Sentences with phrase «biomass plant costing»

We Need to Think Big: Seven years ago, GMC opened a new combined heat and power biomass plant costing $ 5.8 m.

Not exact matches

Middlebury's biomass gasification plant is the product of an administration comfortable with multi-million-dollar projects, made possible by a sizeable and wealthy circle of alumni, a massive endowment, huge tuition costs, and subsidies from our colossal nation - state.

Conversion of natural vegetation to agriculture is a major source of CO2, not only due to losses of plant biomass but also, increased decomposition of soil organic matter caused by disturbance and energy costs of various agricultural practices such as fertilization and irrigation.

Wheeler examined International Energy Agency data for 174 countries on investments in six low - carbon power sources (hydro, geothermal, nuclear, biomass, wind and solar) to find the incremental costs of clean power compared to a cheaper, carbon - intensive option like a conventional coal - fired power plant.

In this future scenario with a high need for CDR, if the PUC had built the coal + CCS project, it could choose to retrofit the plant to a biomass + CCS power plant capable of removing carbon from the atmosphere at a relatively small incremental cost.

It is not clear right now if there is any site in the US where this much biomass feedstock could be provided to a plant year - round at economical cost.

Edeniq, Inc. developed a low - cost, low carbon intensity technology for the conversion of cellulosic biomass (plant material) to ethanol.

Current estimates, which I documented in the afore - mentioned article, put the cost of a biomass gasification plant at about 7 times the per barrel cost of a conventional oil refinery or grain ethanol plant, and double the costs of a coal - to - liquids plant.

Additionally, OPG has been directed to convert the Atikokan and Thunder Bay coal generation plants to biomass and both are expected to produce marginal electricity at an inflated cost.

Using plant waste this way means you couldn't simply burn it for fuel, reducing the world's biomass potential; and there are the carbon costs of transporting it and processing it and such like.

An analysis made public on Friday showed that new onshore wind plants due to come online in 2016 will cost... far less [per kWh] than coal, biomass and other forms of energy production.

Expressed in financial terms, the health costs linked to biomass burning for power generation run into billions of euros each year, with health costs associated with emissions from former coal and co-fired plants amounting to 137,000 euros per year on average for every megawatt of electrical capacity installed.

It is possible that some high - cost biomass plants could meet this criteria if their fuel costs are significant and they lack a sufficiently lucrative energy off - take agreement.

Wind plants can offer power at low prices because they have low operating costs and, in particular, no fuel costs, unlike fossil fuel and biomass plants.