The aging nuclear fleet in the U.S. is becoming increasingly uneconomical.
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Lower prices eventually made it uneconomical for many owners to keep them.
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But maintaining infrastructure in sparsely populated areas is often uneconomical for networks.
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PSUs are made to foot the bill for government programmes that are uneconomical.
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That could make such deals uneconomical and even potentially upend the global derivatives market.
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These aggregate actions allow plaintiffs to pool claims that would be uneconomical to litigate individually.
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The audit found that the travel arrangements were "uneconomical" and contravened United Nations travel rules.
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Under current conditions, it would be completely uneconomical without loan guarantees provided by the federal government.
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The plant is powered by a legacy gas turbine technology ... and is uneconomical to support further.
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It became uneconomical to overhaul older coal plants even to meet existing federal clean air rules.
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Coal and Minerals Director General Bambang Gatot said the smelters were closed because of "uneconomical technologies".
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Uneconomical trucks and pensions are only the tip of the Postal Service's iceberg of misguided priorities.
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They have said weak power prices have made it uneconomical to operate some plants without state support.
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While transaction costs make that strategy uneconomical, he said, the concept may still have a certain value.
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At the same time, it would become uneconomical to build cars in the United States for export overseas.
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These include coal-fired power plants that are uneconomical to run, for which liquidation is a real possibility.
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For example, right now Oppenheimer's Fadel Gheit estimates that roughly half of U.S. shale oil production is uneconomical.
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Backwardation, when a prompt contract is more expensive than subsequent months, makes it uneconomical to store the product.
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But a tenth of the 1,600km of endangered coast may prove too uneconomical to safeguard, according to the report.
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The company said it has been asked to build a new tailings dam, a structure for storing uneconomical ore.
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They have said weak power prices make it uneconomical to operate the reactors without some form of state support.
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That means 10 minutes of show can cost $1 million—uneconomical for the vast majority of what's on YouTube.
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This has made some nuclear plants uneconomical, and forced generators to shut several reactors over the past five years.
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But earning money by transporting people short distances in uneconomical planes is a risky strategy in a well-connected continent.
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They used to slaughter cows but Norwegian health and safety laws make this uneconomical unless done on an industrial scale.
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This has made some nuclear plants uneconomical, and U.S. nuclear operators have shut several reactors over the past five years.
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A proposal to hike the minimum salaries to qualify for such schemes from $25,27 to $212,000 would make many postings uneconomical.
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This would make repos uneconomical because the tax on the payments would be higher than the total profit on the deal.
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Backwardation refers to a market where prices for prompt-loading cargoes are higher than for months further out, making storage uneconomical.
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This brings us to the second count against nuclear power in the Middle East: It's now become expensive, uneconomical and obsolete.
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However, there is so much cement in the structure that tearing it down would prove unsafe and uneconomical at this point.
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For example, with increased transparency, certain courses of study will be shown quite clearly as uneconomical — fewer history students and artists.
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For too long "green" was viewed as a synonym for a project that was boutique, uneconomical, liberal, sissy and vaguely French.
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This has made some nuclear and coal plants uneconomical, and forced generators to shut several units over the past five years.
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Beijing last summer imposed retaliatory tariffs of up to 70 percent on U.S. ethanol shipments, made exports to the key market uneconomical.
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So can unions, by protecting the status of employed workers, or by pushing up wages so that hiring more people becomes uneconomical.
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PSA has already axed the Opel Adam and Karl models because it became uneconomical to make these entry level vehicles emissions compliant.
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They are also working on a plan to keep uneconomical coal and nuclear power plants open, citing national security as the justification.
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As shoppers head online and away from the mall, many retailers have been saddled with uneconomical stores that are difficult to shed.
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The report says we are not running out of oil—vast reserves exist—but says that it is becoming uneconomical to exploit it.
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Alberta government's cap on oil production in January boosted falling crude prices, but made oil shipment by rail uneconomical for Canadian oil producers.
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Great Wall had aimed to enter the U.S. market in 453 but U.S.-Sino trade tensions have currently made exports from China uneconomical.
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The company's output is far below expectations, despite investments of $21 billion since 228.5, as low oil prices have made promising discoveries uneconomical.
