Sentences with phrase «even new power plants»

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

HSBC, Europe's largest bank, said today (April 20) that it plans to extend its ban on financing new coal - power plants to even more countries, will...

No big box stores, lawyers, power plants can cash in The Empire Zone program allowed big box stores like Lowe's and Home Depot to qualify for tax credits, even though they were shifting shoppers from one county to another without creating a lot of new economic activity.

Long Island has even more excess power than previously projected, enough to forestall the need for a big new generating plant until 2028, according to an updated analysis by PSEG Long Island.

Under Cuomo's watch, pipelines, gas storage facilities and gas - fired power plants are being built in New York, Hawkins said, even though Cuomo has kept the state's de facto moratorium on horizontal hydraulic fracturing in place since he was elected in 2010.

These electrical surges infiltrated power grids all over North America and northern Europe, and even destroyed a transformer at a nuclear power plant in New Jersey.

After the public soured on nuclear power following Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster, a previous administration even decided to build new coal - fired power plants rather than turn to renewable energy, Yun says.

Last week President Obama announced plans to limit carbon pollution from new and existing power plants, a measure likely to have even more impacts on coal - fired plants, including Georgia Power's epower plants, a measure likely to have even more impacts on coal - fired plants, including Georgia Power's ePower's eight.

Those figures, say the authors of the report, an update on a similar report in 2003, mean that «even if all the announced plans for new nuclear power plant construction are realized, the total will be well behind that needed for reaching a thousand gigawatts of new capacity worldwide by 2050.»

Fifty - seven percent of the public opposed restarting existing nuclear power plants even if they satisfied new regulatory standards, and 73 percent supported a phaseout of nuclear power, with 14 percent advocating an immediate shutdown of all nuclear plants.

But a new study shows that delaying climate policies could prove even worse for power plant owners.

This is possibly the newest market in the world, a would - be global attempt to create a trade in the greenhouse gas emissions from any nation's fleet of cars, household refrigerators, electric power plants, factories, even farms.

Greenpeace's goal in India is to stop all new coal - fired power plants because the resulting carbon emissions would contribute to global warming, even though scientists caution that renewable energy has not yet matured enough to supplant future coal - fired generation.

Constellation Energy has shelved its proposal to build a new reactor at its Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant, Obama administration officials said Friday, even though the administration had decided to award the project a $ 7.5 billion loan guarantee.

But even with new debt issues, many BRK subsidiaries offer their own non-BRK-guaranteed debt, whether it is Burlington Northern, or a Mid-American sub offering debt to back a solar power plant.

As for the power - ups there are three new additions, the Super Horn, which emits a defensive shock wave and can be used to fend off even a blue shell; the Piranha Plant, is held in your character's hand and chomps at any nearby rivals and items; and the Boomerang, which can be thrown up to three times to attack your enemies.

Or the Turkey Point nuclear expansion, in which Florida Power & Light toys with the idea of adding two new reactors to their coal / gas / nuclear plant 25 miles outside Miami — even though it is extremely exposed to sea level rise (and potentially hurricane storm surge.)

And yes central power will be another piece (nuclear is great for baseload power... it operates at 90 % capacity factors even if the price of building a new plant has risen by 130 % since 2000) Centralized wind and solar will mature but then there's the transmission issue...

So, new nuclear power plants being proposed today are extremely unlikely to even begin producing any «carbon free» electricity for at least ten years, and probably closer to 20 years.

By the time that new nuclear power plants can even begin to generate any «carbon free» electricity, we can build and deploy hundreds of gigawatts of wind and solar generating capacity — and that's with today's mainstream, already commercialized technology, let alone the innovations like thin - film solar that are just beginning to enter the market.

The Wall Street Journal and New York Times have pieces painting a convincing picture that officials at Tokyo Electric Power Company, reluctant to wreck a huge investment, hesitated to flood overheating parts of the damaged nuclear plant complex with corrosive seawater even though that step was clearly laid out in emergency plans.

Innovation and economies of scale can make new power plants even cheaper than existing plants.

Should we permit new coal - fired power plants even before CCS technology is available, yes or no?

That's because when you really look at it, you will see that even a massive global effort to build thousands of new nuclear power plants would have only a modest impact on GHG emissions and even that impact won't occur for decades.

Even while they are running adds criticizing governor Sebelius's decision, Peabody Energy is already incorporating a shadow price of carbon into their financial calculations when deciding if investments in new coal - fired power plants are viable.

