Sentences with phrase «about gas power»

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The boxes, which cost about $ 750,000, provide 100 kilowatts of electricity by converting air and fuels like natural gas into power.

Co-founder Jim Castelaz talks about the grind, hustle, and payoff of transforming gas - powered vehicles into clean tech.

«The trends are in place for you to see more natural gas,» Macaulay said about the future of global power generation.

Instead of a world dominated by renewable sources of power like wind and solar — as people concerned about the dangers of climate change would hope — PE execs see gas, oil and even coal as a substantial component of electricity and fuel sources in 2039, according to recent interviews conducted by CNBC.com on the future of energy as part of CNBC's 25th anniversary.

To drive down energy costs for businesses and families, we've focused on inexpensive and cleaner - burning natural gas, and last month, Calpine Corporation broke ground on a new power plant in Dover that is expected to serve about a quarter of a million homes.

«The reality about gas plants is that they are peaker, they often sit idle when that power is not needed,» and are turned on when there's high demand, said Wynne.

37.5 megawatts is about the size of a small solar farm; a large natural gas or coal plant can generate several hundred megawatts of power.

Motivations include concerns about future demand for transport fuels, growth opportunities in low - carbon technologies, and diversifying into power generation to secure demand for natural gas.»

** 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.

Revenue benefits include 20 - year index - linked, government - backed incentive payments, with about # 2m ($ 2.84 m) per annum in support through the government's RHI scheme and a further # 1m ($ 1.42 m) through the sale of gas to the wholesale market and from the Feed in Tariff scheme for the power generated in the combined heat and power (CHP) engine.

Renewable energy: Commit to 100 percent renewable power The Climate Collaborative states that about one - third of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas to produce electricity.

The ENI project is a gas field and it has about 1.3 trillion cubic feet of gas, which can add 1,000 megawatts of power to Ghana's generation for the next 20 years.

As natural gas gets diverted for home and other heating this winter, the head of New England's electricity grid is warning about possible future risks to the region's power.

The Power Minister also said he does not know about threats issued by neighbouring Nigeria to cut supply of gas to Ghana over unpaid debts.

Federal prosecutors have amassed about 11 million pieces of evidence, including more than 28,400 pages of emails and images from the phone Kelly used as an executive with Competitive Power Ventures Holdings, LLC, (CPV) the company that is building a natural gas - fired power plant in Oxford and has not been linked to the alleged corrupPower Ventures Holdings, LLC, (CPV) the company that is building a natural gas - fired power plant in Oxford and has not been linked to the alleged corruppower plant in Oxford and has not been linked to the alleged corruption.

It also produces 2,000 megawatts of power, or about a quarter of the power for New York City and the lower Hudson Valley and would be replaced in the near future by gas - fired plants.

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.

For example the FPSO Nkrumah, which supplies gas to the Atuabo Gas processing plant, should it trip, it would mean that we would lose about 630 megawatts of power in the Aboadze corridgas to the Atuabo Gas processing plant, should it trip, it would mean that we would lose about 630 megawatts of power in the Aboadze corridGas processing plant, should it trip, it would mean that we would lose about 630 megawatts of power in the Aboadze corridor.

The country supplies about a quarter of UK gas and wants state power company Statnett to be able to build an underwater cable to the UK.

Howe, who has already pleaded guilty to eight felonies, opened his testimony by taking questions about the hiring of Lisa Toscano Percoco to work on an education initiative run by Competitive Power Ventures (CPV), which has been developing a controversial gas - fired power plant in Orange CoPower Ventures (CPV), which has been developing a controversial gas - fired power plant in Orange Copower plant in Orange County.

Crowds came down from Orange County, angry about the construction of a natural gas power plant there.

CPV has 10,000 megawatts of natural gas plants under construction or development around the country and has managed about 10,000 megawatts of power generation.

ON SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2015 from 1PM — 3PM Join your neighbors in a community TOWN HALL MEETING Senior Center, Shannen Park 1918 Route 284, Slate Hill, NY to discuss the CPV POWER PLANT (COMPETITIVE POWER VENTURES) a 650 MW gas plant about to be built in WAWAYANDA between Routes 17M, 6 and 84

Local officials are bringing their concerns about a proposed natural gas power plant in downtown Albany to power the Empire State Plaza to the governor.

The subpoena also seeks information about the administration's interactions with the Millennium pipeline company, which will connect the CPV plant to a natural gas pipeline network as well as the New York Power Authority's actions taken to connect the power plant to the Power Authority's actions taken to connect the power plant to the power plant to the grid.

