Sentences with phrase «coal and nuclear power»

Interestingly enough, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman pledged to fight the Energy Department's plan to prop up coal and nuclear power.

Gas power stations are essentially jet engines in mechanical terms, while coal and nuclear power stations are steam engines, and therefore can not respond to changes in output as quickly.

First 3,200 residents were phoned and asked to rate various risks they associated with both coal and nuclear power generation.

Environmentalists have traditionally opposed nuclear power, but have new allies in the natural gas industry and conservative groups opposed to subsidizing coal and nuclear power.

The coalition wrote that coal and nuclear power have proven to be uncompetitive in wholesale markets, and that «there is no evidence demonstrating that RTOs / ISOs need to subsidize resources with 90 days of on - site fuel in order to maintain reliable service during severe weather events or otherwise.»

Wind power is also ideal for countries such as China that face severe water shortages: unlike coal and nuclear power plants, wind farms need no water for cooling.

Actually, hydro power lakes are currently pumping up coal and nuclear power every single night to be able to produce more power during day time!

The emails were obtained by the Energy and Policy Institute via a series of public records requests to Ohio House Majority Floor Leader Bill Seitz and other state legislators involved in campaigns to roll back Ohio's renewable energy and energy efficiency standards, as well as bail out failing coal and nuclear power plants.

Since 2000, the EU has added a net 84,000 megawatts of wind while reducing coal and nuclear power capacity by a net 10,000 and 14,000 megawatts, respectively.

This film seemed to take a sensible approach, or at least the show based on it, that would be a counter point to Patrick Moore's statement about how wind energy won't produce the same amount of energy as oil, coal and nuclear power.

If Fisher's past writings on the topic are any indication, the forthcoming DOE study is sure to be a thinly veiled attack on renewable energy aimed at propping up outdated coal and nuclear power plants that can't compete in today's electricity market.

The DOE wants to shore up coal and nuclear power plants in the name of resilience.

Coal and nuclear power generation don't need a second system like pumped hydro, mythical mega-batteries -LSB-...]

Friends of the Earth is committed to fighting against the Trump Administration's dangerous, misguided policies on coal and nuclear power.

Coal and nuclear power plants, in particular, draw many times more water.

Free markets would be preferred, but the US failed to create competitive power markets under deregulation because it awarded old coal and nuclear power plants all sorts of advantages including stranded cost subsidies, grandfather exemptions to environmental regs, preferential grid access, etc..

Federal regulators have rejected orders from Energy Secretary Perry to design open - ended subsidization of coal and nuclear power plants, and are initiating a new proceeding to look into reliability matters.

This started with a expedited study of the electric grid whose conclusion that something needed to be done to protect coal and nuclear power plants from going offline was utterly unsupported in the body of the document.

Soon, rooftop solar and other small - scale, locally owned renewables could upset the market for coal and nuclear power.

Editor's note: On January 8, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected the Department of Energy's proposed policy of guaranteeing the profits of coal and nuclear power plants in parts of the US.

Under this scheme, you would be putting coal and nuclear power into your car, which to me sounds like an electric vehicle without the battery problems.

That is because there may not be enough stream flow for hydroelectric stations, and coal and nuclear power plant may not be able to get enough water through the cooling systems to keep generating at peak capacity, especially in the summer months.

As many countries become less enamored with coal and nuclear power, they are embracing an array of clean, renewable energies.

This means natural gas generation can replace traditional coal and nuclear power that are no longer economic, as well as support intermittent renewable power.

Low cost natural gas is in demand and has been replacing coal and nuclear power in electricity markets in New England, which is now over 50 percent dependent on natural gas.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rightly voted to terminate the rulemaking, instead requesting information from grid operators and the public about how to address the undervaluation of coal and nuclear power generation in electricity markets.

They would have to compete directly with conventional power plants, which could result in a renaissance for coal and nuclear power in Europe.

Renewables would have to compete directly with conventional power plants, which could result in a renaissance for coal and nuclear power in Europe.

Concerns about the grid are linked to the fast - changing mix of electricity sources, particularly the loss of our most reliable and resilient sources of electricity, such as coal and nuclear power.

Transmission has always been important to generation — typically transmission costs can be up to half the cost of new energy from even traditional sources like coal and nuclear power.

If you've been paying attention to the power markets in recent years, you know that merchant coal and nuclear power plants are struggling to compete against natural gas - fired generation and renewable

to subsidize coal and nuclear power plants, including FirstEnergy's Davis - Besse and Perry nuclear power plants and two 1950s - era coal plants.

For example, nighttime energy demand is much lower than during the day, and yet we waste a great deal of energy from coal and nuclear power plants, which are difficult to power up quickly, and are thus left running at high capacity even when demand is low.

Ohio lawmakers are debating bills to subsidize coal and nuclear power plants, including FirstEnergy's Davis - Besse and Perry nuclear power plants and two 1950s - era coal plants.

Mr. Resch argues that more established technologies including oil and gas, coal and nuclear power are still taking advantage of incentives that were established in the 20th century.

He repeatedly vilifies the oil, gas, coal and nuclear power that provide fully 94 % of US energy, calling it «a strategy that traps us in the past,» and using his Executive Branch powers to delay, obstruct and punish those vital fossil fuel and nuclear energy sources.

Since power from new renewables is cheaper than power from existing coal and nuclear, it's no surprise that the lifetime cost of new renewables is much cheaper than new coal and nuclear power.

The political pressures behind DOE's request to declare coal and nuclear power plants as vital to a reliable grid.

As a quick recap, last fall, Perry asked FERC — the independent federal agency that regulates the interstate high - power grid — to greenlight profit guarantees to coal and nuclear power plants.

1) Regulations that directly shut down reliable sources of electricity, such as coal and nuclear power, and

Most of our electricity comes from coal and nuclear power plants.

The new grid study opened the door for the Trump administration to bail out uncompetitive coal and nuclear power plants.

«There are five key building blocks to a sustainable transition away from central coal and nuclear power plants and toward a more sustainable energy future.

And 91 percent were in favor of developing wind farms for electricity; a figure double that of residents who would want to see further development of coal and nuclear power.

Tennessee uses hydroelectric power with coal and nuclear power to keep the lights on for its residents, who use more electricity per capita than any other state, according to the NRDC.

``... electricity from new wind and solar power is 2.5 to 5 times more expensive than electricity from existing coal and nuclear power.»

The 2016 version of Stacy and Taylor's report similarly claimed ``... electricity from new wind and solar power is 2.5 to 5 times more expensive than electricity from existing coal and nuclear power.»

The ridges surrounding our little desert metropolis display something on the order of 400 1 megawatt wind turbines, built primarily by private capitol with the incentive of a 1.5 cent per kwhour subsidy for wind power (which is about how close wind power is to being competitive with coal and nuclear power at this time).

Wind and solar energy are already cheaper than coal and nuclear power.

And, yes, we're going to have to examine how do we make clean coal and nuclear power work.