Financial Implications of Coal-to-Gas Fuel Switching

dc.creator	Shcherbakova, Anastasia
dc.date.accessioned	2019-12-17T20:32:40Z
dc.date.available	2019-12-17T20:32:40Z
dc.date.issued	2019-12
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/187017
dc.description	Low natural gas prices and environmental regulations have led to a significant shift in the United States’ power infrastructure. Utilities continue to retire coal-fired power plants and build new natural gas generators. Because natural gas prices vary more than coal prices, some worry that this will lead to more volatile electricity prices. However, the coal-to-gas fuel switching not only generates environmental benefits. The ability of natural gas generators to respond more efficiently to variation in market conditions appears also to lower the volatility of wholesale power prices.	en
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Volume 10;Issue 7
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
dc.subject	electricity pricing	en
dc.subject	coal	en
dc.subject	natural gas	en
dc.title	Financial Implications of Coal-to-Gas Fuel Switching	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.contributor.sponsor	Bush School of Government and Public Service
local.department	Other	en

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