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

Under this EPA regulation, no new coal - fired power plants can be built in the United States, because not even the most advanced coal - fired power plants can meet this requirement without CCS... and CCS is not a viable technology.

Given the nuclear solution requires new reactor designs yet to be built even for demonstration and test purposes, and then the complexities of siting nuclear power plants near the calling water they need while defending them against flood waters makes construction of tested designs take a decade.

The administration will need to ensure the standard for new power plants stays strong even as it is being re-proposed.

Even before the new law took effect, geothermal company Ormat began construction on the world's largest single geothermal power plant, a 330 - megawatt project in North Sumatra, in June 2014.

Reports indicate that, most power plants are yet to take the basic steps towards complying with the new rules even after 15 months since the notification was issued.

California, in particular, is saying «no» to new gas - fired plants and even considering closing existing gas plants despite their ability to supply reliable power at low cost and back - up intermittent wind and solar plants.

A result of demand in China and India, he said, is that «Duke and others want to build a new power plant based on inexpensive coal, but the capital cost to build that plant is doubling before they even put a shovel in the ground.»

Matthias Taft, Board Member of BayWa AG with responsibility for the energy business adds: «We are entering a new phase of energy generation: for the first time, renewable energy plants are able to generate cleaner power at the same or even lower price as conventional power plants.

More shocking, even in the wake of Fukushima, the Dutch are talking of approving their first new nuclear power plant in 40 years, because they can no longer afford to pay exorbitant fees for minimal amounts of renewable electricity (that is well below theoretically «rated» or «capacity» output).

China and India alone are building, or intend to build, 800 new coal - fired power plants in the next 20 years, making any action by the US, which would cost jobs and send even more business overseas, pointless.

So it's no big shock that there's only one new nuclear power plant still being built in the United States — or that even existing power plants are struggling to stay competitive.

Puget Sound Energy has said they plan to stop drawing power from the plant by the early 2030s, but Ericksen claims the new UTC directive would force them to abandon the plant even sooner.

Even as many of the world's rich nations seek to phase out the use of coal, Asia's two most developed economies are burning more than ever and plan to add at least 60 new coal - fired power plants over the next 10 years.

While the exact value of these subsidies can be difficult to pin down, even conservative estimates add up to a substantial percentage of the value of the power nuclear plants produce — approaching or even exceeding 100 percent in the case of legacy subsidies and subsidies to new privately - owned reactors (see chart).

EPA's Clean Power Plan assumes shutting down U.S. coal - fired power plants will stop climate change, even if China, India, and other countries build thousands of new coal - fueled generators over the next 20 yPower Plan assumes shutting down U.S. coal - fired power plants will stop climate change, even if China, India, and other countries build thousands of new coal - fueled generators over the next 20 ypower plants will stop climate change, even if China, India, and other countries build thousands of new coal - fueled generators over the next 20 years.

For example, the ISO recently filed a new request with FERC asking for authority to keep the natural gas - fueled Mystic power plant in Connecticut online even though the owner plans to retire it.

A new analysis released by the nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) projects that electricity bills will fall compared to today's levels, even as the states fulfill their commitment to cut RGGI's power plant pollution cap by another 30 percent by 2030.

Adding carbon and capture technology to new coal plants makes electricity from coal more expensive than energy from solar thermal and wind power, even when «firming costs» are included for alternatives (see table).

Even as some utility executives are joining environmentalists in supporting controls on carbon emissions, TXU is betting $ 10 billion on 11 new coal power plants that will produce huge amounts of global warming gases for decades to come.

First, new wood - burning power plants being built in the EU, UK, and even Asia burn wood pellets that are largely made from whole trees, not residues.

Marcellus Shale production is helping the Commonwealth to lower carbon emissions with $ 10.5 billion worth of new power natural gas - fired power plant investments, and as this latest study shows — those benefits aren't even close to being cancelled out by methane emissions from record production.

It is almost impossible to make weapons material from the new nuclear power plants and it will be even more difficult in the future.

«REDD is a good initiative, but it's not all - inclusive,» says COMESA Secretary General Sindiso Ngwenya, who derided a REDD - only approach as «political, social, economic apartheid» that punished subsistence farmers even as the Clean Development Mechanism pays for new power plants in China and India.

Even so, an estimated 9 gigawatts of new coal power — about 15 average - sized plants — are expected to come online between now and 2040, the federal government reports, which is why the new rules are needed, environmentalists say.