Sentences with phrase «at large power plants»

De-centralization of electricity — we'll start to see generation at a variety of scales and not just at large power plants, for example: energy generation at the community or home level

The plan errs by placing its focus on preventing fuel supply disruptions at larger power plants and ignores the potential resiliency benefits of fuel - free, distributed generation such as wind and solar, clean energy advocates said.

Not exact matches

On April 26, 1986, a radioactive release many times as large as the that of the Hiroshima bomb occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union.

Now among Japan's largest telecommunications company, the Tokyo - based Softbank Corp has at least 63,000 employees, humanoid robots ready for deployment, solar power plants, financial technology business, and ride - booking services.

Syracuse CIty Councilor at - large Jean Kessner asks Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers to halt a multi-billion-dollar state bailout of upstate nuclear power plants.

Cuomo addressed that seeming contradiction in a briefing at Indian Point on Sunday, saying the difference is that the Westchester nuclear power plant is near one of the world's largest population centers, and logistically, there can be no safe way to evacuate people if something major goes wrong.

Large transformer explosion at Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant.

The process would be most applicable at seaside gas - fired power plants that already use a large amount of seawater for cooling.

The work contributes to a larger Masdar Institute - MIT research project, which is aimed at developing a solar - powered, combined electrical power plant and cooling system.

Think of it this way: At the moment, a larger portion of household earnings in China are tucked away in banks, where they are loaned out and used to fund massive infrastructure projects — highways, dams, power plants — which release huge amounts of CO2.

Most electricity in the United States is generated at power plants that run on coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.

In addition to studying the material and its effectiveness, the team wanted to determine how to best scale up the new filtration material so it would be viable for large - scale operations at power plants.

«Despite the large amount of emissions produced by shipping the coal such a long distance, our analysis shows that the total emissions would drop because of the superior energy efficiency of South Korea's newer coal - fired power plants,» said Dalia Patiño - Echeverri, assistant professor of energy systems and public policy at Duke.

But even if the EU picked up the entire bill, says the Ökoinstitut, «it would cost every citizen of the EU an insurance premium of at most $ 2.80 per year» to shut down the largest concentration of nuclear power plants in Eastern Europe.

That helps explain why such a large earthquake was unexpected in the region, resulting in catastrophic consequences that included more than 24,000 people dead or missing and fuel meltdowns in three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the coast.

Seven years after one of the largest earthquakes on record unleashed a massive tsunami and triggered a meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, officials say they are at last getting a handle on the mammoth task of cleaning the site before it is ultimately dismantled.

These include the behaviour of the Italian government in the aftermath of Chernobyl, the basis of decision - making in civil nuclear power in Switzerland and France, and the controversy over the supposed effects of radiation doses to fathers on their offspring at Sellafield (a large case control study, which has recently been published, contradicts the views in the book), and the Black enquiry into childhood leukaemias in the vicinity of the plant.

«Power plant emissions verified remotely at Four Corners sites, largest point source pollution in U.S..»

KIEV, Ukraine — In 1986 the worst nuclear accident in history took place when reactor No. 4 in the power plant at nearby Chernobyl exploded, spewing large amounts of radiation into the atmosphere.

Spurred by a series of nuclear - power mishaps, starting with 2011's disaster at Fukushima, large - scale solar and wind plants now dot the country.

The researchers counted the largest numbers of vultures in late afternoon, but location mattered: Power plants near areas where the vultures tended to roost had more visitors in the early morning and late afternoon, whereas power plants near feeding sites had more at miPower plants near areas where the vultures tended to roost had more visitors in the early morning and late afternoon, whereas power plants near feeding sites had more at mipower plants near feeding sites had more at midday.

Dubbed Sierra SunTower, the power plant can produce five megawatts, enough to power roughly 4,000 local homes at full capacity — and provide the modular blueprint for larger plants in California and New Mexico, according to eSolar, the Pasadena start - up behind the power plant.

GE's H - class heavy - duty gas turbines are currently the world's largest and most efficient gas turbines, capable of converting fuel and air into electricity at more than 62 percent power - plant efficiency when matched with a steam turbine generator, a setup known as combined cycle.

