Sentences with phrase «baseload power plants»

Energy Secretary Rick Perry commissioned the study in April to evaluate whether «regulatory burdens» imposed by past administrations — including that of President Barack Obama — had forced the premature retirement of baseload power plants that provide nonstop power, like those fired by coal and nuclear fuel.

If done right, Virginia could see real growth in savings from energy efficiency that would both lower people's bills and lower the demand curve which would delay or make large investments in new baseload power plants unnecessary, Cleveland said.

Those proposals have drawn fire from clean energy and consumer groups, since they're projected to increase total energy and capacity market costs from 2 to 5 percent, largely in areas that would benefit baseload power plants.

That has led to large baseload power plants not being able to recover their costs, which often include large fixed costs, the report said.

Politicians do not want to recognize this; in the USA right now, Energy Secretary Rick Perry is «studying,» as David Roberts of Vox puts it, «whether baseload power plants (mostly coal and nuclear) are being unfairly pushed off the grid, thus threatening grid reliability, national security, and our precious bodily fluids.»

Storage at these levels has never been tried, so no one knows whether it is even possible for storage to provide the required supply of electricity to backup wind and solar without baseload power plants.

«States are coalescing around an «around market» template to preserve nuclear baseload power plants,» they wrote in last month's report.

Current fossil fuel grids with baseload power plants benefit greatly from storage being added as is happening now.

At the federal level, Energy Secretary Rick Perry proposed a rule to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to compensate baseload power plants that keep at least 90 days worth of fuel on - site — basically all nuclear power plants and some coal plants.

Secretary Perry's memorandum included a specific order to examine, «The extent to which continued regulatory burdens, as well as mandates and tax and subsidy policies, are responsible for forcing the premature retirement of baseload power plants.»

In the two years since the nuclear moratorium, the nation has urgently needed new baseload power plants to shoulder the country's annual peak load of 80 GW.

Mr Cottee, a former Queensland Gas Company executive who also ran Queensland state generator CS Energy when it built three baseload power plants, said Liddell's closure would increase volatility and prices.

Auctions based on marginal costs wont allow for recovery of investment, which is why states and RTO / ISOs have attempted to address the obvious shortfalls of the auction system by adopting workarounds, to feed money to baseload power plants, e.g., special features such as maintenance fees, or, as in New York State, the establishment of zero - emission credits.

Quokka, you appear to think that baseload power plants are necessary.

In a Friday memo, Perry asked his chief of staff to undertake a 60 day inquiry into «the extent to which continued regulatory burdens, as well as mandates and tax and subsidy policies, are responsible for forcing the premature retirement of baseload power plants,» such as those fueled by coal or nuclear energy, among other grid related questions.