Sentences with phrase «electricity generation units»

This proposed rulemaking called for FERC to intervene in electricity markets to guarantee cost recovery for certain classes of electricity generation units.

Spence, in a piece for Fortune magazine, said reasons include the fact that «states must approve the construction of new electricity generation units and strong majorities in many states remain opposed to coal - fired power.»

First, states must approve the construction of new electricity generation units and strong majorities in many states remain opposed to coal - fired power, irrespective of what the preferences of a Trump Administration might be.

-- Fifty percent of the funds raised under this section shall be provided in the form of grants to electric utilities that had, prior to the award of any grant under this section, committed resources to deploy a large scale electricity generation unit with integrated carbon capture and sequestration or conversion applied to a substantial portion of the unit's carbon dioxide emissions.

Not exact matches

It sees coal as remaining dominant in the electricity generation sector: global consumption will rise by 1.3 percent a year — from 147 quadrillion British thermal units of energy in 2010 to 180 quadrillion Btu in 2020 to 220 quadrillion Btu in 2040.

The NuScale Power Module's cost per kWh is competitive with other sources of base load electricity generation, and less than the cost per kWh of large nuclear units.

Thirdly, the generation tariff means that the system owner is paid a subsidy payment for every unit of electricity (kWh) that is generated.

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

Even when the plants do a Fukushima (an exceedingly rare occurrence and the frequency per unit of electricity produced is decreasing), the fatalities and health consequences are negligible and, properly normalised for the amount of electricity they supply, are less than any other electricity generation technology operating routinely.

A December report from the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) said U.S. power generation from renewable sources, along with natural gas, would produce enough electricity to offset retirements of U.S. coal and nuclear units over the next 10 years.

Those units would annually generate approximately 17 terawatts (TWh) of electricity — about 3/4 % of annual electricity consumption in the UK — and produce 150 % of C02 emissions of coal generation and 300 % of gas generation.

In December, however, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) suggested in its 2017 Long - Term Reliability Assessment that power generation from natural gas — fired units and renewable sources such as solar and wind will provide enough electricity to offset closures of coal and nuclear plants over the next decade, at least.

Electric generation industry: Stationary and mobile generating units that are connected to the electric power grid and can generate electricity.

«(ii) providing an energy credit to the customer - generator in the form of a kilowatt - hour credit for each kilowatt - hour of electricity produced by the customer - generator from an electric generation unit.».

-- 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.

The small contribution of electricity Comparison of Estimated Electricity Output from Planned «Wind Farms» with Actual 1999 Output from Some of Reliant Energy and TXUís Newer, Existing Generating Plants * Company & Generating Plant Generating Units Capacity In MW ** Fuel Unit Type Generation (kWh) # TXU - FPL Wind Farm 242 160.0 Wind Wind Turbine 500,000,000 Reliant Wind Farm 160 208.0 Wind Wind Turbine 455,520,000 to 637,728,000 *electricity Comparison of Estimated Electricity Output from Planned «Wind Farms» with Actual 1999 Output from Some of Reliant Energy and TXUís Newer, Existing Generating Plants * Company & Generating Plant Generating Units Capacity In MW ** Fuel Unit Type Generation (kWh) # TXU - FPL Wind Farm 242 160.0 Wind Wind Turbine 500,000,000 Reliant Wind Farm 160 208.0 Wind Wind Turbine 455,520,000 to 637,728,000 *Electricity Output from Planned «Wind Farms» with Actual 1999 Output from Some of Reliant Energy and TXUís Newer, Existing Generating Plants * Company & Generating Plant Generating Units Capacity In MW ** Fuel Unit Type Generation (kWh) # TXU - FPL Wind Farm 242 160.0 Wind Wind Turbine 500,000,000 Reliant Wind Farm 160 208.0 Wind Wind Turbine 455,520,000 to 637,728,000 *** Reliant?

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.

In West Virginia, 57 percent of statewide electricity generation comes from uneconomic units; the same is true for 33, 29, 24 and 22 percent of the electricity generation in Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, respectively.

While a total of 20 states have coal units that are no longer economic, the five states that are facing the greatest amount of uneconomic coal generation relative to their overall electricity mix are, in order, West Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, each with at least one - fifth of their in - state electricity generation coming from units that our analysis shows to be struggling economically.

Scottish Power argues that under current market rules if a DSR CMU (Capacity Market Unit - «a unit of electricity generation capacity or electricity demand reduction that can then be put forward in a future Capacity Market auction» according to the government definition), consisting of energy storage, is located behind the meter (BTM) it will not be subject to duration de-ratUnit - «a unit of electricity generation capacity or electricity demand reduction that can then be put forward in a future Capacity Market auction» according to the government definition), consisting of energy storage, is located behind the meter (BTM) it will not be subject to duration de-ratunit of electricity generation capacity or electricity demand reduction that can then be put forward in a future Capacity Market auction» according to the government definition), consisting of energy storage, is located behind the meter (BTM) it will not be subject to duration de-rating.

Electricity is mainly supplied through diesel - fired power generation units.

The Institute for Energy Research decided to calculate the federal subsidies and support per unit of electricity production from the information provided in EIA's report and the generation data in its Monthly Energy Review.

The measure directs how a unit's overall efficiency shall be determined on the basis of outputs of electrical generation and useful thermal energy output, which is defined in the bill as (i) including direct heat and other valid thermal end - use energy requirements for which fuel or electricity would otherwise be consumed and (ii) excluding thermal energy used for the purpose of drying or refining biomass fuel.

The CO2 from electricity generation is down for a number of reasons; the biggest is the shift from coal to natural gas, which produces less CO2 per unit of energy generated.

If they pull it off, you'll have a unit that can store 3 - 4 days of domestic electricity usage — just the sort of thing for filling the troughs in wind or solar generation.

The two chambers separate the two processes of generation of electrons through photosynthesis and the conversion of those electrons to electricity, which in previous devices has be done in a single unit.

In the domestic sector, PV solar seems likely to dominate — micro wind is only really viable in a limited number of places and micro biomass units for electricity generation (usually micro CHP) are still relatively novel.

Sophie Vorrath wrote an article for RenewEconomy giving the real reason for the wholesale electricity price spike: the sudden failure of one of the generation units at Victoria's Loy Yang B power station.