Sentences with phrase «fired electricity generating plant»

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GREG WARREN: With coal fired and natural gas plants continuing to generate around two thirds of the nation's electricity and renewables accounting to less than 10 percent, there remains plenty of room for growth.

You can donate to CarbonFund.org and select from a menu of certified carbon offset projects that include planting trees in severely fire - damanaged forests and innovative project that converts cow manure into methane that then generates the electricity to run a war desalination plant.

All bad ideas, but if there's no electricity because there's not enough natural gas to power gas fired generating plants that's what will be forced upon us.

In 2005, the county got 36 percent of its electricity from coal - fired generating plants and 15 percent from oil.

The spread of urban centers increases the demand for electricity, more than 75 percent of which in China is generated from coal - fired power plants.

China opens one large coal - fired power plant a week on average to generate enough electricity to service its 1.3 billion population and fuel industries that manufacture cheap goods for the U.S. and Europe.

Renewable electricity produces just 5 % to 6 % of the greenhouse gas emissions created by coal - fired energy plants, and 8 % to 10 % of those generated from gas - fired plants.

The analysis by Yang and Jackson finds that if the gas produced by the new plants is used to generate electricity, the total lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would be 36 percent to 82 percent higher than pulverized coal - fired power.

And if a home generating its own electricity with solar panels and batteries isn't connected to the grid, the home isn't culpable for any of the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that spew from natural gas power plants or coal - fired power plants — the globe's largest contributor to climate change.

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates at least 500 gigawatts of electricity - generating capacity could be harvested this way — or 1.5 times more than the entire U.S. fleet of coal - fired power plants.

This emission was «similar to the greenhouse effect of electricity generated by coal - fired plants» and would persist for at least 50 years.

The amount of electricity generated from natural gas in the U.S. is expected to surpass power generated from coal for the first time in 2016, and no new coal - fired power plants are on the drawing board in the U.S.

Between 2002 and 2012, the annual electrical generation from coal - fired plants fell by 2 %, while the amount of electricity generated by natural gas plants rose by 37 %.

BPA does not generate coal - fired electricity though a small portion of its purchased electricity may come from coal - fired plants.

As for reducing carbon emissions, it is possible that some out - of - state coal - fired generating plants that currently supply electricity to Oregon may continue to operate after 2035 by rerouting their electricity elsewhere.

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.

With a similar goal, Google launched a project in 2007 known as RE < C (Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal)-- which «aimed to develop renewable energy sources that would generate electricity more cheaply than coal - fired power plants do.

The EPA would then set emissions standards — the rate of carbon emissions — for power plants by first tallying the share of electricity generated by coal and gas - fired plants in each state during a set of baseline years — in the NRDC example, 2008 - 10.

For electricity, it is assumed that the electricity was generated at a coal fired power plant — about 50 % and increasing of electricity in the US is produced in coal fired power plants.

Using electricity generated by coal - fired plants to power the cars defeats the purpose to some extent, but what if the energy comes from the ultimate clean and renewable source — the sun itself?

The EPA's New Source Performance Standards for new electricity generating units that would effectively ban the construction of new coal - fired plants.

With the possibility of even higher costs of natural gas in the future, natural gas - fired plants may be used increasingly as a backup for wind - generated electricity.

If your electricity is generated in a coal ¬ fired power plant — as is half of all electricity produced in the U.S., the emissions reductions will be almost double.

It has also partnered with the SELC and other groups pursuing new strategies to bankrupt and close coal - fired electricity generation plants, by generating misplaced fear about coal ash impoundments.

Nearly $ 1 trillion (# 700bn) is being invested in new coal - fired power plants worldwide despite the fact that the demand for electricity generated from coal has declined for two years in a row, shows a new report released today.

China plans to ask companies to replace electricity generated from their own coal - fired plants with renewable energy, the National Development and Reform Commission said last month.

