Sentences with phrase «electricity generating facilities»

Limits the trading of allowances with facilities other than electricity generating facilities to certain carbon dioxide emission control programs.

Hydrogen Energy, a joint venture between BP and Rio Tinto, has proposed a new hydrogen - powered electricity generating facility for the Kern County area that would capture and sequester (store) most of its carbon related emissions.

Not exact matches

Religion is based on the interpretation from people who when written, had no idea the world was round, that humans can build facilities to generate electricity and guns.

Over half of the facility's electricity is generated through solar power, and all winery process water is recycled for use as vineyard and landscape irrigation.

The installation generates 200,000 kWh of renewable electricity per annum — enough to offset the energy requirements of James Cropper's specialist laminating and technical coating facility, or the equivalent of powering 50 UK homes.

This proposed transmission facility would bring 1000 megawatts of electricity generated from Canadian mega-dams to Queens, NY, where it would power about 1 million homes.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and the state Public Service Commission (PSC) have awarded $ 30 million to help fund large - scale solar power projects that will assist facilities in New York City and the lower Hudson Valley generate electricity for their own use.

The facility just outside the town of New Haven boasts a single 65 - meter - high boiler capable of generating enough steam to pump out 1,300 megawatts of electricity — enough to power nearly one million average American homes a month — continuously.

The amount of electricity generated will not exactly power the entire town, or even the entire processing facility, but it can offset the energy used to clean the water.

Sandia engineers developed and tested the new receivers at the National Solar Thermal Testing Facility, studying their ability to withstand high temperatures and pressures while absorbing sunlight as heat that can be stored or transferred to a power cycle to generate electricity.

The partners develop mathematical models that produce improved forecasts accurate for each quarter - hour, which show how much electricity Germany's installed photovoltaic and wind - farm facilities will generate over the next few hours and days.

«Despite that many believe our power is generated using fossil fuels from Alberta, most of Canada's electricity mix comes from hydropower and nuclear facilities,» Kennedy says.

The third facility studied was the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in Bernardino County, Calif., where birds can be burned as they pass through concentrated sunrays that are reflected off thousands of mirrors toward a solar power tower, where water is boiled to produce electricity - generating steam.

«(ii) 4 megawatts in capacity, in the case of a facility that is placed in service after the date of enactment of this section and generates electricity from a renewable energy resource other than by means of combustion.

The reactor was later used to generate electricity for other site facilities.

A solar - panel system generates enough electricity to power 24 classrooms, a courtyard greenhouse shelters vegetables and native prairie Illinois grass, a small «living wall» of plants filters air and water in a freshman biology classroom, and a handcrafted biodiesel production facility provides a living lab for chemistry students and fuel for one of Bloom's minibuses.

Once units 3 and 4 join the existing two Vogtle units already in operation, Plant Vogtle is expected to generate more electricity than any other U.S. nuclear facility, enough to power more than 1 million homes and businesses.

In Killingly, Connecticut, Frito - Lay's facility just installed a Co-Generation system that will generate almost 100 percent of its electricity.

The Project activity is a new facility with the purpose of generating electricity by the utilization of wind power and further selling the generated energy to the NEWNE Grid.

Of the country's 6,000 coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar electric - generating facilities, a small sub-group of mostly coal - fired power generators produces more than its share of the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions compared with the electricity it produces, the report found.

Together those facilities will generate 600 MW of clean electricity, reducing the province's reliance on coal power.

On average, the facility generates enough green electricity to power approximately 2,500 New Brunswick homes.

Homes and commercial facilities in the Northeast rely on electricity, oil, propane, or gas to generate heat for hot water.

Through the 2018 solicitation NYSERDA seeks to purchase Tier 1 Renewable Energy Certificates associated with electricity generated from eligible facilities that enter commercial operation on or after January 1, 2015 and on or before November 30, 2020, unless extended to November 30, 2022.

Utility - scale solar energy projects (defined for the Solar PEIS as facilities with a generation capacity of 20 MW or greater) generate electricity that is distributed to consumers through the electric power transmission grid.

Community solar is an efficient and affordable new model of solar energy that allows participants to buy a fraction of the electricity generated at large off - site solar facilities.

