Sentences with phrase «fired power generation technologies»

Japan, led by Hitachi Power, has developed ultra-supercritical pressure coal - fired power generation technologies, which convert more of the energy in coal into power, slash pollution and reduce carbon emissions.

«Particularly,» Mr. Tanaka added, «since coal - fired power generation technologies with efficiencies close to 45 % are already operating in certain locations.

Not exact matches

General Electric (GE), a world leader in industrial power generation technology and the world's largest supplier of gas turbines, considers gas - fired power generation a key growth sector of its business and a practical step toward reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.

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?

In OECD countries, and especially in many emerging economies, where coal - fired power generation is set to expand in the near future, new - build coal ‑ fired power units should aim for best available efficiencies (currently, through application of supercritical or ultra-supercritical technologies), where feasible, and be designed in view of potential future CCS retrofits, if they are not equipped initially with CCS.

The increasing use of coal for power generation in ASEAN countries will lead to widespread construction of coal - fired power plants, which, without the use of the best available cleaner coal technology (CCT), would result in increased greenhouse gas and carbon dioxide emissions.

There was no mention of carbon capture technology in the RFI, something the administration has previously touted as a way to help coal - fired power generation remain viable, and which has bipartisan support in Congress.

Technically this photo is rubbish but something about it aesthetically apeals to me, and it showed a technology that was fast coming to an end; coal fired power generation.

Fossil fuel - fired power generation IEA identifies proven technology available today to significantly reduce CO2 emissions 23 October 2007

While annual investment in fossil fuel extraction, transformation, and transportation and fossil ‐ fired power plants without CCS is estimated to decline by about 86 billion USD per year in 2010 2029 (i.e., by 20 %), annual investment in low ‐ emission generation technologies is expected to increase by about 147 billion USD per year (i.e., by 100 %), over the same period.

Studies of the «external costs» of coal have identified coal - fired power generation as among the most environmentally destructive industrial technologies.

In addition, entities from Thailand have joined a number of IEA Technology Collaboration Programmes, focusing on renewables (Photovoltaic Power Systems), coal - fired power generation (the Clean Coal Centre) and transport (Advanced Motor FuPower Systems), coal - fired power generation (the Clean Coal Centre) and transport (Advanced Motor Fupower generation (the Clean Coal Centre) and transport (Advanced Motor Fuels).

Other provisions in the act — such as tax incentives that encourage the adoption of energy - efficient technologies, a shift to more combined heat and power generation, and the adoption of real - time pricing of electricity (a measure that will discourage optional electricity use during peak demand periods)-- would cut electricity demand enough to avoid building an additional 37 coal - fired power plants.

Vattenfall, Sweden's state - owned power utility has embraced the technology and has opened a pilot plant in Germany, where it runs a number of coal - fired plants - 64 percent of its generation is from brown coal in Germany, just one percent from renewables (and it has zero coal - fired plants in Sweden).

Now I'm not spouting off about this just because I'm unwilling to accept any type of power generation that pollutes as much as coal (complacency can not be accepted, nor should it be tolerated with so much clean energy technology at our fingertips), but rather to draw your attention to an issue that will continue to be a major thorn in the side of those that champion coal - fired power generation.

National Energy Technology Laboratory, Tracking New Coal - Fired Power Plants: Coal's Resurgence in Electric Power Generation (Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Energy, 1 May 2007).