Sentences with phrase «fire thermal power plants»

More than US$ 1.18 billion is needed this year to buy fuel required to fire thermal power plants in order for the country to meet its electricity demands, Ghana's energy outlook report has said.

The Ghosts of Coal is a photo - blog which describes the environmental and health problems caused by coal - fired thermal power plants.

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As a result of the discussions, a consensus emerged that Ghana has faced power challenges for the past several years due to the fact that thermal power plants did not have enough fuel resources to fire power generation plants.

We can't afford to build a coal - fired power plant with CO2 coming out — so can we develop carbon capture and storage technologies, or should we be looking at solar - thermal?

Other mitigating factors for coal - fired electricity would be if thermal coal prices dropped off steeply or the cost of building a coal - fired power plant came down.

This risk factor pushes the «levelized» or all - in price of nuclear power from new units to 8.4 cents per kilowatt - hour, the MIT study concludes, versus 6.2 cents for coal - fired plants and 6.5 cents for natural gas generation (if gas is priced at $ 7 per million British thermal units, or roughly 1,000 cubic feet of flowing gas).

In fact, the country is currently firing all of its thermal power plants — LNG, coal, diesel and fuel oil — said Sauer, who added that it's «quite unusual.»

This quick - start capability confers wind farms a decided advantage over thermal coal and natural gas — fired power plants when it comes to balancing electricity supply and demand.

Thermal efficiencies of ultra-supercritical plants can reach 45 %, versus the 33 % of traditional coal - fired power plants.

It also said that it has stopped financing greenfield thermal coal mining or new coal - fired power plant construction and will continue to lower its exposure to fossil fuels.

These drivers have been the primary reasons behind the stranding of over 14GW of coal - fired power plants between 2010 and 2012 — US thermal coal prices have fallen drastically as a result.

If we assume that each meter provides 0.7 thermal kilowatts of power, then we are looking at a world solar thermal capacity by 2020 of 1,100 thermal gigawatts, the equivalent of 690 coal - fired power plants.

The nine - unit Mundra thermal power plant is one of the largest coal - fired plants in the world.

Ultra-supercritical units are superior to the existing fleet of traditional coal - fired power plants that have a thermal efficiency of only 32 % HHV.

Ultra-supercritical coal - fired power plants operate at very high temperatures and pressures and have thermal efficiencies of between 38 % and over 43 % HHV.

Coal - fired power plants are also encouraged to increase their thermal coal stockpiles and upgrade their equipment to reduce emissions.

In contrast, for fossil - fired plants to compensate for wind energyís power fluctuations, the turbine has to heat up and cool down, and the thermal cycling shortens the turbineís life.

They can also be integrated into existing thermal - fired power plants that use a power block like CSP; such as coal, natural gas, biofuel or geothermal plants.

Water is another big concern — like any thermal power generation (such as coal - or oil - fired, or even bio-mass-fired plants) nuclear uses water for cooling — and uses it in really massive quantities.

GBP, an associate of Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC), has entered into an agreement with Alsons Consolidated Resources, Inc. (ACR) to acquire, subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions precedent, a 50 % stake in Alson Thermal Energy Corp. (ATEC), the holding company for the baseload coal - fired power plant and a subsidiary of ACR.