Sentences with phrase «coal generators used»

With 1,100 MW of rooftop panels on 350,000 buildings across Queensland, solar «is producing electricity just at the time that coal generators used to make hay.»

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Set in a Steampunk version of the 1800s with everything having gone to an iced - over hell due to a sudden ice age which somehow snuck up on humanity people have decided to leave the cities in order to found new homes using large generators, massive machines that burn coal to provide some warmth amidst conditions reaching -70 c.

Increasing use of existing natural gas - fired capacity and lower use of existing coal - fired generators

Everywhere you look, companies and power generators like the Tennessee Valley Authority are announcing plans to shutter coal - fired plants and replace them with wind, solar, and plants that use cleaner - burning natural gas.

And as the English have done and as the Chinese and the Indians and etc will still do, they will use coal, lots of coal plus gas and oil for power generation until some capitalist somewhere with a very good idea on how to reduce costs and still make a fortune comes along and devises / discovers or restructures an old technology or a new power generation technology that is more efficient, lower cost, more profitable, just as reliable as fossil fueled, those coal, oil and gas generators

Some generators use mark - to - market valuations — assessments of the current price for CAPP coal versus the current price for electric power — in making decisions regarding which generating units to dispatch.

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

For about $ 8 million a year over three years, they could have kept some coal power going and wouldn't have needed to spend $ 400 million on emergency diesel generators they don't want to use, and over $ 100 million on a battery that can supply 4 % of the state for one hour.

«Lower natural gas prices have effectively driven down wholesale power prices for all generators, regardless of whether they are using natural gas, coal, nuclear power or renewable resources to generate their electricity.»

Petroleum - fired generators either burn petroleum liquids (such as distillate or residual fuel oils) or petroleum coke, a refinery waste product that can be used as a fuel much like coal.

** Excluding those that are already announced to retire, as well as Gainesville Regional Utilities» Deerhaven plant, which is not listed as a coal generator in the database used by UCS.

The industry even mocked Garnaut's suggestion about the non-baseload future for brown coal generators, where they could be shut down for months and used more sparingly in times of greater demand.

After being rebuked by FERC and in the run up to bankruptcy declaration, FirstEnergy's generation arm appeals to DOE to use emergency authority to grant subsidies to all coal and nuclear generators in PJM.

Electricity generators typically use steam turbines to transform energy from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal into electricity that can be used for residential, commercial, industrial, or transportation purposes.

Coal - fired plants use immense amounts of water to create steam to run their turbine generators.

A significant number of US coal - fired generators use once - through cooling systems, which involve large amounts of water withdrawals.

The option of using substitute natural gas in combined heat and power distributed generators further reduces the viability of any investment in coal - fired plants.

To follow the variable demand the power producers use a variety of «building blocks» from steady running constant load units (Nuclear, Hydroelectric) to slow load - following power plants (Gas & Coal boilers) to rapid start high demand units (Combined Cycle Gas Units) to peaking units (Gas & Diesel generators).

The combustion of coal in power generating plants is used to make steam which, in turn, operates turbines and generators.