Sentences with phrase «constructing new power plants»

Prior to 1975, utilities were required to go through a multi-year process to obtain permits from numerous federal, state and local agencies before constructing new power plants.

Not exact matches

A bolder bet is Shell's effort to build solar farms near gas - fired power plants, constructing hybrid generating systems that allow Shell to do what amounts to new - energy arbitrage: tap different energy sources at different times and in different amounts to maximize profits.

And yet this critical technology found itself confined to small rooms constructed out of plywood buried within a labyrinth at the latest iteration of climate talks in Paris, a handful of enthusiasts, both old and new, talking to each other about roads not taken and humility while zero megawatts of plant - fired power with CO2 capture and storage exist in the world today.

The panel proposes to construct many new geothermal power plants, drilling down into the high - temperature bedrock, creating an open reservoir and pumping liquid into it to be heated.

We'd better begin a public debate about whether it is feasible or desirable to construct any new nuclear power plants.

The lawsuit claims that Allegheny undertook many construction projects over the years to extend the operational lifespan of these plants without complying with federal standards that require implementation of best available control technology standards to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions when new sources of power are constructed.

Utilities are happy to comply because constructing power plants provides new revenue.

By far, the biggest step the administration has taken on climate change is setting strict rules limiting carbon emissions per unit of electricity produced for all new power plants constructed in the United States.

Constructing previously unplanned renewable fuel power plants representing up to 25 percent of the generation capacity of the new coal plant.

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Specifically, the executive order directs the EPA to not only rewrite the Clean Power Plan, but to also rewrite the new source performance standards (NSPS) for coal - fired power plants that required state of the art air pollution control technologies on any newly constructed coal plPower Plan, but to also rewrite the new source performance standards (NSPS) for coal - fired power plants that required state of the art air pollution control technologies on any newly constructed coal plpower plants that required state of the art air pollution control technologies on any newly constructed coal plants.

The costs and risks of constructing new nuclear power plants compared to alternatives such as renewable and demand - side resources

You can't do it for at least 5 years while new forging plants are constructed so you are well behind the race, all the while older nuclear plants are going out of service and reducing the nuclear power base not increasing it.

The country has plans to construct a set of new reactors to maintain electricity supply and cut carbon dioxide emissions as a generation of older power plants is shut down.