Sentences with phrase «electricity generation fleet»

The nation's electricity generation fleet is already very clean and getting cleaner — as shown by the nearly 70 - percent reduction in criteria pollutants since 1970.

Whether mostly nuclear or most renewables are likely to reduce the average emissions intensity of the electricity generation fleet fastest.

While Maine has the third cleanest electricity generation fleet in the nation, and while New England as a region is also very clean, in the last few years we have made a push for lots more wind generation.

Not exact matches

[Andy Revkin — Of course, moving some of the car fleet to electricity is simply transferring from oil to coal, which still provides half of the country's electricity, unless there is a dramatic shift in the generation mix, as well.

This effectively doubles the cost of supplying electricity since two generating and even transmission fleets must be built and maintained rather than only one — fossil fuel and nuclear generation — except where abundant hydro capacity is available.

According to the authors, the U.S.'s spare nighttime electricity capacity could power a large fleet of PHEVs; since they require about 10 hours of nightly charging, Joe Sullivan of the Argonne National Laboratory, one of the authors, nighttime electricity could allow PHEVs to replace up to 34 % of today's light - duty fleet - and only consume 13 % of the fuel used nationally for electricity generation in the process.Michael Kintner - Meyer of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - in a separate study - found that 43 % of the fleet could be replaced by PHEVs with existing nighttime capacity.

PB will have none of this: «Very high early penetration of wind generation is likely to have adverse effects on the rest of the generating fleet, undermining the benefits of an increased contribution of renewable electricity.»

IER recently released a first - of - its - kind study on the cost of electricity from the existing generation fleet, titled «The Levelized Cost...