Sentences with phrase «existing plant cost»

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RESOLVED: That Berkshire Hathaway Inc. («Berkshire») establish reasonable, quantitative goals for reduction of greenhouse gas and other air emissions at its energy - generating holdings; and that Berkshire publish a report to shareholders by January 31, 2015 (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on how it will achieve these goals — including possible plans to retrofit or retire existing coal - burning plants at Berkshire - held companies.

If you need big pieces of machinery for temporary use, such as for an expansion project on an existing physical plant, you can still keep your startup costs down.

The compact system is time and cost effective, with a small space footprint allowing it to be easily be deployed over existing conveyor belts without having to modify the production line or change plant layout.

Whether you are building a new plant or retrofitting an existing facility rely on Emmeti's over 32 years of experience in the industry to bring you innovative new equipment, with no proprietary parts, to improve your plant efficiency, reduce labor costs and add more profitability to your bottom line.

New research by the party suggests that on top of the up to # 90 billion cost of decommissioning existing plants, taxpayers will have to fork out billions in direct and indirect subsidies to the nuclear industry to persuade them to build new ones.

«The bad news is [that] it increases the cost of power roughly 60 to 70 percent for a new plant and probably by more than double for an existing plant,» says L. Doug Carter, senior energy advisor at Washington, D.C. — based law firm Van Ness Feldman.

Cellulose - loving fungi can cut biofuel costs by enabling existing corn ethanol plants to process cheaper, woody feedstocks such as corn stover

But no operating coal - to - liquid plants exist in the U.S., and researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology estimate it will cost $ 70 billion to build enough plants to replace 10 percent of American gasoline consumption.

Yohe estimates the cost of achieving a more modest goal of holding warming to roughly 2 degrees C at a cost of 0.5 to 1.5 percent of gross domestic product for the U.S. by 2050, thanks to the expense incurred by, for example, replacing existing coal - fired power plants with renewables or retrofitting them with carbon - capture technology.

That high energy density makes OTEC a more attractive option than wave or tidal power, Cable says, especially for distant outposts like those on Guam, where a cost analysis suggests that OTEC could provide electricity slightly more cheaply than existing oil - fired plants.

Due to the inherent scalability and economic advantages of plants compared to existing production methods, our technology enables the production of pharmaceuticals otherwise constrained by cost and capacity barriers.

Secretary Perry's attempts to tip the scale in favor of uneconomic coal and nuclear power plants to provide a «resilience» benefit that doesn't exist would have increased carbon emissions, raised costs to consumers, and distorted competitive markets.»

A new design of algae - powered fuel cells that is five times more efficient than existing plant and algal models, as well as being potentially more cost - effective to produce and practical to use, has been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge.

This advanced nuclear power plant has major appeal in domestic and international markets, offering a right - sized, cost - effective solution for carbon - free energy, and ensuring attainable power options to existing and emerging global economies demanding increased certainty of public safety, environmental protection and security from intrusion and proliferation of nuclear materials.

Methane is now mined from the existing landfills and from an increasing percentage of sewage treatment plants — energy costs have driven and will continue to drive some of this not to mention self defense against litigation due to the safety issues of methane.

New plant would have an efficiency increase of around 10 % so that would offset a lot of the cost of capture - if you use our existing fleet as the baseline

(Keep in mind that even if you hate existing or planned nuclear plants, this energy source is still advancing in many countries, so discussing issues related to safety and security, as well as cost, would seem wise.)

Substitution through increased utilization of existing combined cycle natural gas power plants provides a relatively low - cost, short - term opportunity to reduce U.S. power sector carbon dioxide emissions by up to 20 percent, while also reducing emissions of criteria pollutants and mercury.

The costs of carbon capture retrofitted to an existing cola plant have been estimated (in an actual engineering analysis, not some whimsical guess) at an additional 6 - 8 cents per kwhr to capture 90 % of the CO2 content.

They can build more coal plants, driving up their prices by competing with themselves; or they can flood their electricity markets with the maximum possible volume of non-coal power, enabling their existing fleet to operate at much lower costs and weakening the price power of coal exporters.

Repealing the Clean Power Plan, which limits carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, could save $ 33 billion in compliance costs, according to EPA.

But he said when compared to the cost of retro - fitting an existing coal plant, the «synthetic tree» becomes more viable.

Exactly the same situation exists in the electricity sector: no number of turbines will ever equal the cost, reliability and output of one conventional electricity plant.

