Sentences with phrase «building more natural gas»

Building more natural gas plants, Shearer said, simply extends that commitment to fossil fuels.

Utilities instead are opting to build more natural gas plants or renewable energy projects, such as wind and solar power.

Not exact matches

It should also see more business when liquefied natural gas terminals get built in B.C.

However, it takes massive capital expenditures to build the facilities to freeze natural gas down to — 160 °C and load it onto pressurized tankers, more than any producer can afford on its own.

Last year China built 10 times more renewable power capacity than natural gas - fired power, and three times more than coal - fired power.

Ontario has already wasted billions on natural gas - fired power plants that were never built and could potentially squander billions more refurbishing aging nuclear stations in a bid to prop up the province's atomic industry.

Americans are buying more gasoline, and natural gas suppliers are finding new industrial customers and building out distribution to more homes, pushing up utility prices.

If the heat wave does in fact break and injections begin to increase more in line with the historical weekly builds the large overhang of natural gas in inventory that has been limiting any significant rally in natural gas prices this summer could possibly then turn into a deeper bout of selling.

Over more than two decades, he built Chesapeake from a small wildcatter into one of the world's biggest natural gas producers before resigning in 2013, after a corporate governance crisis and investor concerns over his heavy spending

The terms of the EA mean that Boom's Wheatstone workers, who are helping to build an liquefied natural gas project for Chevron, will earn around 25 per cent more in September 2017 than they do right now.

Federal prosecutors have amassed about 11 million pieces of evidence, including more than 28,400 pages of emails and images from the phone Kelly used as an executive with Competitive Power Ventures Holdings, LLC, (CPV) the company that is building a natural gas - fired power plant in Oxford and has not been linked to the alleged corruption.

Representing a smattering of different environmental advocacy groups from around the state, about 250 protesters held signs calling on officials and lawmakers to prohibit any more natural gas pipelines being built in New York, to stop the construction of a proposed liquid natural gas storage facility next to Seneca Lake, and to shift the state's energy production to greener fuel sources....

They imposed a temporary moratorium on buying or building new natural gas capacity over 150 MW and ordered APS to return with plans to acquire more renewables.

Private companies are planning to build more than 30 other plants, capable of producing as much as 200 million cubic meters of natural gas each year — far exceeding China's current natural gas demand.

«If there is substantial natural gas leakage, then building new natural gas plants would lead to more near term climate damage than using the old dirty coal plants,» explained Caldeira.

The association, representing the nation's investor - owned utilities, said states would need more than the few years before 2020 to build the necessary natural gas pipelines and to resolve issues with gas - electric coordination, including differences in regulatory schemes, operational requirements and processes for building infrastructure.

Because economic growth continues to boost the demand for energy — more coal for powering new factories, more oil for fueling new cars, more natural gas for heating new homes — carbon emissions will keep climbing despite the introduction of more energy - efficient vehicles, buildings and appliances.

The US might import more natural gas in the future, but only after it builds many more LNG terminals than the handful we have now.

Natural gas - fired cogen microturbines in every building would be a much more intelligent solution, to give but one example.

But you can see that if energy prices, especially for natural gas, stay low for a long period of time, we'll be back in a trance and the imperative for other tougher pushes, whether it's a build - out of renewables, as Joe Romm would like, or much more R. and D., as I would like, it's just going to be really hard to sustain that.

Using natural gas could both hasten the return to coal for domestic heating and electricity, as well as help push Canada toward building more nuclear power plants.

In the 1970s and 1980s, anti-nuclear groups forced the cancellation of 150 percent more nuclear plants than were ever built, which led to the building, and continued operation, of coal and natural gas plants.

The solar numbers pale in comparison to the more than 4,600 MW of new natural gas combined - cycle plants Dominion has been building just in this decade.

Just 11 % back expanding exploration and production of oil, coal and natural gas, and another 11 % support building more nuclear power plants.

