Sentences with phrase «efficient power plants»

Another issue is the lack of emission credits in the South Coast Air Quality Management District that makes it difficult to obtain the necessary permits to build reliable replacement power before aging, less - efficient power plants can be retired or repowered.

Less expensive but less efficient power plants like combustion gas turbines are useful for capacity and flexibility because they are used only infrequently.

«We see good prospects for our efficient power plants in the Ruhr area,» which is a large urban region in North Rhine - Westphalia, he said.

«The efficiency of converting coal into electricity matters: more efficient power plants use less fuel and emit less climate - damaging carbon dioxide,» wrote the authors of the International Energy Agency report on measuring coal plant performance.

Rather than encouraging the building of more efficient power plants, the California regulatory scheme prevented building new efficient power plants by forcing utilities to rely on the unreliable availability and predatory prices for imported electricity.

More efficient power plants and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology could boost prospects for coal, but the latter still faces significant regulatory, policy and technical barriers that make its deployment uncertain.

When energy use approaches peak loads (where the less efficient power plants come online), they start taking action.

The 2016 Volvo XC90, redesigned at long last, has wowed us with its slick styling, exquisite interior and strong yet fuel - efficient power plants.

A 100 MPGe BEV is more like 40 MPGe when you consider 40 % efficient power plants, minus transmission losses, charger loses and round trip battery loses.

Wide ranging choice of efficient power plants

The Corsa Color Race will be made with a variety of fuel efficient power plants including a 1.4 Liter gas burning engine of either the 87 HP or 100 HP variety as well as the diesel burning top of the line 1.7 Liter four cylinder CDTI making a total of 130 HP.

Many companies, including ours, have already invested in modern air - pollution control technologies and cleaner and more efficient power plants.

If we had an abundant supply of antimatter (which we don't), then a 100 percent efficient power plant would be easy to make.

The new Sedona comes with a direct injection 3.3 - liter V - 6 engine, a very efficient power plant that, however, does not leap ahead of the pack in fuel economy.

In its own way, it is a highly efficient power plant.

The vision of PACE would be that for countries choosing to use coal, the most efficient power plant technology possible is deployed.

An efficient power plant produces relatively little black carbon, but back when England was obtaining most of its industrial power by burning up all its forests, it seems unlikely that efficiency was on anyone's mind until most of England's forests were gone.

For solar thermal power generation, the technology can provide steam temperatures of up to 620 degrees Celsius for highly efficient power plant processes.

The vision of the WCA's Platform for Accelerating Coal Efficiency (PACE) is to deploy the most efficient power plant technology possible and to encourage international partners (such as development banks and governments) to work together to increase funding for, and the use of HELE technology.

Indeed, some of Australia's coal plants are still notoriously inefficient: Hazelwood Power Station in Victoria, for instance, has been ranked the least carbon - efficient power plant in the world.

Not exact matches

The natural gas plants are necessary partly because of expected load growth, partly because of the intermittent nature of solar power and partly because of the planned retirement of around 3,000 megawatts of generation powered by less efficient coal and oil plants, he said.

The company, Forestal Rio Calle Calle, sells forest residue to energy - efficient thermal power plants.

In 2013, Richard told Bloomberg that, «Marathon maintains the position that PREPA does not need restructuring, that it is a corporation with valuable assets if it was slightly more efficient and built its own power plants on the island.»

Though green - energy organizations are facing hurdles in getting access to capital markets, wind plant or solar power builders, who are producing green energy, are highly benefitted with enormous profit rates by the use of this efficient trading platform.

«Storage effectively provides a low - cost source of power, eliminating the need for the highest cost, least efficient conventional power plant,» says the report.

