Sentences with phrase «cycle plants»

Natural gas combined cycle plants ran at 18 percent capacity in 2013, well below what they're capable of.

As a result, these plants would still produce a lot more carbon dioxide than would a gas - fired combined cycle plant, for example.

Huaneng is part of a Chinese consortium operating a 400 - MW pilot integrated gasification combined cycle plant in Tianjin.

* About 24 % of the electricity that will be produced each year by the Calpineís 630 MW gas - fired combined cycle plant at Hermiston, OR, that began commercial operations in August 2002, if that plant operates at a 90 % capacity factor.

During the negotiations, modifications were made to the project to include an upgrade of the phase 1 of the simple cycle plant to include a 50MW steam component for combined cycle operation.

«People said you may be able to cycle plants fast, but they will look tiny and insignificant, and only set a few seeds,» said Dr Brande Wulff of the John Innes Centre, lead author on the paper.

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So what the proposal is really telling the electric utility industry is this: If you want to build a new coal - fired power plant, you'll have to build a natural gas combined cycle plant instead.

The 463 MW Effingham gas - fired combined - cycle plant only runs during the night about 10 % of the time (red line).

The solar numbers pale in comparison to the more than 4,600 MW of new natural gas combined - cycle plants Dominion has been building just in this decade.

The single largest force in reducing U.S. CO2 emissions in recent years has been displacing electricity generators powered by dirty, high - carbon coal, with lower - Btu and lower - CO2 combined cycle plants burning natural gas.

Fast neutrons have a much higher cross section for the transuranics with intermediate half - lives which cause so much trouble in waste, permitting them to be destroyed in a combined - cycle plant with fuel reprocessing.

What we could do is simply have the state (starting in the south east of the country where the oldest plants are plus Muja in WA) acquire installed coal capacity at market cost and progressively replace this capacity with gas - fired CCGT Brayton Cycle plants.

Even excluding little used combustion turbines, the combined cycle plant capacity factor is in the high 40 % range, comparable to hydroelectric plants and new wind projects, Goggin said.

Most new IPP plants were distributed generation and / or combined cycle plants until the last four years.

Running existing combined cycle plants at 75 percent in addition to implementing low - cost operational improvements and best practices — such as operations and maintenance improvements; replacing worn seals and valves; and cleaning equipment ---- would allow Illinois to reduce its emissions by 27 percent below 2012 levels by 2030 (in addition to step 1, above).

[2] About 8 percent of natural gas combined cycle plants in the United States use dry cooling technology; 80 percent rely on recirculating systems.

Questions remain on what the proposal will contain, like whether Southern Co.'s 524 - megawatt Kemper integrated gasification combined cycle plant will be used as proof that CCS can be «reasonably demonstrated.»

Analysts told CNBC earlier this year that purchasing Dynegy would allow NRG to pick up a large portfolio of combined cycle plants, the most efficient type of natural gas facilities.

The Virginia State Corporation Commission has approved Dominion Virginia Power's plan to build a 1,588 MW, natural gas - fired combined - cycle plant in Greensville County, rejecting the assertion by groups representing independent Continue Reading

D can count on various projects to sustain its growth in the upcoming years like Greensville Power Station (combined cycle plant, 73 % completed), Cove Point Liquefaction (LNG production, 100 % completed) and Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

The project involves the development, ownership, operation and management of the 400MW Combined Cycle Plant to be fueled by either Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) or Natural Gas (NG) for a 25 - year period by Early Power Limited in Tema, strategically close to the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR).

About 104 municipal treatment plants use anaerobic digestion gas capture for a combined heat and cycle plant, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Techniques are being developed that can be applied to conventional combustion plants, but it is likely that capture methods will be even more effective when applied to integrated gasification combined - cycle plants.

A methane combined cycle plant is about 60 percent efficient, whereas the best coal plants operate at 44 percent.

Your friends at the TVA are correct, it's very difficult to determine precisely how much CO2 is emitted from natural gas combined cycle plants.

The American Lung Association does not support the construction of new advanced coal - based generating facilities, including carbon capture and sequestration and integrated gasification combined cycle plants.

The NRDC cites the «2016 State of the Market» report by PJM, the largest grid operator in North America, as showing that «new entrant natural gas - fired combined cycle plants, combustion turbine plants, and solar are economical, but that new coal and nuclear plants are not.»

Combustion turbines are more flexible than combined - cycle plants and so are better for meeting spikes in demand and integrating renewable energy like solar, but while they run less often, they are typically higher - polluting.

Because natural gas combined cycle plants have relatively short construction times it probably will meet the first closure date if construction begins soon.

In New Jersey, most of the new capacity came from two combined - cycle plants, the Newark Energy Center (685 MW) and the Woodbridge Energy Center (795 MW).

Natural gas additions, mainly combined - cycle plants, were lower in 2015 than in recent years.

The capacity additions came nearly equally from combustion turbine peaker plants, which generally run only during the highest peak - demand hours of the year, and combined - cycle plants, which provide intermediate and baseload power.

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

He has a degree in mining engineering in the field of fuel and energy, from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and his career of more than 20 years has always been closely tied to energy, managing and implementing projects in thermal power plants, combined cycle plants and liquefied natural gas re-gasification plants, several of which as part of the SENER Group.

These include pulverised coal combustion (PCC) with both subcritical and supercritical (the latter involving very high steam pressure and temperature) cycles, a natural gas - fired combined cycle plant, and a review of current and future applications of coal - fuelled integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plants.

For example, the cost of Southern Company's Kemper County integrated gasification combined cycle plant (designed to capture 65 % of carbon dioxide emissions) has risen from roughly $ 2 billion in 2006 to well over $ 5 billion as of mid-2014.

And this year we are giving the Marmaduke Award to a combined cycle plant that was disassembled and moved to a completely new location to provide both power and thermal energy.

It is only 15 percent of the energy that will be produced from a single gas - fired combined cycle plant that is scheduled to come online in Athens, NY in 2003.