Sentences with phrase «electric generating sources»

The Companies are actively developing plans to comply with new Clean Power Plan and NSPS regulations for new and existing electric generating sources and its natural gas business.

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When opportunities like this present themselves, you need a source of income outside of the stock market to generate cash for you to take advantage of the situation, as well as insulate you from the painful possibility of having to surrender your stock certificates at a fraction of their true worth just to pay the electric bill.

In December 2009, the LIPA Board of Trustees approved power purchase agreements with BP Solar International Inc. and enXco Development Corporation, thereby creating the State's largest source of solar power on Long Island by introducing approximately 50MW of clean renewable energy generated on Long Island onto LIPA's electric grid.

This was the first time any generating source had challenged coal for dominance since the dawn of electric power generation in the 1880s.

Magnets are the key to generating electricity, of course, and electricity is the key to the use of cleaner sources of energy — whether wind turbines or electric vehicles.

Electric power generated by renewable energy sources causes substantially less pollution than energy generated from fossil fuels, the report says.

«Nevertheless, this work moves magnesium batteries one step closer to reality — namely, a reality where batteries would be less - expensive, lighter and safer for allowing for easier adoption to large - area formats necessary for electric vehicles and to store energy generated by solar and wind sources.»

Though the federal government is doubling down on coal, electric power companies are embracing less - polluting natural gas, wind and solar power as the cost of generating electricity from those sources falls.

«However, if electricity is generated from coal to charge an electric vehicle it produces 139g CO2 - e / km well - to - wheel emissions, compared with only 9g CO2 - e / km well - to - wheel emissions with electricity from renewable energy sources.»

In some areas, you might be able to generate your own electricity, and some electric companies offer credits for using renewable energy sources.

Power is generated in the car itself, from an electric motor or regenerative braking, and stored in the battery which is then plugged into an external power source.

Now, according to a source close to Honda, pressure to adhere to stringent emissions regulations has forced the company to downsize the engine to a 1.5 - litre turbo which, with electric motor assistance, is expected to generate around 300bhp.

As a completely electric vehicle, with no gasoline engine as a range extender (as is found in cars like the Chevrolet Volt), there are no direct emissions, although its overall carbon imprint will depend on how the electricity's generated at its source.

The front diesel motor generates the major power source, while the two independent rear electric battery powered motors kick in at lower speeds while helping with the fuel economy.

They make use of an electric source to generate that extra heat your dog needs so much during winter's coldest nights.

Feb. 8, 2008), as the Act removed oil and coal - fired electric utility steam generating units (EGUs) from the list of sources of hazardous air pollutants and instead regulated the emissions through a cap - and - trade program.

Today (June 25th) is the deadline for submitting comments on the EPA's proposed Carbon Pollution Standard Rule, which will establish first - ever New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil - fuel electric generating units.

In April 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a new source performance standard (NSPS), limiting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from new fossil fuel — fired electric generating units (EGUs).

Replacing firewood with solar thermal cookers, or even with electric hotplates fed by wind - generated electricity or with some other energy source, will lighten the load on forests.

Subtitle F: Transmission Planning -(Sec. 151) Amends the Federal Power Act to establish a federal policy for transmission planning that calls for regional electric grid planning that facilitates the deployment of renewable and other zero - carbon and low - carbon energy sources for generating electricity to reduce GHG emissions while ensuring reliability, reducing congestion, ensuring cyber-security, minimizing environmental harm, and providing for cost - effective electricity services throughout the United States.

(Sec. 102) Authorizes states to set the rates for the voluntary sale of electric energy by a facility generating electric energy from renewable energy sources pursuant to a state - approved production incentive program.

Most homes use electricity, which is generated from a mix of fuel sources before being transmitted and distributed across the electric grid.

Every year, electric service providers must acquire Renewable Energy Certificates representing electricity generated from renewable sources.

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.

While an RES requires that electric utilities generate a certain percentage of electricity from renewable sources, an EERS requires that they achieve a percentage reduction in energy sales from energy efficiency measures.

(1) deployment of technologies to capture and sequester carbon dioxide emissions from electric generating units or large industrial sources (except that assistance under this subtitle for such deployment shall be limited to the cost of retrofitting existing facilities with such technologies or the incremental cost of purchasing and installing such technologies at new facilities);

To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from finalizing any rule imposing any standard of performance for carbon dioxide emissions from any existing or new source that is a fossil fuel - fired electric utility generating unit unless and until carbon capture and storage is found to be technologically and economically feasible.

