Sentences with phrase «electric plant which»
Before his address, the president toured the city's iconic General Electric plant which is producing giant turbines — among other things — that are exported to nations as far away as Kuwait, India and China — a far cry from the light bulb filaments invented by Thomas Edison that put GE on the map in the late 19th century.
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Newfoundland and Labrador is constructing the massive Lower Churchill hydropower facility, and Manitoba is expected to begin building the Conawapa Generating Station, which would be the largest hydro - electric plant in the province's north.
The rule change could boost U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla, which has been seeking to set up a wholly owned plant in Shanghai.
The Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the crippled nuclear plant, crashed 24.7 percent.
The cogeneration plant — which will be built in a dormant Sheridan Avenue facility attached to the large steam plant that still is used to heat and cool the Capitol complex — and microgrid will supply the 98 - acre Plaza's power, with ability to produce up to 90 percent of the complex's annual electric energy needs.
He says the pension fund is also shifting away from investments like coal and he's not enthused about nuclear because as a resident of Long Island, electric customers are still paying for a nuclear plant which never opened.
Federal regulators have approved General Electric's plan to dismantle a Hudson River PCB cleanup plant used during six years of dredging, which concluded this fall.
In addition to the many town residents who were employed at the Mount McGregor prison facility, many residents in the northern Saratoga County community are employed at General Electric's Fort Edward plant, which is slated for closure next January.
The New York Power Authority said Thursday it would not be conducting its own investigation into the recent equipment failures at the Greenport electric plant, which caused a village - wide power outage last month and subsequent smaller outages.
FitzPatrick struggles to make money because wholesale electric prices in Central New York have been depressed by plentiful natural gas, which fuels many power plants.
New York lawmakers should use all tools available to fight this issue head on through legislation, such as S. 4417, introduced by Senator Tony Avella, which would direct the state PSC to repeal any electric rate increase «where such increase is a subsidy to upstate nuclear power plants.»
Irradiated fuel from Nuclear Electric's advanced gas cooled reactors was expected to be processed at Sellafield, in the thermal oxide reprocessing plant, which still needs government approval to begin operating.
Scott Segal, executive director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, which represents utility interests in Washington, said Bloomberg's findings about the effect of the new EPA rule on coal plants are «very consistent» with what his group concluded in its own review of the regulation.
From downtown Munich to the fields of Bavaria, those panels exploited the photoelectric effect (in which light expels electrons to create an electric current) to crank out the equivalent of 16 nuclear power plants operating at full capacity.
The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), responded by cooling the reactors with water, which continues today.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which operates the plant, says that contamination spilling into the sea almost certainly originates from reactor 2, and that work to plug it could take months.
However, the scientists speculate that electric signals which are transmitted via the vascular system of plants, so - called vascular bundles, play an important role.
Although injection into deep rock formations has proceeded without difficulty at a pilot project at the Mountaineer coal - fired power plant in West Virginia — 3,000 metric tons have been stored so far, says Gary Spitznogle of American Electric Power, which owns the facility — public opposition halted a similar government - funded project in Ohio.
Electric currents that flow into and out of the ionosphere, which AMPERE monitors, have various effects on it as well as the atmosphere in general that can cause problems with tracking LEO space debris, the use of GPS systems, and even terrestrial power plants — as was the case when a geomagnetic storm took down Quebec's power grid in 1989, Anderson says, adding, «The operators didn't know what was happening.»
Tokyo Electric Power, which operates the plant, estimates that the fuel in at least one of the reactors has completely melted down.
Southern Co. and its partners have dug 27.5 meters down into that soil to reach bedrock and are now filling up the hole to provide a stable foundation for what is likely to be the first of a new generation of reactors in the U.S.: two new AP - 1000 models at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant that stand next to two older pressurized water reactors, which came online in the 1980s.
At present, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), which runs the plant, redirects the water over the reactor cores to keep them cool.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), which owns the plant, recorded high levels of radioactivity in a drainage ditch that runs to the sea from the tank, but could not detect anything in the seawater itself.
Update: On July 14, 2011, American Electric Power announced it would table plans to build a carbon capture and sequestration project at its Mountaineer Plant in West Virginia, which is mentioned in this article.
Another automotive engine technology that gets better mileage than standard internal - combustion power plants and hence, produces less carbon dioxide for each mile driven, is the gasoline - electric hybrid, which marries a gasoline engine with electric motors.
Having recently planned to invest in a new plant in North America, Jaguar Land Rover which is owned by Tata Group is now planning to build its first all - electric car in Austria.
