Sentences with phrase «for new natural gas plants»

«Simply put, these standards represent the cleanest standards we've put forth for new natural gas plants and new coal plants.»

The CPUC storage decision, which guides SCE and SDG&E to purchase a combined 745 MW of storage, can help ensure that a smart combination of energy storage and local clean energy can cost - effectively eliminate the need for new natural gas plants.

Not exact matches

RICHMOND, Va. (AP)-- Dominion Energy Virginia said Tuesday that it plans to build at least eight new natural gas - fired plants during the next 15 years, cementing its shift away from coal, while depending on renewables for less than 10 percent of its energy capacity.

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.

To drive down energy costs for businesses and families, we've focused on inexpensive and cleaner - burning natural gas, and last month, Calpine Corporation broke ground on a new power plant in Dover that is expected to serve about a quarter of a million homes.

Three elected officials joined an environmental group Monday in calling on the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation to revoke or suspend an essential permit for a natural gas power plant in Orange County.

FitzPatrick has been hurt by Central New York's low wholesale power prices, which have fallen along with the price of natural gas, a common fuel for power plants.

BY KATHY KAHN Approximately 150 persons gathered Tuesday night at the West Haverstraw Community Center for a discussion about a proposed plant in neighboring Stony Point, which would convert New York City trash to natural gas.

The Millennium Pipe, working along with CPV, which will supply the unstable hydrofracked natural gas to the proposed plant, primarily coming from Pennsylvania, and probably with hopes / intentions of adding to that supply from New York's Southern Tier and elsewhere along the Delaware River Basin, recently bullied the Town of Minisink, which adjoins Wawayanda, to construct a Pressure Generating Station for their gas line.

On March 12, the New York State Assembly amended the state budget bill addressing capital projects (A9504b) «for services and expenses related to the design and construction on Sheridan Avenue in Albany of a cogeneration plant and microgrid, to operate on renewable energy, natural gas and / or fuel oil.»

«Reducing carbon pollution from electric power plants is a good start, but the goal must be phasing out coal, oil, and natural gas as our energy sources,» said Howie Hawkins, Green candidate for Governor of New York (http://www.howiehawkins.org).

The City's Independent Budget Office has a new report out on the impact drilling for natural gas in the Catskill / Delaware watershed would have on water rates, mainly because of the need for another filtration plant.

Maxwell Ball, manager for clean coal technologies at SaskPower in Regina, which owns the plant, says that the company was surprised to learn that it would be cheaper in the long term to keep burning coal at Boundary Dam and sell the carbon dioxide to oil companies to boost production in the oil field than to build a new natural - gas plant.

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).

The «well - to - wire» research showed new natural - gas power plants are responsible for less than half as much greenhouse gas per kilowatt hour of electricity generated as existing coal power plants.

President - elect Donald Trump has vowed to revive the flagging U.S. coal industry, but a new analysis suggests cheap natural gas and falling prices for wind and solar power mean there are few places where it makes sense to build a new coal - fired power plant.

The amount of electricity generated from natural gas in the U.S. is expected to surpass power generated from coal for the first time in 2016, and no new coal - fired power plants are on the drawing board in the U.S.

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

The 4 - 1/2 year competition is being co-sponsored by NRG, an energy company, and COSIA (Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance) and will separate the new technologies for testing at either a coal power plant or a natural gas facility.

For a small fraction of the cost I could eliminate more greenhouse gas by converting the large Four Corners, coal - fired electric power plant in New Mexico to natural gas.

In June I heard a report about a new EU - wide study done in the UK that showed clearly that by combining all forms of renewables: wind all over Europe, solar in North Africa, hydo, hydro storage, solar thermal, and demand management, you could meet a slowly growing EU load with almost no natural gas for peaking plants to help level the load.

People must close zero CO2 nuclear power plants and build new natural gas power plants that make CO2 in order to make up for the unpredictable and intermittent nature of wind and solar power.

The result is more CO2 production and doubling or quadrupling or more of your electric bill to pay for the natural gas, the natural gas power plant, the solar farm, the wind farm and new transformers and power lines.

The coalition will also encourage the EPA to limit climate change - causing carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants under the Clean Power Plan, push for federal controls on methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, and work on controlling emissions from large - scale industry facilities, said the New York attorney general's office in a statement.

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

States could allow generation from new, not - under - construction plants to displace generation (and emissions) from existing coal or natural gas plants that were accounted for in the emission rate computation.

Together with a final rule setting standards for new power plants, EPA will create the first nationwide limits on carbon emissions from coal and and natural gas power plants, the largest source of emissions in the US economy.