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McLaughlin said government fees and construction standards can be onerous and make building uneconomical even when land can be bought on the cheap.
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Great Wall had aimed to enter the U.S. market in 2021 but U.S.-Sino trade tensions have currently made exports from China uneconomical.
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Beijing imposed retaliatory tariffs last summer of up to 70 percent on U.S. ethanol shipments, which made exports to the key market uneconomical.
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Traders have also curtailed their HSFO imports as the market is in steep backwardation, making it uneconomical to store the product, sources said.
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Enforcing a patent against minimal infringement acts is impractical and uneconomical (unless you're 3D printing a patented stealth bomber or another high-dollar item).
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Energy companies write down the value of their reserves when commodity-price declines make it uneconomical to extract oil and gas from those reserves.
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Backwardation, when the front-month contract is more expensive than subsequent months, makes it uneconomical to store crude, resulting in the drawdown of inventories.
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But a year from now, assuming the price of oil stays the same, he estimates that only 20 to 30 percent will be uneconomical.
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As tanker rates jump, the prospects of storing the flood of oil supplies onboard tankers is also quickly becoming uneconomical, the shipping sources said.
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That means monopolies like Duke Energy are about to get stuck with a bunch of dirty, coal-burning power plants that are becoming uneconomical.
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Solar-farm developers have became skittish about long-term commitments to supply power at prices that could become uneconomical if tariffs raise their costs.
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In addition, a window has opened for U.S. crude exports to Asia, after prices made it uneconomical to send U.S. supplies offshore in recent months.
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Banks would then have an incentive to securitise low-margin portfolios that become uneconomical due to higher risk-weighted requirements, while reducing leverage ratio exposure.
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Backwardation, when the front-month contract is more expensive than subsequent months, makes it uneconomical to store the product, resulting in a drawdown in inventories.
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SpaceX's goal is to drastically reduce the cost of a launch by reusing the hardware, a feat its competitors long thought was impossible or uneconomical.
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The company's dredges operate around the clock, seven days a week, all year long; they are expensive to run and leaving them idle is uneconomical.
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Prices fell below $40 a barrel, as the Saudis and their allies hoped to drive American operations out of business by making shale drilling uneconomical.
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Backwardation, when the front-month contract is more expensive than subsequent months, makes it uneconomical to store a product, resulting in a drawdown in inventories.
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The "difficult but necessary" decision to close the plant was made in early 2017, after the owners determined that it was uneconomical to continue operating.
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Noshi denied Iraqi media reports that Halfaya may close because crude extraction costs there are becoming uneconomical at current oil prices below $30 a barrel.
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Powerful unions insist on high wages for entry-level jobs, so firms often find it uneconomical to hire immigrants with limited education or not much Swedish.
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But low gas and coal prices and the competition of increasingly cheap wind and solar power have made it uneconomical in large parts of the world.
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"Insurers have found it uneconomical to cover them because… they deliver some of the most advanced care and therefore tend to have high prices," Shepard said.
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More stringent environmental regulations to be implemented by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in 2020 will make operating old ships uneconomical, said Leszczynski at Banchero Costa.
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For Monsanto, whose $13.5 billion in revenues in 2016 were more than Burkina Faso's GDP, it proved uneconomical to tailor the product closely to a market niche.
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What's more, the Pacific Northwest has little oil or gas to drill for or fight over, and the region's coal deposits have played out or become uneconomical.
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The extra duty, if applicable, could therefore make many such deals uneconomical, with the tax on the payments potentially higher than the total profit on the deal.
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Reserves also need to be located near construction sites; as transport costs are high compared with the price, it is usually uneconomical to transport sand a long distance.
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Some firms will use robo-advisors to target self-directed investors with lower asset balances, relationships which may have previously been uneconomical to service via human investment advisors.
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And we won't fill in a pit if there's still gold in a pit, but it's uneconomical to mine it at current prices, or if it's ecologically harmful.
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That would largely impact the production of small cars in Mexico, as international car companies have found it uneconomical to produce such cars in the U.S. and Canada.
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Mr. Inslee's plan does not chart a forgiving path for coal, however: It calls for retiring what it labels as the "increasingly uneconomical U.S. coal fleet" by 2030.
