Sentences with phrase «us electric generation»

Second, many states actively favor renewables in electricity generation, and even in places that don't, the word has gotten out that coal combustion is far deadlier to humans than any other electric generation source — including natural gas.

Minutes after the governor announced in a press conference Wednesday that electric generation had reached 50 percent, a power outage affected the north of the island, crippling San Juan and forcing the closure of several shopping centers, where those living without power or air conditioning shop and take refuge.

It is one of US largest producers and transporters of energy, with a portfolio of approximately 25,700 megawatts of electric generation, 15,000 miles of natural gas transmission, gathering, storage and distribution pipeline and 6,600 miles of electric transmission and distribution lines.

Increases the Electric Generation Facility Cessation Mitigation Program from $ 45M to $ 69M.

Activists have said that's not enough and are pushing to move the state off fossil fuels entirely — including to heat homes, power cars and fuel electric generation.

Included in New York's recently approved 2018 budget is $ 24 million for The New York State Electric Generation Facility Cessation Mitigation Program.

-- OPINION: Former Attorney General Dennis Vacco says that Article 10 weakens local control of siting electric generation facilities.

His draft energy plan says we're going to switch from coal - fired to gas - fired for electric generation.

Westchester County Legislator John Testa added to the Board of Legislators» Joint State Legislative Package an amendment to Cuomo's executive budget proposal to include additional funds for the Electric Generation Facility Cessation Mitigation Program.

«These plants are a necessary bridge to a much cleaner electric generation sector in our state,» he said in a statement.

In contrast, the U.S. grid relies predominantly on steam electric generation, making restoration much more difficult, and a recovery as fast as Quebec's «is highly unlikely.»

For example, energy companies estimate that raising the operating temperature by 1 percent at a single electric generation facility can save up to $ 20 million a year.

A 2008 environmental impact statement estimated a potential for 5,540 megawatts of new electric generation capacity from geothermal on BLM lands in Western states and Alaska by 2015 through 111 new geothermal power plants, with an additional 6,600 megawatts from another 133 plants by 2025.

«The electric generation portfolio of the future could be both cost effective and diverse,» said NREL Senior Analyst David Hurlbut, the report's lead author.

Since 2010, EIA said, U.S. solar capacity increased 418 percent from 2,326 megawatts, accounting for 0.2 percent of total U.S. electric generation, to today's 12,057 MW, or 1.13 percent of U.S. generation.

NuScale estimates that the plant's full power output will be available > 95 percent of the time, making it one of the most reliable electric generation systems available.

Electric generations, fuel, and plastics are some of the main areas these products are used, and they will have a strong demand even in a downturn.

The Public Service Company of New Mexico utility provides electric generation, transmission, and distribution service to its rate - regulated customers.

Back - calculating I make that very roughly 2TW deliverable electric (but not all coal is used for electric generation) or 5TW primary power.

Anyway, the biggest volumes of coal will be burnt for electric generation.

For example, if nuclear is providing 20 % of electric generation, it can be run at steady baseline, maximizing fuel efficiency, while all the other variable demand can be met with solar and wind based power that has been fed into storage systems during the peak periods.

Advancing from organic combustion to straight electric generation is an important step ahead.

The country's carbon dioxide emissions are back to the levels of the early 1990s, in large measure because moderately - priced natural gas has been taking market share away from coal in electric generation.

Most notably might be the acceptance of EPA ratings of vehicles by MPGE according to a formula that is an insult to science, and essentially sets the electric vehicle up as a solution to foreign oil dependence, but ignores the ultimate impact of electric vehicles that is to draw from coal fired electric generation.

Already some fossil - fuel electric generation technologies are up to 60 %, or more, efficient now.

Engineers and scientists have been researching new electric generation and storage technologies (such as batteries) for over 125 years now.

So what kind of electric generation technology could end up cheaper than coal - fired generation is today?

If you think about the scale of the amount of new electric generation we need, it's truly massive.

