Sentences with phrase «electric power generation»

Imagine trying to get coal usage for electric power generation cut when the roads are filled with plug - in SUVs.

That would mean a substantial increase in electric power generation making the goal of getting electric generation off of coal (about 40 % of generation) substantially harder.

Questions about electric grids and electric power generation capacity are distractions.

This is a relatively large CO2 reduction for the amount of energy saved because electric power generation is an inefficient process that makes use of a lot of high carbon fuel (coal).

Climate Change Costs MMN11 note that CO2 emissions are not yet available for all industries, but are available from electric power generation from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

The plan: Build a sports car, use that money to build an affordable car, use that money to build even more affordable cars and provide zero - emission electric power generation options.

An engineering professor and former Fulbright Scholar, Sauma studies the economics of electric power generation systems and their...

The walls are of concrete block with a high content of fly ash, a waste product of coal - fired electric power generation that can be recycled as a replacement for portland cement.

Chris is the health and safety training manager of a large electric power generation company operating nuclear power plants throughout North America.

Cheap gas, along with tighter regulation of pollution from existing coal - fired power plants has caused a massive shift in U.S. electric power generation from coal to gas.

The Board established a program to provide SRECs to owners of solar electric power generation facilities certified as being located on a brownfield, historic fill area, or properly closed landfill in consultation with the NJDEP and NJEDA and after public comment and public hearing by January 19, 2013.

Ten years ago, Musk wrote about the «secret master plan» for Tesla, which began with building a low - volume expensive electric car, then using the profits from that to develop a medium - volume EV at a lower price, using the money from that car to create «an affordable, high volume car,» and to then «provide zero emission electric power generation options» (solar).

According to the January 2017 U.S. Energy and Employment Report, 373,807 Americans now work in solar electric power generation, while 101,738 people work in wind.

Nearly half of U.S. electric power generation comes from coal.

ComEd does not own or operate electric power generation facilities.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, electric power generation accounts for nearly half of the nation's water usage; it takes on average 21 gallons of water to produce one kilowatt hour of electricity.

Though recent research had demonstrated the potential of some protonic ceramic fuel cells to offer environmentally sustainable and cost - effective electric power generation, those cells» high electrolyte conductivities failed to produce anticipated power outputs.

■ Newly formed offtakers (such as Electric Power Generation Enterprise in Myanmar) or offtakers dependent on government support (for example, Perusahaan Listrik Negara in Indonesia), and a reluctance to provide government guarantees.

In fact, the EIA recently reported that coal's share of U.S. electric power generation fell below 40 % for the last two months of 2011, the lowest level since 1978.

Using the maximum PGC reserve estimate and the EIA's estimated 2030 annual demand of 34.4 Tcf, plus, add 2.7 Tcf for additional electric power generation to fulfill the EPA CO2 reduction requirement, yields 73 years of natural gas reserves.

Fossil fuels — coal, natural gas, and petroleum — supplied 70 % of total electric power generation in 1950, with that share rising to 82 % in 1970, and falling back to 70 % in 2010.

Shanghai Electric Power Generation Group will partner with a Saudi Arabian firm to build desalination plants all over the world while Dalian Petrochemical is building China's largest wastewater utililzation plant.

Kentucky and Indiana are among the states most reliant on electric power generation from coal, according to the latest EIA figures, and have historically enjoyed some of the nation's lowest electricity prices as a result.

His expertise is in the economic modeling and analysis of energy systems, with experience in both broad - scale energy policy analysis and in detailed financial analysis of private - sector electric power generation assets.

Competition between natural gas and coal for electric power generation drove price declines in the Appalachian and Powder River Basins (PRB), two key sources for thermal coal, through the summer.

To do so the environmentalists have effectively been put in charge of the US electric power generation system by the Obama Administration through control of the USEPA.

Structuring a cap and trade system this way, and limiting it to electric power generation only should correct the defects of the existing cap and trade systems and make it effective.

By 2050, electric power generation overtakes road transportation as the biggest promoter of warming.

Hence, the GED * / kwh associated with electric power generation using coal, oil, and natural gas represents 43, 33, and 7 percent of the average residential retail price of electricity in 2002.

This analysis reviews and synthesizes the literature on the net energy return for electric power generation by wind turbines.

The era of U.S. coal - fired electric power generation will effectively end as new federal regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from fossil plants take effect, a new analysis from Bloomberg Government concludes.

Designs, manufactures, distributes and services diesel and natural gas engines, electric power generation systems and engine - related component products, including filtration and emissions solutions, fuel systems, controls and air handling systems.

[82] In practice, this means entities in nine industrial sectors: petroleum, organic chemicals, inorganic chemicals, industrial minerals, metal mining, metal casting, iron and steel, pulp paper, and electric power generation facilities.

Electric power generation from wind is increasing rapidly in the United States.

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