The EIA estimates onshore wind power will be 80% more expensive than conventional natural gas power, offshore wind power will be 142% more expensive than natural gas, solar thermal power will be 208% more expensive than natural gas, and solar photovoltaic will be 377% more expensive than natural gas.
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The demand for gas in power gen is increasing (coal to gas switching has been significant, and most new fossil power plants will be gas-fired).
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Gas fired power plants need gas to run, but they often fly standby with respect to gas deliveries rather than reserving capacity on the pipelines.
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Because coal power is cheaper than natural gas power, the switch will jack up your utility bills.
Solar energy proponents want the price of solar electricity to fall so that it could better compete with cheaper power from coal and natural gas power plants.
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Yes, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations that economically punish coal power plants are somewhat responsible for the shift to natural gas power, but so too are technological advances and new natural gas discoveries that have dramatically reduced the price of natural gas.
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"People are lined up as far you can see in anticipation of power or gas, " McEndree, 49, said.
Ovshinsky proudly takes credit for the car, claiming he invented the "enabling technology" that helps power the gas-electric hybrid.
The goals here are to meet the expected future demand for power and gas without running roughshod over property owners.
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But greater Dhaka has become one of the world's most populous and fastest-growing megacities, driving up the price of land and straining the country's electrical, power and gas systems.
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For U.S. investors without the wherewithal to jump around in international equties, there are exchange-traded funds like the iShares MSCI Germany Index Fund, which counts Siemens, power and gas company E.
In June, the Energy and Telecommunications Committee in the New York State Senate approved law that would repeal a massive tax increase imposed under former Gov. David Patterson on electric power and gas.
India has been working on thorium for some years, but the technology is as different from today's nuclear power as gas is from coal, and very few nuclear engineers even hear about liquid fuel during their training, let alone get to work on it.
At the other end of the spectrum, two-thirds of the companies in food processing, government services, farming or agriculture, health care and education, and half of the companies in chemical processing or manufacturing, construction, the oil industry, power, gas and water utilities, and the legal industry are expected to have one major mission-critical failure owing to year-2000 problems.
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"The reason why it is cheap is that gas power requires lower investments than coal and nuclear power plants, " the head of Statoil's gas division, Rune Bjornson, told BBC News.
Since power plants that burn natural gas emit about half the amount of the greenhouse gases as coal-fired power, some say that the gas drilling boom has helped the U.S. become the only major industrialized country to significantly reduce greenhouse emissions.
Importantly, the EIA projects that over the lifetime of newly constructed power plants going into operation in the year 2016, natural gas power will be 33% less expensive than what is currently the least expensive power source, coal.
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Liberal Democrats are happy to see more gas power in the short term but insist that the UK should continue to support renewables, such as wind power, to ensure that people are insulated against possible future rises in gas prices.
For its part, the North American Reliability Corporation (NERC), who oversees power market reliability, issued a December report highlighting that gas and power markets need to be more synchronized to effectively enable reliability in light of higher dependence on natural gas generation.
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One analyst, who wants to remain anonymous expects solar power to be competitive with gas-fired power on the eastern seaboard of China by this time next year.
Nuclear power simply cannot compete with gas-fired power.
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Yet wind and solar power are, and will continue to be, far more expensive than coal and natural gas power.
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They have pushed the government into making haste to develop the gas fields, as many power plants are fuelled by gas.
U.S. power plants currently produce 50% more power from natural gas than during the year 2000.
Tulis oversaw electric power and natural gas research at Lehman Brothers, among other firms.
Teams from Scottish Power and Scotland Gas Networks were still working in the area on Sunday.
In the wreckage was Oasis pipeline, a unit of the wounded power and natural gas distributor Aquila.
But long term, I think it's foolhardy to just build natural-gas power plants.
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Still, even with LNG, gas power will cost roughly 9 cents per kwh.
Specifically, electricity from natural gas power plants comes at less than half the cost of electricity from coal generators.
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