If it is not, coal at power plants could be replaced by natural gas, nuclear power and large - scale renewable energy projects.

The EPSRC Energy Programme will build on the large amount of research already being conducted through a number of consortia and research programs at various institutions working in areas such as biomass and bioenergy, marine energy, and extending the lifetime of conventional power plants through the Supergen programme.

«Larger sample size gives you more power,» said Jesse Poland, assistant professor in the Departments of Plant Pathology and Agronomy at Kansas State University.

Germany is the largest country to announce that it will forgo generating nuclear power in the aftermath of the disaster at the Fukushima plant in Japan.

The devices make electricity at an efficiency that can match a large natural gas - based power plant.

The only issue is putting all the pieces together at one large, coal - fired power plant — which is what governments and some private companies are beginning to do.

But those smokestacks, many attached to coal - fired power plants, are the single - largest source of greenhouse gas pollution in the U.S., at two billion metric tons of CO2 per year.

Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories, along with partner institutions Georgia Tech, Bucknell University, King Saud University and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), are using a falling particle receiver to more efficiently convert the sun's energy to electricity in large - scale, concentrating solar power plants.

During the present outage at Perry FENOC is also installing a new large transformer, one of two circuits that provide off - site power to the plant's on - site electrical systems.

Scott Burnell, public affairs officer at the NRC, said NuScale's application is the first to propose a nuclear power plant designed with several small reactors instead of one large one.

Of greater impact to the general public would be loss of water for critical cooling processes at large facilities like power plants.

Shutting down or refueling the large plant takes 1600 MWe off the grid at one time, while incremental service and refueling to one SMR - 160 in a ten unit cluster eliminates that large single - shaft dilemma, assuring sustainable stable power to the local grid and dependent users.

Alabama Power, the state's largest utility, has been operating some of its coal plants at significantly reduced levels to avoid raising water temperatures in the Coosa, Black Warrior and Mobile rivers.

Yet the new CR - V feels no less responsive at speed despite bulking up, due in part to the quicker steering, larger brakes and turbocharged power plant.

Large, upright air intakes at the corners of the bumper underscore the performance of the power plant.

The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) has caused us to focus attention on a large amount of spent nuclear fuels stored in NPPs.

As large owners of land, power plants, power lines and equipment, many utility companies issue first mortgage bonds for securing loans at a lower cost than unsecured bonds.

A show at The Power Plant in Toronto featured his large sculptures, small models and drawings from 1984 to 2001.

Recent solo exhibitions include large surveys at MUDAM in Luxembourg; The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran; The Pushkin State Museum, Moscow; The Musée du Louvre, Paris; Musée Rodin, Paris; BOZAR, Brussels; The Guggenheim Collection, Venice; The New Museum, New York; and The Power Plant, Toronto.

For his exhibition at The Power Plant, Landy invites the public to collaborate in building a «wall of protest» by submitting images, words, texts and slogans that represent their thoughts and feelings — of hope or of despair, on matters small or large, from high to low and across the cultural spectrum — to be transformed by the artist into drawings.

I think it's entirely possible that within a much shorter time frame than most people imagine possible, the overwhelming majority of the electricity consumed in the USA will be generated at the point of use, and large, centralized power plants will be a much less important part of the mix than they are today»

As our ongoing Energy Challenge series and plenty of independent studies have made clear, the country and world are still not engaged seriously in advancing non-polluting energy technologies, from solar cells to the elusive notion of capturing carbon dioxide from power plants at a large scale and stashing it somewhere.

At least 50,000 homes in SA will be given solar panels and batteries in a scheme (over 4 Years) by Elon Musk's Tesla and the SA Government to build the world's largest virtual power plant.

It seems that most of the electricity from large power plants is aimed at increasing manufacturing.

The eventual popularity of the opposition to Con Ed's plans for a power plant at Storm King then owes something to the relationship residents had toward the larger Hudson River and environment in general.

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.

James E. Hansen, the NASA scientist who has moved ever more into the arena of environmental activism after four decades of climate research, has called on the public to join him at a large demonstration on global warming March 2 at an antiquated power plant supplying the Capitol with electricity and heat from a mix of coil, oil and natural gas.