Sentences with phrase «emission power sources»

Once the lowest marginal cost, low - emission power sources are exhausted, higher carbon price - adjusted energy sources will be dispatched into the grid until demand and supply are balanced.

The «sling» is Lord Dumpling's revolutionary new version of the Stirling engine, a no - emission power source that engineers have been trying to perfect for almost two hundred years.

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Using these new power sources could reduce emissions from a car by around 50 %, according to Maxwell's (MXWL) CEO and president Franz Fink.

If current trends persist, the transportation sector will overtake power sector as the largest source of U.S. emissions.

The world is on the cusp of a major energy shift that will see 60 per cent of the planet's power mix come from zero - emission sources in the next 25 years.

Canadian liquefied natural gas can lower global greenhouse gas emissions if it displaces dirtier sources of power abroad, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report.

Nuclear power remains a reliable, low - emission source of baseload power for the world's electricity needs.

On Monday, the Supreme Court effectively validated the Environmental Protection Agency's plans to regulate major sources of greenhouse - gas emissions such as power plants, but criticized the agency as overreaching.

Lactalis» Buffalo and Nampa facilities both utilize hydroelectric power generation as part of the company's effort to pursue non-fossil fuel - based energy sources and prevent carbon dioxide emissions.

By turning manure and wastewater into a power source, dairy farms could curb their climate - change causing emissions and keep harmful chemicals out of the surrounding environment.

Officials have warned that taking away nuclear power altogether — without an alternate energy source to replace it — would give fossil fuel industrial companies the opportunity to move in, setting New York even farther back in carbon emissions.

In giving her the nod, the group pointed to Niccoli's support for efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and pushing the state to have 50 percent of its power coming from renewable energy sources by 2030.

«As part of the shift to 50 percent renewables and emissions reductions, New York must use all of its existing carbon free power sources, including our upstate nuclear fleet, to continue our progress on climate change,» Kauffman wrote.

The Cuomo administration is seeking to preserve the plants, which employ thousands of residents in some of upstate's most economically - challenged regions, because they are an emissions - free power source.

The «Clean Energy Fund» will finance research, innovation and market development to help the state meet Cuomo's goal of generating 50 percent of New York's power from renewable sources, and a 40 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions, by 2030.

All these requests for solar power projects — among other sources of cleaner energy, such as wind or natural gas — are bringing LIPA in accordance with its Electric Resource Plan 2010 - 2020, which called for reducing emissions by 20 percent below 2005 levels by the year 2020, and by 80 percent by the year 2050, benchmarks set by former Governor David Paterson.

Despite a series of high - profile cancellations, projects to capture and store the carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and other sources are under construction

Capturing carbon emissions from electric power plants and other sources is a hot research topic because there's a lot of room for improvement.

That said, whereas CO2 emissions from coal - fired power plants in the U.S. have declined, greenhouse gas emissions from oil sands have doubled since the turn of the century and look set to double again by the end of this decade — the primary source of emissions growth for the entire country of Canada.

In the short term, new gas - fired power stations can help cut emissions, but only if they replace existing coal - fired power stations rather than nuclear plants or renewable energy sources.

Wind power is one of the key sources of renewable energy expected to play an important role in helping to cut emissions and wean society from its dependence on fossil fuels, which means wind - power companies must be prepared to quickly fix mechanical problems that threaten to slow down renewable energy production.

Twenty years ago those activities contributed similar amounts of heavy - metal pollution but have since drastically cleaned up their acts, leaving power plants as the leading manmade source, by far, of mercury emissions in this country.

Traditional coal - fired power plants, which produce 36 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions in the United States, are the fastest - growing source of energy — and air pollution — around the world.

Globally, the largest sources include emissions from small - scale and artisanal gold mining and coal - burning power plants.

As the nation's aging power grid is upgraded with cleaner energy sources — spurred by federal and state - level regulations on air pollution, renewable portfolio standards and tax credits — the emissions profiles of EVs across the country are expected to improve.

