Sentences with phrase «building new natural gas»

Going forward, if the U.S. is going to dramatically reduce carbon pollution in line with the Obama administration's goals and international benchmarks, it will take much more than building new natural gas capacity to replace coal, according to a new study published in the journal Nature last week.

Energy efficiency's stunning success in lowering carbon emissions should get more attention, and not just because it is cheaper than building new natural gas - fired power plants.

Building a new natural gas pipeline in Massachusetts?

«If there is substantial natural gas leakage, then building new natural gas plants would lead to more near term climate damage than using the old dirty coal plants,» explained Caldeira.

They imposed a temporary moratorium on buying or building new natural gas capacity over 150 MW and ordered APS to return with plans to acquire more renewables.

An offer from TransCanada to build a new natural gas line to the province seems good on the surface, but considerably less magnanimous when you consider it's asking the Ontario Energy Board to approve a 52.3 per cent increase to the rates it charges to some of its customers.

A proposal to build a new natural gas pipeline from Binghamton to Syracuse has been scaled back due to a lack of interest from natural gas providers.

People must close zero CO2 nuclear power plants and build new natural gas power plants that make CO2 in order to make up for the unpredictable and intermittent nature of wind and solar power.

If Cuomo prevails in his efforts to shut down the Indian Point nuclear reactors, this may assuage foes of nuclear power, but it will amplify the pressure to build new natural gas power plants, and / or transmission lines.

The annual cost of replacing all of South Korea's nuclear plants with natural gas would be $ 10 billion on top of a one - time cost of roughly $ 20 billion to build new natural gas plants.

Circumventing a decades - old pact providing a market monopoly in exchange for public oversight, an investor - owned utility has proposed legislation to allow it to build a new natural gas plant criticized for its financial and environmental impact, and then stick customers... Read More

Over the short - term, it's most likely to occur through increased imports of Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) and hastily - built new natural gas plants.

Next to it they have built a new natural gas power station that nobody wanted, and did not even bother connecting it to the 700 foot stack so we wouldn't have to breathe its exhaust.

Not exact matches

NEW DELHI, May 1 - India asked Japan on Tuesday to help build infrastructure needed to boost the usage of liquefied natural gas in India and elsewhere in Asia, India's oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said after a meeting with Japan's trade minister Hiroshige Seko.

Horgan announced the proposed subsidies ahead of a final investment decision on LNG Canada's $ 40 - billion project which would include building a natural gas pipeline from northeast B.C. to a new terminal on the coast.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP)-- Dominion Energy Virginia said Tuesday that it plans to build at least eight new natural gas - fired plants during the next 15 years, cementing its shift away from coal, while depending on renewables for less than 10 percent of its energy capacity.

«British Columbia is on schedule to build a liquefied natural gas industry and secure new economic growth,» said B.C. Premier Christy Clark in a statement.

Ontario already has a surplus of power, and has signed 20 - year contracts for electricity from two new natural - gas fired generating stations being built in Sarnia and Napanee.

Shell's multi-billion-dollar investment in Alberta's oil sands, along with its new joint venture to build a liquefied natural gas export facility in Kitimat, B.C., make the Swiss - born executive a particularly influential player for Canada's energy sector these days.

U.S. oil and natural gas production from Pennsylvania could help power Ontario and Quebec for instance, even as Canadian shale flowed through pipelines from Alberta to the U.S. Infrastructure matters a lot in these settings, especially given the difficulties most companies are facing in building new pipelines (Exhibit A: see the Dakota Access Pipeline).

Americans are buying more gasoline, and natural gas suppliers are finding new industrial customers and building out distribution to more homes, pushing up utility prices.

Alberta's electricity producers are planning to build new natural - gas - fired plants to replace a few aging coal plants — a move that will reduce carbon emissions and air pollution that comes with coal.

Cuomo can aim for his aggressive goals to reduce climate - changing greenhouse gas emissions in the state, or he can see a network of proposed new natural gas pipelines built.

The station is being built to increase the capacity of a natural gas pipeline heading towards New York City.

