Sentences with phrase «wholesale price of power»

Check out what the wholesale price of power in California is right now, it's 3.0.
As the wholesale price of power falls, nuclear power becomes even less profitable.

Not exact matches

The ability of the landlord to demand that increase is wholesale pricing power.
Wholesale transfer pricing is not about moats, but rather about the red «Bargaining Power of Suppliers» category in Michael Porter's «Five Forces» model depicted below:
For example, Disney is the only supplier of The Last Jedi and has massive «wholesale transfer pricing power» with respect to that movie.
It claims some missteps (Samuel's push for price signalling bans on banking chiefs and his readiness to accept «the wholesale monopoly» of the NBN), highlights some controversy (including the claims of conflict of interest regarding the DFO and the ACCC's pursuit of Richard Pratt) but concludes that overall «Mr Samuel's energy and focus have resulted in an expansion of the size and the powers of the ACCC, which has also developed a clearer pro-market approach than it had under his predecessor, Alan Fels»
Ed Miliband's energy price freeze would lead to power cuts if wholesale prices rose, the co-founder of energyhelpline.com has told Politics.co.uk.
FitzPatrick has been hurt by Central New York's low wholesale power prices, which have fallen along with the price of natural gas, a common fuel for power plants.
FitzPatrick, which has 600 workers, has been losing money because of low wholesale power prices based on cheap and plentiful natural gas.
«In electric power,» Fratus says, «the price of natural gas is the big driver,» and since fall 2005 the wholesale price of natural gas — though its still high in historical terms — has fallen significantly.
Given the right financial incentives, though, many households may accept smart grid strategies that let utilities reduce power consumption in homes at peak periods of demand, when wholesale electricity prices are highest, some analysts conclude.
* Thrive Market — Thrive Market is an online marketplace that uses the power of direct buying to deliver the world's best healthy food and natural products at wholesale prices.
Thrive Market is an online marketplace that uses the power of direct buying to deliver the world's best healthy food and natural products at wholesale prices.
Thrive Market is an online membership community that uses the power of direct buying to deliver the world's best healthy food and natural products to members at wholesale prices, and to sponsor free memberships for low - income American families.
Whether it's Amazon using its market power to try to make something proprietary the de facto standard or Macmillan trying to use its market power to set both the wholesale AND retail price of books, neither inherently benefits consumers.
Amazon's corporate wealth and power enabled it to take the notion of loss - leaders to a new level under the terms of the wholesale pricing model that had existed in the book trades for decades.
Wholesale transfer pricing power, also sometimes called supplier bargaining power (e.g., in the Michael Porter five forces model) is a potential destroyer of moats.
«Since August, wholesale power prices in South Australia have been consistently cheaper than Victoria, and in September and October, SA had the cheapest wholesale prices of mainland states in the National Electricity Market,» he said.
The growth of solar and wind power has highlighted the issue of negative pricing on the wholesale markets, where in some instances the availability of wind or solar power depresses prices to the point where wholesalers pay their utility customers to take the electricity off their hands.
A study by Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) grapples with the growth of «variable renewable energy (VRE)», specifically, solar and wind power that impacts wholesale pricing in the various regional transmission organizations (RTO) of the United States.
Release of the wholesale pricing data in South Australia — and data showing South Australia still has the highest prices in the National Electricity Market — prompted state opposition energy spokesman Dan van Holst Pellekaan to savage a claim by Mr Weatherill that his $ 550 million «self - sufficient» energy plan was producing the lowest power prices in the national market.
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The only way to get lower wholesale electricity prices is to expand renewables and let the owners of coal - fired power station take a corresponding hit to their profits.
«I once did a series of calculations looking at the capital costs of various turbines and the income they would get from the electricity produced if they were paid the wholesale price received by power stations.
Of course, lower wholesale electricity prices hurt gas - fired power plants as well, but the low prices are «most harmful to coal - based generators and to a lesser extent nuclear - based generators.»
