Sentences with phrase «electricity plants shift»

Burney is examining a similar trade - off between sulfur and black carbon in the United States, as coal - fired electricity plants shift to cleaner natural gas, which emits half as much CO2 as coal per unit of electricity.

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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Power Plant Operations Report The generation fuel mix of electricity in the Northeast Census division of the United States has shifted dramatically over the past Continue Reading

The most recent data from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) finds that a cost - shift does not occur until distributed solar penetration reaches 10 % of electricity sales, and even then that the impact is minimal compared to other drivers of rate increases, like new gas plants or transmission lines.

In fact, much of the overall decrease in energy consumption can be traced to the shift from coal to gas, because modern gas - fired plants may use up to 46 percent less energy to produce the same amount of electricity.»

Until advanced coal - combustion technologies become widely available that allow CO2 to be captured and stored safely underground, the shift to coal is bad news for climate change because coal plants usually emit about twice the CO2 per kilowatt - hour of electricity that gas plants do.

Shifting it to hundreds of smokestacks at power plants that supply electricity to charge electric cars therefore seems like a more effective way to clean up the fleet.

The article notes that the shift to gas, so far, is restricted to the city, and some of the pollution from coal combustion will simply be generated elsewhere as plants outside the city pollute to supply electricity to the center of power.

If electricity was dynamically priced, price fluctuations would be arbitraged by those market participants who could shift their demand or supply at least cost; among other things, this would remove the need for expensive peak - load plants and make solar and wind energy much more practical.

Electric power plants shifted some consumption from natural gas to coal, increasing coal consumption to generate electricity by 4.2 %.

The biggest shift in half a century is underway in the U.S. power sector, as electricity from coal plants shrinks and power from natural gas and renewables grows.

Other provisions in the act — such as tax incentives that encourage the adoption of energy - efficient technologies, a shift to more combined heat and power generation, and the adoption of real - time pricing of electricity (a measure that will discourage optional electricity use during peak demand periods)-- would cut electricity demand enough to avoid building an additional 37 coal - fired power plants.

Coal - fired power plants provides about half the nation's electricity, but many groups are working hard to change that, and shift our focus toward clean, renewable, safe energy sources.

Shifting electricity usage to off - peak hours will also help reduce the utility's peak demand, reducing the number of new power plants that they have to build.

A shift from petroleum - based vehicles to electricity - based ones would move the locus for addressing carbon emissions from millions of individual vehicles to far fewer centralized electricity - generating plants.

There are efforts underway now to shift more electricity demand to times when renewables are most abundant, build more energy storage and local distributed resources to reduce congestion, make the grid more resilient, and reduce the need to rely on natural gas peaker plants, especially ones in disadvantaged communities.