Sentences with phrase «existing generation fleet»

IER recently released a first - of - its - kind study on the cost of electricity from the existing generation fleet, titled «The Levelized Cost...

The existing generation fleet in the Los Angeles Basin includes more than 7,000 MW of capacity at ten facilities that are more than 30 years old and were identified as candidates for retirement in the 2005 and 2007 IEPRs.

Not exact matches

In the years it takes for the innovative technology to be developed, commercialized and then penetrate the existing vehicle or power generation fleet, all the GHGs we emitted before are still doing their work in the atmosphere.

By regulating carbon emissions from existing coal plants, Obama is essentially forcing utilities to take the cost of pollution into consideration for generation fleets.

According to the authors, the U.S.'s spare nighttime electricity capacity could power a large fleet of PHEVs; since they require about 10 hours of nightly charging, Joe Sullivan of the Argonne National Laboratory, one of the authors, nighttime electricity could allow PHEVs to replace up to 34 % of today's light - duty fleet - and only consume 13 % of the fuel used nationally for electricity generation in the process.Michael Kintner - Meyer of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - in a separate study - found that 43 % of the fleet could be replaced by PHEVs with existing nighttime capacity.