Columbia is challenging both Duke's application for approval of a new gas plant in Ashville and the merger of Duke with Piedmont Natural Gas, another partner in the Atlantic Coast Pipeligas plant in Ashville and the merger of Duke with Piedmont Natural Gas, another partner in the Atlantic Coast PipeliGas, another partner in the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

There is evidence that the Midwest is steadily decarbonizing its electricity generation through a combination of new state - level policies (for example, energy efficiency and renewable energy standards) and will continue to do so in response to low natural gas prices, falling prices for renewable electricity (for example, wind and solar), greater market demand for lower - carbon energy from consumers, and new EPA regulations governing new power plants.

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.

Circumventing a decades - old pact providing a market monopoly in exchange for public oversight, an investor - owned utility has proposed legislation to allow it to build a new natural gas plant criticized for its financial and environmental impact, and then stick customers... Read More

Recent polls show a solid majority of Americans reject the man - made global - warming theory pushed by Obama, the UN, and other governments desperate to impose new taxes and regulations on CO2 — a natural gas exhaled by humans and required for plants, human emissions of which make up a fraction of one percent of all the greenhouse gases present naturally in the atmosphere.

[McCarthy continues:] However, it is important to note that under the proposed carbon pollution standard for new power plants, companies would not be required to build natural gas combined cycle units; they would be required to meet a standard of 1000 lbs / MWh, which can be met either through the use of natural gas or by burning coal along with carbon capture and storage [CCS].

Nick Mullins stood out when he joined activists, concerned citizens and members of congress at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) public hearings on proposed carbon - emission regulations for new power plants, including coal and natural gas.

Students and Administration look toward a clean energy future for Ohio University Two days ago, the Ohio University administration announced its intent to cancel plans for a brand new gas plant that would have cost the university upwards of $ 75 - 100 million and locked the university into a 50 - year contract with the natural gas industry.

The base running costs in $ / megawatt - hour (MWh) for each coal unit are compared to several competitive energy resources: existing natural gas combined - cycle (NGCC) plants, * new NGCC plants, new wind power facilities, and new utility - scale solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.

One option is to return to the agency's approach in its original 2012 proposal, in which it pointed to new natural gas plants as the basis for its standard.

Along with the new power plants, Albanian officials said the TAP project also would allow for startup of a thermal plant in Vlora, which will receive natural gas from the pipeline.

EPA's Carbon Pollution Standards rule, proposed in September 2013, would establish CO2 performance standards for new coal and natural gas power plants.

For example, the ISO recently filed a new request with FERC asking for authority to keep the natural gas - fueled Mystic power plant in Connecticut online even though the owner plans to retire For example, the ISO recently filed a new request with FERC asking for authority to keep the natural gas - fueled Mystic power plant in Connecticut online even though the owner plans to retire for authority to keep the natural gas - fueled Mystic power plant in Connecticut online even though the owner plans to retire it.

Instead of doing this, why don't we simply fix the broken permit process for new nuclear plants and give modest tax incentives to industries or individuals that implement «no regrets» initiatives to reduce CO2, such as: — replace new coal - fired power plants with nuclear or natural gas (where a gas supply exists)-- replace newnormal automobiles with hybrids — replace Diesel for new heavy transport with natural gas — install energy savings initiatives (waste recycling, better building insulation, etc..)

Of the $ 175 billion slated for new investment in the Australian natural gas sector to bring on new LNG plants, a large percentage of it is being invested in Queensland.

Environmental regulatory requirements may have been the straw that broke a baseload's camel's back — particularly for coal plants — but it appears that most baseload plants were already burdened by the effects of low natural gas prices, eroding customer demand, and lower capacity factors before the incremental burden of new regulations tipped the balance over to retirement.»

-- expand drilling / fracking to extract as much domestic energy as possible, — use clean natural gas, where possible, to replace dirtier coal and for heavy transportation vehicles; — support basic research efforts aimed at finding economically viable green energy technologies; — at the same time, install new nuclear power generation capacity in place of new coal plants, wherever this makes economic sense.

However, for new plant construction I believe that if the problem of natural gas price spikes can be mitigated, the market will choose gas over coal.

But in the US this decrease occurred not through government intervention but through market - based substitution of natural gas - fired plants for coal plants because of increased use of fracking and other new techniques in finding additional natural gas.

Pairing batteries with renewable energy facilities offers a potential alternative, but the price point for such facilities remains too high to compete with new natural gas combined cycle plants.

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Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released a new analysis, which shows that instead of aggressive over-reliance on natural gas by utilities as they phase out coal plants, a far better bet for achieving a clean energy future is to greatly expand the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Replacing nuclear with natural gas would require $ 23 billion as up - front investment in new plants and $ 10 billion per year to pay for gas imports.