Sentences with phrase «for electricity generating technologies»

Operational water consumption and withdrawal factors for electricity generating technologies: a review of existing literature.

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For example, generating efficient, renewable energy is a priority of the federal government, so businesses involving Cogeneration (using one fuel to simultaneously produce heat and electricity) or renewable energy technologies will find more government grant opportunities than others.

The plant's original plan called for producing enough solar panels to generate 1,000 megawatts of electricity, although Peter Rive, SolarCity's chief technology officer, said this month that improvements to the equipment design and factory layout could allow it to produce more than 1 gigawatt in panels.

CST Wastewater Solutions Managing Director Mr Mike Bambridge will be on hand to discuss these latest wastewater and green energy technologies that not only clean wastewater to top world standards, but also extract biogas to substitute for fossil fuel in boilers and to generate electricity.

$ 1.5 million will construct a Biomass plant that will generate steam and electricity for customers of Griffiss Business and Technology Park in Rome, continuing support for technological innovation in the Mohawk Valley.

The bill language also proposes changes to the Internal Revenue Service code that would terminate fossil fuel subsidies, extend renewable electricity production tax credits for wind - generated electricity and permanently extend a business energy investment tax credit for solar or wind energy technologies.

Finding the right mix of green energy technologies for generating electricity will be crucial in reducing the global impact of pollution for the next generation, according to a United Nations report co-written by a Yale professor.

Other new technologies — such as micro grids that generate and store power for individual neighborhoods and automatic switches that can find open lines when some lines go down — can also help keep the electricity flowing.

Argonne researchers are working to create new, more powerful technology for long - distance transmission of renewable electricity, to balance rural supply and urban demand, and to integrate wind - and solar - generated electricity into the grid.

«For more than 50 years GE has been at the forefront of energy innovation and nuclear technology and GE Hitachi's PRISM reactor offers an attractive solution to tackling the UK's plutonium management challenges while generating clean electricity,» said Mark Elborne, President and CEO of GE UK & Ireland.

Ed Kjaer, director of electric transportation at Southern California Edison, argues that plug - ins represent a natural evolution of hybrid technology, which today essentially burns gas to generate electricity... George W. Bush, the former Texan oilman, has begun talking up corn ethanol and clean diesel and has endorsed a $ 4,000 tax credit for purchases of hybrid cars.

Finally, although most people focus on electricity generation solar photovoltaics, there is also an alternative technology in the form of solar thermal hot water panels which generate heat for hot water.

And of course there is another energy technology that has been successfully used to generate electricity for space probes and satellites and space stations «for decades with no interruptions or service calls» — photovoltaics.

The big task ahead for Alphabet is to get the technology to an efficiency and at a scale where the cost of generating electricity from waste heat is cheaper than the cost of retail electricity.

This concept could also be extended to include a small charge on electricity usage, known as a «wires fee» that could generate additional funds for research and development of advanced power generation, storage, transmission, and demand response technologies.

Company officials said they planned to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in projects that aim to make nonpolluting technologies for generating electricity competitive with what has been the norm for the last 100 years — burning black rocks.

Much, much energy can be generated NOW, with fairly simple technology, from sunlight, especially for peaking purposes and also for large volumes of electricity demand that correspond, in timing, to the daytime.

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 emissions.

Ed Kjaer, director of electric transportation at Southern California Edison, argues that plug - ins represent a natural evolution of hybrid technology, which today essentially burns gas to generate electricity... George W. Bush, the former Texan oilman, has begun talking up corn ethanol and clean diesel and has endorsed a $ 4,000 tax credit for purchases of hybrid cars.

«Use of full or partial CCS technology should not be part of the BSER [best system of emissions reduction] for existing EGUs [electricity generating units] because it would be more expensive than the measures determined to be part of the BSER, particularly if applied broadly to the overall source category.»

These technologies only «generate electricity when their resource is available, not when it is needed,» writes electrical power engineer Bryan Leyland for the industry journal EnergyCentral.

Concentrating solar plants (CSP) generate solar thermal electricity (STE) while producing no greenhouse gas emissions, so it could be a key technology for mitigating climate change.

This report responds to an August 2014 request to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) from Representative Lamar Smith, Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for an analysis of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed Clean Power Plan under which states would be required to develop plans to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rates from existing fossil - fired electricity generating units.1 Appendix A provides a copy of the request letter.

Renewable technologies already exist (not hypothetically) that can produce electricity at rates that are competitive with the subsidized rates we pay for nuclear and fossil fuel generated electricity.

Neither does it require the water that is needed for cooling which many other technologies that generate electricity rely on.

UCSUSA says «using the latest wind turbine technologies, Michigan's onshore wind resource has the potential to generate nearly five times the state's 2012 electricity demand, even after a variety of competing land uses are accounted for.

