Sentences with phrase «with higher electricity prices»

Since the 2011 earthquake and the subsequent Fukushima nuclear accident, Japan has had to contend with various challenges in its energy sector: shutdown of all nuclear power plants has meant that Japan has faced increased fuel imports coupled with higher electricity prices.

So it is no surprise to see Chinese coal - fired power plants frustrated, and the nation is losing its opportunity to leverage adoption of clean energy technologies with higher electricity prices.

You would look for places with high electricity prices.

Not exact matches

My January and April posts on the Ontario electricity sector described how decisions by different Ontario governments gave rise to excess electricity generation with an inflated cost structure, leading to higher electricity prices.

Inflation is likely to continue to move higher gradually, with the headline measure boosted by higher prices for tobacco, electricity and gas.

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

Benefits of the company's new wastewater and green energy plant mean that DMPI can replace fossil fuels with green energy, and given the high prices of electricity form the Grid and the sometimes erratic supply, the plant will achieve rapid ROI payback.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

Moreover, if natural gas prices remain low due to higher yields associated with the hydraulic fracturing of wells, other forms of electricity — including renewables — will have a hard time winning favor with utilities and state public utilities commissions that govern the growth of the electricity system.

They found the consequences of the drought — which included temporary water shut - offs, a spike in dengue fever cases, and higher electricity prices — were a result of low water availability combined with the numbers of people involved and damage to the infrastructure system.

Cases with higher or lower world energy prices, represented by oil prices, have relatively little direct impact on power - sector emissions, as petroleum provides a small fraction of U.S. electricity generation.

Replacing existing capacity with new capacity means U.S. consumers will pay higher electricity prices, similar to what Ontario electricity consumers faced.

If Taiwan goes forward with its planned phase - out of nuclear energy by 2025, electricity prices will rise at least 10 percent percent and more likely much higher.

Electricity expenditures also generally rise with Clean Power Plan implementation, but expenditure changes are smaller in percentage terms than price changes as the combination of energy - efficiency programs pursued for compliance purposes and higher electricity prices tends to reduce electricity consumption relative tElectricity expenditures also generally rise with Clean Power Plan implementation, but expenditure changes are smaller in percentage terms than price changes as the combination of energy - efficiency programs pursued for compliance purposes and higher electricity prices tends to reduce electricity consumption relative telectricity prices tends to reduce electricity consumption relative telectricity consumption relative to baseline.

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Electricity prices are already nearly 40 percent higher in States with renewable electricitElectricity prices are already nearly 40 percent higher in States with renewable electricityelectricity mandates.

«In spite of calls for urgent reform and broad recognition that the current rules penalised solar power and rewarded network gold - plating, governments have not even made glacial progress in the past five years, with the unpopular result of high electricity prices driven by the cost of network infrastructure to service people's desire for air conditioning.

«We make (our product) with electricity, we bake it with gas, we refrigerate and freeze it with electricity and we distribute it with gas and oil,» said McArthur, who said he worries that high prices could cost his company up to $ 15,000 a year in an industry with a very tight margin for profit.

You can replace with combined cycle gas, but that does not cut emissions as much as nuclear and the risk of gas price increases cause a high risk of increases in cost of electricity in the future.

But those gas - fired plants face commodity and carbon price risks that will expose Albertans to higher electricity bills over the long term, something wind energy, with no fuel costs and no carbon emissions, can protect against.

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiatve (RGGI), which the Northeast Democratic governors claim has been a great success has the region paying the highest electricity prices in the nation (along with green California).

«What's important to keep in mind when talking about solar and electricity prices is that solar energy production tends to align very well with the highest energy demand on a utility's system.

Agenda 21 is likely a proposal to raise energy prices by Heavily Carbon Taxing them into competition with higher cost and less reliable GREEN ENERGY then altogether eliminating CO2 producing energy sources until electricity can not be produced for 21 of the 24 hours of each day but that won't matter because 3 hours per day is all anyone will be able to afford.

New research predicts the energy storage market in Germany will increase 11-fold in the next five years, with the residential market buoyed by declining feed - in tariffs, high electricity prices and $ 30 million in subsidies, while the primary reserve market boosts activity within the utilities sector.

The interesting fact is that this «new business» for the LADWP could result in lower prices than would otherwise be the case, both for regular users of electricity and for motorists currently stuck with high - priced gasoline.

