Sentences with phrase «fired power plant project»

Last March, a group of Indonesian residents and activists were in Japan to demand that the Japanese Government and banks do not finance the Indramayu coal power plant expansion project (1000MW) and Cirebon 2 coal - fired power plant project (1000MW), located in West Java.

Former Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich has sent complaints to the inspectors general of the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency calling on them to investigate New York's permitting process for Competitive Power Ventures» gas - fired power plant project in Orange County.

At last night's Town of Ulster Town Board meeting, Town of Ulster citizens made a consistent request of their Town Board (who is Lead Agency in SEQR for the proposed Lincoln Park Grid Support Center, a gas - fired power plant project in the Town of Ulster) for a 90 day public comment period during the Scoping process.

At least three new coal - fired power plant projects have been approved in Wyoming in recent years, with no carbon capture or sequestration requirements.

You'll find the same type of conflicts all over the world (see coal - fired power plant projects in the United States).

Not exact matches

Even if the big public - sector research projects succeed in sparking up a fusion fire first, the cost of actually building power plants would be prohibitive.

Beijing, however, has reaffirmed its commitment to meeting its targets under the Paris accord, recently canceling construction of about 100 coal - fired power plants and investing billions in massive wind and solar projects.

At the same time, subsidies and other support for renewable energy projects have boosted competition from wind and solar power and piled pressure on coal - fired and nuclear power plants.

Likewise Ontario, already committed to phase out coal power by 2014, cancelled a project to build a gas - fired power plant in Oakville last year in the face of fierce local opposition.

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

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

Zhou told jurors that defense lawyers purposely sought to confuse them over the past month - and - a-half in what he said, in the end, is a «simple case» of a top government official allegedly selling his position of power in the Cuomo administration to executives whose companies allegedly got millions of dollars» worth of insider help from Percoco with everything from stalled government payments for a Syracuse construction project to help with an Orange County gas - fired power plant development.

The event, created to support citizens in creating Scoping comments for the proposed Lincoln Park Grid Support Center project, a gas - fired peak power plant project in the Town of Ulster, will occur from 10 am — 5 pm at the Town of Ulster Senior Center (1 Town Hall Drive) in the Town of Ulster.

Other defendants in this case include Kelly, a former executive with Competitive Power Ventures (CPV), which has for years been developing a controversial gas - fired power plant in Orange County, N.Y., while successfully pushing one in Oxford; and Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, top executives with COR Development of Syracuse, which secured contracts on a number of projects initiated by Albany - based SUNY Polytechnic InstiPower Ventures (CPV), which has for years been developing a controversial gas - fired power plant in Orange County, N.Y., while successfully pushing one in Oxford; and Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, top executives with COR Development of Syracuse, which secured contracts on a number of projects initiated by Albany - based SUNY Polytechnic Instipower plant in Orange County, N.Y., while successfully pushing one in Oxford; and Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, top executives with COR Development of Syracuse, which secured contracts on a number of projects initiated by Albany - based SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

Investigators are seeking information from the PSC related to state approvals of a $ 1 billion project by the Competitive Power Ventures company to locate a natural - gas fired power plant in the Hudson VaPower Ventures company to locate a natural - gas fired power plant in the Hudson Vapower plant in the Hudson Valley.

A research project funded by the Department of Energy for nearly two decades has boosted the efficiency of gas - fired power plants to 60 percent, beating every other energy source.

A new report from a non-profit advocacy organization called the Environmental Integrity Project shows that the groundwater near TVA coal - fired power plants is contaminated with a toxic stew of elements.

With the Calvert Cliff's project at a critical juncture this summer, Constellation signaled that it might compel EDF to purchase some coal - fired power plants, an option EDF's purchase agreement provided — a provision EDF hadn't expected to have to meet, industry officials said.

The University of Kentucky, another coal state university, will partner with Shanxi Coal International Energy Group and Air Products and Chemicals Inc on a project feasibility study for a 350MW supercritical coal - fired power plant that can capture 2 million tonnes of CO2 a year.

Perhaps that's why Southern Co., has announced it will no longer fund a proposed project to use such amines to capture CO2 at a coal - fired power plant in Alabama, despite securing $ 295 million from the federal government to do so (or roughly 100 times what UTC received).

