Sentences with phrase «fired generation plants»

Ontario and Manitoba have led the way on clean electricity, phasing out coal - fired generation plants and proposing an east - west power grid for green energy.

For instance, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment used its permitting authority to deny Sunflower Electric Power's air permit request to build two new 700 - megawatt coal - fired generation plants in southwest Kansas.

«USEDA» (formerly know as the US Environmental Protection Agency) is proposing revisions to decades - old air quality regulations that will make it easier for coal - fired generation plants to obtain construction and operating permits for sites where air

The Clean Power Plan in the U.S. has that as one of its most likely outcomes and there have been explicit commitments to retire coal - fired generation plants by governments all over the world.

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.

The model was perfected by Enron when it raped and pillaged the Californian power market in the late 1990s and early 2000s: engineer a deliberate «outage» at a gas - fired generation plant, allow the grid to almost collapse and then extort outrageous prices from the grid manager to prevent a «system black».

Not exact matches

Perth - based Pacific Energy has acquired the 10 - megawatt Nova gas - fired power generation plant in Victoria for $ 7.5 million.

The approval of the natural gas - fired plant came at a time when the administration was generally attempting to move away from fossil fuel generation and toward renewable energy generation, per its Reforming Energy Vision, which seeks to make the energy grid more reliant on renewable sources and more efficient.

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.

Investors have rejected coal - fired generation as well; Texas - based utility TXU found itself under new ownership after announcing plans to build as many as 11 new coal - fired power plants.

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).

Stricter emissions requirements on coal - fired power plants, together with low natural gas prices, have contributed to a recent decline in the use of coal for electricity generation in the United States, she said.

More than 100 gigawatts of geothermal power (one tenth of the current U.S. electrical generation) could be developed for $ 1 billion during the next 40 years — at the full cost of one carbon - capturing coal - fired power plant or one - third the cost of a new nuclear generator.

The CLF argued that adding more fossil fuel generation — even an efficient gas - fired plant — would prevent Massachusetts from cutting its carbon dioxide emissions 80 percent by the year 2050, as state law requires.

«We are using emissions from gas - fired generation as our CO2 source at the pilot plant where we are making up to 10 tons a day,» he says.

The findings show the nation can cut carbon pollution from power plants in a cost - effective way, by replacing coal - fired generation with cleaner options like wind, solar, and natural gas.

Does it makes sense to replace old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas power plants today, as a bridge to a longer - term transition toward near zero - emission energy generation technologies such as solar, wind, or nuclear power?

Natural gas might still have an advantage over coal when burned to create electricity, because gas - fired power plants tend to be newer and far more efficient than older facilities that provide the bulk of the country's coal - fired generation.

Greenpeace's goal in India is to stop all new coal - fired power plants because the resulting carbon emissions would contribute to global warming, even though scientists caution that renewable energy has not yet matured enough to supplant future coal - fired generation.

Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits.

Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits or the introduction of taxes or other restrictions on fossil fuel usage or emissions of GHGs and other pollutants.

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 %.

In 2015, coal - fired plants accounted for 39 % of electricity generation, gas - fired plants contributed 30.3 %, and nuclear plants contributed 19.0 %.

This flexibility is designed to facilitate a higher concentration of intermittent renewable resources — such as wind and solar — than is currently possible because, by having such flexible gas - fired plants, grid operators can respond to sudden changes in renewable generation caused by variations in wind speed or cloud cover.

But mark my words, right - wingers will start screaming about compensation when all those shiny new gas - fired power plants they're building are threatened with closure when we start thinking seriously about building a modern grid that can shuttle electricity instead of curtailing renewable generation in one area while simultaneously turning on fossils in another.

~ 13 times less than land use changes (3.4 gigatons) ~ 11.5 times less than light - duty vehicles (3.0 gigatons) ~ 5.3 times less than concrete production (1.4 gigatons) ~ 2 dozen 1000 MW coal - fired power plants (2 % of the world's coal - fired electrical generation) Or, roughly the same CO2 emissions as Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Poland or South Africa.

