Sentences with phrase «fired electric power plants»

SALEM, Ore., March 24, 2014 — The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently reported that nine more coal - fired electric power plants have been scheduled for retirement.

Coal - fired electric power plants make up the largest source of national sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions.

CO2 may be separated from other gases at coal - fired electric power plants and transported by pipeline to suitable storage sites.

The premature shut down of coal fired electric power plants will raise our risk of regional electric black - out during a polar vortex type of winter storm.

This study, identifies and assesses system approaches in order to prioritize research needs for the capture and non-atmospheric sequestering of a significant portion of the carbon dioxide (CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB--RRB- emitted from fossil fuel - fired electric power plants (US power plants presently produce about 7 % of the world «s CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- emissions).

There are six major coal fired electric power plants within this region.

There are six major coal fired electric power plants within the Western Lake Erie Region of this study.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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 boiPower Companies of Japan, utilities operate 16 power plants that rely either fully or partly on coal - fired boipower 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 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 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 pPower 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 ppower 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.

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

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 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 emissPower 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 emisspower 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 emisspower 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Georgia Power's coal - fired steam - turbine electric generating Plant Bowen in Euharlee, Georgia, about 40 miles northwest of Atlanta is seen from a commercial airliner on September 12, 2009.

In a Harrisburg Pennsylvania newspaper article the claim was made that (32) «Unfortunately, the largest contributor to the problem, the electric utility industry, continues to get a free ride on its mercury pollution... other sources are reducing emissions, not such requirements exist for coal - fired power plants.»

General Electric, one of the world's largest suppliers of electrical power plant equipment, is all fired up about large markets for new coal - fired generation in India and China as America's shut down.

A veteran of the U.S. Submarine Service (one hitch) and a degreed Electrical Engineer (U.T. Knoxville — 1968 — three peer - reviewed IEEE papers published), I spent most of my career designing, building and commissioning electric power generating plants including hydro, pumped storage, coal fired, natural gas, nuclear (both PWR and BWR), geothermal, wood - waste, and landfill gas.

Specifically, McCarthy and the Air Office over which she presides gave Congress and the electric power sector false assurances that the EPA's greenhouse gas regulations would not require utilities planning to build new coal - fired power plants to «fuel switch» to natural gas.

Recently published electric power data show that, for the first time since EIA began collecting the data, generation from natural gas - fired plants is virtually equal to generation from coal - fired plants, with each fuel providing 32 % of total generation.

What the 92 - page report leaves out is that Vitter — an esteemed member of the Senate «Millionaires Club» — owns tens of thousands of dollars in stocks of the electric utility Wisconsin Energy Corporation (We Energies), which owns major coal - fired power plants in both Oak Creek, Wisc. and Pleasant Prairie, Wisc..

The huge projected expansion in solar water and space heating in industrial countries could close some existing coal - fired power plants and reduce natural gas use, as solar water heaters replace electric and gas water heaters.

In the Northeast and Northwest, where a bigger portion of the power is produced with nuclear reactors, hydroelectric dams, natural gas - fired power plants and wind farms, an electric car will produce 76 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions than a typical gasoline - powered car and 56 percent fewer emissions than a hybrid.

Americans must understand that the closure of 411 coal - fired power plants, over 100,000 megawatts, by the Obama Administration jeopardizes the reliability of our electric power grid and the low cost of electricity.

Electric utilities would have three to four years to come into compliance under the new standards, and according to the EPA, «[M] ore than half of all coal - fired power plants already deploy the widely available pollution - control technologies that allow them to meet these important standards.»

Once again, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson touted the supposedly huge benefits of controlling emissions of mercury (Hg) and other air toxics from U.S. coal - and oil - fired power plants (or electric generating units, EGUs).

In a Press Release the Club stated, «The Sierra Club supports the Department of Environmental Quality's recent recommendation to deny Portland General Electric's petition to subvert pollution controls for PGE's Boardman coal - fired power plant.»

Utility companies retired nearly 18,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in 2015, about 80 percent of which was conventional coal - fired power plants, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said this week.

Although the electricity used to charge the plug - in battery would likely be generated from a fossil - fuel - fired power plant, both the Electric Power Research Institute and the California Air Resources Board have calculated that air pollution and carbon - dioxide emissions would fall substantially using this apprpower plant, both the Electric Power Research Institute and the California Air Resources Board have calculated that air pollution and carbon - dioxide emissions would fall substantially using this apprPower Research Institute and the California Air Resources Board have calculated that air pollution and carbon - dioxide emissions would fall substantially using this approach.

Released in 2015 by the Obama Administration EPA, the CPP established the first national standards to limit CO2 emissions from fossil - fuel - fired power plants (Electric Generating Units,... Read more →