Sentences with phrase «expected load growth»

The natural gas plants are necessary partly because of expected load growth, partly because of the intermittent nature of solar power and partly because of the planned retirement of around 3,000 megawatts of generation powered by less efficient coal and oil plants, he said.

Not exact matches

Chief Executive of the CIA, Steve Elliott, speaking in Scotland to parliamentarians and chemical business leaders said «We can not continue to load costs on to an industry that needs to be internationally competitive and expect substantial growth to be delivered.

Full reliance on DG for expected U.S. load growth would avoid $ 326 billion in capital by 2020, reduce incremental power costs by $ 53 billion, NOx by 58 percent, and SO2 by 94 percent.

Even after accounting for expected fuel - switching and other load growth in the non-electric sectors, total natural gas use in these scenarios is expected to fall by 20 percent, relative to 2015.