Given that a coal - fired electricity generation plant produces about 1 ton of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour, Borenstein estimated that the price of greenhouse gas reductions would have to range from about $ 150 to $ 500 per ton of greenhouse gases to make the current solar PV technology a worthwhile investment when greenhouse gas reductions are considered.

For the moment, coal - fired power plants dominate our share of generation, so ultra super critical or even I.G.C.C. [integrated gasification combined cycle power generation].

Chicago's southwest side was home to two of the nation's oldest and dirtiest coal - fired power plants — the Fisk and Crawford plants, owned by Midwest Generation.

«The study seems an outlier in saying that when «all known costs» are considered, the average U.S. cost of producing electricity from established coal - fired plants is far less than new wind - power generation,»

A new fleet of power plants fired by natural gas may have better fit the jagged generation gap left by the nuclear phaseout, given gas power's reduced carbon emissions and flexibility to balance feed - in variations.

One reason for the uptick in coal - fired generation in Europe has been the looming deadline for the EU's Large Combustion Plant Directive, which will require older coal plants to meet lower emission levels by the end of 2015 or be mothballed.

Since 2000, coal - fired power generation capacity has grown by nearly 900 gigawatts (GW), but net additions from today to 2040 are only 400 GW and many of these are plants already under construction.

But the competitive landscape is formidable, not just due to coal but also to renewables, which in some countries become a cheaper form of new power generation than gas by the mid-2020s, pushing gas - fired plants towards a balancing rather than a baseload role.

According to the recent UCS report, Ripe for Retirement: An Economic Analysis of the U.S. Coal Fleet, Michigan has one of the nation's most economically vulnerable fleets of coal - fired power plants with nearly 7,000 megawatts of at - risk coal generation.

The Department of Energy's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on ways to compensate baseload generation, now under consideration at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, may provide some relief to existing coal plants, but the report notes that the PJM Interconnection compensates plants for reliability through its capacity market and that «has not yet translated into significant revenues for coal - fired generation.»

«The study seems an outlier in saying that when «all known costs» are considered, the average U.S. cost of producing electricity from established coal - fired plants is far less than new wind - power generation,» PolitiFact found.

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

Wind generation capacity already is on par with coal - fired power output in Texas, due to a proliferation of wind projects at the same time coal plants are closing.

The three power plants at issue in the litigation - the Armstrong, Hatfield's Ferry and Mitchell plants - are older, coal - fired generation units.

The increased generation could lead to replacing aging coal - fired plants sooner with newer, more environmentally friendly versions,» said Kintner - Meyer.

In September 2016 a statewide blackout devastated industry and sparked a national debate about the transition from coal - fired power plants to renewable energy generation.

Natural gas - fired generation is highly dependent on natural gas prices as a result of competition with existing coal plants and renewables.

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 nation's current energy portfolio has raised concerns about the adverse environmental effects of energy generation — particularly greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired and oil - fired power plants and the long - term storage of spent nuclear fuel.

Expanded generation from renewables, rising natural gas prices, and static CPP targets in the post-2030 period in the CPP case allow existing coal - fired plants to operate at a higher utilization rate which rises from a low of 60 % in 2024 to 71 % in 2040.

The study linked to in your point # 5 points out that there is increased CO2 when modulating coal fired plants to account for gaps in wind generation, and that offsets any CO2 emissions saved with wind power.

The EPA uses a formula of «CO2 emissions from fossil fuel - fired power plants in pounds (lbs) divided by state electricity generation from fossil - fuel fired power plants and certain low - or zero - emitting power sources in megawatt hours (MWh)» to calculate each state target.

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.

EIA expects the share of U.S. total utility - scale electricity generation from natural gas - fired power plants to rise from 32 % in 2017 to 34 % in both 2018 and 2019.