Sentences with phrase «electric generation in»

Most people are unaware of the unconstitutional expansion of federal authority to take control of electric generation in this country.

The decisions made today and in the next few years will shape electric generation in 2050, so we have to make the right decisions starting now.

Furthermore, the previously wasted heat can be recycled from these decentralized generation plants to displace boiler fuel and essentially cut the fuel for electric generation in half, compared to remote or central generation of the same power.

In 1969, New England Electric converted the baseload plant to oil, which had become the dominant fossil fuel for electric generation in the region.

Accurate measurement of these reductions requires one to determine what sources of electric generation in a particular region are being displaced, or not used, because of the demand reduction or clean energy initiative.

Among the emerging wind powers are China, France, and Canada, each of which doubled its wind electric generation in 2006.

Like the ITC for solar, the 2.3 cents per kilowatt - hour PTC has been a crucial support for the wind industry, making it the second - biggest source of new electric generation in the U.S. for many years now.

For instance, the cost of electricity in California has already increased by ~ 67 % since 2000, part of which is due to the limitations placed on electric generation in that state.

Although coal remains the dominant fuel for Ohio's electric power generation, accounting for 81 % of total statewide generation during the first 9 months of 2011, the amount of natural gas - fired electric generation in Ohio is up markedly over the past decade (see chart above).

Coal (48 %), natural gas (21 %) and nuclear (20 %) account for about 89 % of the electric generation in the US.

The growth in natural gas - fired generation is reflected in the composition of electric generation in Pennsylvania.

Fossil fuel electric generation: Electric generation in which the prime mover is an internal combustion engine or a turbine rotated by high - pressure steam produced in a boiler or by a hot exhaust gas produced from the burning of fossil fuels.

Not exact matches

Second, many states actively favor renewables in electricity generation, and even in places that don't, the word has gotten out that coal combustion is far deadlier to humans than any other electric generation source — including natural gas.

Rossello highlighted how the island's electrical grid, which was severely dilapidated even prior to the storms, was obsolete and working off of a generation system that was 28 years older than the average electric power utility in the United States.

Minutes after the governor announced in a press conference Wednesday that electric generation had reached 50 percent, a power outage affected the north of the island, crippling San Juan and forcing the closure of several shopping centers, where those living without power or air conditioning shop and take refuge.

Daimler believes the new generation of electric vehicles will have «a much longer wheelbase» to accommodate the batteries required for long range operation, Johannes Reifenrath, head of product and powertrain strategy for the Mercedes - Benz brand, said in an interview.

«There are three key components that can help address climate change and have a positive impact on the world: sustainable energy generation, batteries and electric cars,» Tesla said in on its website.

You have to convince people to pay for the product you believe in,» Taylor Dawson, product evangelist at FirstBuild, General Electric's incubator for the next generation of home appliances, wrote in a recent blog post about his experience in running a campaign on Indiegogo.

Chicago - based Intelligent Generation, one of the startups the Smart Grid cluster supported, has created a software program that connects to the hardware of the electric grid and allows a home or business to capture solar energy, store the energy in batteries and release it to the grid when needed.

New technologies like smart phones, zero carbon electrical generation and electric vehicles (EV's) are important to keep in mind.

The only increases have come from natural gas, and those largely at the expense of coal, which is in great part being replaced by gas in the generation of electric power.

The company recently acquired a 25 per cent equity interest in U.K. - based company Atlantica Yield, which owns assets in power generations, renewable energy and electric transmission.

Reus has become one of the most electric and in demand midfielders of his generation, and has already cemented his place in Dortmund's hall of fame by ruling out a move to Bayern Munich like his former colleagues Mario Gotze and Robert Lewandowski.

The HRNRDF is funded by General Electric, as part of the company's mitigation agreement developed in the wake of pollution caused over generations by GE's former manufacturing complex on the Housatonic in Pittsfield.

The increase in jobs in this area will be targeting towards improving green infrastructure - setting up public recharge points for a future generation of electric cars, for instance.

