Sentences with phrase «electrical generation with»

The CEO of PG&E, Tony Earley, claimed the utility would replace Diablo Canyon's electrical generation with renewables, but Revis James, an experienced electricity markets analyst at the industry association to which PG&E belongs, the Nuclear Energy Institute, contradicted PG&E's claim, calling the proposed deal «risky, complex and expensive»:

If reducing CO2 emissions is the goal (rather than a ruse behind which the real goal is hiding), then why not replace all fossil - fuel electrical generation with nuclear ASAP?

Not exact matches

The state - led program targets 10 strategic industries for replacing imports with Chinese - made products: advanced information technology, robotics, aircraft, shipbuilding and marine engineering, advanced rail equipment, new energy vehicles, electrical generation equipment, agricultural machinery, pharmaceuticals, and advanced materials.

; 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.

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.

Power engineers are already sketching the outlines of the next - generation electrical grid that will keep our homes and factories humming with clean — but fluctuating — renewable energy.

Other biomedical engineers are developing a new generation of prosthetic limbs that amputees can control with neurosensors, with assists from computer science, neuroscience, and electrical and mechanical engineering, among other disciplines.

However, much of this work is still in its nascent stages,» said Binghamton University Electrical and Computer Science Assistant Professor Seokheun Choi, who is one of the co-authors of «Self - sustaining, solar - driven bioelectricity generation in micro-sized microbial fuel cell using co-culture of heterotrophic and photosynthetic bacteria,» along with PhD candidate Lin Liu.

Understanding the electrical signals produced by, and the limits of this technology will contribute to next - generation devices with higher informational content.

Real - time, direct, electrical detection of sequencing, combined with the enormous amount of computing power in both the Ion Proton ™ Sequencer and Ion Proton ™ Torrent Server, enables generation of high quality sequencing results from DNA library to variants in a single day.

The next generation Audi A8 will feature a mild hybrid system with a 48 - volt electrical system paired to a V - 6 engine.

The new sports car generation makes its debut in the classic Porsche pairing of Boxster and Boxster S. Both models are powered by flat - six engines with direct petrol injection, the efficiency of which is further enhanced by electrical system recuperation, thermal management and start / stop function.

Powered by the fifth generation of battery and drivetrain technology, from 2021 the BMW Group will be capable of offering all - electric vehicles with a range of up to 700 kilometres and plug - in hybrids with an electrical range of up to 100 kilometres.

By inhibiting surplus power generation, the multistage alternator control along with other electrical system efficiencies contributes to an improvement in fuel efficiency.

The gasoline engine of the e-POWER system is strictly for electrical power generation with minimal influence from the opening and closing of the throttle, allowing the engine to always operate in its optimum condition.

In combination with other weight - saving measures, including a 88.2 - pound reduction in the 1.4 - liter gasoline engine, 57.3 - pound reduction in the chassis and 13.2 - pound reduction in the electrical architecture, the new Golf tips the scales at up to 240.3 pounds less than the sixth - generation model introduced in 2008, with a claimed curb weight of 2,314.8 pounds for the most basic model, VW says.

But over the next decade, 60 million cars are expected to feature a 48 - volt electrical system, with a 10kw practical power limit, which will introduce the next generation of auto stop - start.

As with every generation, the new 911 Carrera S continues to raise the bar in both performance and efficiency completed with engine and transmission thermal management, electrical system recuperation and the world's first seven - speed manual transmission.

Plug the large end of the USB cord that came with your Kindle into an open USB slot on your computer; if you're looking at the USB cord and just see something that plugs into an electrical socket (Kindle 2 and later generations), that portion that looks like the end to be plugged into an electrical socket can be pulled apart to reveal the USB portion.

Along with his investments in electrical generation plants and distribution across the US and in Britain, he has transformed his holding company from an insurance company to a conglomerate with the majority of earnings coming from diverse industries.

Here's a little pause, after days focused on numbers (gigawatts of electrical generation, gigatons of emissions, square miles of sea ice), to reflect on the value judgments underlying efforts to mesh boundless human aspirations with life on a finite planet.

As a (now retired) electrical engineer (NYS Professional licensed) knowledgeable about power generation who has watched the challenge of meeting our energy needs over decades I can state with some expertise that the US is in a serious bind as to meeting our nation's energy needs.

In September 2010, the German government announced a new energy policy with the target of increasing the relative share of renewable energy in gross electrical generation to 35 % by 2020, 50 % by 2030, 65 % by 2040, and 80 % by 2050.

Replacing electrical generation from nuclear with natural gas could threaten public safety.

And this same period saw the expansion of fossil fuel burning from the traditional family needs like heating / cooking, then on to quickly power - up both modern modern agriculture and also the industrial - mass production revolution in manufacturing industries, and finally the large - scale generation of ubiquitous electrical power, eventually distributed into nearly every home and business in the industrialized societies, with close to 24x7x365 availability.

Net Metering records excess solar generation sent to the grid and offsets your bill at a 1kWh for 1kWh basis with the electrical grid.