These particles come from various sources, ranging from campfires and leaf burning, to vehicle exhaust and power - plant emissions.

Biofuels use more land area, generate more greenhouse gas emissions, and have a greater impact on the environment than other alternative energy sources such as photovoltaic solar energy, solar thermal energy, or wind power.

Coal power plants are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, and new plants are planned around the world, particularly in India and China.

«Power plant emissions verified remotely at Four Corners sites, largest point source pollution in U.S..»

Air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from two coal - fired power plants in the Four Corners area of northwest New Mexico, the largest point source of pollution in America, were measured remotely by a Los Alamos National Laboratory team.

To cut our emissions, fossil fuels need to be replaced with low - carbon energy sources such as nuclear power and renewables, and fossil fuel power stations need to be fitted with carbon - capture technology.

Nevertheless, either carbon capture and storage will have to be developed and deployed or low - emission electricity sources, such as wind, solar and nuclear power, will have to grow significantly.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

The 64 - foot vessel has an advanced power management system that regulates when and how the different power sources are used so it can make best use of its energy and minimize emissions.

The study found that, in particular, wind power, biogas, solar photovoltaics, energy efficiency and operational improvements to existing power sources could not only reduce greenhouse emissions but also offset the water used to cool thermal power generation.

The remaining E.U. sources — defined as producers of «industrial emissions,» including power plants — are fewer and larger, and thus easier to control.

Those emissions are dwarfed by others sources on the global scale, such as cars and power plants, amounting to just 5 percent of total global carbon dioxide emissions.

A host of new techniques and technologies will be required to reduce emissions from these sources that includes reusing heat and power generated in manufacturing processes; recycling materials or substituting them; controlling greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide (CO2); and, ultimately, capturing and burying the CO2 produced.

«We wanted there to be a range of power sources and an understanding of the impact of each, including local pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and the willingness of people to live next to energy - producing facilities,» she adds.

So OCO - 2 scientists were never expecting to record the emissions of individual point sources, like volcanoes or coal - fired power plants.

Her favorite chemicals — favorite in the sense that she has studied them more than any others — are the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in cigarette smoke, power - plant emissions, automobile exhaust, and other sources of combustion.

Using atmospheric models to trace the acid back to the sources of the pollution such as large power stations, the aim is to pinpoint which emissions should be cleaned up.

Those steps include deriving 40 % of electric power capacity from fossil fuel — free sources by 2030, reducing its emissions intensity by 33 % to 35 % by 2030, and expanding forests to create a carbon sink capable of absorbing 2.5 billion to 3 billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere.

The New Source Performance Standards, which tightened emissions limits on coal - burning power plants, were enacted in 1979.

The latest battle comes as power producers in some European countries are embracing wood as a source of renewable energy that would also help them meet targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Lower rates of asthma and other health problems are frequently cited as benefits of policies aimed at cutting carbon emissions from sources like power plants and vehicles, because these policies also lead to reductions in other harmful types of air pollution.

Not only does this plan work on all sources of carbon emissions rather than just the power sector, but its starting point for a price on carbon far exceeds the effective price that the Clean Power Plan would have achieved, Kaufman power sector, but its starting point for a price on carbon far exceeds the effective price that the Clean Power Plan would have achieved, Kaufman Power Plan would have achieved, Kaufman said.

The EPA's endangerment finding kicks off a process to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation industry, the latest sector to be regulated under the Clean Air Act after cars, trucks and large stationary sources like power plants.

EPA had also set out a separate finding in 2015 as part of the new source rule for power plants, specifically stating that the facilities contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, harming human health.

Documents made public on the federal government's regulatory Web site show that EPA staff summarized the potential benefits [PDF] from curbing emissions, as well as the scientific data on motor vehicles [PDF] and stationary emission sources [PDF] such as power plants.