Sentences with phrase «build new power plants»

There is no question that they are doing some pretty amazing things with waste to energy in Scandinavia, including having Bjark Ingells build new power plants that you can ski on.

The utilities are in a bind because they have to build new power plants to meet the nation's demand for energy, while anticipating an as - yet - undefined set of federal climate and emissions regulations that they believe are inevitable.

They reinforce the Pacific National Lab's January 2007 findings that we won't have to build new power plants for cars that charge at night.

They reinforces the Pacific National Lab's January 2007 findings that we won't have to build new power plants for cars that charge at night.

The groups all claimed at the time that rising energy efficiency meant electric utilities didn't need to build new power plants of any kind.

However, if you plan to build new power plants to match supply to demand at all times, you're running into the same problems: it takes too much resources, money and time to go nuclear at such a scale.

All of this fell apart in the 1960s and «70s for reasons I'll get to in a moment, suffice it to say the executives who ran Con Ed fervently believed that the inability to continually build new power plants would be a disaster for the company, the economy and the nation.

New York is a big step closer to being able to build new power plants for the first time in nearly a decade, thanks to the Power NY Act of 2011.

Cuomo hopes that with the long - sought approval of the Article X power - plant siting law, New York can begin to build new power plants and take Indian Point offline.

With these homes making their own electricity, utilities lose their most lucrative customers and confront a dwindling base over which to spread big infrastructure costs, like building new power plants or maintaining the grid.

Local officials, charged with meeting aggressive economic targets for their region's industry, tend to ignore national environmental regulations, covering up spills and building new power plants behind the backs of central government regulators.

Desalination plants also require a lot of energy, and building new power plants is difficult because of the state's strict laws to control pollution.

We should not be building new power plants that burn fossil fuels, period.

Digitally enabled demand response is often a more cost - effective and climate - friendly measure facilitating the integration of variable renewables than building new power plants or electricity storage.

As talk of building new power plants rises sharply, so does the cost.

In addition to its low cost, energy efficiency can provide new energy resources in much less time than it takes to build a new power plant.

A result of demand in China and India, he said, is that «Duke and others want to build a new power plant based on inexpensive coal, but the capital cost to build that plant is doubling before they even put a shovel in the ground.»

Unlike traditional backup generators that run on diesel fuel, these natural gas turbines offer a more efficient solution and, more importantly, ensure the utility avoids building a new power plant.

and instead has ended up building new power plants that burn lignite (dirty brown coal).

Electrolysis is expensive, and could require building new power plants.

«That U.S. exports of LNG to China could end up being worse from a greenhouse gas perspective than if China simply built a new power plant and burned its own coal supplies.»

Energy efficiency is sometimes called the «first fuel» because cutting waste is a cheaper and faster way to meet energy demand than building new power plants.

One medium - sized power plant could provide that, and if it's during the night, you won't even have to build a new power plant since there's more than enough extra capacity off peak.

Many of the goals to achieve one thing, such as making sure we have enough energy, can't be achieved just by building new power plants.

The bill is expected to be $ 690 million dollars, and will be first paid by customers (directly or indirectly), but over time it will more than pay for itself in electricity savings and a reduced need to built new power plants.

The costs involved in building new power plants; such as coal, natural gas, or nuclear, are incredibly high.

Not exact matches

A bolder bet is Shell's effort to build solar farms near gas - fired power plants, constructing hybrid generating systems that allow Shell to do what amounts to new - energy arbitrage: tap different energy sources at different times and in different amounts to maximize profits.

Utilities can use batteries to make the grid more stable, and to avoid building new expensive and dirty power plants that they only operate during times of peak power demand.

Once a power plant is built or technology is integrated into an industrial facility, it may last for years or decades, creating an entrenched competitor to new green energy technologies, he explained.

While India is building new coal - fired power plants, they are no guarantee that demand for U.S. coal will increase.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

INEOS Bio (which is the biofuel arm of petrochemical giant INEOS) and developer New Planet Energy say they will use the loan guarantee to build the «INEOS BioEnergy Center,» near Vero Beach, Florida, that will produce 8 million gallons of advanced biofuels and 6 MW of biomass power from plant waste and trash per year.

A relationship characterized by reconnoitering the frontiers of the secular where, both in the name of the church and outside of it, the gospel can be declared in new ways and with a new display of its power to build and transform to plant and to uproot, to burn and heal.

As our knowledge of nuclear power, for example, increased and we built more and more nuclear power plants, we discovered how little we really knew about the new world of technology we ushered ourselves into, with risks previously unknown and unanticipated.