(2007) • Contribution of Renewables to Energy Security (2007) • Modelling Investment Risks and Uncertainties with Real Options Approach (2007) • Financing Energy Efficient Homes Existing Policy Responses to Financial Barriers (2007) • CO2 Allowance and Electricity Price Interaction - Impact on Industry's Electricity Purchasing Strategies in Europe (2007) • CO2 Capture Ready Plants (2007) • Fuel - Efficient Road Vehicle Non-Engine Components (2007) • Impact of Climate Change Policy Uncertainty on Power Generation Investments (2006) • Raising the Profile of Energy Efficiency in China — Case Study of Standby Power Efficiency (2006) • Barriers to the Diffusion of Solar Thermal Technologies (2006) • Barriers to Technology Diffusion: The Case of Compact Fluorescent Lamps (2006) • Certainty versus Ambition — Economic Efficiency in Mitigating Climate Change (2006) • Sectoral Crediting Mechanisms for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Institutional and Operational Issues (2006) • Sectoral Approaches to GHG Mitigation: Scenarios for Integration (2006) • Energy Efficiency in the Refurbishment of High - Rise Residential Buildings (2006) • Can Energy - Efficient Electrical Appliances Be Considered «Environmental Goods»?

Thorium reactors could be a game changer here for power generation and heat with serviced buildings; but we'll still a long way off of good electrical storage in transportation — aircraft, trucks, ships, and cars will continue to burn oil products until that eureka moment)

For the first third of this year, renewables and nuclear power have been running neck - in - neck with renewables providing 20.20 percent of U.S. net electrical generation during the four - month period (January to April) compared to 20.75 percent for nuclear power.

You mention that replacing new coal - fired electrical generation capacity with nuclear fission is a no - cost approach to reducing CO2 emissions.

In his role as a «policy analyst,» Wojick's clients have included AES Corporation, one of the largest electrical generation companies, with much of that in the form of coal.

4) For nations (like USA) with large coal reserves, it makes economic sense to exploit these in a «clean» way; electrical power generation is an efficient use of this resource, which enables flue gas cleanup 5) Carbon taxes do nothing to change our planet's future climate (no tax ever did).

Wind is now supplying better than 4 % of the country's electrical generation, with costs reportedly comparable to those of coal.

«Our research shows a transition to a reliable, low - carbon, electrical generation and transmission system can be accomplished with commercially available technology and within 15 years,» said Alexander MacDonald, co-lead author and recently retired director of NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) in Boulder.

There has been significant problems with the grid being overloaded during periods of low electrical use and high generation.

With the recent acquisition of French turbine manufacturer Alstom, General Electric has now moved into a commanding worldwide position in heavy electrical generation by gas and steam turbines.

Expressed in financial terms, the health costs linked to biomass burning for power generation run into billions of euros each year, with health costs associated with emissions from former coal and co-fired plants amounting to 137,000 euros per year on average for every megawatt of electrical capacity installed.

With these additions, Canada has reached a total of 9.7 GW of online wind energy electrical generation capability — enough to power 3 million average Canadian homes annually.

60 Wind Generation Historically Small wind turbines used for Wind Generation Historically Small wind turbines used for agriculture use — pump water Provide electrical needs for isolated homes Extracts ~ 3 kW of power with wind vanes no larger than 1m long Modern Wind turbines with vanes larger than 50 m can extract megawatts of power from the wind Blades designed to function similar to airplane wings utilizing lift created by the wind flowing over the surface to turn the blades — more efficient Turbines mounted on tall towers or at sea can take advantage of higher winds.

I just can't successfully argue with anyone that knows everything about planning, finance, design, construction, economical operation and maintenance of entire electrical generation, transmission and distribution systems.

Note that most of the storage, transport, and power generation technology for methane is already mature, and that a strong reliance on methane could reduce the need for large electrical grids with huge generating plants.

Since electrical demand probably won't match up very well with wind fluctuations, installed wind capacity does not displace conventional power generation in a 1 to 1 ratio.

We've still got a ways to go: renewable energy only accounts for a total of 2.5 % of total electrical capacity, with 105 million MWh of total net generation.

Isolated from electrical systems, the lodge has so far produced the little energy it consumes (for laundry, refrigeration, lighting and low consuming artifacts like fans or guests» computers) with regular diesel generators; but is now adjusting its electrical generation system to work with biodiesel.

Coal production in the USA, after declining during the 1950s when natural gas replaced coal as the preferred fuel for space heating, has grown steadily ever since with coal continuing as the primary fuel source for electrical power generation.

«Our research shows a transition to a reliable, low - carbon, electrical generation and transmission system can be accomplished with commercially available technology, and within 15 years,» Dr MacDonald says.

Every act or omission in connection with the generation, transmission, distribution, retail or use of electricity in Ontario must be done or made in compliance with the Electrical Safety Code.

Martin Ignasiak, a partner in Osler Hoskin and Harcourt LLP's Calgary office, says many of his clients, which include oil sands players and electrical generation companies, prefer to err on the side of caution when it comes to consultation with First Nations, in order to minimize the risk their projects will fail to get approved.

With strong electrical engineering skills and significant insight into all facets of schematic design, proposal changes, and extensive knowledge of Next Generation Integrated Power Systems, I feel that I am a knowledgeable and qualified candidate.

My past work experience and extensive training has shaped me into an employee with skills in Electrical and Power Generation maintenance, installation and repairs, servicing a wide array of global corporations and the U.S. Military.