Sentences with phrase «u.s. electric sector»

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The electric power sector accounted for about 92.4 % of the total U.S. coal consumption in fourth — quarter 2017.

** U.S. gas and electric utility CenterPoint Energy said it would buy rival Vectren Corp for about $ 6 billion, the latest in a string of mergers in the sector as power consumption in many parts of the country flattens.

About 30 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from the electric power sector.

«Only two out of the 54 are operating, and these utilities are trying to work their way through the mechanics to get permission to restart,» said Neil Wilmshurst, vice president for the nuclear sector at the U.S. industry's Electric Power Research Institute.

Innovators gather in DC this week to discuss how to modernize the U.S. electric grid in the face of a changing electricity sector.

Several consortiums of industry leaders across sectors - including Partnership for Renewable Energy (which includes Bank of America, Google, General Electric), U.S. Climate Action Partnership, or USCAP (Ford, Duke Energy, Pepsi, Shell, among others) and Climate Energy Network (a collection of small and mid-sized companies in every region of the United States)- are «terrifically energetic and committed to their work with U.S. policymakers,» he said.

Electric utilities, environmental advocates and a nonpartisan climate think tank all agree that they dislike the way U.S. EPA sets interim goals for states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a draft rule for the power sector.

Before Trump's reversal of both the domestic and international climate plans, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had recommended a 70 - percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions from industrialized nations such as the U.S., where nearly half of emissions come from the electric and automotive sectors.

Ms. Lau serves on the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council which represents the North American electric sector with the U.S. government and has been highlighted as one of the most successful public - private partnerships.

Paving the Way for Electric Drive in Much Larger Truck Sector: In both the U.S. and China, the transit sector has been the early adopter of advanced technologies and cleaner fuels in the heavy - duty vehicle sector.

Starting this month, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is including monthly estimates of small - scale distributed solar PV capacity and generation by state and sector in EIA's Electric Power Monthly.

In 2016, the electric power sector accounted for about 36 % of U.S. natural gas consumption, and natural gas was the source of about 27 % of the U.S. electric power sector's energy consumption.

According to U.S. Energy Information Administration *, coal accounts close to 80 % of the greenhouse gas emissions from the electric sector.

The electric power sector is the largest contributor to U.S. global warming emissions and currently accounts for approximately one - third of the nation's total emissions.

Executives at the Edison Electric Institute, the trade group for U.S. investor - owned utilities, told Utility Dive this month they see decarbonization and electrification of other industries as the central drivers of sector revenues in the 21st century.

Graph: Bloomberg Toward the end of last year, the U.S. transportation sector surpassed electric power as the nation's largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

Looking at just emissions from the electric power sector, emissions in Minnesota dropped by slightly more than the U.S.. However, since 2009, the state has made little to no progress on emissions even as electricity generation by wind increased by 92 percent.

On their own, CAFE standards are a very big deal as the transportation sector has now eclipsed the electric power as the largest source of climate changing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the U.S..

The analysis is the first to combine detailed models of the U.S. electric system and transportation sector with sophisticated atmospheric air quality models — accounting for the future evolution of both sectors in technological advances, electricity load growth and capacity expansion.

To emphasize the point that while there's credit to go around for reduced U.S. emissions, EIA tells us that 61.4 percent of carbon dioxide emissions reductions in the electric power sector from 2006 through 2014 came from fuel shifting toward natural gas:

At the end of 2012, 64.3 % of the U.S. coal generating capacity in the electric power sector already had the appropriate environmental control equipment to comply with the MATS and allow their operation past 2016.

From 2006 through 2014, 61.4 percent of CO2 emissions reductions in the U.S. electric power sector came from fuel shifting toward natural gas, according to EIA.

But for the U.S. primary energy fossil fuel input into the electric power sector in 2010, it seems to be about 0.39933 W / (kg CO2 / yr)(1.4632 W / (kg C / yr)-RRB-.

In contrast, the U.S. Sources discussion tracks emissions from the electric power separately and attributes on - site emissions for heat and power to their respective sectors (i.e., emissions from gas or oil burned in furnaces for heating buildings are assigned to the residential and commercial sector).

Meanwhile, natural gas prices in the electric power sector (including supplemental gaseous fuels) for New York and nearby states have plummeted thanks to surging domestic natural gas production — one of the hallmarks of the U.S. shale energy revolution:

Named the U.S. News & World Report - Best Lawyers» 2015 Law Firm of the Year for Energy, our team serves the electric power sector (conventional, nuclear, renewable, including wind and solar, and transmission), the oil and gas sector (upstream, midstream, and liquefied natural gas, refining, and petrochemicals), the water industry, and financial institutions, investment funds, project developers, state - owned enterprises, and public - private partnerships in the energy sector.

Two major trends — the «reshoring» of manufacturing from overseas back onto U.S. soil and the technology sector's jump into electric and self - driving cars — are revitalizing automotive - based commercial real estate...