Sentences with phrase «building new natural gas plants»

«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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Specifically, McCarthy and the Air Office over which she presides gave Congress and the electric power sector false assurances that the EPA's greenhouse gas regulations would not require utilities planning to build new coal - fired power plants to «fuel switch» to natural gas.

[McCarthy continues:] However, it is important to note that under the proposed carbon pollution standard for new power plants, companies would not be required to build natural gas combined cycle units; they would be required to meet a standard of 1000 lbs / MWh, which can be met either through the use of natural gas or by burning coal along with carbon capture and storage [CCS].

In another paragraph he sorta - kinda hints that he thinks natural gas prices will never increase; but he comes up short of recommending that new natural gas fired power plants be built.

Instead of doing this, why don't we simply fix the broken permit process for new nuclear plants and give modest tax incentives to industries or individuals that implement «no regrets» initiatives to reduce CO2, such as: — replace new coal - fired power plants with nuclear or natural gas (where a gas supply exists)-- replace newnormal automobiles with hybrids — replace Diesel for new heavy transport with natural gas — install energy savings initiatives (waste recycling, better building insulation, etc..)

No one was building new coal plants anyway; they are too expensive compared to natural gas plants and wind farms.

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.

This runs smack into another one of the «building blocks» of the new EPA proposal, which is to require natural gas - fired power plants to increase their efficiency by running much closer to the peak of their capacity.

You may wonder whether there is already enough generating capacity without building new plants to replace coal with natural gas.

Natural gas CCS: limited new natural gas plants in many places, with construction under pressure from intermittent renewables; reluctance by some stakeholders to get CCS associated with natural gas power because it may then become effectively impossible to build; also U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) CCS funding is specifically foNatural gas CCS: limited new natural gas plants in many places, with construction under pressure from intermittent renewables; reluctance by some stakeholders to get CCS associated with natural gas power because it may then become effectively impossible to build; also U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) CCS funding is specifically fonatural gas plants in many places, with construction under pressure from intermittent renewables; reluctance by some stakeholders to get CCS associated with natural gas power because it may then become effectively impossible to build; also U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) CCS funding is specifically fonatural gas power because it may then become effectively impossible to build; also U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) CCS funding is specifically for coal.

Closure of coal - fired power plants hasn't affected reserve margins since new capacity from new natural gas plants is also being built.

More New York natural gas nonsense: Amid the growing state natural gas consumption noted above, the New York Post reports on a state - permitted natural gas - fired power generation plant that's being built in Wayawanda, scheduled to come online next February.

Entergy New Orleans, the company that recently won approval to build a controversial $ 210 million natural gas power plant in the city, confirmed that actors were paid to show support for this project at public meetings.

No new coal plants are going to get built — they're not cost - competitive with natural gas or wind, and every one runs into a buzzsaw of grassroots opposition.

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

The takeaway from this chart is that according to EIA, although natural gas might be the least expensive source of electricity generation if you are building new plants, where coal plants are already built and where hydroelectric dams exist, coal and hydroelectric power is the cheapest.

As if on cue, last week the US company DTE Energy won approval to build a new $ 1 billion natural gas power plant that was vehemently opposed by clean power stakeholders.

Other new projects include a $ 10 billion natural gas plant creating 4,000 jobs from the international company Sasol and the Shaw Group joining with Westinghouse to build a nuclear parts manufacturing facility.