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If that calculation were performed for all energy projects now, most existing coal-fired power would be considered uneconomical, while gas-fired power plants wouldn't be significantly affected.
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In any case, the proximity of sand to construction sites is generally important too: because sand is relatively cheap, it tends to be uneconomical to transport across long distances.
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Solar-farm developers have become skittish about long-term commitments to supply power at prices that could become uneconomical if tariffs, which can be applied retroactively, raise their costs.
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Gunvor Group on Monday said it had shut one of its two crude distillation units at its Rotterdam oil refinery in the Netherlands as it was uneconomical to run.
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"EU is uneconomical, undemocratic and controlled and run by one particular country," he told CNBC before taking stage as the main speaker for the 'exit' case in the evening's debate.
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In fact, to do so would be uneconomical, because the company has to pay fees to an aggregator every month for every account that its customers want it to track.
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More than 4,000 known bugs in SAP and 5,000 in Oracle software pose security threats, especially in older systems that operators may consider uneconomical to fix, they said in Wednesday's report.
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Cheap oil prices are making it uneconomical to produce oil and gas from the North Sea, so investment is postponed or canceled and rigs are shutting down or being transported elsewhere.
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" It added,"To invoke the concept of 'national defense' for what is transparently a domestic effort to boost an uneconomical segment of industry would be an unprecedented abuse of the act.
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The market structure for 10 ppm gasoil has been in backwardation this year, with the front-month contract being more expensive than subsequent months, making it uneconomical to store the product.
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The market structure for 10 ppm gasoil has been in backwardation this year, with the front-month contract being more expensive than subsequent months, making it uneconomical to store the product.
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Acacia said it has been asked verbally to build a new tailings storage facility (TSF), a structure for storing uneconomical ore, but had not yet received any written notice from the government.
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Big tech firms are able to shell out huge sums to keep top performers and even average employees in their fold and make it uneconomical for their workers to consider joining startups.
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In just the past decade, solar power has gone from being uneconomical anywhere on earth without subsidies, to being cheaper than any fossil fuel electricity in the sunniest parts of the world.
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By making it uneconomical to serve retirement accounts on a commission basis, the fiduciary rule takes away affordable retirement savings options from the very workers and small businesses who need it most.
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He notes that companies began tackling the issue over the last two to three years, altering the terms of contracts when those terms became uneconomical due to low oil and gas prices.
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The agency has been on a years-long mission to replace the Concorde, the expensive supersonic plane, which was decommissioned in 2003 over concerns that it was uneconomical, and just too darn loud.
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"Phasing out coal by 2025 is doable providing you rush, take quick decisions and get all the permits in time but it's very uneconomical and dangerous and must be done responsibly," he said.
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Facebook has stepped up fact-checking in its fight against fake news and is trying to make it uneconomical for people to post such content by lowering its ranking and making it less visible.
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"The reason that the inventories continue to drop at Cushing is because the market remains backwardated and therefore it's uneconomical to be storing crude," said Andrew Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates in Houston, Texas.
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But despite closing uneconomical pits, official annual production capability rose to 20173 billion tonnes by the end of June, up from 3.41 billion tonnes a year earlier, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said this month.
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Coal consumption The rule change will not have immediate impact as it only applies to new coal plants, which are becoming increasingly uneconomical as they face competition from cheap natural gas and renewable energy sources.
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In the letter, Exxon said developing the block would be "uneconomical for the company under current terms", but it offered to help with technology and technical assistance for the project if needed, according to Puja.
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Then it was uneconomical, an argument still made, one the authors debunk when it comes to countries like Sweden and South Korea that haven't experienced the strangulating effect of heavy government regulation and antinuclear litigation.
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Crude-by-rail shipments also declined 17,000 carloads sequentially as Alberta's forced output cuts resulted in narrow differentials between Canadian crude and U.S. crude prices, making it uneconomical for oil producers to ship crude by rail.
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The OCC and the FDIC say such firms can broaden access to financial services because their low-cost models allow them to reach poorly served areas and offer small loans that are uneconomical for bigger banks.
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A recent analysis by Environmental Resources Management (ERM) finds that 40 percent of wells on federal lands could be shut in permanently because they would become uneconomical to continue operating as a result of that rule.
