Sentences with phrase «electricity generating company»

Acting for an electricity generating company in negotiating a # 15 million facility to fund a generation project.

A senior research engineer gave him this advice when he joined a large electricity generating company's «research studies» sector: «Remember to always ask your client what answer they expect to get before you start the experiment.

4) The primary reasons as to why the Konkan region is so attractive to electricity generating Companies are, perhaps:

Not exact matches

The energy company generates and distributes electricity to customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Texas, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

Everyone, including Western Power's separate generating and sales arms, plus the newly emerged private competing generating and electricity selling companies, would have been treated equally by the independent publicly owned networks» (transmission / distribution) arm.

The energy company generates, stores and distributes electricity and natural gas to customers throughout Michigan.

We typically focus on initiatives and activities that can have the greatest impact given the specific nature of our operations, such as our wind and solar farms to generate electricity and our frustration - free packaging initiatives, but we also have innumerable large and small initiatives underway at any point in time, as we seek to constantly invent across the company.

These companies are either utilities that significantly use fossil fuels to generate electricity, or are coal and natural gas suppliers.

Companies invest in these resources as the cost to build solar electricity generating systems continues to decline.

The power is generated through rooftop solar panels owned and operated by Singapore's Sun Electric, the first solar company given an electricity retail licence, it was announced at an event held by Sun Electric and Singapore's electricity regulator, the Energy Market Authority (EMA).

Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

In the U.S., the company Harvest Power is using food waste to generate electricity through the process of anaerobic digestion — essentially letting microorganism eat up waste products, and capturing the byproducts that can be used to generate power.

The anaerobic wastewater biogas technologies — which extract methane to generate green electricity or to fuel boilers and other factory equipment — are particularly applicable to food, beverage and agribusiness companies, or any industry that has a biological waste stream or wastewater with high organic carbon or COD (chemical oxygen demand) of natural origin that can be broken down into biogas by anaerobic bacteria.

They also give competitive advantage to certain businesses against others - so, certain «green» businesses get preferential tax treatment compared to, say, traditional energy companies, thus making it more profitable to engage in, say, wind energy than in building other means of generating electricity.

Don Jessome, president and CEO of Transmission Developers Inc., the company that would build the line, said in a statement that his firm «looks forward to working with all stakeholders to further the development of the fully - permitted... project to deliver clean, low cost electricity generated from renewable resources to southeastern New York.»

Currently based in Massachusetts, the company has developed an ultra-compact energy harvesting technology to generate electricity from the motion of vehicles.It will move to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Center's Innovations Center and create 14 new jobs while investing $ 157,000.

Rather than generating their own power via water wheels or electric dynamos, companies can now plug into the newly built electric grid and buy electricity directly from power stations.

The wind - energy tax credit, which has led to a sharp increase in wind - generated electricity, benefits mostly companies that earn income from other sources.

Geoplasma is negotiating contracts to sell three - quarters of the electricity generated by the plant to a utility company.

In this way Gemasolar should be able to generate electricity for 6500 hours a year, which the company claims is up to three times as long as other renewable energies.

Companies are trying out novel designs, such as a giant rubber tube and polymers that generate electricity when flexed.

In March, the company opened a new factory in Tucson, where it plans to produce enough thin - film CIGS solar cells to generate 40 megawatts of electricity next year — enough to power roughly 15,000 average American homes; it hopes to boost the juice to 100 megawatts by 2010 in response to what it predicts will be a growing market.

Some 80 restaurants, caterers and hotels, including gourmet food company Fauchon and Michelin - starred Taillevent, signed up for a pilot project to collect their food waste, which is used to generate biogas and produce electricity and heat, as well as compost for farms around Paris.

The result is that, although 17 percent of the electricity the Danes generate comes from wind, they use only 7 or 8 percent, according to Hugh Sharman of Incoteco, a Denmark - based energy consultancy and development company whose clients include VRB.

The company would then accrue credits for the difference between the «baseline» emissions that would have been released had the Chinese burned coal to generate electricity and the essentially zero emissions discharged by the wind farm.