«Lower natural gas prices have effectively driven down wholesale power prices for all generators, regardless of whether they are using natural gas, coal, nuclear power or renewable resources to generate their electricity.»
Wholesale electric power prices in the US are starting 2017 by ticking upward, lifted by firmer natural gas prices, which overall has caused coal generation to take some of gas generation's share in the overall fuel mix.
In other words, cheap natural gas is lowering the price of wholesale electricity, which is cutting into the revenues of all power plant operators.
«There's a dynamic between the renewable certificate market and the wholesale market because wind can bid zero or low when there's a lot of wind, forcing wholesale prices down, driving coal power stations out of the market.
If you don't like trading electricity, go and build your fancy nuclear power stations, but then don't complain about wholesale prices of 15ct / kWh and more.
Last year, three coal - fired power stations closed in the UK and shifting wholesale energy prices pushed coal to gas across Europe, a shift that amplified the impact of the carbon price floor.
ABSTRACT: Electricity market prices across organized wholesale electricity markets in the United States have declined significantly in recent years, prompting several nuclear power stations to consider early retirement before the end of their licensed operation or useful lifespans.
The trigger that caused me to write this page was the dishonest, shameful and criminal blaming of the South Australian power outages of September and December 2016, wholesale price spikes, and the load - shedding of February 2017 on renewable energy.
This does not even mean that the price of electricity to consumers is being pushed up 1 cents / kWh by wind power, the Chief Executive of the Energy Supply Association of Australia is on record as saying that renewables are suppressing the wholesale price of electricity.
Where distributed solar shaves the cost of peak electricity prices, utility - scale wind power lowers the wholesale cost of power across the board.
(You keep an eye on the Leitstudie, so you later notice that the version of 2011 (PDF in German) no longer contains the table from the 2010 version (Table 6.2) showing expectations for rising wholesale power prices, which are now dropping.
One of the wind cult's more pathetic efforts in late 2017 was to run a line that notionally wind powered South Australia's wholesale power prices were finally heading south.
The wholesale price of electric power in Germany declined, penalizing the country's competitiveness.
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.
Since the beginning of the year, Northwest wholesale power prices at the Mid-Columbia trading point have averaged 45 % below the 5 - year average (2006 - 2010) prices, and were well below the 5 - year price range.
One reason for lower wholesale power prices is that prices of natural gas at the Sumas trading point have averaged 36 % below the 5 - year average, and also have been below the 5 - year range.
New wind and solar is now 20 % cheaper than existing coal - fired generation's average wholesale power price, and 65 % of India's coal power generation is being sold at higher rates than new renewable energy bids in competitive power auctions.
This was below the price of wholesale power from the grid during that year, and competitive with electricity from natural gas.
So much wind power was being supplied that Texas» grid operator that the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) reported wholesale electricity prices reached near zero and, in some cases, rates went negative.
This market would allow Ontario businesses and residents to access surplus clean power at the wholesale market price of less than two cents per kilowatt - hour (KWh), which could displace the use of fossil fuels by using things like dual fuel (gas and electric) water heaters, and by producing emission - free hydrogen fuel.
It also includes savings from the merit - order effect, whereby renewables push down wholesale prices by forcing the most expensive power stations out of the mix.
So even $ 1.6 billion a gigawatt nuclear power won't be able to compete with point of use solar as it competes with retail prices, not wholesale prices.
Renewable power generators get roughly an additional 4 cents per kWh of electricity produced on top of the wholesale price.
Ironically, at the same time, an increased amount of renewable energy on the grid is forcing wholesale power prices down.
Some power companies, such as Adani Power, have tried to cancel long - term wholesale agreements to supply power to state utilities because of high coal prpower companies, such as Adani Power, have tried to cancel long - term wholesale agreements to supply power to state utilities because of high coal prPower, have tried to cancel long - term wholesale agreements to supply power to state utilities because of high coal prpower to state utilities because of high coal prices.
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