Sentences with phrase «while cheap natural gas»

From The Daily Caller: «New York State is certainly not alone in grappling with how to keep nuclear facilities afloat while cheap natural gas is pushing down electricity prices...

Environmental concerns led President Obama to institute more stringent regulatory requirements, while cheap natural gas created intense competition.

Not exact matches

While the requirements have raised the cost of operating coal - fired plants, experts say a bigger factor in coal's decline has been cheaper natural gas.

CCS really amounts to a combined GHG and natural gas hedge which, in a world of really expensive gas, allows you to maintain lower electricity prices than you perhaps otherwise would be able to as you can continue to use relatively cheap and plentiful coal while capturing and storing the emissions.

I like its strategy of trying to pick up mature natural gas properties on the cheap, while natural gas futures prices are low.

Between January and May, U.S. carbon emissions fell to a 20 - year low; 48 percent of that resulted from substituting coal for cheap shale natural gas, while little, if any, came from deploying subsidized wind and solar, according to Michael Levi, the director of the climate change program at the Council on Foreign Relations.

While natural gas is much less carbon - intense than coal or oil, a burgeoning industry based on cheap shale gas easily could swamp those gains in the long run.

First, more than thirty years of government funding for unconventional gas research, demonstration, and tax credits have contributed to a glut of cheap natural gas, making everything from solar to wind to nuclear uncompetitive, at least in the near - term, while also driving America's shift from coal to gas.

While environmental regulations have helped force the retirement of tens of thousands of megawatts of coal - fired power generation in recent years, so has competition from cheap natural gas.

Coal, pushed to retirement by EPA rules and cheap natural gas, diminishes in influence while solar capacity steadily rises to replace it.

And while there may be cases where cheap natural gas has challenged the economics of renewable power, the far bigger threat to renewables is subsidy dependence and regulatory uncertainty.

One hypothesis might be that while electricity from solar and wind became cheaper, other energy sources like coal, nuclear, and natural gas became more expensive, eliminating any savings, and raising the overall price of electricity.

The state's largest electric utilities are proposing a steadily increasing dependence on natural gas, which, while cleaner than coal, is still a fossil fuel — and not the cheapest option.

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.