Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel generators»

The current campaign by News Ltd, the AFR and the Grattan Institute against intermittent renewables is of course a campaign to defend the profits of fossil fuel generators.

But then I went on to envisage, at least in my own mind, a time when large fossil fuel generators had all closed own — mainly in order to avoid ruining our one and only habitable planet — and that the 24/7 power supply would be a mix of Solar PV, solar thermal (eg CSP), wind and the lesser sources such as hydro, tidal, geothermal etc having taken over the complete electricity supply — especially since Australia doesn't have, and is almost certain never to have, nuclear fission plants.

Both of these measures allow Xcel to feel more comfortable powering down its fossil fuel generators for longer periods of time and giving its wind turbines center stage.

Lloyd wrote «fossil fuel generators, in the same periods when wind turbines had been operating, fluctuated their output to match demand but did not reduce their rate of coal consumption.»

A unit can operate for months or years after a refueling, making it immune to problems with pipelines, barges, and railroads that sometimes afflict fossil fuel generators, Korsnick noted.

We do not need expensive new natural gas pipelines or to develop counterproductive bailouts to uneconomic fossil fuel generators, which would only raise electricity bills, bring more polluting energy into the region, exacerbate climate change, and slow New England's progress toward a clean, resilient, and fuel secure grid.

The very fact that you are spouting unsupported nonsense like this is strong evidence that the fossil fuel generators ARE worried by the threat to their once lucrative business model.

With ruinable generation on the grid, the fossil fuel generators now have to regulate not just for a variable customer demand but also the variable ruinable energy generation.

The one, teensy, weensy problem with the wind industry's «save the planet» pitch is that 100 % of the capacity from intermittent and unreliable wind power has to be backed - up 100 % of the time by fossil fuel generators running in the background and burning fuel ALL the time — and, therefore, increases CO2 emissions in the electricity sector.

This means a duplication of capacity and more than doubling of the costs (because the renewable energy generators are much higher cost than the fossil fuel generators which are essential back up and could do the job on their own).

And if a practical technique is ever found, its primary economic benefit will not come from enabling windmills and solar farms, but from allowing the expansion of base - load fossil fuel generators, making it possible to reduce the fleet of peak - load facilities.

Not that even overlooking the effective pollution subsidy given to the fossil fuel generators, the retail price of electricity would not need to rise very greatly to change to sustainable electricity - it would go from $ 232 / MWh to $ 272 / MWh.

Fossil fuel generators are frequently shut down when it seem they will not be needed and started up when it appears they may be needed.

That means the renewable energy generators must be backed up almost entirely by fossil fuel generators.

The results showed fossil fuel generators, in the same periods when wind turbines had been operating, fluctuated their output to match demand but did not reduce their rate of coal consumption.

The middle of the day was when the fossil fuel generators used to generate most revenue, because demand was highest.

We need to get the message across that nuclear is already 10 to 100 times safer than our current fossil fuel generators.

Consequently with the dramatic decrease in efficiency of fuel burn in the standby fossil fuel generators there is sweet FA practical reduction in CO2 emissions with the introduction of wind and solar power generation systems particularly when the energy costs of the producing and building the so called renewable energy systems are added to the grossly inefficient running of the ready to go to full generation capacity in minutes, fossil fuel powered standby generators which in many cases must be kept running at low or zero power generation to be able to come on line in minutes when the so called renewable energy systems fail to produce power,

Solar - to - electric, fed into the grids, is feasible, and is presenly supplementing fossil fuel generators at several different locations around the U.S.. This, to my knowledge is usually done at multiple point - sources, so the energy losses and transmission costs are kept to minimal.

All the while, Puerto Ricans don't have the luxury of waiting for the grid of the future, so renewable energy entrepreneurs must compete against fossil fuel generators.

In fact, 40 % of distributed generation systems contain fossil fuel generator sets (gensets), according to Navigant's Microgrid Deployment Tracker.

Some fossil fuels generators run part loaded ready to increase their power output if called upon to do so

More important would be to add the higher emissions caused by cycling the fossil fuel generator plants to back up for intermittent renewable energy generators.

Where hundreds of billions have been spent on so called renewable energy that is not renewable, does not in any way replace fossil fueled generators but just displaces them, is completely unreliable, is totally unpredictable, is vastly more expensive for consumers,.