It is closely allied with the North Carolina Solar Energy Alliance, to extend government mandates, tax credits, and other government assistance to a marginal electricity source that brings higher prices, lower reliability, and reduced ability of families, hospitals, schools, and businesses to meet tight budgets, says Civitas.

Local power storage can also be used for load - shifting in areas with tiered electricity rates, where higher prices charged for power during peak periods and off - peak periods have lower rates.

That leaves us with solar and wind as the key suspects behind higher electricity prices.

«Extraordinarily high retail electricity prices, combined with dramatic cost declines in renewable energy and storage technologies, have combined to transform the competitive landscape facing the State's electric utilities,» the commission wrote.

As a result of the Clean Power Plan, EIA projects that average electricity prices in the years 2025 to 2030 will be 3 percent higher than a future with no Clean Power Plan.

It is important to note that in the future, plug - in vehicles with large battery packs might be able to offer the largest benefits at the lowest costs if all the right factors fall into place, including low - cost batteries, low - emissions electricity, long battery life, and high gasoline prices.

«Solar generators could offer very good prices because, first, their projects have very good solar irradiation in the north of Chile but second, in 2014 there were several changes in the electricity tender rules that allowed companies to offer in different hourly blocks and extended the contract term, with resulted in a higher competition, a higher participation of renewables and the lowest prices that we've seen in decades».

This leads to a divergence between the true cost of the system and the evolution of price of electricity in wholesale markets, in markets with high penetration of renewable energy.»

Tuckey is an enthusiast for the tidal power potential of the Kimberley region, as indeed am I. Given the incentives associated with a high enough price for carbon, and reforms to the National Electricity Market to encourage more investment in long - distance transmission lines, there is huge potential in tidal energy.

You can see it clearly sumarised on Slide 14 here (emissions intensity versus normalised electricity price for selected countries with high proportion of nuclear and countries with high proportion of renewables: http://canadianenergyissues.com/2014/01/29/how-much-does-it-cost-to-reduce-carbon-emissions-a-primer-on-electricity-infrastructure-planning-in-the-age-of-climate-change/

«Australia, like Japan, has high retail electricity prices which, combined with continuously reducing technology costs, are the main reasons for the small - scale PV adoption rate,» it writes.

BTW, this may help — emissions intensity versus normalised electricity price for selected countries / states with high proportion of nuclear and countries with high proportion of renewables in Slide 14 here: http://canadianenergyissues.com/2014/01/29/how-much-does-it-cost-to-reduce-carbon-emissions-a-primer-on-electricity-infrastructure-planning-in-the-age-of-climate-change/

The lucky country with the world's cheapest energy sources that now boasts the world's highest electricity prices!

In the case of solar power, while utility - scale solar is just becoming cheaper than fossil fuels on the wholesale electricity market, rooftop solar panels have long competed with much - higher retail electricity prices.

Real world examples in the Comment demonstrate that jurisdictions that have succeeded in increasing the percent of electricity from renewables validate the proposition that the more their power grid relied on renewables, the higher the electricity price - with price increases accelerating as the percent of electricity from renewables gets higher than 20 % or so.

For 23 years they have maintained these shindigs with no effect on the climate but causing great harm to many ordinary people — soaring costs for unreliable subsidised green electricity, loss of manufacturing and mining jobs, and increased food costs caused by high power prices and using food for ethanol / biodiesel.

But wind and solar are not cost - competitive yet and we should let the technologies improve instead of mandate their use and pay the price with higher electricity rates.

«Small systems are especially popular in states with good winds, high electricity prices and incentive programs,» said Trudy Forsyth, a senior project leader at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's National Wind Technology Center, a Department of Energy research facility near Boulder, Colo..

Danes have to pay the highest electricity prices in the European Union, and they pay subsidies of nearly $ 400 million a year to wind producers (in a country with less than 2 percent of the population of the United States).

«Hopefully, Denmark can serve as an example to other countries that it is possible to have both ambitious green policies with a high proportion of wind energy and other renewables in the energy supply, and still have a high security of supply and competitive prices on electricity,» said Lars Christian Lilleholt, Denmark's minister for energy, in a statement.

Negative power prices on the electricity exchange occur when a high and inflexible power generation appears simultaneously with low electricity demand.

SMEs have been promised a «new energy» technology champion as high electricity and gas prices generate a world of budget pain with hardware and software to the rescue.

Comparing the operational costs associated with heating the same water volume using electricity or natural gas allows your Realtor to demand a higher price for your home.