Sentence examples for incentive power from inspiring English sources

A price cap set at a high but not astronomical level would probably increase available power supplies, by eliminating the clear incentive power producers now have to withhold electricity from the market.

The results show that both parties can benefit, and the incentive power of a multi-period incentive contract is better than that of a one-period contract.

The effect of a specific design on prices depends on two separate mechanisms, one which affects the incentive power to increase productive efficiency and another which affects the risk of collusion.

Perhaps most intractable is the growing web of national incentives: power companies may trade even more energy in wholesale markets, but taxpayers do not want to subsidise foreigners.As with so much else, a lot will depend on Germany.

The complex rules have provided an unintended incentive for power companies to fool regulatory officials.

Opponents say they would distort the market and remove an incentive for power companies to build more plants.

Mr Bush has repeatedly said that he thinks price caps will only make California's problems worse, by reducing the incentive for power producers to build more capacity.

As an incentive for power plants to pollute less, the states allow the plants that cut their emissions below the cap to sell or trade their excess carbon allowances through online auctions four times a year.

John P. Hughes, the economist for the electricity consumers council, said the markets created a perverse incentive, rewarding power plant owners with ever-higher prices so long as they did not build new capacity to meet growing demand.

Absent an economic incentive, solar power just does not make sense, said Al Forte, principal and director of the clean energy solutions practice at Nexant, an energy industry consulting firm.

When all emission quota is allocated among demand side, the emission reduction incentive of power generation would disappear.