Sentences with phrase «burning natural gas facility»

CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY, N.Y. — Assemblyman Andy Goodell says he's reasonably optimistic the NRG plant in Dunkirk will be repowered into a state - of - the - art clean burning natural gas facility as planned.

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Cuomo personally traveled to Western New York to announce a repowering agreement for a coal - burning facility in Dunkirk that would switch it to natural gas and keep the town's revenue base intact, largely by forcing utility ratepayers o pay a little extra on their monthly bills.

Other major TVA facilities that have announced plans in recent years to shut down include the Colbert Fossil Plant, also in Alabama, and the Paradise Fossil Plant in Kentucky, where two of three coal units were slated for closure while a third unit was to be converted to burn natural gas (ClimateWire, Nov. 15, 2013).

Natural gas might still have an advantage over coal when burned to create electricity, because gas - fired power plants tend to be newer and far more efficient than older facilities that provide the bulk of the country's coal - fired generation.

Weiss said that, while natural gas burns cleaner, the NETL study concluded that the end - to - end emissions involved in moving U.S. natural gas to an LNG export facility, then liquefying it, then shipping it across the ocean, then de-liquefying it, and shipping it to users in other countries, would be as energy and emissions intensive, or more, than using regionally produced coal — i.e., because of the LNG export supply chain, it has no advantage over coal.

Eligible CO2 sources include power plants that burn coal, natural gas, or oil and industrial facilities such as petroleum refineries, oil and gas production facilities, iron and steel mills, cement plants, fertilizer plants, ethanol distilleries and chemical plants.