Hours before Cuomo's announcement, Nixon rallied with about 500 environmental activists in Albany against a planned power plant there that would rely on gas obtained through fracking in Pennsylvania.

On energy issues, Ms. Throne - Holst spoke about Mr. Calone's support, as a LIPA trustee, for the proposed Caithness Energy $ 5.2 billion gas - fired power plant in Yaphank, subsequently found by state officials to be unnecessary.

Central Hudson and Gas has reported over 61,920 customers without power, with about 20,342 customers affected in in Dutchess County, 3,382 customers in Putnam and 34,790 customers in Orange County.

In this area, the governor has a lot to talk about: he has blocked natural gas exploration; he has advanced measures to overhaul the state's energy grid, and is in the process of harnessing wind power off the cost of Long Island.

Green groups have lobbied Stefanik to help retain the funding for the program, and have fretted about the Trump administration's rollbacks on environmental policies, including pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Accord and Pruitt's decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan, an Obama - era policy designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired power plPower Plan, an Obama - era policy designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired power plpower plants.

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Chrysler Group LLC, Fiat's global business partner, is «excited about the potential for natural gas powered vehicles becoming successful in the marketplace,» Reg Modlin, director of regulatory affairs at Chrysler, said in his testimony to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in July.

Natural gas, which now supplies 25 percent of the nation's electricity, is the cleanest - burning fossil fuel, producing about half as much carbon per watt of power as coal.

About 12 billion years ago, the gas warmed from 8000 to 15,000 kelvin, probably due to heating from quasars, objects powered by giant black holes, the team will report in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

To the horror of anyone concerned about climate change, modern miners want to set fire to these deep coal seams and capture the gases this creates for industry and power generation.

About 20 percent of U.S. electricity comes from nuclear power plants, making it the third - largest source of electricity in the country after coal (45 percent) and natural gas (23 percent).

Fischetti: Right, if you think about a long trough that reflects sunlight, it concentrates the sunlight along a pipe that runs parallel to the long trough and concentrate [s] the sunlight like a magnifying glass, [which] heats the fluid inside this pipe really hot, so the hot fluid circulates out to a somewhat traditional power plant where it's allowed to expand into high pressure gas that turns a turbine which generates electricity.

Sam's focus is microelectric mechanical systems, and his name wound up on a paper called «Generating Electric Power With a MEMS Electroquasistatic Induction Turbine Generator» («a gas generator about an inch square and a quarter - inch thick,» he says).

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

Even in parts of the country where coal makes up most of the electricity supply, EVs produce the same amount of greenhouse gases as the best gasoline - powered nonhybrid vehicles that get about 33 mpg.

NuScale claims it will be able to produce power at about seven to nine cents per kilowatt - hour — roughly the same as big nuclear plants, only a few cents more than the cheapest modern natural gas — fired or coal - fired plants, and one - third the cost of a typical diesel generator.

And on unusually sunny and windy days — such as on 8 May, when for about 4 hours wind and solar power generated more than 90 % of the electricity that Germany consumed — they must swiftly order coal and gas - fired power stations to reduce their output lest an influx of power «congests» the grid and increases the risk of failures.

The 6 - foot - long, 45 - pound planes, called Mantas, can run for about six hours on gas - powered engines and fly as high as 16,000 feet.

«The energy payback time of a nuclear power plant is at present about 11 years compared with natural gas at half a year,» Storm van Leeuwen argues, when the full cost of decommissioning a nuclear power plant at the end of its useful life is included.

In his review of Robert Laughlin's book Powering the Future, Fred Pearce summarises the author's view as «ultimately the planet won't care much about our carbon dioxide emissions» because the gas will all end up in the oceans (1 October, p 46).

And that manufacturing contributes to a global greenhouse gas hit of more than 200 million tons of carbon dioxide each year — the same amount about 150 coal power plants generate annually.

About one - fifth of the emissions reductions needed to cut the global output of greenhouse gases 50 percent by 2050 would have to come from CCS technology at coal - fired power plants, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Unlike battery - powered electric vehicles, fuel - cell powered ones have a long cruising range — up to 650 kilometers per tank (the fuel is usually compressed hydrogen gas); a hydrogen fuel refill only takes about three minutes.

Natural gas is primarily composed of methane, a gas with about 30 times the global warming power of carbon dioxide.

The breakup of the link between CO2 emissions and economic growth in developed countries has been brought about in part by the availability of inexpensive natural gas beginning to replace coal for electric power generation, Harvard University business and government professor Robert N. Stavins said.