Sentences with phrase «fired power plant operations»

For years, Alcoa had been mired in a dispute with environmentalists and the federal Department of Justice over emissions from its coal - fired power plant operations on the site.»

Not exact matches

Moscow's intentions, announced this month by Armen Abagyan head of the All - Russia Institute for the Operation of Nuclear Power Stations, contrast starkly with Ukraine's decision this week to close its remaining reactors at Chernobyl and replace them with gas - fired plants.

This includes support for policies that: (1) require the installation and operation of state - of - the - art air pollution control technologies and (2) encourage conversion to cleaner energy resources and / or permanent retirement of coal - fired power plants.

If it were possible to cut this number in half from a combination of DERs, low - energy new construction, and renewable energy use, this would be the equivalent of removing 263 coal - fired power plants from operation (EIA 2009; Green Power Partnership 2power plants from operation (EIA 2009; Green Power Partnership 2Power Partnership 2011).

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.»

Air pollution is a considerable problem in Serbia, much of it due to emissions of CO2, ash, sulphur and nitrogen oxides from coal - fired power plants and mining operations.

A third project, at the Kemper County plant in Mississippi, never began commercial operation, as Mississippi Power suspended the gasification process and today operates the plant as a natural gas — fired combined cycle facility.

Now, imagine that on the other side of your light switch, one of two scenarios exists: the first is a «clean» world where wind turbines spin to generate electrons to power your light bulb and the other is a «dirty» world where a coal - fired power plant lumbers into operation, spewing carbon dioxide (CO2) and other pollutants into the atmosphere, to create the same level of brightness in your living room.

Unsurprisingly, the Obama administration has been vilified for a series of regulations that have squeezed mining operations and appear likely to close down numerous coal - fired power plants.

Furthermore, although an RPS may displace some new coal - fired generation with other types of generation, there is little, if any, effect on the operation of existing coal - fired power plants.

You have to ask if expanding wind power is truly wise, especially when you consider that most of the United State» s refineries and coal - fired and nuclear power plants — many of which are still in operation — were built prior to 1980.

Most of that money went toward new and existing coal - fired power plants, though some helped back coal mines and power plant emission control operations.

On January 25 this year, the gas - fired Fortuna unit of the Lausward Power Plant, owned by the municipal utility Stadtwerke Düsseldorf, began commercial operations — almost immediately setting several world records for power generation capacity and efficiency (see the «POWER POINTS» sidePower Plant, owned by the municipal utility Stadtwerke Düsseldorf, began commercial operations — almost immediately setting several world records for power generation capacity and efficiency (see the «POWER POINTS» sidePower Plant, owned by the municipal utility Stadtwerke Düsseldorf, began commercial operations — almost immediately setting several world records for power generation capacity and efficiency (see the «POWER POINTS» sidepower generation capacity and efficiency (see the «POWER POINTS» sidepower generation capacity and efficiency (see the «POWER POINTS» sidePOWER POINTS» sidePOWER POINTS» sidebar).

In the first year of operation, the new gas - fired power plant in combination with the district heating was estimated to have saved 600,000 tonnes of carbon emissions.

The project would be the first LNG export facility ever built so close to so many homes, the first built in close proximity to Marcellus Shale fracking operations, and a potential trigger of more global warming pollution than all seven of Maryland's existing coal - fired power plants combined.

Earlier this week, the energy company, NRG, announced that its CO2 capture and storage (CCS) project at a coal - fired power plant in Texas had begun commercial operation.

Dirty energy lobbyists, including those of Chevron, could effectively use hypothetical arguments of TTIP illegality to chill government action on both sides of the Atlantic to curtail hydraulic «fracking» for natural gas, deny permits for liquefied natural gas export terminals, close coal - fired power plants, and prohibit new coal mining, oil drilling, and oil / gas pipeline operations, among others.

He added that even if the EPA were forced to regulate greenhouse gases, it would target emissions from coal - fired power plants and then vehicles — which combined account for about half of the nation's global - warming pollution — before requiring smaller operations to apply for new emissions permits.

It is worth pointing out that the Gates may well be no more dramatic than a single large gas - fired (or perhaps a moderate coal - fired) power plant, of which there are a great many in operation for 40 years or more around the world.

The original law did not require coal - fired power plants in operation at that time to upgrade, unless they underwent major expansions or modifications.