Neither solar nor wind power is competitive on its own with electricity from fossil fuel plants.
Neither kind of renewable energy is competitive on its own with electricity from fossil fuel plants.
The overall share of fossil fuels in the electricity supply has fallen with wind and solar power picking up the slack.
As well as on-island generation through burning fossil fuels Guernsey sources electricity from France, through an undersea cable that runs via Jersey.
While it is absolutely essential that we continue to drive down the costs of generating electricity from solar (and wind, which is indirect solar energy, ) doing so alone will not make these renewable energy sources competitive with traditional hydro, fossil or nuclear generated electricity.
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Solar power may be cheaper than electricity generated by fossil fuels and nuclear reactors within three to five years because of innovations, said Mark M.
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Giant, centralized distribution facilities that use nuclear or fossil fuels, then sending electricity over massive distances losing upwards of 70-80% of the power in transmission, is the historical utility industry approach.
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The price of solar power still has far to fall before it is cheaper than electricity generated from fossil fuels even if governments jack up fossil-fuel prices to reflect the cost of carbon emissions.
While electric-car owners may cruise around feeling virtuous, they still recharge using electricity overwhelmingly produced with fossil fuels.
They propose a way of making electricity companies which burn fossil fuels pay a minimum price for the pollution they create.
Experts estimate that about 3 percent of the electrical energy consumed in the United States and other developed countries is used to treat wastewater, and a majority of that electricity is produced by fossil fuels that contribute to global warming.
However, most U.S. electricity is created from burning fossil fuels -- about 70 percent, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency of the Department of Energy.
And they argue that simplistic comparisons with other electricity sources are unfair: fossil-fuel plants pay too little for their planet-warming carbon emissions, while renewables benefit from generous subsidies.
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The burning of fossil fuels, such as coal for electricity and oil for gasoline, has caused the overwhelming bulk of the man-made increase in carbon in the air, scientists say.
The cheapest way to prevent an electricity crunch is to allow new fossil-fuel stations to be built.
Ironically, Germany, once a net power exporter, now imports electricity from French nuclear facilities and fossil-powered plants in neighboring countries.
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If the use of renewables generated electricity becomes cheaper than that of fossil fuel generated then we really will have cracked the problem.
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The GOP-hopeful would, instead, depend more on the fossil fuels that provide round-the-clock electricity generation.
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All this happened while nuclear and fossil power stations have not been able to provide electricity any more.
Large companies need ways to limit their exposure to volatile fossil fuel prices, which affect the price of electricity.
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The trouble is that most of the time the wholesale price of electricity is set by the three main fossil-fuel generators.
The report insists that, in hand with a combination of energy efficiency and fuel-switching measures, this growth in electricity production would be enough to supplant all fossil fuel use (coal, gas and oil), including that for transport and space-heating.
My (much smarter) brother Robert showed the House Natural Resources Committee on September 22 that federal subsidies related to fossil-fuel (mainly coal and natural gas) fired electricity are about 68 cents per million watts.
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These benefits, in combination with growing electricity use worldwide, concerns about limited supplies of fossil fuels, and efforts to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions and prevent climate change, have prompted governments and investors to pour money into this emerging technology.
Seventy-five percent is a magic number in my mind -- 70-75 percent -- because that means the cost of electricity of photovoltaics is less than the cost of new fossil energy.
Hydrogen is a fuel that, like electricity, can be made from a variety of sources: fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas, renewables, even nuclear power.
But EDF's former chief operating officer, Derek Lickorish, now head of the government's Fuel Poverty Advisory Group, said it was not a fair comparison as French electricity was 80% nuclear while the UK still relied on fossil fuels.
They hunger for electricity, which in the U.S. comes predominantly from burning fossil fuels.
For solar energy, according to the report, the near-term goal is for solar electricity to be competitive with retail electricity rates, with a long-term goal to compete with central fossil fuel power plants.
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How much would electricity cost in the United States if the retail price reflected the health impacts of burning fossil fuels?
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