Sentence examples for expense of coal from inspiring English sources
In fact, during the past 10 years or so, as the widespread use of fracking made natural gas less expensive than coal, natural gas gained electricity market share at the expense of coal.
In fact, public support for renewable energy (wind and mainly solar) has continued to grow at the expense of coal and gas.
Most analysts agree that gas prices will eventually settle around $4-5 4-5 mBtu.Between 2006 2012 gandwent from providing 2012of America's electricity to nearly 25%, mainly at the expense of coal.
As for the gas brigade, he proposes that they work with the greens in a broad alliance that presses for environmental legislation to boost gas demand at the expense of coal (which is far dirtier).
However, so far the primary effect of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme has been to increase the running hours of gas-fired power stations at the expense of coal.
These effects can cost jobs.In 2006, in a study prepared for a pro-coal lobbying group, Adam Rose and Dan Wei of Pennsylvania State University looked at how increasing the share of renewables in electricity generation at the expense of coal might affect employment.
And second, if the cost of the power rises because of the expense of imported coal, these outfits are neither strong enough to absorb the financial hit themselves nor capable of easily passing it through by raising prices to customers.
The report details how the transition to a global low carbon energy system is gathering pace, with renewables set to become the largest source of new energy capacity over the next 35 years, largely at the expense of the coal market.
They had steam boats built in England that could tow barges from Givors to Lyon, avoided the expense of transferring the coal to river boats.
Since the early 1980s one of the most significant changes in energy supply has been the greatly increased role of nuclear power, at the expense of fuel oil and coal; even the production of hydroelectric power has stabilized, as most suitable sites have already been exploited, particularly those of the Rhine and Rhône valleys, the Massif Central, and the Alps.
More perversely, Europe is burning more heavily polluting coal at the expense of cleaner and more flexible gas, because coal is cheap, the gas market is far from liquid and the carbon-emissions systems is broken.Another oddity is that Germany pays some of the lowest wholesale prices for electricity in Europe, yet suffers from some of the highest retail prices.