The sponsors of I - 1631 included a similar but less stringent provision, requiring electric utility plans to include «a long - term strategy to eliminate any fee obligation» imposed by the measure, as a way to push utilities to use at least some of the retained revenue to directly reduce carbon from their electricity generating sources.

When asked to select from a variety of sources to help the state increase its energy supply, more than 90 percent of the 949 Delaware residents responding to the survey supported an offshore wind option — in which whirling wind turbines as tall as 40 - story buildings would be erected off the coast to generate electricity — even if wind power were to add between $ 1 and $ 30 per month to their electric bills.

«(A) Four years after the date the Administrator has published pursuant to subsection (d) a report that there are in commercial operation in the United States electric generating units or other stationary sources equipped with carbon capture and sequestration technology that, in the aggregate --

-- Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or the Federal Power Act, a State legislature or regulatory authority may set the rates for a sale of electric energy by a facility generating electric energy from renewable energy sources pursuant to a State - approved production incentive program under which the facility voluntarily sells electric energy.

At the federal level, H.R. 969 was introduced in the 110th Congress to require that 20 % of the nation's electric power be generated by renewable energy sources.

Indeed, wind energy represents 38 per cent of all new electric generation capacity installed from these sources in Canada in this period — and Canada's coal - fired generating capacity has actually fallen at the same time.

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

The key now is to shift more road freight to electrified rail, increase the use of light rail and metro subways within cities, and accelerate the replacement of conventional cars with plug - in hybrids and all - electric vehicles — and to run them all largely on electricity generated from renewable sources.

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.

I - 937 was passed by the voters to diversify and clean up Washington's electric grid by requiring utilities to generate at least 15 % of their electricity from new, non-hydro, renewable sources such as wind and solar.

I don't know if maintenance of such dams is more difficult than equivalent power generating sources although the possibility of a collapse raises concerns about not just losing hydro electric but substantial risks to population and land.

... By integrating electricity from renewable sources such as wind power into our electric generating mix, we can help ensure a clean environment and a robust economy for the Commonwealth.»

As you may know, electric vehicles provide a zero tailpipe emission alternative to the internal combustion engine, of particular value in jurisdictions such as Ontario where electricity is generated by predominantly clean fuel sources.

For the first time ever, solar ranked as the No. 1 source of new electric generating capacity, accounting for 39 percent of new capacity additions in 2016.

There are electric cars out there already that are cheaper, faster, easier to maintain, mostly recyclable and cleaner than equivalent motor cars (even if charged from a fossil fuel generated source!).

Moreover, the standard sets a precedent for promulgating NSPS for other GHG source categories, and for contriving new source categories (e.g. «electric generating units») to hammer natural gas.

This would account for 45 % of total additions and exceed capacity additions from any other fuel source, including natural gas, which was the leading fuel source for electric generating capacity additions in 2010 and 2011.

(Feed - in tariffs are renewable energy payments that electric grid utilities obligate themselves to pay to purchase electricity generated from renewable sources.)

For example, these organizations are not sufficiently candid about: * The high costs of wind energy; * The added costs of wind energy due to its need for backup generating capacity from traditional energy sources because of the intermittence, variability and unpredictability of wind energy; * The absence of transmission capacity in remote areas where windmills might otherwise be acceptable; * The extent to which wind developers» costs are being shifted to taxpayers and electric customers and hidden in their tax and electric bills; * Scenic impairment and other adverse environmental, health and safety impacts.

I think we will see much more sector coupling in the years to come and really a convergence of these different sectors which will enable integration of prior shares of renewables because then the electric vehicles can serve as storage for electricity when it is generated by the reliable sources, but when it is not consumed at the same time.

Sixty - one percent of Canada's electric power is generated from hydro, 26 percent from thermal and 12 percent from nuclear energy sources.

Authorizing the final segments of the Project will make 7,191 acres of Federal lands within the ROW available to transmit electric power generated from both traditional (i.e. coal - fired and natural gas - fired) generation facilities and renewable sources (i.e. wind generation facilities) in Wyoming and Idaho.

Dispatching: The operating control of an integrated electric system involving operations such as (1) the assignment of load to specific generating stations and other sources of supply to effect the most economical supply as the total or the significant area loads rise or fall (2) the control of operations and maintenance of high - voltage lines, substations, and equipment; (3) the operation of principal tie lines and switching; (4) the scheduling of energy transactions with connecting electric utilities.