Jim D» If a customer wanted to know the mean temperature at their location from 2030 - 2040 for some planning «-- I would tell him to invest in air conditioner units with a backup fossil fuel generator [or 2].

Not exact matches

It will not consume any fossil fuels — there is no natural gas piped to the site nor are there permanent diesel generators being used to provide power.

Just last month, LIPA's board renewed long - term contracts with antiquated and polluting fossil - fueled power generators, without any meaningful action on modernizing the energy grid, or transitioning to renewable energy.

This also means that other generators, such as those powered by fossil fuels, can scale their power output in advance rather than rapidly ramping up or slowing down to compensate for wind, increasing their efficiency and improving the grid's reliability.

Most people in England and Wales buy their power from regional electricity companies (RECs) which, in turn, buy it from fossil - fuel and nuclear generators at market price.

In a fossil fuel - fired generator, this means less carbon dioxide emissions for the same unit of electricity produced.

For one, it does not completely eliminate the need for fossil fuels, because the associated electric generators use natural gas to supplement the energy from the stored compressed air.

The local electric company performs that service far more efficiently when it burns fossil fuels in its big generators; the car stores only the residual electrical energy in its rechargeable batteries.

Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits or the introduction of taxes or other restrictions on fossil fuel usage or emissions of GHGs and other pollutants.

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Such co-production systems, when considered as power generators, can provide decarbonized electricity at lower costs than is feasible with new stand - alone fossil fuel power plants under a wide range of conditions, according to the study by Liu et al. published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

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And as the English have done and as the Chinese and the Indians and etc will still do, they will use coal, lots of coal plus gas and oil for power generation until some capitalist somewhere with a very good idea on how to reduce costs and still make a fortune comes along and devises / discovers or restructures an old technology or a new power generation technology that is more efficient, lower cost, more profitable, just as reliable as fossil fueled, those coal, oil and gas generators

If power generator owners and governments had decreed that the most inefficient and most unreliable, most costly power generation systems that could be conceived to generate power for our modern civilisation were to be the norm then the so called renewable energy systems of wind and solar along with highly inefficient fossil fuel burning idling generators as standby's when the renewables fail to produce power then it is doubtful that a more hopelessly inefficient and unreliable system could be devised for a civilisation that depends so utterly on having dead steady, totally reliable, at call power every second of every day to run that civilisation's entire very sophisticated structures

ERCs can be used by a fossil fuel - fired generator to demonstrate compliance with its assigned performance rate.

«Does wind power allow the decommissioning of a single fossil fuelled power generator?

[v] CCA should recommend the government ban new fossil - fuelled electricity generators to guard against this risk.

It's hard to understand why (mainly conservative) state governments are opposing the RET when they could be divested themselves of outdated, polluting coal - fired generators while picking up taxes from renewable energy related industries and services — unless of course the same state governments are getting healthy and frequent «donations» from various fossil fuel companies.

Perhaps in a year or two they may have some appreciation of the impact of photovoltaics upon peak demand, an impact the fossil fuel electricity generators are well aware of and are trying to limit; for what they see as their commercial gain.

All this consumes more fuel and emits more CO2 than would be the case if the fossil fuels were operating at their optimum efficiency, or just responding to demand without the added inefficiency caused by the intermittent renewable energy generators.

These are — and dramatic changes in the rate of growth of human population (the «generators» of the human emissions)-- an upper limit to the amount of carbon contained in all the fossil fuels remaining on our planet

According to the report, more than a quarter of the water withdrawn by fossil - fuel power plants to cool their generators goes up in steam — the remainder carries pollutants and excess heat into rivers and waterways, causing fish kills and algae blooms.

Additionally, excess heat from the electric generator engine is used to heat the farm buildings, reducing the farm's fossil fuel use.

The proposed facilities would source the required energy and heat from natural gas generators, but capture CO2 emissions from combusting the fossil fuel.

Because by pushing power generators to ditch fossil fuels for cleaner alternatives, the plan aimed to not only protect our planet, but accelerate the renewable energy revolution already underway across the country and grow jobs in the green - tech sector that already employs over 3 million Americans.

So standby turbine generators (using fossil fuel) have to be constantly running, and constantly speeding up and slowing to idle to make up for the varying output from windmills and the zero output from panels overnight.