Sentences with phrase «fired electric plants»

Without changes to America's power mix, electric vehicles would still, in practice, be heavy polluters, with half the power needed to charge their batteries coming from coal - fired electric plants.

These problems result from the closure of a number of coal - fired electric plants in recent years in these states and the refusal of local politicians to approve new natural gas pipelines or local fracking for natural gas, in many cases for alleged climate «reasons.»

Major Environmental Issues: air pollution from heavy industry, emissions of coal - fired electric plants, and transportation in major cities; industrial, municipal, and agricultural pollution of inland waterways and sea coasts; deforestation; soil erosion; soil contamination from improper application of agricultural chemicals; scattered areas of sometimes intense radioactive contamination; ground water contamination from toxic waste.

China, on the other hand, has emerged as a leader in developing clean, renewable energy, but its demand for coal is still staggering, and growing, and China is predicted to build 2,200 new coal - fired electric plants by 2030.

To the extent this helps us move away from coal - fired electric plants and oil dependency, I guess it's a good thing.

Plenty of coal to run high tech civilization at least another hundred years even with substantial economic growth by burning it in conventional coal - fired electric plants and making liquid hydrocarbon automotive fuels from it.

Last summer, he photographed six of the largest coal - fired electric plants in the United States in Texas, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia, translating these digital images into the materiality of oil and coal ash in acrylic paint on linen - stretched canvases.

Since these dollars are not going into home building, coal - fired electric plants or auto factories, they end up in the stock market.

If production continues as planned, over the next couple of decades natural gas could supplant coal as the leading domestic fossil fuel, serving as a cleaner way to heat our homes and fire our electric plants.

I did find it interesting that apparently this has lead to the killing off of a coal - fired electric plant in Pakistan.

China is expected to add the equivalent of a new 500 - megawatt coal - fired electric plant every 10 days for the next decade, according to projections by the United States government.

Smoke stack exhaust from a coal fired electric plant in the Ohio Valley deposits mercury in the lakes and therefore fish I catch in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of northern Minnesota.

Not exact matches

Electric utilities have been replacing coal plants with gas - fired facilities because they are more efficient and less expensive to operate.

Businesses in tangential industries may also want to consider retraining their own workers — electric utilities, for example, can retrain their coal - fired power plant workers for positions involving utility - scale solar farms.

Big Rivers Electric Tuesday notified Kentucky regulators and the Henderson municipal utility that owns a 312 - MW coal - fired plant that it was terminating a long - term operating agreement at end - May 2019.

This project would have served gas - fired electric power plants.

The agency, tasked with protecting the state's environment and public health, denied air quality permits for two 700 - megawatt, coal - fired power plants proposed by Sunflower Electric for Holcomb, a municipality in the southwestern corner of the state.

According to the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan, utilities operate 16 power plants that rely either fully or partly on coal - fired boilers.

Upgrading India's electric - power distribution system, Benedick says, could double the effective energy output of existing coal - fired power plants.

Although injection into deep rock formations has proceeded without difficulty at a pilot project at the Mountaineer coal - fired power plant in West Virginia — 3,000 metric tons have been stored so far, says Gary Spitznogle of American Electric Power, which owns the facility — public opposition halted a similar government - funded project in Ohio.

The Electric Power Development company says its experimental power plant in Kitakyushu has a generating efficiency of 35 per cent, far better than the 20 per cent achieved by other waste - burning plants and as good as an oil - fired plant.

«I think it's bad policy to put all of your eggs in one basket,» said Bob Vickery with POWER4Georgians, a group of electric cooperatives behind the planned 850 - megawatt coal - fired Plant Washington in Washington County, Ga. «Diversity makes business sense, period.»

It is home to a large coal - fired electric power plant that consumed up to 3,500 tons of coal per day since it began operating in the early 1950s.

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

The coal mines that are opening are tiny and many of them will be producing metallurgical coal for the steel industry, not feeding coal - fired electric power plants for utilities.