REV is building a cleaner, more resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers by stimulating investment in clean technologies like solar, wind, and energy efficiency and generating 50 percent of the state's electricity needs from renewable energy by 2030.

REV is building a cleaner, more resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers by stimulating investment in clean technologies like solar, wind, and energy efficiency and requiring 50 percent of the state's electricity needs to be generated from renewable energy by 2030.

EVs will be responsible for even fewer emissions as their technology improves and more electricity is generated by renewables.1 Already, EVs are a commercially available technology that can save consumers money, even when gas prices are low.

As part of his climate change initiative announced in June, President Obama declared, «Today I'm calling for an end of public financing for new coal plants overseas unless they deploy carbon capture technologies, or there's no other viable way for the poorest countries to generate electricity.»

(Sec. 133) Requires the Secretary to promulgate regulations establishing a program to distribute allowances to Indian tribes on a competitive basis for: (1) cost - effective energy efficiency programs for end - use consumers of electricity, natural gas, home heating oil, or propane; and (2) deployment of technologies to generate electricity from renewable energy resources.

Requires states to use such payments exclusively for: (1) deploying technologies that generate electricity from renewable energy resources; or (2) implementing cost - effective energy efficiency programs to achieve electricity savings.

(And don't forget that until some unforeseen breakthrough in battery technology occurs, natural gas must remain on call as a backup for intermittent renewable sources like wind and solar for generating electricity.)

Requires FERC to: (1) issue to each generator of renewable electricity a REC for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated after December 31, 2011; (2) issue three RECs for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated by an existing distributed renewable generation facility; and (3) review the effect of issuing three RECs and to reduce such number for any given energy source or technology to ensure that such number is no higher than is necessary to make such facilities using such source or technology cost competitive with other sources of renewable electricity generation.

This chart shows the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) for various generating technologies entering service in... Continue reading →

While California's solar plants have generated billions of kilowatt hours of electricity for the past two decades, the Nevada Solar One plant will use new technologies to capture even more energy from the sun.

Dr Gordon Edge, dthe irector of policy at RenewableUK, the body that represents Britain's wind farm industry, said: «Wind farm developers only earn money for the clean electricity they actually generate, so it's very much in their interests to make sure that their turbines are maintained... to an optimum level, which includes upgrading as the technology improves.

Annual bill for consumers to subsidise renewable technologies has soared to more than # 2.5 bn as more plants are built and the cost for each unit of electricity rises Emily Gosden — The Telegraph — June 28, 2014 The cost of generating green electricity has hit a record high as subsidies are handed to expensive offshore -LSB-...]

This sector also includes solar thermal technologies that harness sunlight to meet thermal requirements for water or heating and cooling or create heat energy used to generate electricity for residential purposes.

The report also found wide disparities in emission rates — the amount of pollution generated for every kilowatt of electricity produced — reflecting differences in management strategies, fuel mix and pollution control technologies.

Reforming the Energy Vision is building a cleaner, more resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers by stimulating investment in clean technologies like solar, wind, and energy efficiency and generating 50 percent of the state's electricity needs from renewable energy by 2030.

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This sector also includes solar thermal technologies that harness sunlight to meet thermal requirements for water or heating and cooling or create heat energy used to generate electricity for commercial or industrial purposes.

(10/27/14) California must nearly eliminate emissions from electricity to meet ambitious climate goals for 2050, but each of the primary available technologies for generating emission - free technology has problems and any choice will require concerted planning and early strategic investments, according to a new technical paper by the California Council on Science and Ttechnology has problems and any choice will require concerted planning and early strategic investments, according to a new technical paper by the California Council on Science and TechnologyTechnology.

Instructs the Secretary to assign 60 % of appropriated funds for any given year to facilities that use solar, wind, geothermal, or closed - loop (dedicated energy crops) biomass technologies to generate electricity if there are insufficient appropriations to make full payments for electric production from all qualified renewable energy facilities.

REV is building a cleaner, more resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers by stimulating investment in clean technologies like solar, wind, and energy efficiency and requiring 50 percent of the state's electricity needs be generated from renewable energy by 2030.

The top layer of the roofing product (pictured) generates electricity in the same way as solar PV modules — although it uses thin film technology for less weight and thickness — while heat is trapped and distributed between the two layers for use in water and space heating.

Our various electricity generating technologies were designed and constructed to meet electricity demand based on their best operating characteristics for meeting portions of the electricity load duration curve.

[5] The German Offshore Wind Act is a part of Germany's broader Renewable Energy Act (EEG 2017), which provides for technology - specific (including OSW - specific) energy auctions aimed at driving down the cost of electricity generated by OSW and other renewable generation methods (Kilgus and Bader 2016).