Unlike traditional backup generators that run on diesel fuel, these natural gas turbines offer a more efficient solution and, more importantly, ensure the utility avoids building a new power plant.

Circumventing a decades - old pact providing a market monopoly in exchange for public oversight, an investor - owned utility has proposed legislation to allow it to build a new natural gas plant criticized for its financial and environmental impact, and then stick customers... Read More

It's not really a secret at this point that the easiest way for a natural gas developer to get approval for a gas plant is to cite the need to balance the grid as more clean energy projects are built.

Building a CSP power plant is far more expensive than building a natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) poweBuilding a CSP power plant is far more expensive than building a natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) powebuilding a natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) power plant.

Natural gas - fired combined cycle units are more efficient at over 50 % now, less expensive and quicker to build than coal - based systems.

Both gas projects, if built, would expand markets for fracked natural gas, meaning more dangerous and destructive fracking across the U.S. — near our schools, hospitals, and backyards.

Built right, the transition away from coal, oil and natural gas can lay the groundwork for a more equal society more...

Energy efficiency's stunning success in lowering carbon emissions should get more attention, and not just because it is cheaper than building new natural gas - fired power plants.

Siluria Technologies, developer of a catalytic oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) process to convert natural gas into liquid fuels or petrochemical building blocks (earlier post), and Wood, a leader in the delivery of project, engineering and technical services to energy and industrial markets, announced the availability of the Modus process... Read more →

And a small First Nation in British Columbia stunned the world with a unanimous vote to reject more than a billion dollars to allow a liquefied natural gas terminal to be built on its traditional lands.

Going forward, if the U.S. is going to dramatically reduce carbon pollution in line with the Obama administration's goals and international benchmarks, it will take much more than building new natural gas capacity to replace coal, according to a new study published in the journal Nature last week.

He has called for building more nuclear and coal plants, ramping up the state's natural gas use, opening offshore oil and gas resources, as well as putting wind turbines offshore and electric cars on its roads.

No need to build more power plants, whether as natural gas, coal, or anything else.

More nitrogen is now converted into reactive forms by industry than all by all the planet's natural processes and our industrial and agricultural processes are causing a continual build - up of long - lived greenhouse gases to levels unprecedented in at least the last 800,000 years and possibly much longer.

So electrically heating a «Zero - Carbon Building» in winter may in fact emit more CO2 than heating an energy - efficient building using (conventional) natuBuilding» in winter may in fact emit more CO2 than heating an energy - efficient building using (conventional) natubuilding using (conventional) natural gas!

More New York natural gas nonsense: Amid the growing state natural gas consumption noted above, the New York Post reports on a state - permitted natural gas - fired power generation plant that's being built in Wayawanda, scheduled to come online next February.

Natural gas fired plants are much less expensive to build and the price of gas may fall even more.

• Replacement of fuel oil - fired boilers with natural gas • Installation of more energy efficient heating systems • Improvement of the insulation performance of the buildings • Improvement of the HVAC systems and geothermal heating and conditioning.

So, nothing bad so far, nothing bad for a long, long time means the prudent thing to do is to stop deploying and subsidizing wind and solar (Europe is scaling back now), no new carbon taxes and even repeal recent ones (Australia, Canada and soon to be Europe), allow more exploration for natural gas (the US and soon to be Europe and more), build nukes (the rational).

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If OPIC had a $ 10 billion portfolio, we estimate it could help extend access to over 60 million more people by building more large - scale natural gas plants.

Renewable Energy is Expensive and Capital - Intensive: Renewable energy plants are generally more expensive to build and to operate than coal and natural gas plants.

Let's start with the good news today (the for - now - largest offshore wind power project is online) and move on to the more troubling (another study casts serious doubt on the benefits of natural gas as a bridge fuel as more renewable energy gets built).

There are efforts underway now to shift more electricity demand to times when renewables are most abundant, build more energy storage and local distributed resources to reduce congestion, make the grid more resilient, and reduce the need to rely on natural gas peaker plants, especially ones in disadvantaged communities.

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