Sentence examples for electricity rising from inspiring English sources

To secure French and Chinese investment, the last coalition government agreed in 2013 to pay £92.5 per megawatt hour (Mwh) of electricity – rising in line with inflation– for the first 35 years of the plant's life.

I can't better it: Grid parity has a clear and widely accepted definition: when the levelised cost of solar (falling rapidly) crosses the cost of grid electricity (rising rapidly).

Now, with many coal plants being canceled and demand for electricity rising by 2percentt or so a year, the prospect is that utilities will be forced to build and use a new generation of gas-fired plants regardless of the operating cost — and consumers will bear the burden of higher electricity rates.

Another of the big six energy suppliers, Scottish Power, announced price rises in June, with the cost of its gas going up by 19% from the start of next month, and its electricity rising by 10%.

When demand for electricity rose last summer, electric bills surged, and state regulators have warned of more price spikes and possible blackouts and brownouts.

Output of electricity rose 4.4percentt and mining production rose 2.9percentt.

Housing prices, which have steadily risen, remained stable, while electricity rose 2.8percentt.

According to the Energy Information Administration, between 1978 and 1997 the average household consumption of electricity rose 43percentt.

But as the price of electricity rose, most could not compete.

But prices for residential electricity rose 2.2percentt last month, after a 1.5percentt decline in June.

The cost of electricity rose 1.8percentt, and the cost of natural gas for heating was up 2.7percentt.