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In order to maintain good relations with bondholders, issuers have, by-and-large, adhered to market conventions dictating that they should call transactions at the first opportunity, even when it is uneconomical for them to do so.
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Panda Temple said in court papers filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware that its natural-gas-fueled power plant has faced rising competition from renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, rendering its facility uneconomical.
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"It's possible, if the economic terms imposed by the U.S. administration on anything that comes into the United States that, if they're sufficiently large that it would make the production of anything in Mexico uneconomical," said Marchionne.
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Self-driving cars will be able to automatically drive themselves to a charging station when they run low on power, so they won't need the heavy, expensive batteries that make electric cars uneconomical for most consumers today.
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Lopez Obrador wants to build what would be Mexico's seventh refinery to reduce Mexican reliance on U.S. gasoline imports, though the project is viewed by many energy experts as uneconomical and potentially risky due to its cost.
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It is fiscally irresponsible and irresponsible governance to spend trillions of dollars on uneconomical technologies, forcing consumers to buy products they do not want, and destroying entire industries on the basis of untested hypotheses and inaccurate forecasts.
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Citigroup intensified the card war last year by giving retailer Costco Wholesale Corp such a sweet deal for running its Costco card that it took the business from American Express Co, which said the winning terms were uneconomical.
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Econet, which has 11 million subscribers, controls 99% of the mobile money transfer market and is relying on diesel generators, said it was becoming "untenable and uneconomical" to guarantee a reasonable level of service in the current conditions.
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The single biggest source of greenhouse emissions, the thing we really need to stop, is coal-fired electricity generation (which has lots of other public health costs too.) And a funny thing happened: coal-fired power became uneconomical.
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Any power plant's potential output can be diminished by a number of factors, including market conditions that render its electricity uneconomical, shutdowns to fix or maintain equipment, orders to curtail unneeded production from system operators and fuel shortages.
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On the other hand, Saudi Arabia's national oil company Aramco, widely considered the lowest cost oil producer in the world, would only see up to 10 percent of its production uneconomical under the carbon emissions scenario, the report said.
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Since then, a number of companies have rushed to export crude, which has baffled traders because the current U.S. crude premium over brent-related crudes like West African or the North Sea has made it uneconomical for overseas refiners.
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The forward price curves for Brent and WTI are in a shape known as backwardation in which prices for immediate delivery are more expensive than those for later sale, making it uneconomical for traders to buy and store oil.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - The Kenyan unit of U.S. ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc has increased its fare by 20 percent, a move that follows protests and strikes by Uber drivers who said a lower fare made their service uneconomical.
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Cheap and ample gas from shale fields like the Marcellus and Utica in Ohio has depressed electricity prices nationwide over the past several years, making it uneconomical for generators to keep operating some nuclear- and coal-fired power plants.
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Gold-based financial offerings, including Gold Accumulation Plans (GAPs), allow users to buy and store gold in fractions as small as 22020 grams - an amount that would be an uneconomical to trade physically because of the associated handling costs.
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Downing Street said on Monday that government officials were studying the viability of a bridge to link Scotland and Northern Ireland, an idea Mr. Johnson has mentioned publicly but one that many engineers have dismissed as impractical or uneconomical.
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More than 4,000 known bugs in SAP and 5,000 in Oracle software pose security threats, especially in older systems that operators may consider uneconomical to fix, according to the report from Onapsis and Digital Shadows due out on Wednesday.
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Last year, some small Brazilian coffee farmers lost 21 percent of their crop to drought and heat, and similar conditions in Sumatra in western Indonesia made it uneconomical for many farmers there to harvest what little crop they had.
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Nuclear energy has plenty of problems: reactors can melt down, they are ripe targets for terrorists, they are wildly uneconomical, mining the uranium that feeds them is dangerous and environmentally destructive, and no one wants the spent fuel stored nearby.
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But Mrs Merkel's sudden abandonment of nuclear power after a tsunami-induced meltdown at a Japanese reactor in 2011, and warped price signals that made gas-fired power uneconomical, meant that cheap coal has made up much of the rest.
