Sentences with phrase «fired electric generators»
MATS requires large coal - and oil - fired electric generators to meet stricter emissions standards by incorporating emissions control technologies in existing generating facilities.
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Instead, for decades electric companies have built coal, nuclear, natural gas and oil - fired generators close to customers.
In raw numbers, here's what the electric power industry's abandonment of coal looks like: This year, 24 coal - fired electricity generators at 14 power plants in 11 states are expected to shut down, followed by another 22 coal generators in 2018, according to
Of the country's 6,000 coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar electric - generating facilities, a small sub-group of mostly coal - fired power generators produces more than its share of the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions compared with the electricity it produces, the report found.
In fact in all ten cases the evidence comes from primary sources, such as ExxonMobil's annual accounts and a leaked document from the Intermountain Rural Electric Association, which shows that one of the programme's contributors has been paid $ 100,000 by that organisation alone to produce arguments beneficial to coal - fired power generators (3).
At the end of 2010, natural gas - fired generators constituted 39 % of the Nation's total electric generation capacity of 1,042 gigawatts (GW).
Most new electric power generators built between 1950 and 1990 were coal - fired.
The June 16 edition of Today in Energy examined the wide age range of electric power generators for all fuels; today's article looks specifically at coal - fired generators.
The June 16 edition of Today in Energy examined the wide age range of electric power generators for all fuels; today's article looks specifically at petroleum - fired generators.
During 2012, particularly in the spring and early summer, low natural gas prices led to competition between natural gas - and coal - fired electric power generators.
With warmer summer weather and increased electric demand for air conditioning, demand will increase, requiring increased output from both coal - and natural gas - fired generators.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment denies Sunflower Electric Power Corporation air quality permits for two proposed 700 - megawatt coal - fired generators on the basis that carbon dioxide is an air pollutant and should be regulated.
97 tons of collected waste would be fed each day into anaerobic digesters that produce methane gas, which then runs General Electric Jenbacher gas - fired generators.
«Among the most ambitious is a $ 5 million system that collects methane from brewing wastewater and uses it to fire a 290 - kilowatt electric generator... [that] supplies up to 60 percent of the brewery's power».