Residents of two rural upstate New York counties — Chenango and Schoharie — have voiced their opposition to a plan to build a natural gas pipeline through their hometowns.

Representing a smattering of different environmental advocacy groups from around the state, about 250 protesters held signs calling on officials and lawmakers to prohibit any more natural gas pipelines being built in New York, to stop the construction of a proposed liquid natural gas storage facility next to Seneca Lake, and to shift the state's energy production to greener fuel sources....

In the one month since Nixon entered the race, Cuomo has put an end to the IDC, said «the facts have changed» about legal recreational marijuana, announced plans to restore voting rights to felons on parole in New York, killed an offshore natural gas pipeline that had been in the works, and issued an executive order to prevent federal immigration official from state buildings.

On Wednesday, October 30, hundreds of New Yorkers from across the state came to Albany to expose Governor Cuomo and the Department of Environmental Conservation's (DEC) proposed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) regulations for what they are: fatally flawed, a danger to public health and our well - being, and supportive of a massive fracking infrastructure build out.

It would halt the building of any new infrastructure for natural gas or other fossil fuels.

Maxwell Ball, manager for clean coal technologies at SaskPower in Regina, which owns the plant, says that the company was surprised to learn that it would be cheaper in the long term to keep burning coal at Boundary Dam and sell the carbon dioxide to oil companies to boost production in the oil field than to build a new natural - gas plant.

NRG initiated and abandoned plans to build at least two new large reactors in the last five years, thanks to falling natural gas prices and uncertainty surrounding U.S. government policy.

Over the past two decades some 90 percent of the new plants built in the U.S. have been natural gas — fired power plants.

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«Natural - gas vehicles yield the least savings, and require building out infrastructure that doesn't transition into new renewable options,» Cohan said.

President - elect Donald Trump has vowed to revive the flagging U.S. coal industry, but a new analysis suggests cheap natural gas and falling prices for wind and solar power mean there are few places where it makes sense to build a new coal - fired power plant.

Because economic growth continues to boost the demand for energy — more coal for powering new factories, more oil for fueling new cars, more natural gas for heating new homes — carbon emissions will keep climbing despite the introduction of more energy - efficient vehicles, buildings and appliances.

The report, «Beyond Renewable Portfolio Standards: An Assessment of Regional Supply and Demand Conditions Affecting the Future of Renewable Energy in the West,» compares the cost of renewable electricity generation (without federal subsidy) from the West's most productive renewable energy resource areas — including any needed transmission and integration costs — with the cost of energy from a new natural gas - fired generator built near the customers it serves.

Plenty of opposition to the turbines themselves has appeared, even in rural areas, but robust opposition to building new conduits for getting energy from sources to markets, whether the medium is pipelines carrying natural gas or wires for electrons, has been seen for decades.

So what the proposal is really telling the electric utility industry is this: If you want to build a new coal - fired power plant, you'll have to build a natural gas combined cycle plant instead.

It's something that I think New England really needs to figure out: How do they solve that problem when they can't get any energy infrastructure, let alone natural gas pipelines, built?»

From Pennsylvania to Texas, the chemical industry is building new plants to take advantage of vast deposits of natural gas opened up by the fracking boom.

Few new coal plants are being built in the United States anyway, as utilities increasingly favor cheaper, cleaner, and newly abundant natural gas.

The solar numbers pale in comparison to the more than 4,600 MW of new natural gas combined - cycle plants Dominion has been building just in this decade.

Natural gas itself is cheap right now, but new gas infrastructure built today will become worthless before it can recover its costs and return a profit.

Dominion Virginia Power is currently engaged in an aggressive build - out of natural gas generating plants, with three new units representing 4,300 megawatts of generating capacity, coming online between 2014 and 2019.

Platts nuclear editor discusses why utilities are building new nuclear capacity when electricity prices are so low and the price of natural gas is relatively low.

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.

Lewis County is also currently in the design phase of a new state - of - the - art all - natural - gas heating boiler system at the County's Department of Social Services building.

New plants can also be built with carbon capture, like the Petra Nova coal plant and the natural gas plant being developed by NetPower.