prices are going the same route as gasoline prices?

The incentive for adoption of these technologies is uncertain when natural gas prices are low.

The analysis comes on the heels of widespread speculation that the reactors will be carefully mothballed by their builder and could eventually be revived by Southern Company or Duke, two neighboring electric utilities, when natural gas prices rise in the future.

In 2007, when natural gas prices were still near $ 6 and Devon shares hit the $ 90 mark, Mr. Nichols again received $ 1.2 million in salary and a $ 2.6 million bonus.

They should instead re-examine their practices that might have led to traces of, for example, diesel turning up in the Wyoming groundwater and come up with standards that would make leaks along the well bore impossible before less appropriate and more costly rules are thrust upon them at a time when natural gas prices are hitting 10 - year lows.

In its early days, when natural gas prices rose and fell in lockstep with oil, investors questioned its business plan.

The arms will have to be torn off to get the utilities to use natural gas when the natural gas price goes back to $ 6 to $ 12 which has been the actual range for some time.

Not exact matches

Natural gas is still so cheap that solar has trouble competing with existing plants, but when it comes to new gas plants, solar is getting within striking distance, especially if gas prices rise more than forecasted.

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.

Even in 2016, when the price rallied, natural gas prices struggled through July and August.

The stark drop in natural gas prices from an all - time high of more than $ 15 per 1,000 cubic feet in 2005 to near $ 4 today results from a range of factors including the global economic downturn, competitive coal prices, unusually warm winters, the improvement of hydraulic fracturing («fracking») drilling techniques, and the production of natural gas as a byproduct when drillers frack for petroleum.

Well we have already spoken about the massive divergence in natural gas prices when compared with oil.

Natural gas is used as the primary heating fuel in about half of U.S. households, and prices can rise rapidly when extreme weather comes.

Natural - gas prices on Nymex ended lower after the EIA on Thursday reported the first weekly supply increase of the injection season — a time when inventories build ahead of the expected rise in summer cooling demand.

He wishes the plan came along two years ago, when Upstate nuclear plants started struggling to compete with low - price power from natural gas plants.

In 2012, when natural gas spot prices fell below $ 2 per thousand cubic feet, «I think people were thinking those prices were the new normal, that we were in a different world,» he says.

The original thesis had played out, but the effects of the drop in natural gas prices had to a large extent offset the rebound from the hit shares took when gas properties were revalued down in June 2011.

When oil prices fall, it can rely on strong amounts of natural gas, its transporting division, and its chemical division to provide the profits to continue the dividend growth.

When the weather heats up later this year, the price for oil and natural gas securities should come down.

When you compare current electricity and natural gas prices, the same unit of energy will cost you about three times more for electricity so you can expect to pay a little bit more on your utility bill, even with a sizable energy efficiency improvement.

Over the last decade or so, when oil prices have been high, the ratio of the oil price to the natural gas price has been consistently higher than any of the standard rules of thumb.

The grid operator testified that «wholesale energy prices and emissions will rise when extreme weather results in natural gas pipeline constraints — driving up the price of natural gas (and wholesale energy) and forcing New England to rely on oil - and coal - fired generation for multi-day (or multi-week) periods.»

In recent years power companies have tended to choose natural gas when allowed to do so as the price has fallen.

Platts nuclear editor discusses why utilities are building new nuclear capacity when electricity prices are so low and the price of natural gas is relatively low.

Platts natural gas editors Letitia Vasquez and T.L. Hamilton discuss the record high prices reached in natural gas prices brought on by the polar vortex when heating demand was way up.

Low natural gas prices make gas - fired generation economically attractive during periods of low demand when operators in many parts of the country have more flexibility to choose between coal - and natural gas - fired units based on their dispatch cost.

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The current downward trend in coal - fired generation began in 2007, when increased U.S. production of natural gas (particularly from shale) led to a sustained downward shift in natural gas spot prices and increased generation from natural gas - fired generators.

With variance in the price of natural gas, and half the Centralia plant shutting down in 2020 anyway (when I - 1631 begins) it is possible that this coal exemption won't end up being such a big deal.

In 2012 a paper from Yale estimated that in 2010 alone, when the spot price of natural gas averaged $ 4.37 / MMBtu, lower natural gas prices were adding over $ 100 billion a year to the US economy.

And unlike the electricity industry, in which market forces have pushed utilities toward cleaner energy, including natural gas and renewable sources, relatively low gasoline prices in recent years have led consumers to pay less attention to fuel economy when they buy new cars.

As the U.S. energy renaissance matures, it's easy to forget how it felt 10 years ago when domestic natural gas prices were upwards of $ 13 / MMBtu.

If the natural gas is in such high demand in winter and utilities had to pay really high prices for natural gas, why does Kinder Morgan need rate payer to pay in advance really high prices when some competitor might offer an alternative?

Natural gas is still so cheap that solar has trouble competing with existing plants, but when it comes to new gas plants, solar is getting within striking distance, especially if gas prices rise more than forecasted.

Because utilities respond to price incentives, this caused fuel - switching of baseload electricity production from coal to natural gas, leading to a time in April 2012 when natural gas equaled coal as an energy source for the first time.

It's already causing hunger and even starvation in poorer countries (the ethanol program driving up grain prices) and deaths from freezing in Europe when people can't afford $ 100 / MMBtu ($ 10 / therm) natural gas and can't burn coal during some of the coldest winters on record.

The shortage of natural gas was clear earlier this year when a cold snap caused prices for natural gas to spike and the purchase of Russian LNG to supply the Everest LNG import terminal a few miles north of Boston.

When you realize that the U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of natural gas and coal the artificial shortages that have been created by those who oppose free enterprise capitalism are a lot like the illegal tacticts used by others over the years to run up commodity prices using monopolistic practices.

Skeptical Science notes that when the coal externalities of the study are included in coal's price, it increases the levalized costs to approximately 28 cents per kWh, which is more than the 2009 U.S. Energy Information Administration cost of hydroelectric, wind (onshore and offshore), geothermal, biomass, nuclear, natural gas, and solar photovoltaics, and is on par with solar thermal, although the costs of solar thermal are falling.

Fuel switching will be discouraged and coal - fired power plants will be competitive with natural gas power plants when the price of natural gas is between $ 3.00 and $ 3.50 per million BTU.

Heading into the 2013 spring shoulder season (between winter and summer), when demand for electricity typically falls, higher prices for natural gas reduced the fuel's share of total generation below the record levels of last April.

«That's an extremely high and dangerous level of dependence on any fuel, much less one that, when you look at 40 years of natural gas prices, is famous for having price spikes that can cause significant problems to the economy and significant energy shortages,» Shellenberger said.

Cold weather conspired with corruption in the natural gas supply to kill tens of thousands of old people when the prices soared.

While the start of the Great Recession had something to do with it, new analysis from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences shows that, when it comes to reductions in emissions from electricity production, which dropped 8.76 % from 2008, cheaper natural gas prices were behind the decline, with natural gas displacing coal.

Natural gas emits far less carbon dioxide than coal when it burns, and new reserves have driven down its price, greatly expanding its use in power plants, homes, and businesses.

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).