Sentences with phrase «electric generating unit emissions»

RGGI is a «Cap and Auction» program that caps electric generating unit emissions and then auctions permits to emit CO2 or allowances.

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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.

The CPP specifies intensity rate targets for existing fossil fuel - fired electric generating units operating or under construction as of early 2014, with the stated aim of reducing carbon emissions in the power sector by 30 % from 2005 levels by 2030.

The state - level emissions performance goals under the proposed Clean Power Plan are not based on a simple emission rate calculation (emissions divided by generation) for generation provided by existing fossil - fired electric generating units.

It does not consider any potential health or environmental benefits from reducing CO2 emissions from existing electric generating units covered by the proposed Clean Power Plan.

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).

Each spreadsheet lists the model estimates of capacity additions (what electric generating capacity the model and what the states tell the model to include because of regulations); generation (how much the existing and projected units will produce); prices (including firm power prices, energy prices, capacity prices, allowance prices, natural gas prices, and renewable energy credit prices); total CO2 emissions; fuel consumption for different fuel types; and transmission flows into and out of the RGGI power grids.

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.»

(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.

-- This subsection shall apply only to the distribution of emission allowances for carbon capture and sequestration projects at electric generating units after the capacity threshold identified in subsection (c)(1) is reached.

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).

And finally, the leaked EPA document says that the agency is considering «developing a rule similarly intended to reduce CO2 emissions from existing fossil fuel electric utility generating units.»

First, there's EPA's effort to regulate power sector emissions — with carbon pollution guidelines proposed for existing power plants, on top of the already proposed guidelines for new electric utility generating units.

The CPP is a proposed EPA regulation that would establish carbon dioxide (CO2) emission reduction guidelines for existing fossil fuel - fired electric generating units.

The rule would establish a new source performance standard (NSPS) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil - fuel electric generating units (EGUs).