Sentences with phrase «electricity from a natural»

Meanwhile, Calpine, which generates electricity from natural gas and geothermal resources, said in a statement the NAES purchase price was $ 800 million plus an estimated $ 100 million of net working capital.

By 2040, the share of U.S. electricity from natural gas is expected to increase by 6 percent, and the share from renewables is expected to increase 13 percent.

2 Fusion On Tap Plasma physicist Eric Lerner has a dream: a form of nuclear energy so clean it generates no radioactive waste, so safe it can be located in the heart of a city, and so inexpensive it provides virtually unlimited power for the dirt - cheap price of $ 60 per kilowatt — far below the $ 1,000 - per - kilowatt cost of electricity from natural gas.

On average, electricity from natural gas is many times more carbon - intensive per unit than wind or solar.

Power companies would be allowed to exercise their own judgment (subject to the normal regulatory oversight by individual states) as to whether electricity from natural gas would be more cost - effective than coal or wind or solar.

The price of natural gas plunged some 70 percent while the cost to generate electricity from natural gas declined about 40 percent.

It would be a major long term hit to our economy for the US to generate more electricity from natural gas while the alternatives of energy efficiency and renewable energy are far more economically and environmentally affordable.

To the extent that a nuclear plant's output is replaced by electricity from natural gas, the resulting emissions set back national efforts to achieve needed emissions reductions.

Even including electrical losses from transmission, distribution, and battery charging, running a car on electricity from a natural gas power plant is more than twice as efficient.

Under normal driving conditions, well - to - wheel carbon dioxide emissions for vehicles running on electricity from natural gas — fired power plants are one fourth as high as emissions from cars directly burning natural gas.

This was below the price of wholesale power from the grid during that year, and competitive with electricity from natural gas.

Florida, for instance, the third - largest electricity producer in the United States, now generates 62 percent of its electricity from natural gas — up from 44 percent just a few years ago.

All told, 16 states generated more than one - third of their electricity from natural gas in 2013, with several of these states now using natural gas to generate nearly two - thirds or more of their electricity.

Generating electricity from natural gas is relatively clean.

In comparison, analogous damages associated with the generation of electricity to power a midsize electric vehicle (EV; 2013 Nissan Leaf, 0.29 kWh mile − 1 (fueleconomy.gov)-RRB- are $ 840 yr − 1 for electricity from coal, $ 290 yr − 1 for electricity from natural gas and miniscule for nuclear or renewables (again the contrast is slightly larger using US - specific valuation; see ESM).

«It's telling that in April 2015 — the month the United States generated more electricity from natural gas than from any other fuel source — the United States also emitted less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than at any time since 1988.

Not exact matches

The cost of electricity from large - scale solar installations now is comparable to and sometimes cheaper than natural gas - fired power, even without incentives aimed at promoting environmentally friendly power, according to industry players and outside cost studies.

The device allows business owners to modify their behavior and save on costs of everything from water and electricity to natural gas and heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems.

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

Ontario already has a surplus of power, and has signed 20 - year contracts for electricity from two new natural - gas fired generating stations being built in Sarnia and Napanee.

As recently as 2008, about half the electricity in the U.S. came from burning coal and one - fifth from burning natural gas.

The St. John's - based electricity and natural gas company reported net earnings of $ 963 million for 2017, up from $ 585 million in 2016

Calpine's deal comes at a time when the U.S. wholesale power generation industry is struggling with margin pressure as cheap natural gas from shale fields in recent years has been driving down electricity prices.

Results from the first round results of Alberta's Renewable Electricity Program were record - breaking, with the lowest wind power prices in Canadian history, making them competitive with natural gas power prices.

Moreover, our electricity sector is already shifting to greener fuels, including wind, solar and natural gas and away from coal.

In 2010, the United States used 683 trillion cubic meters of natural gas in anything from creating electricity to powering stoves, water heaters, and even vehicles.

