Sentences with phrase «fired utility plants»
I really believe that we're going to have to use a kind of a coal [technology] that does not emit the greenhouse gases that present - day coal - fired utility plants do.»
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Most of it will come from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without domestic customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with emissions control regulation, drove utilities in the U.S. to shut down coal - fired plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas plants.
DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Michigan regulators on Friday cleared DTE Energy's request to build a near - $ 1 billion natural gas power plant, the first approval of such a large facility for a regulated utility in decades and a move that coincides with the retirement of coal - fired plants.
Electric utilities have been replacing coal plants with gas - fired facilities because they are more efficient and less expensive to operate.
Businesses in tangential industries may also want to consider retraining their own workers — electric utilities, for example, can retrain their coal - fired power plant workers for positions involving utility - scale solar farms.
Big Rivers Electric Tuesday notified Kentucky regulators and the Henderson municipal utility that owns a 312 - MW coal - fired plant that it was terminating a long - term operating agreement at end - May 2019.
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.
«We are heating the salts to more than 1,000 degrees F and that results in the same inlet conditions that utilities see today on a coal - fired or nuclear power plant,» says Terry Murphy, SolarReserve's president.
According to the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan, utilities operate 16 power plants that rely either fully or partly on coal - fired boilers.
«Delaying action encourages utilities to build more coal - fired power plants in the near - term.
As gas becomes dear, utilities across the world are opting to build coal - fired, rather than gas - fired, power plants.
Chinese utility company Huaneng and U.S. company Duke Energy Corp. signed a cooperation agreement this year calling for a study to determine the feasibility of applying Huaneng's carbon capture process at Duke Energy's coal - fired power plant in Indiana.
But the agency could get stronger cuts by setting a combined and more ambitious target for coal and gas - fired plants, and leave it to utilities and states to decide how to get there.
Nighttime is often when the wind blows but it is also when utilities like to run only their coal - fired power plants.
The coal mines that are opening are tiny and many of them will be producing metallurgical coal for the steel industry, not feeding coal - fired electric power plants for utilities.
But negotiations between the two groups resulted in a legislative compromise — dubbed the Clean Electricity and Coal Transition Plan — that will wean the state off coal - fired electricity no later than 2030 except for one out - of - state power plant that is partly owned by an Oregon - based utility.
Some utilities may even choose to close coal - fired plants for economic reasons.
The most familiar infrastructure is an urban infrastructure, which describes the utilities and facilities such as roads, bridges, sewers, and sewer plants, water lines, power lines, fire stations, and other sites and facilities necessary to the functioning of an urban area.
To put a specific point on it, EPA's top air regulator, Gina McCarthy, told utility regulators Nov. 13 that it would be «at least several years» before EPA addressed a top priority of environmentalists: carbon emission standards for existing coal - fired power plants.
If a new administration immediately places a moratorium on new coal - fired plants until CCS works, and if it begins a carbon cap - and - trade system or carbon tax, and if it's serious about the problem, then we will finally see (I hope) the coal and utility industries begin to act much more quickly to develop CCS and work to address the problem in all ways possible.
Just recently, Duke was given authority by Bush's former OMB Director, Mitch Daniels to force their customers to assume the risk for the plant even though the utility commission did not require Duke to file anything near a current construction cost estimate for the 630 Megawatt plant they are seeking to build in what is already the largest concentration of coal fired capacity in the world, SW Indiana.
The last time electric utilities and other investors bought lots of gas - fired plants in the late 1990s, a period when gas was also relatively cheap, there was fiscal bloodshed when gas prices skyrocketed.
Kansas is rated as the state with the 3rd best wind power potential in the U.S. Kansas currently has 364 megawatts (MW) of utility - connected power, equivalent to about 1/2 of the generating capacity of one of the proposed coal - fired plants.
Under capacity markets, utilities can bid for payments to keep their gas and coal - fired power plants available, instead of decommissioning them.
The plan calls for tapping a financial model that utilities have long used to build nuclear, coal - and natural gas - fired plants: by tacking costs — plus a profit — onto customers» bills.
So what the proposal is really telling the electric utility industry is this: If you want to build a new coal - fired power plant, you'll have to build a natural gas combined cycle plant instead.
