Sentences with phrase «electric generating plants»

Coal consumption is dominated by use for electric generation, which grew modestly until 2009, and coal prices to electric generating plants, which increased since 2000 until they flattened in 2009 (Tables 11a, 11b, 12).

· New Hampshire has approved emission controls for the state's three aging coal - fired electric generating plants.

Comparison with existing Texas electric generating plants 3

Gettrick said Dominion sees «gas and solar» as the way to comply with the EPA's Clean Power Plan, which will require states to lower their carbon emissions from electric generating plants.

For example, it would allow utilities to count energy intensity reductions resulting from heat rate improvements at electric generating plants, either owned by the utility or their affiliates.

China News: Adding many nuclear power plants will greatly help pollution from far dirtier electric generating plants.

from DOE pricing for utility sized electric generating plants http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/assumption/pdf/electricity.pdf#page=3

The chairman of the State Assembly Energy Committee has asked both Dynegy executives and the leadership of IBEW Local 320 to resume negotiations and enter into at least a temporary agreement to return workers to the job at the Danskammer and Roseton electric generating plants in the Town of Newburgh.

Thanks to our nuclear power plants, greenhouse gas emissions from New York's electric generating plants are just one fourth (per capita) of what is produced on average across the U. S.

The state will provide up to $ 30 million to communities that lose property tax revenue because an electric generating plant closes if the Legislature approves a state budget bill printed yesterday.

Bald and Golden eagles are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Act and with the sighting of a pair of nesting eagles in the path of the Millennium Pipeline lateral, opponents of the CPV electric generating plant say the gas pipeline can not be extended to the facility in the Town of Wawayanda.

It is a 650 MW combined - cycle, electric generating plant that is scheduled to go on line in February 2018.

Georgia Power's coal - fired steam - turbine electric generating Plant Bowen in Euharlee, Georgia, about 40 miles northwest of Atlanta is seen from a commercial airliner on September 12, 2009.

Not exact matches

Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from old - fashioned air pollution, generated by electric power plants that burn fossil fuels.

And with BrightSource Energy, it constructed the Ivanpah solar electric complex, a landscape of 350,000 heat - generating mirrors in California's Mojave Desert that's the largest solar - thermal plant on the planet.

In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.

Ulster town officials this week revealed that their request to extend the public comment period on a proposed 20 - megawatt electric - generating power plant had been denied by the project's developer, Lincoln Park DG LLC.

The Electric Power Development company says its experimental power plant in Kitakyushu has a generating efficiency of 35 per cent, far better than the 20 per cent achieved by other waste - burning plants and as good as an oil - fired plant.

The 2012 Toyota Camry comes with three engine choices and these include a revised 2.5 - litre 4 - cylinder plant producing 178 HP and 170 lb - ft of torque and rated at 28 mpg (combined cycle), a 3.5 - litre V6 generating 268 HP and 248 lb - ft (21 mpg city / 30 mpg highway) plus a hybrid comprising from 156 HP 2.5 - litre 4 - cylinder petrol and a 141 HP electric motor.

Also of potential large magnitude benefit, is (3) changing away from an electric power generating system where power plants are located in remote areas but are connected by a grid, whereby this practice has caused a massive energy wasting establishment.

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.

Until the 1930s, hydroelectric - power plants equipped with water - turbine generating units produced the largest percentage of electric energy because they were less expensive to operate than thermal - power plants using steam - turbine units.

American Electric installed three «scrubbers» at its largest power - generating unit at its John Amos Plant in West Virginia.

[3] Small power plants are defined as having an electric generating capacity less than 300 MW.

Auxiliary generator: A generator at the electric plant site that provides power for the operation of the electrical generating equipment itself, including related demands such as plant lighting, during periods when the electric plant is not operating and power is unavailable from the grid.

Earlier in January, California regulators approved Pacific Gas & Electric's application to retire the Diablo Canyon plant by 2025, following a protracted battle over the generating station that pitted local economic interests against environmentalists and other opponents of nuclear power.

The Directed Electric Generation Facility Cessation Mitigation Program provides payments to municipalities that depended on large fossil - fired generating plant property taxes when those facilities are closed down which certainly does not translate into reductions.

In its 2010 annual report Peabody notes that the New York Office of the Attorney General Subpoena wrote to Peabody on June 14, 2007 and referred to the company's «plans to build new coal - fired electric generating units,» and stated that the «increase in CO2 emissions from the operation of these units, in combination with Peabody Energy's other coal - fired power plants, will subject Peabody Energy to increased financial, regulatory, and litigation risks.»

