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  • As for the reform of the French power market, Mr. Mestrallet reiterated that the price under which Eléctricité de France SA should sell a quarter of its nuclear power to competitors for a transitory period, as requested by law, should be €35 a megawatt-hour and not €42 a megawatt-hour as requested by EDF.

    GDF Suez Raises Forecast Geraldine Amiel 2011

  • The French state would find it difficult to meet EDF's request that a government-set price to sell electricity to competitors be placed at €42 a megawatt-hour, a government official said Wednesday.

    GDF Suez Raises Forecast Geraldine Amiel 2011

  • But the Bentek study shows that in California, a state that relies heavily on natural gas-fired generation, the carbon dioxide reduction from wind energy was just 0.3 tons of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour.

    A New Study Takes The Wind Out Of Wind Energy 2011

  • EDF won't lose money if the price is set at €35 a megawatt-hour, Mr. Mestrallet said.

    GDF Suez Raises Forecast Geraldine Amiel 2011

  • Therefore, when wind gets deployed within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Bentek found that it cuts sulfur dioxide emissions by 1.2 pounds per megawatt-hour, far less than the 5.7 pounds claimed by AWEA.

    A New Study Takes The Wind Out Of Wind Energy 2011

  • AWEA claims that every megawatt-hour of electricity produced by wind turbines cuts carbon dioxide emissions by 0.8 tons.

    A New Study Takes The Wind Out Of Wind Energy 2011

  • Similarly, the reduction in nitrous oxide was 0.7 pounds rather than AWEA's 2.3 pounds, and carbon dioxide emissions were reduced by 0.5 tons per megawatt-hour, not the 0.8 tons claimed by AWEA.

    A New Study Takes The Wind Out Of Wind Energy 2011

  • Following the government's decision to shut down reactors, German power prices for delivery in 2012 and 2013 rose by up to €5 per megawatt-hour compared with the level before the crisis in Japan.

    Reactor Closures Leave E.ON, RWE an Upside Jan Hromadko 2011

  • Further, the study found that in the area served by the Bonneville Power Administration, which uses a large amount of hydropower, the carbon dioxde reduction was just 0.1 ton of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour.

    A New Study Takes The Wind Out Of Wind Energy 2011

  • As a result, each bit of wind power—a "megawatt-hour" of the green juice—tends to sell for less in the Great Plains than it does in the Northeast.

    Wind Power Hits a Trough Jeffrey Ball 2011

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