Sentences with phrase «electric power plants on»

It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».

America's first offshore wind farm just helped to shut down a small diesel - fired electric power plant on Block Island, R.I. Block Island officials on Monday switched on a connection between the island and a cable linking the wind farm to Rhode Island's mainland power grid.

Not exact matches

The electric company, PREPA, relied on selling bonds to pay for the imported oil it burned at its power plants.

Thanks to our nuclear power plants, greenhouse gas emissions from New York's electric generating plants are just one fourth (per capita) of what is produced on average across the U. S.

State lawmakers seeking to put the brakes on a plan by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to hike electric bills to keep open upstate nuclear power plants have introduced legislation calling for a moratorium on the plan as the Assembly considers a one - house budget bill that would do the same.

Ulster town officials this week revealed that their request to extend the public comment period on a proposed 20 - megawatt electric - generating power plant had been denied by the project's developer, Lincoln Park DG LLC.

New York lawmakers should use all tools available to fight this issue head on through legislation, such as S. 4417, introduced by Senator Tony Avella, which would direct the state PSC to repeal any electric rate increase «where such increase is a subsidy to upstate nuclear power plants.»

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 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 power plants by 41 percent in 2030.

Some analysts expect that existing grid capacity may be enough to power U.S. electric cars in the near future, yet they do not rule out the possibility of new coal or nuclear plants coming on line if renewable energy sources are not developed

According to the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan, utilities operate 16 power plants that rely either fully or partly on coal - fired boiPower Companies of Japan, utilities operate 16 power plants that rely either fully or partly on coal - fired boipower plants that rely either fully or partly on coal - fired boilers.

Without a level playing field and a steady price on carbon, companies can not assess whether advanced technologies such as «clean coal» power plants or electric vehicles will ever make economic sense.

Electric currents that flow into and out of the ionosphere, which AMPERE monitors, have various effects on it as well as the atmosphere in general that can cause problems with tracking LEO space debris, the use of GPS systems, and even terrestrial power plants — as was the case when a geomagnetic storm took down Quebec's power grid in 1989, Anderson says, adding, «The operators didn't know what was happening.»

And, in 1990, Plant Vogtle in Georgia lost all externally supplied electric power — just like Fukushima Daiichi's reactors — when a truck backed into a transmission line and the backup diesel generator failed, forcing it to rely on its last power source: batteries with an eight - hour life.

In scattered locations, the cooling water needs of electric power plants represent the biggest demand on water.

All the eight companies involved, including embattled plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co, declined to comment or could not be reached for comment on his case.

A 2008 environmental impact statement estimated a potential for 5,540 megawatts of new electric generation capacity from geothermal on BLM lands in Western states and Alaska by 2015 through 111 new geothermal power plants, with an additional 6,600 megawatts from another 133 plants by 2025.

Update: On July 14, 2011, American Electric Power announced it would table plans to build a carbon capture and sequestration project at its Mountaineer Plant in West Virginia, which is mentioned in this article.

Mazda isn't hedging its bets on electric power just yet, believing that until the worldwide electrical grid is predominantly powered by renewable energy, an electric vehicle's tailpipe emissions are too far offset by the dirtiness and high CO2 values of the fossil - fuelled coal, oil, and gas power plants that supply their electricity.

But with an average 50 miles per gallon, the combination gasoline - electric power plant makes the $ 20,000 Prius one of the greenest cars on the planet.

The EV versions of the smart fortwo and forfour will go on sale at the end of 2016 and will be powered by a electric motor produced in Renault Cleon plant in France, the same used also for the Renault Zoe.

FOSTER CITY, Calif. — Tesla CEO Elon Musk is trying to steer his electric car company's battery technology into homes and businesses as part of an elaborate plan to reshape the power grid with millions of small power plants made of solar panels on roofs and batteries in garages.