Included in New York's recently approved 2018 budget is $ 24 million for The New York State Electric Generation Facility Cessation Mitigation Program.

The Cuomo administration estimates the Clean Energy Standard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.

«These highly - anticipated rebates will make electric vehicles more affordable and accessible and support this state's nation - leading efforts to build a cleaner, greener New York for generations to come,» Cuomo said in the release.

«These plants are a necessary bridge to a much cleaner electric generation sector in our state,» he said in a statement.

The projects that would help the region reach 80 percent cuts are ambitious: an inventory of greenhouse gas emissions in the eight participating counties, more energy efficient power generation through wind farms and solar power, the expansion of inter-city mass transit and a region - wide electric vehicle infrastructure, among many others.

In the 1980s, American scientists had devised the lithium - ion battery, the technology that will power today's generation of electric cars.

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

The benefits will include greater grid reliability, integration of solar rooftop generation and plug - in vehicles, reductions in electricity demand, and stronger cybersecurity, according to a new study by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).

The Electric Power Research Institute's report on decarbonizing electricity generation said an «aggressive» push on new technologies could lower 2005 - level carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 41 percent in 2030.

«New technologies such as plug - in hybrid electric vehicles and next - generation biofuels could also have a greater impact in the future,» the report states.

Although ORNL's proposed system would allow PHEV - makers to leave out the onboard charger that they currently install in their cars, the first - generation PHEVs are not intended for high - speed charging, says Frank, who is also founder of Efficient Drivetrains, Inc., a U.C. Davis start - up that designs energy - management systems for electric vehicles and hybrids.

The kilometric radiation, he adds, is thought to result from electrons accelerated by electric fields in the planet's magnetosphere, and those electric fields also contribute to the generation of the polar auroras.

By comparison, the Honda next - generation fuel - cell electric vehicle on display last week in Detroit has a bolder, sleeker, space - age look.

In contrast, the U.S. grid relies predominantly on steam electric generation, making restoration much more difficult, and a recovery as fast as Quebec's «is highly unlikely.»

«Also, the PEM fuel cells exhibit high efficiency in electric energy generation.»

I believe it was television that was destroying / mutating my generation back then, and before that it was electric guitars, and back in the 20s it was that evil jazz.

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are vying with next - generation hybrid car technology (which can be plugged in to recharge its battery rather than relying on the gasoline engine) to be the electric car of the future.

They see a market in servicing large electric utilities that want to incrementally expand their generation capacity, developing countries that can not afford or make good use of traditional reactors, and off - grid and hard - to - power sites.

The ultrathin high - Tc superconductor would effectively contribute to the significant down - sizing and consequent high - density integration in electric circuits, leading to the realization of future - generation electronic devices with high energy - saving and ultrahigh - speed operation.

In the United States, roughly two - thirds of all sulfur dioxide and a quarter of all nitrogen oxide come from electric power generation that relies on burning fossil fuels, such as coal.

About a dozen possible next - generation candidates exist, including tunnel FETs (field effect transistors, in which the output current is controlled by a variable electric field), carbon nanotubes, superconductors and fundamentally new approaches, such as quantum computing and brain - inspired computing.

Meanwhile, just about every automaker is working on a new generation of electric vehicles, including both hybrids and cars that operate entirely on electricity stored in batteries.

General Electric (GE), a world leader in industrial power generation technology and the world's largest supplier of gas turbines, considers gas - fired power generation a key growth sector of its business and a practical step toward reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.

Southern Co. and its partners have dug 27.5 meters down into that soil to reach bedrock and are now filling up the hole to provide a stable foundation for what is likely to be the first of a new generation of reactors in the U.S.: two new AP - 1000 models at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant that stand next to two older pressurized water reactors, which came online in the 1980s.

Invented in 1884 by Charles A. Parsons, son of an aristocrat and scientist, it revolutionized shipping and the generation of electric power.