Sentences with phrase «electric power industry»

All of these factors have led to a continuing electric power industry trend of substituting coal - fired generation with natural gas - fired generation.

Across the Americas, Europe and Asia, senior executives gather to listen to expert speakers and network with their peers in electric power industry as they help set the agenda for energy policy and sustainability.

Meanwhile, EIA presents this lower bound based on existing electric power industry survey data: at the end of 2011, EIA data show U.S. solar PV capacity was at least 3,536 megawatts (MWAC).

We have taken part in the rulemakings central to the restructuring of the natural gas and electric power industries as well as recent initiatives to promote renewable technologies such as wind power.

The comprehensive redesign and reconstruction will incorporate the latest hands - on interactive technologies and reflect the transformative changes occurring in New York State's electric power industry under Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo from the increased use of clean renewable power resources, smart grid technologies and energy efficiency.

The electric generation fleet «is in the midst of a major transformation to a significantly cleaner fleet as a result of several factors,» acknowledged Tom Kuhn, president of the Edison Electric Institute, the trade group representing 70 percent of the US electric power industry.

«Total Electric Power Industry Summary Statistics, 2015 and 2014.»

In 2014, the most recent data available when Connecticut filed an EPA petition over Brunner Island, the Pennsylvania power plant's nitrogen oxide emissions alone were nearly double those of Connecticut's entire electric power industry, and modeling showed it was a major contributor to Connecticut smog.

Experience in electric power industry.

Kobayashi, H.)(IMG Project Technical Report, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Komae Research Laboratory, Komae - shi, Tokyo, 1999).

Microgrids are not a traditional or typical infrastructure investment for utilities, nor has the existing electric power industry been structured to facilitate development of microgrids by non-utilities.

Since 1999, members of the U.S. electric power industry and the EPA have been working together to identify and implement opportunities to reduce SF6 emissions.

Currently coal inventories are high in the electric power industry however recent data shows that inventories at eastern utilities is falling because of increasing domestic and international demand.

The mine wars, the schemes to deprive local Appalachians of the mineral rights to their lands (an injustice which has never been put right), workplace injustice and the struggle to right it are the constitutive violences of the coal and electric power industry.

The electric power industry can achieve deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 by building new nuclear plants, sequestering coal - plant emissions, boosting wind energy and improving efficiency, the industry's top research group said yesterday.

Finally, Yoichi Ando and colleagues at the Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industry in Tokyo, Japan, report that in nonsuperconducting LSCO and YBCO, the electrical resistance is smaller for current flowing in the direction in which the stripes are thought to run.

Two industry representatives, from a maker of vehicle engines and a think tank that serves the electric power industry, discussed how lab collaborations have helped improve vehicle fuel efficiency, reduce pollution, and strengthen the power grid.

That unprecedented shift in the electric power industry is exacting a devastating toll on coal companies.

Looking to fortify vegetables with iron, scientists at the Central Research Institute Electric Power Industry in Japan hit on the idea of putting the gene for ferritin, a protein that collects iron, into a common strain of Asian rice.

«The electric power industry has reduced carbon emissions by 25 percent below 2005 levels as of the end of 2016,» said Jeff Ostermayer, an EEI spokesman.

Holtec's principal mission is to provide design, engineering and consulting services to the world's electric power industry.

Technologies for capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions hold tremendous promise for addressing climate change, but much work remains to ensure timely, cost - effective deployment in key markets such as the electric power industry.

As for nuclear, Freeman states: «I have been an active participant in the electric power industry over the last forty years....

In raw numbers, here's what the electric power industry's abandonment of coal looks like: This year, 24 coal - fired electricity generators at 14 power plants in 11 states are expected to shut down, followed by another 22 coal generators in 2018, according to an analysis by the global energy nonprofit Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, or IEEFA, released in April.

In raw numbers, here's what the electric power industry's abandonment of coal looks like: This year, 24 coal - fired electricity generators at 14 power plants in 11 states are expected to shut down, followed by another 22 coal generators in 2018, according to

Transportation is the second largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions; the electric power industry is number one.

He co-founded and built Carnegie Mellon's Electricity Industry Center, which today is the largest interdisciplinary group of its kind working on all aspects of the electric power industry.

Maybe, but last I looked, such materials were very expensive and not in common use in the electric power industry.

First, we have to recognize that practical fusion power must measure up to or be superior to the competition in the electric power industry.

In a series of comment letters, I debated the Electric Power Industry Climate Initiative (EPICI) on the legality of early action crediting.

According to the report, the electric power industry is the leading source of chromium and chromium compounds released into the environment, representing 24 percent of releases by all industries in 2009.

The fracking boom has transformed the electric power industry too; coal - fired plants all over the country have been switching to natural gas.

To determine whether the electric power industry made optimal choices, we analyzed all power plants built since 1973.

Immediately eliminating all current barriers to efficiency would cause the electric power industry to make better decisions.

However, none of the alternative technologies, including nuclear power, appear at present to promise sufficient cost reduction to enable the electric power industry to again become a leading rather than a sustaining source of economic growth in the U.S. economy.

The electric power industry can reduce the nation's SF6 emissions through cost - effective operational improvements and equipment upgrades.

Established in 1999, the SF6 Emission Reduction Partnership for Electric Power Systems is a collaborative effort between EPA and the electric power industry to identify, recommend, and implement cost - effective solutions to reduce sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) emissions.

The electric power industry uses roughly 80 percent of all SF6 produced worldwide.

Since the 1950's, the U.S. electric power industry has used SF6 in circuit breakers, gas - insulated substations and other switchgear used in the transmission system to manage the high voltages carried between generating stations and customer load centers.

THE THREE POISONS (THE DANGERS OF OIL, COAL AND NUCLEAR) I have been an active participant in the electric power industry over the last forty years.

The group just hired Paul Bailey, a former operative for the oil and electric power industries, as its top lobbyist and will soon fill three more upper - level positions, bolstering a fleet of fixers who spent more money than anyone else — nearly $ 10 million last year — lobbying on climate change - related legislation, according to the Center for Public Integrity.

Microgrids are not a traditional or typical infrastructure investment for utilities, nor has the existing electric power industry been structured to facilitate development of microgrids by non-utilities.

Federal climate policy has been interrupted by the Supreme Court's stay (freeze) on implementation of the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Clean Power Plan, which will regulate emissions from the electric power industry.