Mitsubishi Motors reported two separate incidents with Li - ion battery packs: one, a fire in a i - MiEV battery pack at the Mizushima battery pack assembly plant; the other, heating and melting in a pack installed in an Outlander plug - in hybrid electric vehicle.

More than half our electric power comes from coal - fired power plants.

Whether the discussion turns to replacing coal - fired power plants with wind turbines and using electric cars instead of gas - driven SUVs, converting industrial agricultural practices to organic permaculture, or reversing the decline of ocean life though international regulations, it is an article of faith in the reform movement that we know what we need to do and all that's lacking is a sufficiently visionary leader to put more planet - friendly solutions in place.

It's a blatant attempt to justify the need for big coal fired power plants, since in his memo Perry writes: «Baseload power is necessary to a well - functioning electric grid.»

This letter to the Billings Gazette, Billings, Montana, followed the Beartooth Electric Cooperative annual meeting where management repeated its contention that a planned coal - fired plant was needed (and clean), that previous purchases of power were not appropriate going forward, and that conservation was not an area for the co-op to support in any way.

The last time electric utilities and other investors bought lots of gas - fired plants in the late 1990s, a period when gas was also relatively cheap, there was fiscal bloodshed when gas prices skyrocketed.

For a small fraction of the cost I could eliminate more greenhouse gas by converting the large Four Corners, coal - fired electric power plant in New Mexico to natural gas.

Tesla Motors changed CEO and fire some people, Toyota stopped construction of a US Prius manufacturing plant, Norwegian electric car maker THINK is on the

The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Gas - Fired Generating Plant as Mitigation for Contingencies Threatening Southern California Electric Reliability.

And the carbon footprint per mile of driving an electric car declines every time the grid gets cleaner, whether from adding renewable energy sources or replacing a coal - fired generation plant with one using natural gas.

So what the proposal is really telling the electric utility industry is this: If you want to build a new coal - fired power plant, you'll have to build a natural gas combined cycle plant instead.

In October 2010, Ohio Power Co. filed an application with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for the approval of a December 2010 closure of the coal - fired Philip Sporn Power Plant unit 5, Ohio Power parent American Electric Power said in a Nov. 1 Form 10 - Q filing.

The average operating heat rate for gas - fired power plants is about 21 % lower than coal - fired electric generation facilities, creating less CO2 emissions.

He suggests that a decline in use of «baseload» coal - fired plants could lead to electric grid instability.

We don't have the electric capacity in nuclear, solar, hydro, combined cycle, etc to replace the missing coal fired plants.

The fracking boom has transformed the electric power industry too; coal - fired plants all over the country have been switching to natural gas.

In December, however, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) suggested in its 2017 Long - Term Reliability Assessment that power generation from natural gas — fired units and renewable sources such as solar and wind will provide enough electricity to offset closures of coal and nuclear plants over the next decade, at least.

The Directed Electric Generation Facility Cessation Mitigation Program provides payments to municipalities that depended on large fossil - fired generating plant property taxes when those facilities are closed down which certainly does not translate into reductions.

Even worse, Ameren, the local electric utility, operates 4 three coal - fired power plants in the St. Louis metro area, 3 of which run without modern pollution controls.

In its 2010 annual report Peabody notes that the New York Office of the Attorney General Subpoena wrote to Peabody on June 14, 2007 and referred to the company's «plans to build new coal - fired electric generating units,» and stated that the «increase in CO2 emissions from the operation of these units, in combination with Peabody Energy's other coal - fired power plants, will subject Peabody Energy to increased financial, regulatory, and litigation risks.»

We've been combing through lists and reading reports from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and configured this map of coal - fired power plants that have been nixed over the last two years.

Those wasted resources could have been used to clean up pollution, such as from coal - fired electric power plants.

America's first offshore wind farm just helped to shut down a small diesel - fired electric power plant on Block Island, R.I. Block Island officials on Monday switched on a connection between the island and a cable linking the wind farm to Rhode Island's mainland power grid.

Electric power generation from coal - fired plants reached technological maturity between the late 1950s and early 1960, with boiler - turbine units in the 1,000 - megawatt range.