Sentences with phrase «electricity generation methods»

Up to date costs of solar, wind and other electricity generation methods are on another page on this site.

Where locally produced sustainable energy might not be available, the power required for the drying of coal could be taken from the grid when electricity is abundant - that is, when sustainable electricity generation methods are puting more electricity into the grid than is being consumed.

Not exact matches

They do not emit tailpipe pollutants, giving a large reduction of local air pollution, and, can give a significant reduction in total greenhouse gas and other emissions (dependent on the method used for electricity generation).

The Army used a number of methods to curb energy use, but made a great deal of efficiency progress partnering with energy providers using ESPCs and utility energy service contracts (UESCs) to pay for renewable power generation as well as heat -, water - and electricity - saving upgrades.

Both electricity generation and the production of corn used for beef and ethanol production are methods of mining the aquifer's water to make money in the near term.

Your comments demonstrate you haven't even the most basic understanding of either economics, electricity systems, electricity generation costing methods or energy more generally, I'd suggest you spend some time trying to get some background to these issues before wasting more time on climate sensitivity.

In some markets, this generation method is actually displacing more costly grid electricity.

The idea that developing nations will commit economic suicide by not increasing their generation of electricity using the least costly method available, i.e., coal, is delusional.

Landfill methane emission rates are estimated using the first - order decay method recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in order to estimate both total emissions reductions for landfill gas - to - electricity generation and an increase in landfill gas flaring.

Geosequestration would add another $ 51 / MWh, putting it up to $ 114 / MWh; this is much more expensive than electricity from several sustainable generation methods; wind in particular.

The webinar included subsector pathways for iron and steel, electricity generation, cement, and pulp and paper subsectors based on Sector Decarbonization Approach, absolute contraction, and Greenhouse gas emissions per unit of value added («GEVA») methods.

[1] The levelized cost of electricity is a way to compare different methods of electricity generation using average total cost to build and operate a power plant divided by its total lifetime energy output

[5] The German Offshore Wind Act is a part of Germany's broader Renewable Energy Act (EEG 2017), which provides for technology - specific (including OSW - specific) energy auctions aimed at driving down the cost of electricity generated by OSW and other renewable generation methods (Kilgus and Bader 2016).

More than 20 years ago, Minnesota enacted a law requiring its Public Utilities Commission to «quantify and establish a range of environmental costs associated with each method of electricity generation.»

Allowing RTO / ISOs to use a dispatch system that gives wind and solar preference over traditional methods of generating electricity, which is driving nuclear and coal - fired generation off the grid, and which will ultimately also drive natural gas generation from the grid.

Its conclusion is based on what is called the levelized cost of energy (LCOE)-- a way of comparing different methods of electricity generation, using the average total cost of building and operating a power plant, divided by its total lifetime energy output.