For homeowners who heat with gas, for industrial users and for electricity customers, they are great.
Under Lula, the price of electricity for industrial users has more than doubled.
As a result, energy prices for industrial users are extraordinarily high (see chart).
Mr Wicks says that only the heaviest industrial users would be affected by an extremely cold winter, if one does occur.
But those tended to be niche industrial users, such as microwave transmitters.
In the 1970s industrial users could switch to oil or electricity, and utilities had other choices, including coal, hydroelectric and even nuclear power.
The committee also said that energy costs due to low-carbon policies are expected to rise by 20-25% from 2011 to 2020 for industrial users.
Previously, egged on by local governments, they had charged industrial users very high prices for electricity in order to charge householders very low ones.
He said the energy supply business in the Irish Republic would fit well with its existing operations where it currently services some major industrial users.
If the inventory slides too close to 500 billion feet, industrial users would be ordered to curtail use in order to safeguard supplies for home heating.
As a direct result of market reforms promoted by Mr McCarthy, power costs to industrial users has fallen by an impressive 30-40%, according to consumer group Energywatch.
When supplies tighten, urban and industrial users usually have priority.
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National Grid, which distributes energy, gave warning for the first time that there might not be enough gas to go round and some big industrial users had to cut production.
In any case, only a handful of states have plans to introduce full-scale competition for residential users before 2000 (although in some states plans for competition for industrial users are more advanced).
Higher prices tend to draw more supply to the market in the form of scrap and increased mine output, she said, and at the same time encourages industrial users to look for cheaper substitutes.
And it gives us the figures on how vulnerable gas supplies are: households would suffer interruption of gas supply if more than 60% of sources are cut off, assuming that industrial users take the first impact and cut their demand.
The price rise should not only help pay for imported fuel to replace lost nuclear power, but might, officials think, also encourage competition in the energy sector by pushing big industrial users of electricity to shop around for the best deal.
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Essentially, 12, 000 or so electricity generators and industrial heavy users of energy have had their emissions limited by EU law.
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But the Federal Water Quality Coalition, a group composed of industrial and metropolitan water users, has launched its own lawsuit in opposition to the first.
Spain's Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar said after the summit that the issue of the liberalisation of electricity and gas markets for industrial and other business users had been resolved.
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