Sentences with phrase «electricity plants as»

Cars and trucks recently surpassed electricity plants as America's biggest sources of the greenhouse gases that drive global warming.

Both CDU and SPD see efficient coal - and gas - fired electricity plants as an acceptable and important bridge technology.

Not exact matches

Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

Beyond using this clean electricity to power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel - cell cars) on the road by 2020.

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

Just as importantly, his work on the distribution of electricity led to the world's first power plant in New York City (though his technology choice, direct current (DC), was eventually surpassed by the alternating current approach (AC) championed by rival inventor, Nikola Tesla).

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

Also, the French believe that Frau Merkel played politics and an anti-French card by moving to halt electricity production at seven NUCLEAR POWER plants, thus making the French look bad as well as having the impact of driving up electricity prices.

Puerto Rico gets much of its electricity from large central power plants on the southern coast of the island and transmits power to load centers on its north side, as you can see on this map of the island's transmission system.

The nuclear power plants in use around the world today use fission, or the splitting of heavy atoms such as uranium, to release energy for electricity.

Nature is light, electricity, magnetism, air, water, fire, earth, animals, plants; nature is man, insofar as he is a being who acts instinctively and unconsciously.»

Undaunted, the company built a distilled spirits plant in Downey, Calif., and partnered with a China - based engineering firm that custom - built production machinery for the plant, which uses air as its main power source instead of only electricity.

For specific industry applications with high organic loads, enough biogas can be generated to fully cover a production plant's energy needs and still have a biogas surplus to feed it into power generators and sell electricity to the national grid, often generating carbon credits, where these apply, as well as profit.

This can be direct income to the Government as the Plant may continue to generate electricity at 4.5 c / kWh while the Government can make additional profit of at least 3.5 c / kwh for the next 15 - 20 years.

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.

In 2017, for instance, according to the US Energy Information Administration, the levelised cost of electricity, which is a key comparator of generating effectiveness, is likely to average $ 96 / MWh for new wind plant as opposed to $ 97.4 / MWh for conventional coal.

For a second year in a row, the PSC has deeply slashed the amount of renewable energy that utility companies are forced to buy under Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear plants.

Applause to Ameri who have still running the plant to generate electricity for the Ghanaians, despite the fact that the last payment made to them as per the terms of the legally binding and fully enforceable agreement, was in the month of January 2017.

Upstate electricity prices will go «materially higher» by the summer of 2017 if both the FitzPatrick and Ginna nuclear plants shut down as expected, a Wall Street analyst predicts.

The proposal comes as state energy officials continue crafting a Cuomo - backed clean energy plan (Clean Energy Standard) that would include unspecified subsidies to financially stressed nuclear plants, which currently provide about 30 percent of the state's total electricity.

In recent years, historically low natural gas prices have driven down wholesale electricity costs as plant owners switched to that fuel, making nuclear power less competitive financially.

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So they end up having sold or having talks to sell critical infrastructure as aiports, electricity plants, or even the electricity grid itself to foreign funds for extremely undervalued pricing.

As state officials seek a way to keep the struggling Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant open, a new study finds that losing them could lead to higher electricity prices.

With four years to plan for the nuclear plant's closure, some of those reliability issues may be resolved as other electricity generating resources come online.

The plant supplies as much as 25 percent of the electricity used in New York City and Westchester.

The zone is intended to address transmission bottlenecks and attract investment in new power plants by, as Maserjian puts it, artificially raising electricity prices.

The plant parts left over after juice extraction, known as bagasse, can be burned to produce steam and electricity.

The shape even fed into the name — Solyndra — as well as promising half the installation cost in one third of the time, enabling «grid parity» (that is, a price competitive with electricity from fossil fuel — fired power plants) at some imminent date for the first time in the history of solar power.

Comprehending and reducing turbulence will facilitate the development of fusion as a safe, clean and abundant source of energy for generating electricity from power plants around the world.

«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 shortfall may grow critical as electricity producers close down old oil and coal plants in favor of cleaner natural gas.

The extra electricity, which can increase by as much as a gigawatt — or the output of a large nuclear power plant — in under an hour, must be quickly sold to other utilities or in many cases it is wasted.

While the Gallions Park development includes several earth - friendly features, such as community greenhouses, a key element of the zero - carbon strategy will be a combined heat and power (CHP) plant to generate electricity and provide hot water.

While humankind has been digging fuel from the ground and burning it for power, living plants and the soil they grow in have been hiding some serious potential as electricity generators.

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.

As Garfield notes, last summer many nuclear power plants remained closed — and electricity rationing is still a major issue.

LONDON — Critics of renewables have always claimed that sun and wind are only intermittent producers of electricity and need fossil fuel plants as back - up to make them viable.

The idea is that many small power plant operators can feed their electricity into the grid but act as a single power plant using computers to control the level of power.

In terms of infrastructure, such big solar fits as comfortably as a coal - fired power plant in the traditional electricity business model, which involves large plants transmitting electricity over a grid of conducting lines through transformers and into individual homes and businesses.

«In addition, fossil fuel plants benefit from better storage technology as they are able to supply electricity without incurring high ramping costs.»

Texas experienced blackouts in February 2011, as colder - than - average winter weather simultaneously increased demand for electricity and damaged coal - fired power plants and wind turbines.

This plant covers 74 acres and sucks up at least 300 megawatts of electricity most of the time, peaking at as much as 2,000 megawatts (much of it from a coal - fired power plant nearby), to heat uranium hexafluoride until it gasifies and then force it through 1,760 porous membranes that gradually concentrate the level of the fissile isotope — a method invented during World War II.

According to the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), based in Washington DC, the best sites can generate electricity for as little as 5.5 cents per kilowatt - hour, compared with 8 or 9 cents per kilowatt - hour for natural gas plants.

Solar panels could produce electricity at the same price as coal - and natural gas - burning power plants by the end of this decade if countries direct resources at this rapidly advancing corner of the energy industry, according to the Paris - based International Energy Agency.

As in a conventional fossil fuel or nuclear power plant, that steam spins turbines, which generate electricity.

The researchers envision thousands of underwater turbines producing as much energy as 10 nuclear power plants and supplying one third of the state's electricity.

Of course, the sun doesn't always shine and, at present, the eSolar design has limited capacity to store energy — either as heat or electricity — nor does it supplement production by burning natural gas as some other existing concentrating solar power plants do.

The «well - to - wire» research showed new natural - gas power plants are responsible for less than half as much greenhouse gas per kilowatt hour of electricity generated as existing coal power plants.

GE's H - class heavy - duty gas turbines are currently the world's largest and most efficient gas turbines, capable of converting fuel and air into electricity at more than 62 percent power - plant efficiency when matched with a steam turbine generator, a setup known as combined cycle.