80 % of its business comes from natural gas and electricity services while the other 20 % is divided among infrastructure services (pipelines) and other energy services.

Imported fossil fuels provide the bulk of power fuel, with 47 percent of the island's electricity coming from petroleum, 34 percent from natural gas, 17 percent from coal, and just 2 percent from renewable energy in 2016, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Since 1996, natural gas has gone from 14 % to 33 % of total US electricity generation.

The company purchases its electricity and natural gas directly from the New York Independent System Operator and the New York Mercantile Exchange with a third - party provider.

«In particular, instead of electricity or natural gas we plan to use waste heat or biogas generated from anaerobic digestion to bake our dog biscuits.

Renewable energy: Commit to 100 percent renewable power The Climate Collaborative states that about one - third of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas to produce electricity.

(b) It is further in the national interest to ensure that the Nation's electricity is affordable, reliable, safe, secure, and clean, and that it can be produced from coal, natural gas, nuclear material, flowing water, and other domestic sources, including renewable sources.

From 1996 until 2002, he served as Chair of the Assembly Committee on Utilities and Commerce (U&C) which held legislative jurisdiction over electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, private water corporations and other issues related to commerce.

Cuomo has said his goal of 50 % electricity from renewable sources by 2030 depends on natural gas pipelines and power plants «done well.»

The county made reductions by boosting the use of natural gas vehicles, installing LED lighting around county facilities, but mostly by purchasing more electricity from cleaner sources.

Electricity has historically been the chief source of CO2 emissions, but shifts from coal to lower - carbon fuels, especially natural gas, have shrunk its share of the total carbon dioxide pie in recent years.

A new report from M.I.T. predict that the U.S. will expand its use of natural gas to produce electricity and as vehicle fuel — but will eventually need to capture its carbon dioxide emissions

«In terms of consumer ownership and use costs, the case to make a switch from current fuels to compressed natural gas (CNG) is much more compelling than for other alternative fuels like ethanol and electricity.»

In essence, Mountain Pass will become a chemical plant, sucking up electricity and steam from an on - site natural gas — fired boiler.

According to Tufts University biologist Michael Levin, these electric signals are «a gift from physics,» a natural property of electricity that evolution was able to exploit advantageously.

Despite widespread concern about potential human health impacts from hydraulic fracturing, the lifetime toxic chemical releases associated with coal - generated electricity are 10 to 100 times greater than those from electricity generated with natural gas obtained via fracking, according to a new University of Michigan study.

The findings suggest that as the U.S. energy market continues to shift from coal to natural gas, the overall «toxicity burden» of the electricity sector will decrease, said study corresponding author Shelie Miller, an environmental engineer and an associate professor at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability's Center for Sustainable Systems.

The campaign for new nuclear projects has run into depressed electricity demand due to the recession and the prospect of competition from low - priced natural gas from shale deposits.

About 20 percent of U.S. electricity comes from nuclear power plants, making it the third - largest source of electricity in the country after coal (45 percent) and natural gas (23 percent).

FERC [the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission] regulates interstate transmission of natural gas — plus oil and electricity — from the standpoint of commerce.

Keeley said the market «isn't delivering to us what we actually want,» but instead is providing a «flood of electricity from super-cheap natural gas, which is cleaner than coal but isn't really clean.»

And those five problems are climate change, petro - dictatorship — the rise of Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela — energy and natural resource supply, and demand constraints, and we see that from food to fuel today, biodiversity loss, the fact that we are right now in the middle of the sixth great extinction phase in the Earth's history that we know of; and finally something I call energy poverty, the 1.6 billion people on the planet we [who] still have no on - off switch in their life because they've no direct grid electricity.

Radioisotope power systems convert heat from the natural radioactive decay of the isotope plutonium - 238 into electricity.

And if a home generating its own electricity with solar panels and batteries isn't connected to the grid, the home isn't culpable for any of the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that spew from natural gas power plants or coal - fired power plants — the globe's largest contributor to climate change.