Sentences with phrase «electricity generation at»

This is because electricity generation at coal fired plants is inefficient (30 to 35 %), and coal has a high carbon content.

The success of REV depends on communities taking charge of their own energy as New York increases the growth of electricity generation at customer sites to supplement power generated at central power plants.

Coal, nuclear, and many natural gas plants depend on having sufficient water for cooling, which means that severe droughts and heat waves can put electricity generation at risk.

While coal currently supplies 37 % of total global electricity, in 2040 it will still be the largest single source of electricity generation at 26 %

Those that don't use it in their engine use it in the electricity generation at the plant which they use.

Renewables offer just 10 percent of total U.S. electricity generation at present, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, a proportion that drops to just 4 percent when the dams built from the 1930s to the 1970s are not counted.

Yet, the government has launched a pilot project to address the problem by capturing and storing the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by using coal as a fuel for electricity generation at a power plant dubbed GreenGen.

Not exact matches

Solar power has grown at a whopping 68 % average rate over the past 10 years, but still accounts for less than 2 % of total U.S. electricity generation.

Gas prices are rising at a rate of 1 to 2 percent per year, plus inflation; meanwhile, the cost of electricity generation is going down.

The analysis comes off the back of data released at the end of March which showed that renewable electricity generation in Scotland grew by 26 percent in 2017.

Under the agreement, Ontario will store some of its surplus electricity — much of which comes from wind power generation — at Hydro Quebec facilities.

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.

Franklin Templeton obtains electricity from fuel cells installed at our San Mateo headquarters (1 MW generation capacity).

Meanwhile, Jason Chee - Aloy, senior electricity market analyst and electricity policy consultant at energy market consultancy, Power Advisory, noted that by 2018 Ontario will need new generation sources.

«New generation equipment, such as Bitmain's model S9, has the ability to quickly add hashrate which, absent changing other factors, would increase difficulty to the point where older generation miners are no longer profitable at most electricity price points.»

Although the sun is at a similar angle in September and October, electricity demand is still relatively high, leading to lower solar generation shares than seen in March.

The increase in demand for electricity, reduction in the quantity of water at the Akosombo Dam, irregular gas supply from the West Africa Gas Pipeline Company in Nigeria, irregular maintenance programmes and late procurement of crude oil to power generation plants, have conspired to plunge the country in the current power crisis.

We are at a crucial stage in our challenge to decarbonise our electricity generation and we mustn't squander this opportunity.

As a teacher of Physics in the university, I was excited when the late President Umaru Yar» Adua awarded a contract of some N40bn for an alternative - energy, wind - powered electricity generation plant to be sited, naturally, at Katsina State.

The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has announced that the country will enjoy stable power supply in the coming weeks as Ghana's electricity generation capacity now exceeds demand at peak periods.

«I think coal is at a very low place right now,» Barnett said in an interview, noting that coal has lost about 10 percent of its market share for electricity generation as more utilities convert their plants to burn natural gas.

The researchers also looked at air pollutants emitted during both shale - gas extraction and electricity generation.

They are promising materials for making next - generation solar cells because they are inexpensive to manufacture and are considerably efficient at converting light to electricity.

«We looked at companies that had been granted patents in electricity generation technologies and determined the probability that they would apply for future patents,» Lazkano said.

As long as countries like China or the U.S. employ big grids to deliver electricity, there will be a need for generation from nuclear, coal or gas, the kinds of electricity generation that can be available at all times.

Distributed generation creates power on a smaller scale at locations throughout the electricity network.

«(I) The Administrator shall determine the amount of fossil fuel - based electricity delivered at retail by each electricity local distribution company, and shall use appropriate emission factors to calculate carbon dioxide emissions associated with the generation of such electricity.

Alberta is phasing out all pollution from coal - fired electricity generation (6,300 MW) by 2030 and renewable energy — mostly wind — will replace two thirds of it with renewable energy; expected to drive development of at least 4,000 MW of new wind energy capacity.

The lyrics tell a story of how researchers at MIT's S3TEC center want to harness thermal energy for electricity generation, but must find a way to «stop the phonons from giving away...

For the past decade, governments and utilities have been looking at how carbon capture technologies might be deployed to reduce emission of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, while enabling low - carbon electricity generation.

Franklin Templeton obtains electricity from fuel cells installed at our San Mateo headquarters (1 MW generation capacity).

I do know that solar and wind are the fastest - growing sources of new electricity generation in the world, growing at record - setting double - digit rates every year.

Decreased deforestation, energy efficiency, electricity generation, buildings, and cars are at the simpler end of the spectrum.

REC - derived revenue is often instrumental for renewable energy projects, both in terms of securing financing as well as allowing the project to sell electricity at a cost low enough to supplant dirtier generation.

-- The government reaffirmed its commitment to domestic climate goals — It promised # 730m of annual support for renewable electricity generation over the course of this parliament — It appears the government is still committed to phasing out all remaining coal plants by 2025 at the latest

But they can never be as cheap as coal - fired electric generation because the energy density of the sun's rays are not nearly at the level of fossil - fuels like coal, so you necessarily need more physical equipment to collect the energy, and turn it into electricity.

We need a new vision of the electric generation, transmission and distribution system rather than one that moves electricity generated at remote locations, arriving at the point of end use... with a loss of 67 percent of otherwise valuable thermal energy.

Implementing efficiency improvements at existing generators to lower energy input per unit of net electricity generation (heat rate improvement)

It's now pretty clear that renewables can replace fossil fuels in their main uses, electricity generation and land transport, at a very modest cost or, as appears to be the case for electricity, with a cost saving.

Even ignoring the impacts on forests, harvest and transportation and looking only at the emissions coming from smokestacks, wood releases around 50 % more CO2 per megawatt of electricity generation than coal!

Perhaps a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request would be helpful to understand the electricity generation trend at the Sierra SunTower?

At peak generation, this solar facility's electricity output would rival that of five large nuclear power plants.

At the same time the shift in fuels for electricity generation began lowering the carbon intensity of electricity in the region, demand for electricity in the Northeast became stagnant or started declining.

If the unjustifiable impediments were removed, competition and innovations would take off; technologies would improve faster, safety would improve and costs could be expected to decline at around 10 % per capacity doubling (typical for other electricity generation technologies over the past 100 years or so).

Public statements, company reports and press coverage all point to a shift from coal - fired electricity generation to renewables at Reliance.

These allow the integration of a range of options, including coupling with the electricity sector through heat pumps and power to heat, using the generation from variable renewable power sources at times of low demand to heat water for the district heating system.

So, they are importing electricity from other grids while at the same time curtailing RE generation.

«Wind energy is well positioned to help Ontario achieve its Climate Change Action Plan goals, to increase the affordability of electricity generation in Ontario, and to protect supply reliability at a time when there are growing risks to future electricity supply on the horizon.

The graph at right shows comparative electricity generation costs at present.

Available at: http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/ftproot/forecasting/0484%282007%29.pdf; See also United States, Energy Information Industry, «U.S. Nuclear Generation of Electricity,» 2009 Capacity and Generation, Accessed December 9, 2010.