Sentences with phrase «for coal and nuclear»

Before ISO - NE's filing on May 1, the Department of Energy had made onsite fuel supplies the center of its bailout proposal for coal and nuclear plants, which FERC unanimously rejected in early January.

In private, big energy firms were offered sweetheart deals to acquiesce to the climate bill, including expanded offshore drilling for oil giants like BP and taxpayer subsidies for coal and nuclear interests that outstripped those for clean energy.

The plan proposed a $ 3.7 billion handout for coal and nuclear generators — both of which have been struggling financially against competition from renewable energy.

Soon, rooftop solar and other small - scale, locally owned renewables could upset the market for coal and nuclear power.

They would have to compete directly with conventional power plants, which could result in a renaissance for coal and nuclear power in Europe.

Renewables would have to compete directly with conventional power plants, which could result in a renaissance for coal and nuclear power in Europe.

However, PJM referred to that general plan last fall in its comments on Perry's proposal to guarantee sales and profits for all coal and nuclear plants with fuel storage on site.

PJM vice president Stu Bresler said the plan described in the grid operator's November 15 report was in the works well before the Department of Energy proposed rules to guarantee cost recovery for coal and nuclear plants in the PJM region and certain other competitive markets.

for coal and nuclear plants.

FirstEnergy has likewise supported the Trump - Perry plan for coal and nuclear plants, as did the City of Akron and Summit County, where the company is headquartered.

GRID: • The Illinois attorney general joins others in calling FirstEnergy Solutions» request for relief for its coal and nuclear plants a «grave abuse of the federal power act» that would set a «dangerous precedent.»

Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur called the proposed tariff for coal and nuclear «far - reaching out - of - market approach» that would be «highly damaging to the ability of the market to meet customer needs.»

Robert Murray urged the DOE to approve emergency price support for coal and nuclear plants on the brink of closing.

McIntyre has asked for another 30 days to review a controversial push for coal and nuclear cost recovery, as comments pass the 1,500 mark.

Energy efficiency and solar would obviate the need for both coal and nuclear.

Although fracking in the U.S. produces more than 100 billion gallons of wastewater per year, the process requires significantly less water per unit of energy than extraction and processing for coal and nuclear power, according to past research by Jackson and his colleagues.

The payments would've bolstered the economics for coal and nuclear generators who've seen their profits and market share squeezed by cheap gas and renewables.

Not exact matches

Commissioner Neil Chatterjee, who has pushed for immediate aid to struggling coal and nuclear plants, signed off on the order and said in an opinion that he expected the decision to be «only the first step in a more systematic effort by the Commission» to address resilience.

A number of coal - and oil - fired power plants will likely be retired, and while Virginia's four existing nuclear units will remain in use, plans for a fifth reactor remain shelved, for now.

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.

That dynamic is perhaps clearest with Energy Secretary Rick Perry calling for subsidies to keep coal and nuclear plants open late last year.

NEW YORK, April 1 - FirstEnergy Corp said late on Saturday its nuclear and coal power plant units filed for bankruptcy court protection as the company looks to restructure, sell assets and win government support to cope with competitors using lower - cost natural gas.

The U.N. Security Council has unanimously boosted sanctions on North Korea since 2006 in a bid to choke off funding for Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, banning exports including coal, iron, lead, textiles and seafood, and capping imports of crude oil and refined petroleum products.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Despite the modestly slowing rate of cost declines for utility - scale alternative energy generation, the gap between the costs of certain alternative energy technologies (e.g., utility - scale solar and onshore wind) and conventional generation technologies continues to widen as the cost profiles of such conventional generation remain flat (e.g., coal) and, in certain instances, increase (e.g., nuclear).

This view is «pessimistic about the prospects of solar energy» and argues for the «substitution of nuclear energy and coal for oil and gas.»

The government should be legislating now in the Energy Bill for a decarbonisation target for 2030 in order to give a framework for those seeking to invest in renewable, nuclear, and clean gas and coal technology.

We will legislate for a decarbonisation target for 2030 and unlock billions of pounds in new investment in renewables, nuclear and clean gas and coal technology.

He says the pension fund is also shifting away from investments like coal and he's not enthused about nuclear because as a resident of Long Island, electric customers are still paying for a nuclear plant which never opened.

Business leaders called today for the government to invest more in nuclear and clean coal technology and put less emphasis on wind power.

Some observers, including utility officials and stock analysts, expect that unless market conditions improve the PSC may get requests for similar agreements from other Upstate nuclear or coal plants.

unblock # bns for investment in renewables, nuclear and clean gas / coal technology.

I was encouraged by President Obama's calls for the construction of more nuclear power plants, as well as for increased offshore exploration of oil and natural gas, and the further development of clean coal technologies.

Lacking the rich oil, coal and other energy reserves of many other nations, Japan relies on nuclear power for some 30 percent of its electricity.

The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»

With consumption growing, oil supplies tight, and the world in a warming trend, the search is on for better energy sources — clean coal, safe nuclear reactors, and more far - reaching ideas like artificial photosynthesis.

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).

In reality, the government provides support for all energy sources, including coal, oil and gas, and all types of renewables, in addition to nuclear.

From a strategic standpoint, which is the bigger competitor for nuclear: incumbent coal, oil and gas technologies or other alternative energy technologies?

Alabama, long dependent on coal, gas, nuclear and hydropower for electricity, has no sizable renewable energy production.

Speaking at the Center for National Policy last May, Mabus noted (pdf) that previous energy transitions — from sail to coal power, coal to oil, and oil to nuclear — met resistance but ultimately improved the Navy's adaptability and agility.

Strategies for replacing light bulbs vary from place to place, depending on regional energy costs and the power - generation mix (i.e., coal, natural gas, nuclear and renewables).

Yet, even if every planned reactor in China was to be built, the country would still rely on burning coal for more than 50 percent of its electric power — and the Chinese nuclear reactors would provide at best roughly the same amount of energy to the developing nation as does the existing U.S. fleet.

Germany is poised to use it as a substitute for the nuclear plants it will shut down by 2022 (see «Germany will use coal and gas to plug nuclear power gap»).

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

Instead, for decades electric companies have built coal, nuclear, natural gas and oil - fired generators close to customers.

With oil and natural gas prices rising rapidly and nuclear power stuck in political limbo, the world's appetite for coal is soaring.

Electricity production from biomass, coal, gas and hydropower for instance induces much higher indirect greenhouse gas emissions than nuclear electricity, or wind and solar - based power supply.»

«For the rest, the only nonpolluting alternatives are coal with CCS and nuclear,» he says.

However, as the UK has shifted focus from coal - and oil - fired electricity generation to being more reliant on natural gas as the fuel of choice (irrespective of wind, solar, nuclear and other alternatives), this makes the electricity grid somewhat vulnerable to accidental and incidental problems with the flow of data and to malicious manipulation for the sake of sabotage, criminal or online military / terrorist action.