Sentence examples for capacity payment from inspiring English sources

And, we should add, the penalty for not being to deliver power at a 'stress event' in the early evening in December is just one month's capacity payment of about £1.60 a kilowatt.

It has to raise private finance of over £160m and the annual capacity payment of about £1m would not make much difference to its cash flows, particularly since the 2018/19 auction would have meant a costly speeding up of its construction.

Explicit capacity payment was the first remunerating approach implemented and perhaps still the most applied.

The deficiencies of the original capacity payment mechanisms adopted in the US are discussed and the necessary improvements identified.

We investigate the impacts of capacity payment mechanisms on generation capacity investment and subsequent energy and capacity market competition.

The investor's income from a capacity payment, which also can depend on the system's total capacity balance, can also be represented.

Power plants have a second source of revenue, called capacity payments, but these are down too.

Ministers believe capacity payments are crucial to keeping the lights on and that a limit would be unworkable.

Neil Bentley, deputy director general of the CBI, criticised the complexity of some reforms, which include complex mechanisms such as "contracts for difference" and "capacity payments".

You have to wonder whether these plants would have remained open anyway and really need these capacity payments," said one analyst.

To make investment attractive, the bill plans a system of "capacity payments" that would guarantee a stream of income to operators even when gas plants are not generating.