The electric drivetrain will be built at the BMW Group's e-mobility centre at Plants Dingolfing and Landshut in Bavaria before being integrated into the car at Plant Oxford, which is the main production location for the MINI 3 door model.
Two major automotive manufacturing facilities are located in Kedah — Inokom's Kulim plant (which also assembles for Hyundai, BMW, MINI, Mazda and the Ford Transit) and Naza's Gurun plant (which assembles Peugeots, Citroens, Kias, the Great Wall M4 and possibly from July 2016, BAIC electric vehicles).
«Chrysler's latest concept vehicle combines the benefits of progressive, ENVI Range - extended Electric Vehicle technology — which offers nearly zero emissions during daily commutes — with a design that boasts a combination of modern shapes, a planted athletic stance with classic overtones and an undeniably luxurious interior.
The Michigan Assembly at Wayne, which is the plant that will produce the 2012 Ford Focus Electric, will be Ford's largest plant in North America after the new jobs are added.
The Oppama plant will be able to assemble 50,000 units yearly, and the Nissan LEAF represents the first full electric vehicle to be produced by the Renault - Nissan Alliance which has signed 80 partnerships for zero - emission mobility with governments, municipalities and companies across the globe, and which aims at turning into a world leader in zero - emission mobility.
As production for the new Nissan LEAF has started at the Oppama plant in Japan, the automaker has released a video in which it shows the assembly process for their all - new 100 percent electric, zero emission model.
Along with the current smart fortwo electric drive model and hybrid versions of the Mercedes C - Class, E-Class and S - Class, the plant will supply batteries for the new fortwo and forfour electric drive models which are expected to launch later in 2016.
There is also a solar based power plant which is able to produce 32 kWh electric power.
With a palette of otherworldly yellows and greens, the paintings depict the largest coal electric plants in the United States, all of which are sited in impoverished rural areas and shrouded in tree cover.
It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».
Inside the ultra-clean and modern factory, employees and a variety of impressive piece of machinery are working together to build 500 Model S electric sedans every week, and according to Gilbert Passin, Tesla's VP of manufacturing, that number will keep increasing until the whole plant, which is about as big as 88 football fields, is full of production lines.
The integrated «smart grid» electrical power network may be needed to make wind farm power available in the right places, but it will also perpetuate the most wasteful practice known to man which is the system of central power plants that throw away up to twice the heat energy as they manage to get converted into electric energy.
The vertical hydroponic garden, which has space for «up to 160 plants» in an area of about 25 square feet, uses PVC pipe and gutter parts for the frame, which are easily sourced and can be worked with mostly basic tools (though an electric heat gun is required for one step).
On December 6, 2010, the Supreme Court said it will hear an appeal from defendant electric utilities, agreeing to consider ending the federal lawsuit by eight states, which asks a federal judge to order reductions in the emissions in plants in 20 states.
The Pasadena, Calif. - based specialist in solar thermal technology has landed a deal to license technology to Penglai Electric, which in turn will build 2 gigawatts of solar thermal power plants by 2021.
The plant, which would be connected to the network of the island's power utility Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), is to be located in Naguabo and include the installation of a 30 MWh storage system.
Distributed storage promises enormous value to the electric system and to improving resilience, and the key to unlocking that value is the increasingly sophisticated and automated ways in which those assets can be operated, whether as a single smart asset to avoid a distribution line upgrade or as a virtual power plant of re-configurable aggregated assets.
At 516 - kilowatts (kW) in size, the solar power array will produce enough electricity each year to fully charge 54,750 Chevy Volt electric cars, which (aptly) GM assembles at the plant.
Base load plant: A plant, usually housing high - efficiency steam - electric units, which is normally operated to take all or part of the minimum load of a system, and which consequently produces electricity at an essentially constant rate and runs continuously.
Its clean energy portfolio, which accounts for over 18 % of the total equity capacity at end - 2011, includes hydro - electric, solar, wind and biomass plants.
The Directed Electric Generation Facility Cessation Mitigation Program provides payments to municipalities that depended on large fossil - fired generating plant property taxes when those facilities are closed down which certainly does not translate into reductions.
Even worse, Ameren, the local electric utility, operates 4 three coal - fired power plants in the St. Louis metro area, 3 of which run without modern pollution controls.
The program would apply to electric utilities, industrial plants, transportation and large commercial enterprises, which were responsible for 85 percent of emissions in 2000 in the United States.
Among the «service» companies featured in the GCEL are Australia's largest coal transporter, Aurizon, and the Chinese company Harbin Electric, which is the world's largest coal plant manufacturer.