Sentences with phrase «for new power plants»

By reducing the amount of energy used, efficiency improvements also reduce the amount of energy that must be generated and, therefore, the need for new power plants.

The rules for new power plants were technically due to be finished later this week.

It would essentially replace a market - driven process for new power plant capacity and site decisions with a centralized state process.

It's very slow and minimal and only for new power plants, and everything is in the early stages on existing power plants.

It is based on either already existing regulation, such as for new power plants, or regulation that is being finalized.

Reducing our building's energy usage by 50 % will eliminate the need for new power plants.

So, the report argues, underground gasification makes sense for new power plants in coal rich states, say in the U.S. midwest.

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.

For one, natural gas is beating out coal as the most economically viable fossil fuel for power generation in North America, and renewables — even when coupled with demand side management tools (e.g. battery storage, load response)-- are getting effective enough to compete against coal for new power plant capacity around the world.

Demand for new power plants will remain slow through 2019, Flannery predicted.

EPA Proposes Carbon Pollution Standards for New Power Plants Agency takes important step to reduce carbon pollution from p...

... Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy will begin a three - day trip where she will speak to students, businesses and other stakeholders on EPA's recent carbon pollution standards proposal for new power plants, and President Obama's Climate Action Plan to reduce carbon pollution.

Along with Senate Bill 437, this bill replaces the current market - driven process for new power plant capacity and site decision with a more centralized process inspired by Obama - era regulations expected to be repealed in 2017.

Among other approvals, the PSC in 2014 granted CPV a certificate of «certificate of public convenience and necessity» that provided a lightened regulatory scrutiny for a new power plant in Orange County.

The Department of Energy, meanwhile, is working with governors and transmission officials in Texas and the western United States on a multi-year computer project to find the best locations for new power plants faced with growing scarcity in nearby water resources to cool down their operations.

Investment banks such as Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley, for example, have drawn up funding guidelines that would preclude capital for new power plants that lack the ability to adapt to future CO2 regulations.

Delaying the rules for new power plants also means that the Republican - controlled Congress wouldn't be able to try to override them using the Congressional Review Act until later this year.

The Obama Administration, is under a court imposed settlement to issue these standards, which they have violated; they have issued and then withdrawn draft rules for new power plants after strong pushback from the power sector; and EPA is about to get sued by environmental groups for violating the settlement.

The administration will need to ensure the standard for new power plants stays strong even as it is being re-proposed.

By far, the biggest step the administration has taken on climate change is setting strict rules limiting carbon emissions per unit of electricity produced for all new power plants constructed in the United States.

A government auction for new power plants held last December — the first in two years for wind firms due to the recession — awarded 1.4 GW of wind capacity out of total contracts of 4.5 GW.

It follows EPA's emissions rule for new power plants published late last year but takes a different, more expansive approach.

One potential solution to the current impasse involves establishing a fixed amount of emissions for new power plants from which credit - satisfying permit requirements could be provided to supplement those from market sources.

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«REDD is a good initiative, but it's not all - inclusive,» says COMESA Secretary General Sindiso Ngwenya, who derided a REDD - only approach as «political, social, economic apartheid» that punished subsistence farmers even as the Clean Development Mechanism pays for new power plants in China and India.

The Building Sector has effectively imposed a market - based moratorium on the need for new power plant generating capacity in the U.S.

1990 Clean Air Act Amendments When the Clean Air Act was amended in 1990 despite a barrage of industry - launched court cases, scrubbers became mandatory for all new power plants.

The United States already regulates emissions from automobiles and is working to finalize limits for new power plants.

Even as Morgan Lewis assists the sector in preparing for new power plants, intrusive regulation of current plants continues.

In the power sector, EPA recently issued CO2 regulations for new power plants that can not be met using coal unless the resulting emissions are captured.

Even though we plan to add over 60 billion square feet of new buildings to our building stock (a 23.3 % increase) over the next two decades, and renovate as much or more, Building Sector operational energy consumption — which accounts for 75.7 % of electricity use — will be low enough to prevent the need for any new power plant capacity in the U.S.

Compounding the problem, Ledford and others say, is that Duke wants to recoup nearly all of its grid costs through a bill add - on or «rider,» which isn't subject to the same type of scrutiny at the utilities commission as base electricity rates or proposals for new power plants.

New York mandated environmental testing for mercury as part of the approval process for new power plants or other facilities to generate electricity.

The keys will be limiting the need for new power plants and engineering the electrical grid to increase the use of clean energy sources.

«It's a landmark for climate policy,» said Nathaniel Keohane, who worked in the White House when carbon regulations for new power plants were proposed over a year ago.

«Setting higher efficiency standards for cooling is one of the easiest steps governments can take to reduce the need for new power plants, and allow them at the same time to cut emissions and reduce costs,» said Dr Birol.

More than 3 million Americans already voiced their support for the standard for new power plants the EPA issued last year.

Of course what the world needs is for all new power plants to be non-fossil fuels.

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.

«GE Power will design, manufacture and deliver its market - leading ultra-supercritical technology components (boiler and steam turbine generator) for this new power plant,» GE Power said in a statement.

As such, the CPP is unlawful if its legal prerequisite — EPA's proposed CO2 performance standards for new power plants, the so - called Carbon Pollution Standards (CPS) rule — is unlawful.