A solar farm constructed in one of Pocono Raceway's former parking lots will generate enough electricity to power the NASCAR facility as well as about 1,000 homes in the surrounding area, making it the largest solar - powered sports stadium in the world.

Requires FERC to: (1) issue to each generator of renewable electricity a REC for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated after December 31, 2011; (2) issue three RECs for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated by an existing distributed renewable generation facility; and (3) review the effect of issuing three RECs and to reduce such number for any given energy source or technology to ensure that such number is no higher than is necessary to make such facilities using such source or technology cost competitive with other sources of renewable electricity generation.

[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»

Our costs have fallen 58 per cent in the last five years, and we know projects that tap into Alberta's high - quality wind resources can produce electricity more affordably today than any other generating technology aside from combined - cycle natural gas plants and gas co-generation facilities.

A standard way of thinking about the cost of electricity is «total system levelized cost» — basically, how much a power producer would have to charge for electricity to earn back the money spent building a new generating facility.

Actually, most of the pollution from the solar power comes from the indirect emissions of the fossil fuels used to generate the electricity of the PV manufacturing facilities.

John Kahabka from New York Power Authority with Sally Rand, EPAThe New York Power Authority (NYPA) is one of New York State's leading suppliers of electricity, operating 16 generating facilities and more than 1,400 circuit - miles of transmission lines.

«(ii) 4 megawatts in capacity, in the case of a facility that is placed in service after the date of enactment of this section and generates electricity from a renewable energy resource other than by means of combustion.

(i) the shift from reliance upon fossil fuels to other sources of energy, including renewable energy, that results in the closing of a facility or layoff of employees at a facility that mines, produces, processes, or utilizes fossil fuels to generate electricity;

Meanwhile hydro - power facilities based on the Indus generate around 50 percent of Pakistan's total electricity.

In addition, the GM do Brasil manufacturing facilities in 2013 procured on average 8 MW of small hydro - generated electricity.

According to Democrats, the bill would also provide «clean renewable energy bonds» to prompt electric cooperatives and public power providers to install facilities that generate electricity from renewable resources.

A fuel cell at the waffle - making facility in San Jose already generates half of the facility's electricity.

Required for facilities that use at least one non-renewable fuel to generate electricity, or facilities with generation not tracked in WREGIS for the entire calendar year covered in this report.

By one calculation, roughly 310 square miles are required on average for a wind facility to generate 1,000 megawatts of electricity and 60 square miles for a solar facility.

Customers can use third - party PPAs to purchase renewable energy electricity generated by facilities located on the customer's property, everywhere in the state.

«(iii) the quantity of electricity generated by a fossil - fuel facility that is equal to the proportion of greenhouse gases produced by such a unit that are captured and geologically sequestered; or

-- The term «qualified waste - to - energy» means energy from the combustion of post-recycled municipal solid waste, or from the gasification or pyrolization of such waste and the combustion of the resulting gas at the same facility, if the owner or operator of the facility generating electricity from the energy provides to the Commission, on an annual basis --

Instructs the Secretary to assign 60 % of appropriated funds for any given year to facilities that use solar, wind, geothermal, or closed - loop (dedicated energy crops) biomass technologies to generate electricity if there are insufficient appropriations to make full payments for electric production from all qualified renewable energy facilities.

-- The term «efficiency» means the operating efficiency of an electric generation facility as determined by the average annual heat rate of the facility, measured in British thermal units required to generate a kilowatt - hour of electricity from the facility.

Unlike photovoltaic technology, which converts solar radiation directly into electricity, the Ivanpah facility generates heat.

When the wind conditions are not right, other generating facilities using «conventional» energy sources will have to be available to satisfy electricity demand.

Southern California Edison will purchase the electricity and associated renewable energy credits (RECs) generated by the facility under a 20 - year power purchase agreement and will have the option to keep or sell the associated RECs.

Through the purchase of Renewable Energy Certificates (also known as Renewable Energy Credits or RECs), your business can affordably purchase the environmental benefits of renewable power generated from facilities throughout the U.S. Balance your electricity use, supply your green power program or earn LEED ® project points.