Today, there are 11 independent public electricity generating plants, including the two hydro - electric generators Hernádvíz Hydro Power Ltd. (one plant) and Tiszavíz Hydro Power Ltd. (two plants).

To help track monthly generator activity, EIA has started publishing a monthly updated preliminary inventory of all major generating units in the United States (essentially all generators located at power plants with a total plant capacity of 1 MW or greater) as a supplement to the annually updated inventory in the EIA - 860 Annual Electric Generator Report.

Within the heating sector, fee avoidance options include energy efficiency, switching to efficient electric heat paired with the electric sector tax avoidance options, and potentially switching to lower carbon heating options such as waste heat from sewage systems and wastewater treatment plants or buying «renewable natural gas» from bio-digesters, generated either within the District or from outside.

The power generated from these solar plants will be sold under separate contracts BrightSource Energy established with Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and Southern California Edison (SCE).

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.

The expected introduction of plug - in hybrid electric vehicles could cut U.S. gasoline use, but could increase deadly air pollution in some areas, two reports say.That's because a plug - in's lower tailpipe emissions may be offset by smokestack emissions from the utility generating plants supplying electricity to recharge the big batteries that allow plug - ins to run up -LSB-...]

The processing may require sorting, removal of contaminants, short and / or long term storage, creation of a product (hammer mill or shredding) to create a certain particle size, processing into a pellet or a cube all before injection into the combustion chamber of an electric generating power plant.

When compared with pure electric vehicles that use coal - generated electricity, H600's emission of sulfide, nitrogen oxide, and particle matter is 0.17 %; 0.67 %; and 50 % of the latter, respectively (a typical coal power plant emits 272 grams of PM when generating one kWh of electricity).

A veteran of the U.S. Submarine Service (one hitch) and a degreed Electrical Engineer (U.T. Knoxville — 1968 — three peer - reviewed IEEE papers published), I spent most of my career designing, building and commissioning electric power generating plants including hydro, pumped storage, coal fired, natural gas, nuclear (both PWR and BWR), geothermal, wood - waste, and landfill gas.

The rule lumps coal power plants and NGCC plants into a single newly - minted industrial source category — «fossil fuel electric generating units.»

Since a PHEV operating in electric - only mode has no tailpipe emissions, electrifying transport would move the majority of carbon emissions from millions of vehicles to centralized electricity - generating plants, greatly simplifying the task of controlling emissions.

Existing U.S. nuclear power generating plants operate under increasingly competitive market conditions brought on by relatively low natural gas prices, increasing electricity generation from renewable energy sources, and limited growth in electric power demand.

The expected introduction of plug - in hybrid electric vehicles could cut U.S. gasoline use, but could increase deadly air pollution in some areas, two reports say.That's because a plug - in's lower tailpipe emissions may be offset by smokestack emissions from the utility generating plants supplying electricity to recharge the big batteries that allow plug - ins to run up to 40 miles without kicking on their gasoline engines.

The EF, in turn, is used by EPA to justify all its climate regulations, including its ultra-expensive so - called «Clean Power Plan» (CPP -RCB- requiring that many coal plants be replaced with wind and solar - generated electric power at huge expense to ratepayers in terms of outlays and reductions in reliability as well as to taxpayers for government subsidies.

* The huge Texas projects will provide very little electricity, particularly when compared to total Texasí electric generation and to the output from «conventional» generating plants.

The monthly survey Form EIA - 860M, «Monthly Update to Annual Electric Generator Report» supplements the annual survey form EIA - 860 data with monthly information that monitors the current status of existing and proposed generating units at electric power plants with 1 megawatt or greater of combined nameplate cElectric Generator Report» supplements the annual survey form EIA - 860 data with monthly information that monitors the current status of existing and proposed generating units at electric power plants with 1 megawatt or greater of combined nameplate celectric power plants with 1 megawatt or greater of combined nameplate capacity.

Once again, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson touted the supposedly huge benefits of controlling emissions of mercury (Hg) and other air toxics from U.S. coal - and oil - fired power plants (or electric generating units, EGUs).

Their efforts have primarily been directed towards reducing CO2 emitted by electric power generating plants burning fossil fuels.

The huge Texas projects will provide very little electricity, particularly when compared to Total Texasí electric generation and to the output from «conventional» generating plants 2 1.

This file contains a user - friendly Google Earth map that displays information on location, fuel type, electric generation, generating capacity, ownership, and emissions for over 8,000 power plants across the country.

Utility companies retired nearly 18,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in 2015, about 80 percent of which was conventional coal - fired power plants, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said this week.

The wind turbines utilise generators from US provider GE (General Electric) and according to some estimates given by GE and Max Bögl Wind, the wind power plant could generate 10GWh of energy annually.