Bottom line: during the period during which wind increased from 0 to roughly 10 % of total electric generation, CO2 emissions stayed approximately flat, while state GDP increased by a factor of roughly 2.5.

But they can never be as cheap as coal - fired electric generation because the energy density of the sun's rays are not nearly at the level of fossil - fuels like coal, so you necessarily need more physical equipment to collect the energy, and turn it into electricity.

We need a new vision of the electric generation, transmission and distribution system rather than one that moves electricity generated at remote locations, arriving at the point of end use... with a loss of 67 percent of otherwise valuable thermal energy.

The electric generation fleet «is in the midst of a major transformation to a significantly cleaner fleet as a result of several factors,» acknowledged Tom Kuhn, president of the Edison Electric Institute, the trade group representing 70 percent of the US electric power industry.

Self - contained, small islands of electric generation, storage and distribution inside the existing grid — microgrids — could be the next big thing in electricity.

The average operating heat rate for gas - fired power plants is about 21 % lower than coal - fired electric generation facilities, creating less CO2 emissions.

The Clean Power Plan has a significant effect on projected retirements and additions of electric generation capacity (Figures 7 and 8; Tables 3 and 4).

Still others have highlighted the diminishing diversity of our nation's electric generation mix, and what that could mean for baseload power and grid resilience.

Federal reliability standards require that a certain amount of electric generation capacity needs to be located in specific geographic areas in order to maintain reliability of the electric system.

The Clean Power Plan also has implications for electric generation capacity, both in terms of additions and retirements.

Fossil fuel electric generation: Electric generation in which the prime mover is an internal combustion engine or a turbine rotated by high - pressure steam produced in a boiler or by a hot exhaust gas produced from the burning of fossil fuels.

At that time, there were major advances in Building Sector technologies — in glazing materials (heat mirror and low - e coatings), passive and active solar energy systems design and applications, passive and active cooling applications, natural ventilation systems, phase - change materials, moveable insulation, building simulation modeling programs, daylighting systems and controls, energy management systems, night set - back thermostats and occupancy sensors, solar hot water heating, solar thermal electric generation and storage, photovoltaics and advances in low - energy lighting systems, to name just a few.

Today's chart shows an hourly profile of electric generation throughout an autumn day, October 22, 2010, in New England and underscores three operational factors that can affect price — the morning ramp, the afternoon / evening peak, and the differences between the hourly and five - minute peaks (see second chart).

Grid Tied PV - Nearly 100 % on site electric generation - blown in Cellulose & Air Sealing in the attic after extensive energy audit - Gas back up Solar hot water system with dehumidification loop - Window - quilt insulating window treatments The house is a fairly standard colonial that happened to have a great south facing roof in the back.

Indiana energy holding company Vectren Energy Delivery (Vectren), has selected First Solar, Inc. to construct the 50 - megawatt (MW) cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin - film solar array sketched out last month as part of Vectren's long - term plan for electric generation.

Step 1: Estimate annual changes in electric generation and emissions of air pollutants at power plants as a result of RGGI implementation from 2009 to 2014 using electricity dispatch modeling and EPA emissions data for EGUs.

In 2006, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democratic legislative majority embarked on a program to double renewable electric generation to 20 percent while phasing out coal.

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.

Now the conservative Danish government has adopted a virtually self - financing strategy to get completely off fossil fuels by 2050 by further boosting efficiency and switching to renewables (already 36 % of electric generation, which is the most reliable and among the cheapest pretax in Europe).

Despite the potential collective loss of millions of dollars in electric generation, the U.S. wind energy industry has voluntarily committed to changing how turbines are operated during the bats» fall migration season, slowing blade rotations to fewer than 1 - 3 revolutions a minute, depending on blade length, thereby reducing the risk of collision.

The Electric Generation companion brief presents EnergyVision 2030's complete data and analysis for the key area of Electric Generation.

The trend continues through 2011, with July reaching a new monthly peak at over 4.7 billion kilowatthours (kWh), although these levels are still well below the amount of coal and nuclear electric generation within the state.