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If the Energy Department acts, consumers will be saddled with as much as $11.8 billion to pay for the uneconomic coal and nuclear plants.
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And a slew of new natural gas power plants have come online in recent years that would be uneconomic too close.
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Lower prices are good for consumers but bad for owners of big, uneconomic coal and nuclear plants, who rely on high prices to keep running.
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However, major grid operators have contended that resilience can be improved without keeping uneconomic coal plants online.
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But as prices rise the country will face unprecedented competition from oil producers in the U.S. New technology — namely fracking and horizontal drilling — has opened parts of the country to oil development that have long thought to be uneconomic.
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These minerals are scarce only because deposits in other parts of the world have so far been uneconomic to extract, but that may change as demand for transparently sourced minerals increases.
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Many of those projects are uneconomic and now spend their time weighing down bank balance sheets rather than contributing to growth.
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Those low gas prices, coupled with growing wind and solar power, have made most coal plants uneconomic.
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First Known Use of uneconomic
1840
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