If two - thirds of Fortune 100 companies want to buy electricity generated by off - site renewable energy sources this year, why hasn't more capacity been built?

Already companies such as Nanosolar claims that they can match prices with fossil fuel generated electricity, at least in manufacturing.

Though the federal government is doubling down on coal, electric power companies are embracing less - polluting natural gas, wind and solar power as the cost of generating electricity from those sources falls.

A second arm of the programme is a five - year scheme to introduce a «set of tools» to enable generating companies to supply electricity at the lowest economic and environmental cost.

«Globally, twice as many emissions come from generating electricity than from all forms of transportation — planes, trains, cars and others,» says Carol Battershell, vice president for strategy and policy at the company's subsidiary, BP Alternative Energy.

The industry has faltered because of declining global demand and low natural gas prices, which have encouraged electric power companies to use gas instead of coal to generate electricity, said Ray Rasker, executive director of Headwaters Economics, an independent research group focusing on the economic implications of land management decisions in the West.

One of those gambles involves DOE's award of a $ 535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra Inc. in 2009 to help finance construction of a new plant in Fremont, Calif., to produce the company's cylindrical solar modules that employ thin - film chemical layers to generate electricity.

Residents there do not know what is owed them by the government, as it takes away land and awards it to India's biggest energy companies to generate coal - fired electricity and power distant megacities, advocates say.

The state - owned Nigeria Agip Oil Company plans instead to generate electricity from the waste gas of its Kwale plant, displacing fossil fuels that might otherwise have been consumed.

The company plans to recover some of this energy by fitting a turbine inside the tailpipe: the fast - moving exhaust gases coming straight from the engine drive the turbine, generating electricity.

None of the numbers regarding openings and closings are likely to matter in the long run because electric power companies are using less and less coal to generate electricity — the primary use of coal in the U.S.

Using nuclear power to generate electricity provides many benefits: it's low carbon, it diversifies our electricity supply, it operates reliably on a constant basis, and it provides substantial economic benefits in communities where plants operate and to U.S. companies who supply the global nuclear industry.

In some areas, you might be able to generate your own electricity, and some electric companies offer credits for using renewable energy sources.

The school pays nothing upfront and buys the electricity generated by the system from the investment company more cheaply than grid electricity through a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA).

Last year's event was the company's first, with many schools attending local solar farms, seeing the dual usage of agricultural farming as well as generating electricity, discovering the biodiversity measures that many farms use to attract insects and birds through use of wildflower meadows as well as learning how solar is a home - grown solution to the UK's energy crisis.

PPL Corp. is an energy and utility holding company that, through its subsidiaries, generates and markets electricity in the northeastern and western US and delivers electricity in Pennsylvania and the UK.

Developed by Japanese company RIKEN and the University of Tokyo, the solar cell is coated on both sides with a waterproof covering allowing it to keep generating electricity from sunlight even after being soaked in water.

Do enough people care about where their electricity comes from to even talk to power - generating companies about it?

Matt Wald got an explanation for what has changed from Terry Murphy, the president and chief executive of SolarReserve, a company that has a design for a solar - thermal «power tower» plant capable of generating 250 megawatts of electricity, enough to run a small city:

So if the world moves toward a system for tracking emissions, who is responsible for a particular batch of carbon dioxide — the company that mined and sold the coal, the power plant that burned it, the consumer who buys the exported widget made with the electricity generated by that combustion, or...?

Company officials said they planned to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in projects that aim to make nonpolluting technologies for generating electricity competitive with what has been the norm for the last 100 years — burning black rocks.

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 emissions.

Air pollution from Europe's 300 largest coal power stations causes 22,300 premature deaths a year and costs companies and governments billions of pounds in disease treatment and lost working days, says a major study of the health impacts of burning coal to generate electricity.

To amortize the $ 300 million price of the wind farm, Deepwater Wind negotiated a contract with National Grid, the utility company that provides electricity for most of the state, that will increase the price of electricity generated by the turbines 3.5 percent annually to nearly 50 cents per kWh in 20 years.

More significantly, as the 115th member of RE100, the company joins a group which now generates demand for over 153TWh of renewable electricity annually — more than it takes to power Poland.