In October 2010, Ohio Power Co. filed an application with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for the approval of a December 2010 closure of the coal - fired Philip Sporn Power Plant unit 5, Ohio Power parent American Electric Power said in a Nov. 1 Form 10 - Q filing.
To underline the argument, Germany's largest utility, E.ON, said it might dismantle its mothballed gas - fired plant in Malzenice, Slovakia, and relocate it, partly due to the impact of heavily subsidised growth of renewables in Europe.
The logic is this will save utilities money by keeping dirty gas - fired power plants offline during peak energy demand times because it is expensive to fire them up daily for just a few hours of additional energy.
WASHINGTON — Officials weighing federal applications by utilities to build new coal - fired power plants can not consider their greenhouse gas output, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency ruled late Thursday.
The utility will be prepared by 2032 to power the city without energy from its coal - fired plants.
And the view is that carbon taxes will punish those utilities most heavily reliant on conventional coal - fired plants.
The utility wants to replace three retiring coal - fired power plants with the new natural gas plant in St. Clair County.
Even worse, Ameren, the local electric utility, operates 4 three coal - fired power plants in the St. Louis metro area, 3 of which run without modern pollution controls.
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.
Coal - fired power plants would be required to curb their greenhouse gas emissions and over the long term, and utility companies that operate them would have to transition away from coal to wind, solar and other renewable energy sources.
In Arizona, regulators voted for a nine - month pause on any new large gas - fired power plants and told the state's largest investor - owned utilities that their future plans relied too heavily on natural gas and should include more wind and solar, electricity storage, and energy efficiency.
In February 2008, investment banks Morgan Stanley, Citi, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Bank of America announced that any future lending for coal - fired power would be contingent on the utilities demonstrating that the plants would be economically viable with the higher costs associated with future federal restrictions on carbon emissions.
For example, in late 2004, Duke Energy, one of the country's largest utilities and most experienced builders, started planning a pair of coal - fired power plants to replace several built around the middle of the last century, at Cliffside, in western North Carolina.
Washington state regulators sent directives to three major utilities this week asking them to consider the carbon - emission costs of producing electricity from coal - fired plants....
Hugh Wynne, an investment analyst who studies the utility industry for Sanford Bernstein, estimates that the mercury and smog regulations alone could force up to one - fifth of the nation's oldest and dirtiest coal - fired plants to retire in the next five years, largely in the Midwest and South.
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On Dec. 15, Epcor Inc., a utility owned by the City of Edmonton announced it would expand its coal - fired Genesee plant by adding another 400 - megawatt unit.
While testifying in front of the Iowa Utilities Board, Hansen said, «If we can not stop the building of more coal - fired power plants, those coal trains will be death trains — no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species.»
According to company officials, the hike is needed to «comply with EPA environmental improvements to reduce polluting emissions from coal - fired plants, make up for a decline in demand for electricity from commercial and industrial users, and cover rising costs of health care for the utility's employees.»
Today, amid an anemic economy and joblessness far worse than official government figures admit, President Obama balks at approving the Keystone XL pipeline, cancels leasing and drilling on federal lands, tells our budget - sequestered military to buy $ 26 to $ 67 - per - gallon ship and jet fuel, punishes refineries for not buying cellulosic ethanol that doesn't exist, and happily lets EPA shut down coal - fired power plants and kill countless thousands of mining, utility and other jobs.
In a Harrisburg Pennsylvania newspaper article the claim was made that (32) «Unfortunately, the largest contributor to the problem, the electric utility industry, continues to get a free ride on its mercury pollution... other sources are reducing emissions, not such requirements exist for coal - fired power plants.»
Specifically, McCarthy and the Air Office over which she presides gave Congress and the electric power sector false assurances that the EPA's greenhouse gas regulations would not require utilities planning to build new coal - fired power plants to «fuel switch» to natural gas.
It is time for Southeastern utilities to seriously evaluate the uncertain costs associated with maintaining coal - fired power plants, especially in light of these exceptionally low cost renewable energy resources.
Notably, all but one of Florida's coal - fired generators ** failed the stress test, at plants owned by an array of Florida utilities.