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Brokers and investors said that Sears insurance contracts for vendors are currently quoted at more than 4 percent of the value of the vendor's shipment per month, making them uneconomical for many suppliers whose profit margins are in the single digits.
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"The reactors in question are so uneconomical and uncompetitive that the capacity market simply cannot deliver enough revenue to change their fortunes," said Tim Judson, executive director at the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, which seeks to shut nuclear plants.
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"Unfortunately, we are already seeing a negative near-term impact from the ruling as the increased cost due to import tariffs have delayed certain 2018 projects and made other projects uneconomical," Chief Executive Thomas Werner said in a conference call.
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Challenges to operating in Brazil remain, however, including unfavorable tax rules that make it uneconomical to produce fertilizers locally and recent efforts in congress to change rules governing farmer bankruptcies, which have increased risks for input suppliers selling on credit.
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Oil executives said that if weren't for exports, so much oil would be stockpiled in already flush domestic inventories that the American benchmark price would be $2000 to $22016 below the current $226 a barrel, making most new drilling uneconomical.
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He instructed Chinese state-owned companies to dig deep, and they did - assisted by a horde of smaller private miners that drilled in haste, polluted liberally, and drove prices so low it became uneconomical for many foreign rivals to stay in business.
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Growing supplies of cheap gas from shale fields like the Marcellus and Utica in Ohio have depressed electricity prices in competitive markets nationwide over the past several years, making it uneconomical for generators to keep operating some nuclear- and coal-fired plants.
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One engineer I spoke to told me that transporting sand and stone for ordinary construction becomes uneconomical after about sixty miles, and that builders usually make do with whatever is available within that radius, even if it means settling for materials that aren't ideal.
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Although companies like Sunrun, which focuses on installing panels on residential rooftops, said they could withstand higher prices, developers of large-scale projects said they were already seeing a slowdown as customers pulled back from committing to deals that could become uneconomical if costs rose.
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Inside the big fish market in the port town of Peterhead, the majority opinion is pro-Brexit, although Andrew Charles, who supports the Scottish National Party, says that under Mr. Johnson's plan the export part of his business would be uneconomical because of the added certification costs.
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The product could even serve as a substitute for the sugar used to coat cereal flakes to prevent them from going soggy too fast, said Peggy Tomasula, a research leader at the laboratory — although she also noted that at this point, it may be uneconomical for some applications.
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Sen also noted that because Russian oil companies such as Lukoil, which have seen a growing proportion of their production become increasingly uneconomical, have begun to call for output cuts and co-operation with OPEC, there is little downside for Russia to suggest a production cut deal with the cartel.
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Monday's rebound came after Baker Hughes, the oil-field services company, said the domestic oil rig count had dropped last week to its lowest level in more than six years, a sign that oil producers are cutting back on output as the low prices make the high-cost rigs uneconomical.
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"After serious consideration and diligence, it is the Government's view that (it) is uneconomical to proceed with the construction of the new airport when the existing one is grossly under utilized," said a letter from the country's Minister of Transport and Aviation to the project's director, published in local media.
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The Stream Protection Rule, which requires companies to restore mined areas to their original physical and ecological state and to monitor for environmental effects, would have effectively made mountaintop removal uneconomical, experts said — especially when coal prices remain depressed amid competition from natural gas and renewable energy sources like wind and solar.
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California, Illinois and New York have all faced the issue of aging, uneconomical nuclear plants and have devised creative solutions that would significantly ramp up investment in renewables like wind and solar so that when the plants do close, there are carbon-free sources to take their place — not to mention new jobs for the displaced workers.
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"A lot of extraction projects wouldn't be economical without government support, so phasing out this support will make oil and gas uneconomical, and will level the playing field for renewable energy," said Ivetta Gerasimchuk, a lead for sustainable energy supplies at the International Institute for Sustainable Development in Geneva and one of the authors of the report.
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As Bloomberg noted earlier this month, it appears that many large-scale bitcoin miners threw in the towel throughout November, with JPMorgan Chase strategists writing in a report that "prices have declined to a point where mining is becoming uneconomical for some":The Bitcoin network's hash rate, one way of gauging the computing power dedicated to mining the digital currency, dropped about 24 percent from an all-time high at the end of August through Nov.
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