Pure Color of the Hudson (after Rodchenko) Remediated polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) mud obtained from General Electric dredging site, processed waste coal from power plants in the Hudson Valley on Sintra, in Matthew Friday's Space as Substance: Beyond the Scenic Hudson, 2015.

about (1) if world solar energy power plants are conneted by superconductive cable, daytime and night time, rain, cloud and so on condtion can be average, whole world can use solar energy power pland's producting electric, this is GENESIS plan.

More on Israel and Clean Tech First Solar - Hybrid Power Plant Opens in Israel Israel Says Shalom to Electric Cars Green Your Mosques, Learn Imams in Israel

After rapping through some of the energy issues we're facing — the high cost of current oil production methods, the ridiculous talking points around the Keystone XL, and pollution from coal power plants (highlighting China)-- the rapping crew takes a very brief look at Elon Musk's electric vehicle and solar solutions (but with the main focus being that he is on Mars dressed like Iron Man), then gives a satirical presentation of Richard Branson's asteroid mining plans.

Algae Facility Planned, But Details Not Finalized Announced yesterday, HR BioPetroleum will be partnering with Alexander & Baldwin, Hawaiian Electric and Maui Electric to pursue development of an algae facility next to the Ma'alaea power plant on the island of Maui.

China is also championing electric car ownership, but with a big majority of electric power produced from coal power plants, the emphasis on electric bikes and electric cars might not enough of a dent in overall pollution.

It was notable to see David Lochbaum, a longtime critic of Indian Point and its operators who works at the Union of Concerned Scientists, describe in The Times article the strain on the region's electric power transmission system without the nuclear plants:

The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissPower Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emisspower plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emisspower plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Members of the media and Tokyo Electric Power Co. employees wearing protective suits walk past storage tanks for radioactive water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, on Nov. 7, Power Co. employees wearing protective suits walk past storage tanks for radioactive water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, on Nov. 7, power plant in Okuma, Japan, on Nov. 7, 2013.

On July 14, 2011, American Electric Power said it had decided to table plans to build the full - scale carbon - capture plant at Mountaineer, saying they did not believe state regulators would let the company recover its costs by charging customers, thus leaving it no «compelling regulatory or business reason to continue the program.»

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.»

Some electric utilities continue to back special interest groups — including the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, American Legislative Exchange Council, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Utility Air Regulatory Group — that mislead on climate science and / or oppose legal limits on CO2 emissions from power plants.

But electric grid operators basically pull this off, balancing supply and demand every few seconds by turning power plants on and off.

Georgia Power's coal - fired steam - turbine electric generating Plant Bowen in Euharlee, Georgia, about 40 miles northwest of Atlanta is seen from a commercial airliner on September 12, 2009.

In a Harrisburg Pennsylvania newspaper article the claim was made that (32) «Unfortunately, the largest contributor to the problem, the electric utility industry, continues to get a free ride on its mercury pollution... other sources are reducing emissions, not such requirements exist for coal - fired power plants.»

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.

Power Plant in Lakeland (operated by Lakeland Electric and co-owned with the Orlando Utilities Commission), Crist Generating Plant near Pensacola (Gulf Power), Crystal River Energy Complex on the Gulf coast north of Tampa Bay (Duke Energy), Seminole Generating Station inland of St. Augustine (Seminole Electric Cooperative), and Stanton Energy Center (Orlando Utilities Commission) all failed the stress test, along with one of the two generators at the Northside plant (Jacksonville Electric AuthorPlant in Lakeland (operated by Lakeland Electric and co-owned with the Orlando Utilities Commission), Crist Generating Plant near Pensacola (Gulf Power), Crystal River Energy Complex on the Gulf coast north of Tampa Bay (Duke Energy), Seminole Generating Station inland of St. Augustine (Seminole Electric Cooperative), and Stanton Energy Center (Orlando Utilities Commission) all failed the stress test, along with one of the two generators at the Northside plant (Jacksonville Electric AuthorPlant near Pensacola (Gulf Power), Crystal River Energy Complex on the Gulf coast north of Tampa Bay (Duke Energy), Seminole Generating Station inland of St. Augustine (Seminole Electric Cooperative), and Stanton Energy Center (Orlando Utilities Commission) all failed the stress test, along with one of the two generators at the Northside plant (Jacksonville Electric Authorplant (Jacksonville Electric Authority).