It may not seem fair that existing fossil fuel plant bears the greatest burden of the costs of more time offline but, then, it's not fair we all collectively bear the burden of the full and true costs of that «low cost» forever into the future.

As costs shift from fossil fuels and the installation of expensive pollution controls at existing power plants to low - cost, underused energy efficiency and renewable energy, ratepayers will see a net benefit.

California, in particular, is saying «no» to new gas - fired plants and even considering closing existing gas plants despite their ability to supply reliable power at low cost and back - up intermittent wind and solar plants.

The results echo a similar study undertaken by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, which found that Americans «support setting strict limits on carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal - fired plants,» by a nearly 2 - to - 1 margin — «even if the cost of electricity to consumers and companies increases.»

Climate policy uncertainty, all other premises being equal, slows down the introduction of new technologies when compared with conventional ones, because it adds an additional risk to other large existing ones — the risk premiums for new technologies can be as high as 40 % of the capital investment cost for a power plant.

The Energy Institute's analysis includes only the costs for the new and existing power plant carbon dioxide regulations.

Very roughly Electricity costs from existing Australian coal fired power stations might be say $ 25billion / TWh and from existing European and US nuclear plants (Gen II) say the cost is the same, i.e. $ 25billion / TWh.

It is completely logical for policy makers today to not support tearing down existing coal based power plants, while at the same time supporting the construction of new power plants that are both non CO2 emitting and cost effective.

Technology policy can make clean energy cheaper, but not necessarily cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives, particularly existing coal power plants whose capital costs are already sunk.

Any financial assistance to existing nuclear power plants should not dilute or otherwise come at the expense of incentives for energy efficiency, grid modernization, or renewable resources such as wind and solar, and should include provisions to periodically assess whether continued support is necessary and cost - effective.

While regional variations exist, most utilities indicated a desire for wholesale electricity markets to decide what generation is sited and dispatched, but also want some plants to be allowed traditional cost recovery in those markets.

The base running costs in $ / megawatt - hour (MWh) for each coal unit are compared to several competitive energy resources: existing natural gas combined - cycle (NGCC) plants, * new NGCC plants, new wind power facilities, and new utility - scale solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.

The results will enable the wind industry to evaluate the potential for yaw - based wake steering to improve the performance of both existing and new wind power plants around the country, which could lead to higher, more predictable output from wind plants and lower operating costs.

What he may not understand is that electricity from new wind sources costs three times as much as electricity from existing coal plants.

In fact, by increasing the cost of new plants, such standards can encourage generators to extend the life of existing plants.

The cost of retrofitting existing plants to meet CO2 emission standards would likely be so high that standards could be imposed only on new plants.

Our patented technology allows for the low - cost capture of CO2 from stationary emissions sources such as oil production operations, power and steam plants and metals production facilities, while leveraging existing solvent - based gas scrubbing approaches already known to industry.

Two - thirds of existing Indian coal generation is now more expensive than solar or wind generation, and keeping these power plants running costs India billions every year, according to Greenpeace research comparing CEA 2015 - 2016 coal power generation data to new renewable energy project bids.

The review also notes that coal combustion remains the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution in the Czech Republic and highlighted the benefits of retrofitting existing coal - fired power plants with cost - effective emissions controls, and replacement of ageing plants with high - efficiency technology.

Existing plants will be replaced by the technology, available at the time, that is projected to give the lowest LCOE (i.e the least cost electricity for the life of the plant).

After analyzing the costs of retrofitting existing coal plants with stricter pollution controls, the coalition proposed replacing several aging coal plants with natural gas generators.

The Beacon Hill Institute's economic analysis of the EPA Clean Power Plan inflates the cost of the new rules for existing power plants by a factor of two, and minimizes the regulation's benefits by nearly ten times when compared with the EPA's Regulatory Impact Analysis.

Because wind has no capacity value it offers no security of supply and replaces no existing plant (substantially increasing capital costs).

The idea is to prop up outdated and uneconomic coal and nuclear plants — even if better, cheaper, and cleaner alternatives exist — and pass the costs on to ratepayers.

Great source of hydroelectric power to offset the cost to run the fueling stations 3 Station Location: St. Louis Has an existing hydrogen producing plant and dispensing station.

The subsidies, the lion's share of which went to existing gas, coal and nuclear plants, will cost a typical household # 14 on their energy bill in 2020.

Furthermore, rapidly falling renewables costs are on track to make building new wind and solar farms cheaper than continuing to run existing coal plants by the mid 2020s.