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.

Currently, there are five coal - fired power plants registered as emission reduction projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), an international offsetting program run by an arm of the United Nations.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has invested more than $ 3 billion since 2001 to fund multiple CCS projects being conducted by seven regional partnerships, including demonstrations of ammonia capture technology at the massive coal - fired Pleasant Prairie power plant in Kenosha County, Wisc., and the R. E. Burger plant in Shadyside, Ohio.

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.

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.

A feisty Obama — «We don't have time for a meeting of the flat earth society» — cited a list of projects to address climate change, but the centerpiece is crimping smokestack emissions from coal - fired power plants.

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.

Those proposals have drawn fire from clean energy and consumer groups, since they're projected to increase total energy and capacity market costs from 2 to 5 percent, largely in areas that would benefit baseload power plants.

Florida regulators have given the green light to a pair of new natural gas - fired power plants that will add nearly 1,700 MW of generation capacity in the state, and a Florida - based energy project developer has...

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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.

In addition, the ISO - NE has projected there will be blackouts if coal - fired and nuclear power plants are forced to close.

This report reveals for the first time the current health impacts of existing coal - fired power plants as well as projected health impacts of operating and planned power plants in the Philippines.

In the United States alone, about 145 gigawatts of new power from coal - fired plants are projected to be built by 2030, resulting in CO2 emissions of 790 million metric tons per year in the absence of emission controls.

The commissioning of Petra Nova Carbon Capture project, the largest CCUS project in the world applied to a coal - fired power generation plant is an important step forward.

The only other American project to receive funding is another Tenaska effort, a plan still in its early stages to retrofit with carbon capture technology a coal - fired power plant in Louisiana.

Okay, it's ridiculous to compare a 40 - megawatt solar PV park to a coal - fired power plant that could crank out 4,000 megawatts at peak capacity, but the fact Ontario Power Generation (OPG) got a contract today to build such a solar project at the old Nanticoke Generating Station is, at the very least, symbolically signifipower plant that could crank out 4,000 megawatts at peak capacity, but the fact Ontario Power Generation (OPG) got a contract today to build such a solar project at the old Nanticoke Generating Station is, at the very least, symbolically signifiPower Generation (OPG) got a contract today to build such a solar project at the old Nanticoke Generating Station is, at the very least, symbolically significant.

Construction of 1 - GW Coal - Fired Expansion Project Begins in Indonesia.Construction has begun on the 1 - GW ultrasupercritical coal - fired Cirebon power plant expansion in IndonFired Expansion Project Begins in Indonesia.Construction has begun on the 1 - GW ultrasupercritical coal - fired Cirebon power plant expansion in Indonfired Cirebon power plant expansion in Indonesia.

Three solar projects at 74.5 MW - AC each will replace a 250 MW coal - fired power plant which the utility plans to shut down.

The energy project would include a 1200 MW coal - fired power plant.

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.

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The rise in emissions is widely attributed to precious metal mining projects, coal fired power plants and melting polar ice caps.

India has very ambitious projects underway to build huge solar plants right now but it is a very poor country with a GDP per capita 3 % that of the US, just $ 1700 per year, so it's hardly unreasonable that they get help to transition away from coal fired power.

Florida regulators have given the green light to a pair of new natural gas - fired power plants that will add nearly 1,700 MW of generation capacity in the state, and a Florida - based energy project developer has announced a 1,000 - MW gas - fired facility project in South Carolina.

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.

NRG has partnered with JX Nippon and the US Department of Energy to fund their «Petra Nova» project: a retrofit of NRG's «WA Parish» coal - fired power plant outside of Houston, Texas with a post-combustion CO2 capture and storage (CCS) system.

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.

In addition, China has met its 2020 emissions reductions goal three years early (noting, though, that while coal use in China is declining, Chinese companies are working to build and finance the construction of coal - fired power plants elsewhere, like this project in Kenya.)

Illinois Energy Group's 1500 MW project in Franklin County, Illinois, which was included in the Department of Energy's May, 2007, «Tracking New Coal - Fired Power Plants» survey, has been abandoned.