Sentences with phrase «cycle gas generating»

-- The total GHG reduction possible with wind power IS 9 % when compared with the alternate of building a new combined cycle gas generating unit as I stated.

Not exact matches

Although natural gas generates less greenhouse gas than coal when burned, when its total life - cycle emissions associated with extraction and distribution are factored in, it does not seem much cleaner than coal

These mating calls are generated by superfast muscle fibers that surround the fishes» swimbladders and undergo rapid cycles of contraction and relaxation in order to make these gas - filled organs vibrate.

Unique to NuScale, NuFollowTM holds the promise of expanding the deployment of renewables without backup from fossil - fired generating sources, such as natural gas - fired, combined cycle gas turbines (CCGTs).

If you step up to the UX 250h, you'll get an Atkinson Cycle version of the 2.0 - liter gas engine found in the UX 200 with a hybrid system that generates a combined 176 horsepower and has a 38 combined MPG rating.

The micro gas turbines from Bladon Jets generate enough electricity to extend the range of the car to 900 km (559 mi) while producing 28 grams of CO2 per kilometre on the EU test cycle.

The advantage of the Honda Clarity Plug - in Hybrid is that, once you have traveled those 47 miles, the 1.5 - liter Atkinson - cycle four - cylinder engine kicks in to generate more electricity and take you as far as 340 miles on a single tank of gas.

Here the cycle is ionize the gas to make the plasma, build up the current, heat the plasma with an external heater until the temperature for fusion is reached, turn off the heater, and then have the energy require to keep the temperature high generated by the fusion reaction itself.

The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The power sector added a significant amount of new natural gas - fired generating capacity over the last decade, much of which was in the form of efficient combined - cycle units.

CPV Valley Energy Center is a 650 MW combined - cycle, natural gas - fired generating plant near Middletown, NY that is much further along and expected to be online in February 2018.

According to the Cricket Valley web site this is a proposed 1,000 megawatt (MW) combined - cycle, natural gas - fired generating plant in Dover, NY that is expected to be on line by the first quarter of 2020.

• Solar generating capacity continues to be rolled out, as costs decline expanding to supply the seasonal maximum of daily average, with pumped hydro to provide daily balancing until superior technologies come on - line, and open - cycle gas turbines shifting to a purely back - up function, with consequent substantial reductions in overall fossil CO2 emissions.

Newer generating plants are regulated under a different section of the Clean Air Act, under standards that new combined - cycle gas plants can easily meet.

The Cricket Valley Energy Center is a 1,000 megawatt combined - cycle, natural gas fired generating plant that has just started construction and is expected to be on - line the first quarter of 2020.

Since the publication of my original post on this topic I realized that there were two natural gas fired combined cycle electric generating units in development and not just the one I thought.

To put this into context, estimates of life - cycle global warming emissions for natural gas generated electricity are between 0.6 and 2 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour and estimates for coal - generated electricity are 1.4 and 3.6 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour [14].

The open cycle consists of the following steps: (i) flash evaporation of a fraction of the warm seawater by reduction of pressure below the saturation value corresponding to its temperature (ii) expansion of the vapor through a turbine to generate power; (iii) heat transfer to the cold seawater thermal sink resulting in condensation of the working fluid; and (iv) compression of the non-condensable gases (air released from the seawater streams at the low operating pressure) to pressures required to discharge them from the system.

(Remember that solar farms generate electricity at about 20 - 25 % of «nameplate» capacity on average, while combined - cycle gas plants nationally average 50 - 60 %, and can achieve 70 % or higher.

To ensure reliability, generating companies have built efficient, low - cost natural gas combined cycle plants to back - up the intermittent renewable plants.

If the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per day.

Our costs have fallen 58 per cent in the last five years, and we know projects that tap into Alberta's high - quality wind resources can produce electricity more affordably today than any other generating technology aside from combined - cycle natural gas plants and gas co-generation facilities.

The newly privatised companies invested in the new combined cycle generating technologies, which used gas turbines and were gas fired.

They calculated the full - cycle land use required to generate 1 megawatt of electricity from each source of energy in 2015, including the land required to drill and mine for natural gas and coal, the processing and transportation requirements and the power plant footprint.

A new 265 MW gas - fired combined - cycle generating plant, on the other hand, would produce slightly more electricity on just a few acres.

The wind turbines themselves would cover 57 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean, yet would produce slightly less electricity than a «new baseload 350 MW gas - fired combined cycle generating unit,» which would «occupy only a few acres.»

[3] Each state has interim targets it must meet beginning in 2020, and the EPA proposed that states use a combination of four «building blocks» to achieve the emissions reductions: (1) improving the efficiency (heat rate) of existing coal - fired power plants; (2) switching from coal - fired power by increasing the use and capacity factor, or efficiency, of natural - gas combined - cycle power plants; (3) using less carbon - intensive generating power, such as renewable energy or nuclear power; and (4) increasing demand - side energy - efficiency measures.

■ Some 14,000 MW of new — mostly gas combined cycle — generation has replaced older coal - and oil - fired generating capacity, a private investment of about $ 14 billion.

The take home message from this is that, in an efficient grid with 17 % of electricity generated by wind and 53 % by relatively new combined cycle gas turbines, the wind generation is only 53 % effective at avoiding CO2 emissions.

Electricity generated by wind and solar is more expensive than electricity generated using traditional methods, e.g., coal - fired, natural gas combined cycle, nuclear and hydro power plants.

Combined cycle: An electric generating technology in which electricity is produced from otherwise lost waste heat exiting from one or more gas (combustion) turbines.

Natural gas has proven credentials as a flexible power generating option, though high efficiency levels are only achieved in CHP mode, or combined cycle.