Sentences with phrase «u.s. fuel mix»

All those data on expected retirements and capacity additions are tough to swallow in one gulp, but EIA also modeled capacity additions in five scenarios against expected retirements, showing a slate of possible options dramatic shift coming in the U.S. fuel mix in one chart:

The most popular electric car, the Nissan Leaf, over a 90,000 - mile lifetime will emit 31 metric tons of CO2, based on emissions from its production, its electricity consumption at average U.S. fuel mix and its ultimate scrapping.

The oil industry argues that it is impractical to add more ethanol to the U.S. fuel mix.

Not exact matches

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Power Plant Operations Report The generation fuel mix of electricity in the Northeast Census division of the United States has shifted dramatically over the past Continue Reading

Changes in U.S. climate policy — and not just in the supply and cost of fuels — will play a big role in accelerating or slowing shifts in the U.S. energy mix, Quigley and the authors agree.

The U.S. remains a nation in search of a solution for what to do with its nearly 70,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel, which has a small fraction of plutonium mixed in it.

Such «mixed oxide» fuel has not proved popular in the broader nuclear reactor fleet, although France continues to pursue it, with the U.S. soon to follow.

In a similar vein, he made vague but conciliatory comments about trying to find a way forward on two other long - standing nuclear waste issues: the cleanup of Cold War — related waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, and the stalled construction of a plant in South Carolina designed to turn some 68 tons of plutonium scavenged from U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons into so - called mixed oxide fuel (MOX).

This includes $ 340 million in funding to help fulfill the international commitment by the U.S. to construct the Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility to dispose of surplus plutonium.

Shifting to more electricity in the hybrid engine fuel mix opens profitable new investment opportunities in developing the vast U.S. wind resources.

But the U.S. needs a diversified fuel mix portfolio on all of its electricity generation resources to meet base load, intermediate load, and peaking loads.

States and environmental advocates said the U.S. is already moving away from coal, the dirtiest fuel in the electricity mix, thanks to improvements in efficiency and competition from natural gas and renewables like wind and solar.

If the U.S. rededicates its energy mix to fossil fuels, some other countries would look to step into the breach to try and take advantage of the growing worldwide demand for clean energy.

Because the waiver would also allow other states to adopt the California program, because states would be implicitly regulating fuel economy, and because automakers would have to reshuffle the mix of vehicles delivered for sale in each «California» state to achieve the same average fuel economy, Jackson's proceeding could have balkanized the U.S. auto market.

On longer drives, it would use a fuel mix of 80 % ethanol — alcohol, in the U.S. made mainly from corn — and 20 % gas.

It is this fuel - mix diversification argument that every pro-nuclear U.S. Electric Utility CEO makes «front and center» in their support of developing nuclear generation (base load) resources.

Electricity generation emission reductions are clearly the driver of the overall downward trend in CO2 emissions in the U.S. since 2005, as natural gas» share of the U.S. electricity generation fuel mix has grown from 21 percent to 34 percent during that timespan.