Sentences with phrase «electricity plants at»

Using coal fired electricity plants at a thermal efficiency of 33 % you get 3 boe of coal to make 3 boe of shale oil or 1:1.

Not exact matches

Listed Perth company AnaeCo has achieved a significant milestone at its waste - to - energy plant in Shenton Park, with Western Power approving its connection to the electricity grid.

HANOI, April 26 (Reuters)- PetroVietnam Power Corp, or PV Power, has been granted government approval to build two gas - fired electricity plants in southern Vietnam at a total cost of nearly $ 1.5 billion, its parent company said on Thursday.

That dam, if it gets built, will supply surplus electricity this province has no need for, other than to power the LNG liquidation plants, to which it will be sold at great discount, since it can not be stored.

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.

** JPMorgan Chase & Co's commodity trading arm is looking to sell more of the electricity deals it has with U.S. power plants and wind farms, a source familiar with the business said on Wednesday, at a time when Wall Street's involvement in physical commodity markets is under heightened scrutiny.

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.

The price collapse of solar panels has led to tumbling electricity prices at photovoltaic plants worldwide.

Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.

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.

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.

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.

Hawkins says studies from his supporters say a solar plant at the base would produce electricity far below current prices, helping business and industry in the state that have been hurt by high power prices.

In his showpiece speech at the party's conference on Tuesday, Ed Miliband said he would freeze gas and electricity bills for 20 months, prompting energy companies to claim blackouts would follow and investment in new plant would stall.

The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed on Wednesday at Governor's office, Ibadan, is targeted at generating 1,000 megawatts of electricity and providing independent power plants across the zones of the state.

Cuomo's plan to bail out upstate nuclear plants could end up raising electricity expenditures for health systems around the state by at least $ 13.4 million, according to a report by a consumer utility advocacy group.

The plant has a tariff of 15 cents per kilowatt hour, but the same power is sold to the Electricity Company of Ghana at a cost of 5 cents per kilowatts hour, leaving a deficit of 10 cents per kilowatts.

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The Cuomo administration's claim that closing the plant «will have little to no effect on New Yorkers» electricity bills» was concurred by Dr. Robert Brinkmann, founder of the Sustainability Studies program at Hofstra University.

After the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, Germany adopted a policy of phasing out nuclear energy by 2022 and ensuring that 80 percent of the country's electricity supply comes from clean energy by 2050, or more than three times the level of 2010.

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.

«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.

Adding carbon capture technology to that plant sucks up 40 percent of the power it can produce and adds at least 2.7 cents to the retail price of that electricity.

Most electricity in the United States is generated at power plants that run on coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.

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.

A new technology might be able to strip the CO2 from power plant emissions, and generate more electricity at the same time

Though it doesn't break out the nuclear data separately, statistics from Europe's electricity industry association Eurelectric show both planned and unplanned outages mostly increased at thermal power plants in eight European countries examined, and periods of energy unavailability increased from around 12.8 percent in 2002 to 18.3 percent in 2011.

The Department of Energy estimated in May 2007 that a new power plant burning pulverized coal and equipped with amine scrubbers to capture 90 percent of the CO2 would make electricity at a cost of more than $ 114 per megawatt - hour (compared with just $ 63 per MWh without CO2 capture).

By looking at the plant's total annual utility use and the fraction of yearly operations needed to print a single issue of DISCOVER, David Hakenewerth, a manager at Quebecor's Jonesboro facility, determined that producing one month's edition of the magazine consumes 63,364 kilowatt - hours of electricity and 1,704 therms of natural gas.

For example, he points out that the proportion of electricity to be generated by nuclear power plants in the year 2000 will, at 34 per cent, be almost double the previous forecast made less than three years ago.

The major industrial emitters at refineries, cement plants, and steel mills could be required (or induced through taxation) to capture their CO2 emissions or to convert part of their processes to run on power cells and clean electricity.

After all, the 10 RGGI states are connected to a national grid for power that can allow, for example, cheaper, dirtier power from coal - fired power plants in Ohio to substitute for reduced electricity production at a coal plant in New York State.

When the head of the Atomic Energy Commission at the time, Lewis Strauss, infamously quipped in 1954 that electricity would become «too cheap to meter,» he was likely referring to nuclear fusion, not nuclear fission, the atom - splitting reaction that powers conventional nuclear power plants today.

Arias says Torresol can either run the plant until the battery is exhausted, or it can modulate the power of the turbine during darkness so it is at its maximum between 11 and 11.30 pm, when electricity demand — and price — peaks, «so we are able to reach the next day without stopping the turbine».

The payoff, he adds, is that 10 - hour storage eliminates the need for a fossil fuel power plant to back up electricity production on cloudy days and at peak usage hours in the evening.

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.

The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that this switch would reduce electricity demand for lighting by 62 percent and avoid the need for at least 133 new power 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.

Another approach operates at the bottom of New York City's East River, where in 2006 Verdant Power, Inc., planted six windmill - like turbines — each 16 feet (five meters) in diameter — 30 feet (nine meters) below the surface and churning at a peak rate of 32 revolutions per minute to transform strong tidal forces into electricity.

It plans to increase its manufacturing capacity at its plant in Katsuragi, Japan, to produce enough cells to make 160 megawatts of electricity by October — and to bring its total annual output to enough cells to produce 1,000 megawatts by 2010 by building another factory in Sakai, Japan.

Hydroelectric plants, for instance, often draw on reservoirs to generate additional electricity at peak times, and then pump some of the water back uphill in off - peak periods.

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates at least 500 gigawatts of electricity - generating capacity could be harvested this way — or 1.5 times more than the entire U.S. fleet of coal - fired power plants.

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.

At the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland pilot plant, these solar panels were printed directly onto a thin sheet of film to create a solar wallpaper that can be used to produce electricity from interior lighting or sunlight.

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.

This emission was «similar to the greenhouse effect of electricity generated by coal - fired plants» and would persist for at least 50 years.

«Hydropower plants and thermoelectric power plants — which are nuclear, fossil -, and biomass - fueled plants converting heat to electricity — both rely on freshwater from rivers and streams,» explains Michelle Van Vliet, a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and Wageningen University in the Netherlands, who led the study.

States with more coal power plants such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana released the most electricity - related SO2 emissions in the summer at more than 1,300 metric tons per day, per state.

Britain's first such plant, designed to produce up to 25 megawatts of electricity for the national grid, is being built at Wolverhampton.