How to Use uneconomic in a Sentence

uneconomic

adjective
  • No one is still drilling uneconomic wells just to hold onto leases.
    — Christopher Helman, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • These hot summer days are being used to keep otherwise uneconomic coal plants alive.
    — Benjamin Storrow, Scientific American, 19 July 2019
  • Those low gas prices, coupled with growing wind and solar power, have made most coal plants uneconomic.
    — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Many of those projects are uneconomic and now spend their time weighing down bank balance sheets rather than contributing to growth.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
  • And a slew of new natural gas power plants have come online in recent years that would be uneconomic too close.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 22 June 2018
  • Indeed, carbon capture is no longer seen just as an uneconomic science project.
    — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Plus there was the danger of small company stocks becoming uneconomic for some firms to cover.
    — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
  • The first is that some gas plants, like coal ones before them, become uneconomic as renewables keep getting cheaper.
    — The Economist, 25 July 2019
  • Alternative routes may be nice to have, but will be uneconomic and are probably at least a decade away from completion.
    — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • By flooding the market from late 2014 on, the cartel hoped to drive oil prices so low that shale wells would be uneconomic.
    — chicagotribune.com, 15 May 2017
  • Canadian oil at a record low and some North Sea fields are becoming uneconomic.
    — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2020
  • 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.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 18 May 2018
  • The rapidly dropping cost of inference means that use cases that are uneconomic today may not be six to 12 months in the future.
    — Jeffrey Hammond, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • The fall has cut into oil companies' margins and made many production areas uneconomic.
    — Pan Pylas, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2017
  • These bills favor keeping 65-year old uneconomic power plants in operation for decades to come.
    — John Funk, cleveland.com, 19 June 2017
  • Similarly, while land grants fomented extensive rail networks, paved roads and diesel trucks made small branch lines uneconomic.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 29 Sep. 2019
  • The defense network was ill-prepared for the hundreds of drones launched at the country, which both overwhelmed its few short-range defenses and forced it to counter in an uneconomic way.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 13 May 2026
  • To build the car commercially would be a completely uneconomic enterprise.
    — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 11 July 2019
  • The global depression, coupled with the expense of drawing dwindling copper from the mountains, rendered the operation uneconomic.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2022
  • However, major grid operators have contended that resilience can be improved without keeping uneconomic coal plants online.
    — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Investors should expect write-downs, both of capital invested in newly uneconomic petroleum projects and speculative clean-energy projects that don’t pan out.
    — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 27 May 2021
  • Energy analysts said Exxon stock likely would have suffered if Exxon overcommitted to spending billions in Venezuela in its current, uneconomic state.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The plant can respond more effectively to dynamic power input without drifting into unsafe or uneconomic operation.
    — Gregory Shahnovsky, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • But closing uneconomic reactors can lead to overall reductions in carbon pollution if a nuclear plant’s operating costs are instead invested into efficiency and solar and wind, the report claims.
    — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 24 Sep. 2020
  • By effectively cutting Russia out of the global gas market, the war has made new investments in gas infrastructure appear more risky and uneconomic than ever, especially for developing countries.
    — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Studies show that even under optimistic scenarios, returning metals to Earth would remain uneconomic without major advances in throughput, spacecraft reuse, and automation.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Italian pasta could largely disappear from US supermarket shelves as producers say 107% tariffs make exports uneconomic.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The results have been a large increase in energy costs for households and industry, driven by levies to subsidise uneconomic generation, and rising volatility in electricity markets accompanied by a higher risk of power outages in future.
    — Gordon Hughes, National Review, 13 May 2024
  • Using the Act to protect coal and nuclear facilities would almost certainly be more controversial, as the link between national defense and keeping uneconomic coal generators running is not well-established.
    — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 21 Apr. 2018
  • While attractive due to its proximity to strong local and regional gas markets, exploration for this gas has been sporadic in the basin since the mid-1980s, with experts noting pilot projects were uneconomic, temporarily abandoned or failed.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026

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