«Over a decade ago, building new plants in New York City was easier because Con Edison was in the business of both generating and distributing power, and could build new plants whenever they were needed, said Ashok Gupta, director of energy policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council.&raqnew plants in New York City was easier because Con Edison was in the business of both generating and distributing power, and could build new plants whenever they were needed, said Ashok Gupta, director of energy policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council.&raqNew York City was easier because Con Edison was in the business of both generating and distributing power, and could build new plants whenever they were needed, said Ashok Gupta, director of energy policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council.&raqnew plants whenever they were needed, said Ashok Gupta, director of energy policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council.»

The bill mandates in law that New York fully transition to clean energy by 2050 by tasking state agencies with creating plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, not just in our power plants, but in our cars and buildings too.

New York State Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has proposed expanding the Long Island Pine Barrens by 800 acres around the decommissioned Shoreham nuclear power plant, but did not include saving a site in Mastic where a developer wants to build a solar farm.

Competitive Power Ventures wanted Mr. Percoco's help obtaining a state contract worth approximately $ 100 million to finance its power plant in the Hudson Valley, as well as millions of dollars in energy credits for a power plant it was building in New JePower Ventures wanted Mr. Percoco's help obtaining a state contract worth approximately $ 100 million to finance its power plant in the Hudson Valley, as well as millions of dollars in energy credits for a power plant it was building in New Jepower plant in the Hudson Valley, as well as millions of dollars in energy credits for a power plant it was building in New Jepower plant it was building in New Jersey.

Julia Walsh, with Frack Action, says she hopes that the governor will now act to stop the expansion or building of new gas pipelines in Westchester County, near the Indian Point Nuclear power plant, and upstate across Schoharie, Albany and Rensselaer counties.

Meanwhile, according to today's Siena poll, Nearly three - quarters of voters say they are «concerned» about the safety of New York's nuclear power plants and a majority opposes building new nuclear power plants in the staNew York's nuclear power plants and a majority opposes building new nuclear power plants in the stanew nuclear power plants in the state.

Toshiba has a 60 % stake in NuGen, a joint venture with France's Engie, which has the contract to build a new nuclear power plant in Cumbria in the UK.

And an additional 1,500 megawatts through energy efficiency and modernization of exisiting power plants by fixing current constraints that prevent certain plants from operating at full capacity, without building new power lines or new power plants.

He writes in The Sun on Sunday: «The Government is right to review whether to build a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point.

Around that same time, Competitive Power Ventures, where Peter Galbraith Kelly, Jr. oversaw government relations, was seeking to obtain a power - purchase agreement from New York, which would have guaranteed «a significant and long - term stream of income» for a power plant the company was building in Orange County, according to the complPower Ventures, where Peter Galbraith Kelly, Jr. oversaw government relations, was seeking to obtain a power - purchase agreement from New York, which would have guaranteed «a significant and long - term stream of income» for a power plant the company was building in Orange County, according to the complpower - purchase agreement from New York, which would have guaranteed «a significant and long - term stream of income» for a power plant the company was building in Orange County, according to the complpower plant the company was building in Orange County, according to the complaint.

He's accused of accepting more than $ 315,000 in bribes, including payments from a «low - show,» $ 7,500 - a-month job for his wife at Competitive Power Ventures, which was pursuing a plan to build a $ 900 million power plant in Orange County, as well as the New Jersey energy pPower Ventures, which was pursuing a plan to build a $ 900 million power plant in Orange County, as well as the New Jersey energy ppower plant in Orange County, as well as the New Jersey energy plant.

Meanwhile Toscano - Percoco, a former New York City teacher, began in 2012 receiving a salary from a mysterious company - Chris Pitts LLC that is said to be tied to CPV Valley Energy Center, which is building a controversial power plant in Orange County and needs state approvals.

In return, prosecutors say, Percoco helped CPV with «obtaining millions of dollars in energy credits for a power plant it was building in New Jersey.»

As the Green Party candidate, a party founded on environmental issues, Levy says he wants a ban on nuclear power plants in New York and also wants to see affordable housing and other buildings in New York made with eco-friendly and sustainable materials and practices.

His initial reluctance to support a project to build a new nuclear power plant in the constituency was damaging to Labour's campaign.

«I think it's clear to New Yorkers that something's rotten in Albany and we need to see a change,» said Food & Water Watch NY organizer Lauren Shindell, «and I think if Governor Cuomo wants to distance himself, he needs to pull the plug from the CPV power plant that was built on bribes.»