Wind - generated electricity should replace electricity from coal - fired power plants, the most polluting power source.

As to the intermittency of fossil fueled plants, an interesting event happened in Texas a few years ago in which a hard frost caused a bunch of coal and gas - fired plants to fail simultaneously while the wind turbines continued to generate electricity.

A new 265 MW gas - fired combined - cycle generating plant, on the other hand, would produce slightly more electricity on just a few acres.

Manjung 4 is southeast Asia's first ultra-supercritical coal - fired power plant, generating enough electricity to power nearly two million households in Malaysia.

UCS conducted a three - part analysis on the transition away from coal - fired electricity: (1) a look at what happened to the nation's coal - fired generating units between 2008 and 2016; (2) an evaluation of the economic viability of the current coal fleet using an updated «economic stress test»; and (3) an assessment of the demographics of communities living near coal plants.

Between 2007 and 2015, the amount of electricity generated at coal - fired power plants declined more than 30 percent.

The report estimated that regulations cutting emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides would lead to the «premature» retirements of coal - fired power plants that can generate 47.8 gigawatts of electricity, about 15 percent of coal's U.S. production capacity.

Between 2010 - 2020, rapid near - term investment in natural gas electricity - generating capacity can progressively replace Australia's dirtiest coal - fired power plants for baseload power.

The energy harnessed by these installations in China is equal to the electricity generated by 54 coal - fired power plants.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

There is no excuse for the continued use of coal to generate electricity that costs too much and is a health hazard to everyone who lives anywhere near a coal - fired power plant.

A single turbine requires 700-1000 tons of concrete, steel, copper and fiberglass — far more raw materials than involved with coal or gas - fired power plants, generating equal amounts of electricity far more reliably and cheaply.

New electricity generated by coal - fired plants will outstrip that which was retired in 2015 and 2016 by a factor of five.

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 approach.

The building is heated by a Dachs gas - fired condensing combined heat and power plant — which generates 5.5 kW electricity which is used to power lighting in the landlord areas, and a by - product of 14.8 kW of heat which is used for domestic hot water and — if ever required — space heating.

Washington Governor Christine Gregoire signs a bill that prevents new power plants from exceeding 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt hour of electricity generated, creating a de facto moratorium on building new coal - fired power plants in the state.

Photo: Vlasta JuricekMore good news on the renewable energy front Monday: The cost of onshore wind power has dropped to record lows, and in some regions is competitive with electricity generated by coal - fired plants, according to a survey by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, a market research firm.

Will your electric car suck up electricity generated by coal - fired power plants, negating any benefit to the environment?

Along India's narrow coastal belt of Mundra in Gujarat State, 500 miles (805 kilometers) northwest of Mumbai, several coal - fired power plants generate electricity so cheaply that authorities for the most part have overlooked damage to fishing and grazing, and harm to the vulnerable mangrove ecosystem.

Electricity generated by wind and solar is more expensive than electricity generated using traditional methods, e.g., coal - fired, natural gas combined cycle, nuclear and hydro poElectricity generated by wind and solar is more expensive than electricity generated using traditional methods, e.g., coal - fired, natural gas combined cycle, nuclear and hydro poelectricity generated using traditional methods, e.g., coal - fired, natural gas combined cycle, nuclear and hydro power plants.

note 2; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year.

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) forthcoming climate change regulations for new and existing electricity generating units have been appropriately labeled the «war on coal,» [1] because the proposed limits for carbon dioxide emissions would essentially prohibit the construction of new coal - fired power plants and force existing ones into early retirement.

And you should be paying more for a number of other goods and services as well, like electricity generated from coal - fired power plants.

Having said that, I think we should go beyond market mechanisms, and institute an immediate, outright ban on the construction of any new coal - fired power plants and any new coal mines, and also announce a deadline within no more than ten years at which time the burning of coal to generate electricity will be illegal and all coal - fired power plants, and coal mines, will be shut down.