These include: • One of the most technically advanced and cleanest smelters in the world which captures 99.9 per cent of sulphur emissions and generates two thirds of the plant's electrical power • A US$ 10m combined heat and power system that will reduce emissions by 90 per cent compared with separate heat and power systems • A vehicle idling reduction programme that now covers 360 vehicles and has resulted in the avoidance of more than two million gallons of fuel and emissions • New, more efficient trucks with fewer emissions

He noted that though the nuclear power plant is known for high energy density without green house gases emissions and Few Recourse limitations, it can not compare to the safe, efficient newly invented (Green) «EX5» solar Quantum physics energy generator (nuclear replacement plant) which only needs a solar panel for 8seconds.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

A slew of new coal - fired generators are coming online, he noted, and while those plants are sleeker and more efficient, they're still not nearly as clean as gas - fired turbines or renewable power sources.

A new, highly permeable carbon capture membrane developed by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could lead to more efficient ways of separating carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.

According to the Alliance to Save Energy, new standards for efficient lighting could save 158 million tons of carbon emissions each year, the equivalent of the emissions from 80 coal - fired power plants.

Compared with other strategies — efficient appliances, upgraded power plants, new grid technology — it has cost them next to nothing.

As efficient as solar - thermal power plants using parabolic troughs with molten salt storage systems like Andasol 1 or Solana are, they don't capture as much of the sun's heat as is possible.

Stirling engines are significantly more efficient at converting sunlight into energy than most photovoltaic panels or concentrating solar power plants, whether parabolic trough or tower designs.

The same plastic as in garbage bags makes an efficient heat exchanger in power plants by creating microchannels.

In the ARPA - E program alone, four of the 37 funded developing technologies concerned researching more energy - efficient ways to capture the CO2 in a fossil fuel — fired power plant's flue gas.

The DemoSNG pilot plant constructed by the KIT will be used in Sweden for the reliable and efficient production of methane from biomass - based carbon dioxide and variable amounts of hydrogen from green power.

Replacing old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas plants could cause climate damage to increase over the next decades, unless their methane leakage rates are very low and the new power plants are very efficient.

GE's H - class heavy - duty gas turbines are currently the world's largest and most efficient gas turbines, capable of converting fuel and air into electricity at more than 62 percent power - plant efficiency when matched with a steam turbine generator, a setup known as combined cycle.

But this sort of cogeneration system, if you want to call it that, of using the power plant output and the waste heat from that to drive the desalination plants, he was saying, you know, in 20 years that probably could be a great model and an efficient model for water generation in Southern California.

Yet adaptation measures focused on making power plants more efficient and flexible could mitigate much of the decline.

Natural gas might still have an advantage over coal when burned to create electricity, because gas - fired power plants tend to be newer and far more efficient than older facilities that provide the bulk of the country's coal - fired generation.

A small, fuel - efficient gasoline engine — a one - liter, three - cylinder, turbocharged power plant — and a 53 - kW generator set will recharge the battery on the fly, he continues.

In the «business as usual» scenario, the auto industry followed its current rate of vehicle diversification — utilizing efficient internal combustion, electric and hybrid models, and the power sector utilized mostly natural gas and renewable plants.

Most new coal - fired power plants are more efficient than the older technologies that used to be standard equipment.

ITER, scheduled to be in operation in the 2020s, carries high hopes that its outcome will eventually lead to the construction of plasma fusion power plants that will bring this highly efficient, renewable, and clean energy to the commercial market.

A new design of algae - powered fuel cells that is five times more efficient than existing plant and algal models, as well as being potentially more cost - effective to produce and practical to use, has been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge.

You should work to remove the anticompetitive advantages that poorly - controlled, inefficient, incumbent coal - fired power plants presently enjoy over newer, cleaner, and more efficient coal - fired plants.

The Midi Boss is powered by a Cummins ISB e5 6.7 litre power plant, which is mated to an Allison automatic transmission for easy - starting and efficient operation.

Not only does the refined Rincon boast Honda's biggest ATV engine (a liquid - cooled 675cc single with a twin - plug cylinder head), it makes more efficient use of that power plant by mounting it longitudinally in the chassis, so that the crankshaft is aligned with the vehicle's direction of travel.