Sentences with phrase «kpone thermal power plant»

The government of India's plan of shutting down thermal power plants in the country is going to give a major push to solar and wind energy businesses in the space.

The company, Forestal Rio Calle Calle, sells forest residue to energy - efficient thermal power plants.

More than US$ 1.18 billion is needed this year to buy fuel required to fire thermal power plants in order for the country to meet its electricity demands, Ghana's energy outlook report has said.

Indeed the Reverse flow project that the Mahama administration began to work on, will bring any excess gas in the western enclave to feed the many stranded assets Ghana possesses in the East, such as Asogli and the Kpone Thermal Power Plant (KTPP).

To enhance development of a competitive power market, Government approved the restructuring of Volta River Authority (VRA) to include an entity to manage the hydroelectric facilities separately and the sale to the private sector of the state - funded thermal power plants which government assigned to VRA to manage and operate.

The GMD explained that the concomitant effect of the efforts was a significant growth in domestic gas supply in the last few months, adding that during the period, domestic gas supply had increased from an average of 700MMscf in July 2016 to an average of 1,220 MMscfd currently, with about 7 of the volume supplied to thermal power plants.

As a result of the discussions, a consensus emerged that Ghana has faced power challenges for the past several years due to the fact that thermal power plants did not have enough fuel resources to fire power generation plants.

Martine Lechevalier, technical manager of hydro and thermal power plants at EDF Energies Nouvelles, the renewable - energy company where Bourtourault now works, agrees.

Xinhua said the authorities had shut down the Gaojing Thermal Power Plant's six 100 megawatt generating units.

And Arizona Public Service Co. (APS) has contracted with Abengoa Solar to build a 280 - megawatt solar thermal power plant — dubbed Solana or «sunny place» — 70 miles (110 kilometers) southwest of Phoenix on nearly 2,000 acres (800 hectares) of land.

Solar Millennium is so confident the technology will work that a twin solar - thermal power plant (Andasol 2) is already near completion.

As efficient as solar - thermal power plants using parabolic troughs with molten salt storage systems like Andasol 1 or Solana are, they don't capture as much of the sun's heat as is possible.

Though it doesn't break out the nuclear data separately, statistics from Europe's electricity industry association Eurelectric show both planned and unplanned outages mostly increased at thermal power plants in eight European countries examined, and periods of energy unavailability increased from around 12.8 percent in 2002 to 18.3 percent in 2011.

«The majority of the capacity addition will be through thermal power plants, for which the demand of coal is going to increase in the future,» the report said.

Thermal power plants — those that consume coal, oil, natural gas or uranium — generate more than 90 percent of U.S. electricity, and they are water hogs.

As a result, in recent years, such thermal power plants in the southeastern U.S. have had to decrease power production because river temperatures were too high or water levels were too low.

We should sit down with our counterparts in India, China, Brazil, Russia, and the European Union and build a number of thermal power plants with carbon management, so we learn how this technology works.

DESERTEC would place dozens of concentrated solar thermal power plants in uninhabited areas as well as wind turbines in coastal locations and scattered photovoltaic installations throughout Europe.

Harvesting the sun's energy as heat is hardly a new idea: During the energy crisis of the 1970s, designs for solar thermal power plants took off.

Thermal power plants, which produce power through steam, generate stronger and hotter thermals than those that occur naturally, making for an extra speedy vulture elevator.

The authors suggest that new thermal power plants should be built more than 20 kilometers from airports, and air traffic controllers should alter flight paths to avoid existing ones.

As O'Donnell notes, what makes solar thermal power plant technology expensive «is the cost of the hydraulics and steel and concrete associated with maintaining a half - degree of pointing accuracy in a 20 mile - per - hour breeze.»

That solar - thermal power plant — built by the BrightSource precursor known as Luz — still pumps out 354 megawatts of power from the sun at full capacity.

Partially as a result, a host of renewable energy projects have broken ground in the Golden State in the past two years, including a solar - thermal power plant from BrightSource Energy at Ivanpah on October 27 that will produce 392 megawatts.

In fact, the country is currently firing all of its thermal power plants — LNG, coal, diesel and fuel oil — said Sauer, who added that it's «quite unusual.»

Another route to harnessing solar energy to produce electricity is using concentrated solar power (CSP) and the world's first commercial solar thermal power plant came online in Spain in 2007.

I do know that the USA has numerous utility - scale solar PV and solar thermal power plants already approved and / or under construction, in many cases with long - term power purchase agreements already in place.

Because concentrating solar thermal power plants on only five percent of the USA's desert lands could generate more electricity than the entire country uses.

One major issue with nuclear plants (as well as coal and all other thermal power plants) is the fresh water wasted in heat rejection.

I think that in a sustainable energy economy of the future, most electricity will be generated, stored and used locally, and large centralized generating stations (which by then will be predominantly wind turbine farms and concentrating solar thermal power plants, coal and nuclear having been phased out) will play a much smaller role.

Southern California Edison has agreed to buy power from a fleet of planned solar - thermal power plants like this demonstration plant in Israel's Negev Desert.

Solar thermal power plants could play a substantial role in powering America's Sun Belt cities and are potentially profitable [*] in some places.

The utility has an agreement with BrightSource Energy to buy electricity from a planned suite of solar - thermal power plants — arrays of mirrors that heat fluid to drive turbines — with a total capacity of 1,300 megawatts.

The laws of physics limit thermal power plants to a top efficiency rating of 48 %.

Among other points, Mr. Romm says the «fourth generation» form of nuclear power discussed by Dr. Hansen has no greater potential benefits than other technologies (solar - thermal power plants, for example) that were not mentioned but that could be deployed at large scale much more quickly.

15 large solar thermal power plants that use mirrors to concentrate sunlight and generate electricity are planned in California, Arizona, and Nevada.

Concentrated solar thermal power plants, such as this one in the California Mojave Desert, could soon form a part of the smart grid thanks to a system developed at OSU

Concentrated solar thermal power plants, such as this one in the California Mojave Desert, could soon form a part of the smart grid thanks to a system developed at OSU (Credit: < a href ="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=261806396&src=id"> Shutterstock )

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.

Initially, the company pursued contracts to build large thermal power plants.

About 33,000 MW of thermal power plants, with an approximate investment of about Rs 2 lakh crore, are left stranded across the country due to the lack of PPAs.

In February, Princeton, N.J. - based NRG Energy bought the rights from eSolar to build 500 megawatts worth of solar - thermal power plants in the United States.

It is used in power generation, primarily for cooling thermal power plants; in the extraction, transport and processing of fuels; and, increasingly, in irrigation to grow biomass feedstock crops.

Google today said it would invest $ 168 million into the Ivanpah solar thermal power plant being erected by BrightSource Energy, as the melodrama of solar thermal approaches its boiling climax.

Is this a show of mere tokenism by the government to its own emission standards, by shutting down just one thermal power plant when more than a hundred of the remaining power plants continue to pollute our air?

While on the one hand, the government has acknowledged the grave pollution that thermal power plants are causing, there is reluctance in implementing its own rules (emission standards) for all coal based power plants across India.

According to the data obtained by Greenpeace India through RTIs, the Badarpur power plant has been significantly exceeding the emission standards notified for new thermal power plants.

A Greenpeace analysis of NASA's satellite data found out that coal - based thermal power plants were the largest source of SO2 and NOx emissions in North India (including Delhi) in 2016.

In December 2015, the Indian Government came out with a strict emission notification to control emissions from thermal power plants.

Thermal power plants are one of the major causes of air pollution in the country, especially in the Indo Gangetic Plain region (IGP).