Sentences with phrase «by natural gas»

They also have a back - up in - floor radiant heating system powered by natural gas for long cloudy stretches or unusually cold weather.

We want to see a migration of services that are now fueled by natural gas, diesel, and gasoline to being powered by this new, clean electric grid.

Between 2002 and 2012, the annual electrical generation from coal - fired plants fell by 2 %, while the amount of electricity generated by natural gas plants rose by 37 %.

This does not mean that we shouldn't worry about the problems caused by natural gas extraction and transport.

This cave was formed by natural gases in the groundwater.

The agreement does not affect Units 1 and 2, which are fired by natural gas.

Moreover, a similar risk posed by natural gas is an overlooked fact everyday fact of life * * *.

Many are being replaced in large part by natural gas.

Rather, it is largely a result of coal being displaced by natural gas, which emits less carbon dioxide when producing electricity.

I think sooner or later this price divergence will have to close, either by natural gas prices rising, oil prices falling or a combination of the two.

Imagine a world in which most of the vehicles are electric and yet they are powered off the grid by natural gas and solar.

If a company provides services in addition to providing natural gas, only those vehicles that are used by the natural gas provider portion of a company should be counted as fleet vehicles.

As the shift occurred to renewable energy load - balanced by natural gas and hydro, aging coal - fired power plants could be relegated to seasonal use.

Then there's electricity, heating and cooling, which are increasingly powered by natural gas.

Coal plants tend to have relatively low thermal efficiency compared to plants using combined - cycle technology fueled by natural gas.

If it is not, coal at power plants could be replaced by natural gas, nuclear power and large - scale renewable energy projects.

The cost of electricity generated by natural gas is heavily dependent on the cost of the fuel.

In 2016, coal - fired and nuclear power each contributed a bit over a third of the electricity, followed by natural gas generation, which provided a little more than a quarter of the load.

It was caused — was being caused, day by greenhouse - gas - emitting day — by almost every single thing citizens of an industrial economy like Canada did from the moment they left home in the morning to drive to work until they settled back in at night, warm in homes heated by natural gas and lit by lamps often powered by coal.

Shale gas development is expected to be the biggest new growing source of methane, but various analyses of the impact have been hotly disputed by the natural gas industry.

Speaking at an energy conference in Tel Aviv, Energy Minister Steinitz said the country's manufacturing and transportation industries will be fueled entirely by natural gas, electricity and alternative fuels within the next 12 years.

Fracking has plenty of potential downsides but from the point - of - view of a helicopter the amount of destruction caused by natural gas drilling is minuscule compared to the large - scale devastation from mountain top removal;

This basic approach would outlaw any new coal and nuclear production plants and set forth a timetable to go steadily from the 9 percent renewables1 used today to 60 percent by 2037, with the rest of the portfolio supplied by natural gas.

In this scenario, electricity produced by natural gas power plants could «crowd out» renewable generation by forcing the grid operator to curtail renewables to avoid a situation in which electricity supply exceeds demand.

While official results of the investigation have not yet been released, preliminary tests conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board have indicated that the blast was caused by a natural gas leak from a 127 - year - old pipe.

Looks like King Coal is rolling around in his grave: a recent report released by SNL Energy indicates that coal has been usurped by natural gas as the No. 1 power source in the U.S.

Electricity markets dominated by natural gas are subject to sharp price swings.

According to the PSC, the share of electricity provided by natural gas grew by 62 percent from 2013 to 2016.

The ongoing displacement of coal by natural gas in the US electric generating sector was neatly illustrated in two recent articles.

Now coal's getting beat up on the market by natural gas and VRE both.

So we asked in our research: What would happen if current low natural gas prices or pollution control policies caused all US coal - burning power plants to be replaced by natural gas generators?

Yet even though the Clean Power Plan has never gone into effect and is now being repealed by the EPA, coal is already being surpassed by natural gas — and sooner.

Natural gas is particularly important for us as all our major competitors» manufacturing facilities are serviced by natural gas.

Rozell said that the recycling of fracking fluid is helping to reduce the amount of water produced by each natural gas well, but the fluid can usually only be reused once.

It's a short drive across the Pennsylvania border for many residents in the greater Binghamton area, and statistics compiled by the labor departments in New York and Pennsylvania show that the adjacent «Northern Tier» of the Keystone State has done much better in recent years — boosted by natural gas drilling that New York officials decided last year not to permit, citing environmental concerns.

By measuring an uptick in online searches as well as social media chatter and mass media coverage, Ion Bogdan Vasi, an associate professor of sociology at the UI and corresponding author of a new study, demonstrated how local screenings of Gasland — a 2010 American documentary that focused on communities affected by natural gas drilling — affected the public debate on hydraulic fracking.

The study was pilloried by the natural gas industry, which noted the figures for leaks were based on limited data from pipelines in Texas and Russia.

Some scientists involved in this complex dispute still remain intrigued by the natural gas leak rates found in some U.S. oil and gas fields.

In a new report, Touché Howard, a methane gas expert and air quality consultant, says the flaws he found in a commonly used methane detector caused an acclaimed 2013 study to underestimate the amount of methane emitted by natural gas production.

As the New Jersey legislature votes to ban fracking, some word on what the EPA is doing to minimize the environmental damage which could be caused with unregulated hydraulic fracturing: Natural Gas Watch reports that EPA head Lisa Jackson has said that there may soon be Federal regulations dealing with air pollution caused by the natural gas extraction process.On the air quality issues, Jackson said:

If taxes and fines proportional to the costs could be imposed, coal would lose some of its competitive advantages, and would be replaced more rapidly by natural gas and then solar and wind.

In this follow - up, Fox is documenting the many ways property owners are being threatened and financially ruined by natural gas companies and how the government, in particular the EPA, is not doing enough to protect American citizens.

Lisa McKenzie of the Colorado School of Public Health, who — like Hill — has expressed concerns about the health risks posed by natural gas operations and has done research pointing to health effects from drilling, declined to directly critique the paper.

They are fuelled by natural gas pumped through the steel and copper stems.