So it turns out, if you diversify renewables by type so they're not all affected by weather the same way, you diversify them by location, so they don't all see the same weather at the same time, and you integrate them with the resources on the grid, both power plants and ways to save or shift electric use, then you can have a largely, or wholly renewable electric supply system at very reasonable cost, with greater reliability and resilience than we have right now.

Despite early knowledge about climate change, electric utilities have continued to invest heavily in fossil fuel power generation over the past half a century, and since 1988 some have engaged in ongoing efforts to sow doubt about climate science and block legal limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

Yesterday Environmental Progress introduced a motion [pdf] and exhibits to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) arguing that it should suspend action on Pacific Gas & Electric's proposal to close California's largest source of clean energy, Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, until:

A set of 12 sectors was agreed on as a common reporting format for all air pollutants: air transportation; international shipping; other transportation (surface transport); electric power plants, energy conversion, extraction and distribution; solvents; waste (landfill, waste water, non-energy incineration); industry (combustion and process emissions); domestic (residential and commercial buildings); agricultural waste burning on fields; agriculture (agricultural soil emissions, other agriculture); savannah burning; and forest burning.

Mohave Electric CEO Tyler Carlson argued that the trash - to - gas power plant could reduce costs to ratepayers by saving some of what the utility spends on solar.

electric power plants are: (1) survey and assess the capacity, cost, and location of potential depleted gas and oil wells that are suitable CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- repositories (with the cooperation of the oil and gas industry); (2) conduct research on the feasibility of ocean disposal, with objectives of determining the cost, residence time, and environmental effects for different methods of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- injection; (3) perform an in - depth survey of knowledge concerning the feasibility of using deep, confined aquifers for disposal and, if feasible, identify potential disposal locations (with the cooperation of the oil and gas industry); (4) evaluate, on a common basis, system and design alternatives for integration of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- capture systems with emerging and advanced technologies for power generation; and prepare a conceptual design, an analysis of barrier issues, and a preliminary cost estimate for pipeline networks necessary to transport a significant portion of the CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- to potentially feasible disposal locations.

The research needs that have high priority in establishing the technical, environmental, and economic feasibility of large - scale capture and disposal of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- from electric power plants are: (1) survey and assess the capacity, cost, and location of potential depleted gas and oil wells that are suitable CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- repositories (with the cooperation of the oil and gas industry); (2) conduct research on the feasibility of ocean disposal, with objectives of determining the cost, residence time, and environmental effects for different methods of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- injection; (3) perform an in - depth survey of knowledge concerning the feasibility of using deep, confined aquifers for disposal and, if feasible, identify potential disposal locations (with the cooperation of the oil and gas industry); (4) evaluate, on a common basis, more» system and design alternatives for integration of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- capture systems with emerging and advanced technologies for power generation; and prepare a conceptual design, an analysis of barrier issues, and a preliminary cost estimate for pipeline networks necessary to transport a significant portion of the CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- to potentially feasible disposal locations.

Ignoring global warming issues, TXU Corp, open - pit coal mine and electric utility company, is embarking on the nation's single largest coal - oriented electric power plant construction campaign.

Take a small example: Moving away from internal - combustion automobiles and trucks means more than just swapping in electric vehicles and expanding public transit; it also means building the infrastructure to support the new transportation system (chargers, added bus lines, additional electric power plants), retraining the people whose livelihoods were based on maintaining conventional vehicles, changing how cities are laid out and much more.

If merchant power plant operators couldn't make margins on the electric market and didn't foresee an uplift in the reasonable future, they needed to leave the market — and they did.

This file contains a user - friendly Google Earth map that displays information on location, fuel type, electric generation, generating capacity, ownership, and emissions for over 8,000 power plants across the country.

Enron had banked on trading permits for carbon dioxide emissions, which would have been based upon the existing permit system for sulfur dioxide emissions from coal - burning electric power plants.