Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel plants»

In power generation, the installed stock of fossil fuel plants is so great that much of it will not be retired in the next 30 years.

But the cost reductions I wrote about have continued, and renewables are now, broadly speaking, as cheap as, or cheaper than, new fossil fuel plants.

The company had billions in cash flow coming in from fossil fuel plants that could then be turned around and invested in wind, solar, electric charging stations, and energy storage.

With fossil fuel plants in stand by mode, that still means cleaner air.

You're not actually bringing people out of poverty if you're building fossil fuel plants near them, without connecting them.

The emissions from coal and other fossil fuel plants cause environmental concerns.

Thus, biomass plants raise similar, but not identical, concerns about air emissions and water use as fossil fuel plants.

The report also states that the goal of energy efficiency can be met by installing modern filters at fossil fuel plants, and the cost would be a lot cheaper then wind power technology.

However, CCS is an unproven technology which has not yet been implemented at a large - scale fossil fuel plant.

It's interesting to see some of the responses that try so hard to find fault with wind projects while completely ignoring the current environmental and health impacts of fossil fuel plants.

In the past, the bulk of this extra energy came from fossil fuel plants that were fired up and down with demand.

This can be achieved through a combination of renewables, nuclear power, and use of CCS at fossil fuel plants.

In fact, the lack of awareness among youth is a natural outcome of Turkey's recent so - called climate policies, which are designed to build up new fossil fuel plants by 2030.

My post addressed the idea of using algae to recycle emissions from fossil fuel plants into new biomass, which could be used a number of ways.

The state will also work with local communities to address potential revenue shortfalls, similar to how it has worked with communities affected by other plant closures through the existing fossil fuel plant retirement fund.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to unveil its plan for old fossil fuel plants in June, after more than a year of working on the issue with states, industry groups, and environmentalists.

First are four relatively small programs - $ 8.4 million for the State Education Department to print more versions of state exams, $ 25 million to the Yonkers school district (following a similar «one - time» $ 28 million bailout last year), $ 19 million to address economic hardship in municipalities with fossil fuel plant closures, and $ 6 million for an anti-poverty initiative in Rochester.

But even this argument misses the key point: While it is certainly far better from a climate perspective to replace old fossil fuel plants rather than old nuclear plants, even old nuclear plants have to be replaced eventually.

LONDON — Critics of renewables have always claimed that sun and wind are only intermittent producers of electricity and need fossil fuel plants as back - up to make them viable.

Renewable energy could help reduce that so - called «fuel - security risk,» but also compel more fossil fuel plant retirements, compounding the need for more LNG imports.

In addition to their argument that fossil fuel plants like CPV contribute to global warming, the demonstrators, who numbered between 250 and 300, offered a uniquely New York twist to their argument — the CPV plant was an element in the federal government's corruption case against former Cuomo aide Joe Percoco.

The effects of wind turbines on birds, which research suggests kill far fewer birds per megawatt hour than do fossil fuel plants, have long been a source of consternation for many environmentalists.

But in the long run, as the U.S. and the world double down on fighting climate change, renewable and more - local power sources are expected to multiply as traditional fossil fuel plants age out.

While fossil fuel plants continue to be added to the grid, they're lagging behind wind and solar additions.

It also means you don't save that much in terms of carbon dioxide emissions, which is supposed to be the whole point, because you've got fossil fuel plants all fired up but only running at half - throttle or on «hot» standby.

And, whether or not they know it, all of the North Carolina electric utility customers who have a few more bucks in their pockets (because the solar we install means they don't have to start paying for a new billion dollar fossil fuel plant this year), would disagree.

This time it means closing coal plants, stopping fracking, placing tariffs on tar sands oil, and permitting new fossil fuel plants only after all externalities are accounted for.

Witness current political fights over whether institutions like the World Bank or the IMF should fund fossil fuel plants.

Environmental Advocates of New York says the Cuomo team deserves credit for its aggressive State Energy Plan, but cautions the goals may be just out of reach should the state go the way of re-firing outdated fossil fuel plants and raiding carbon abatement programs like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

And while EPA designed the rule to accommodate fossil fuel plants equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, the Barnett report said such plants are unlikely to find favor with investors unless Congress provides incentives to defray their higher construction and operation costs.

The country has a demanding industrial sector that needs a large and stable electricity supply, and some doubted that this could be achieved in the long term without retaining nuclear or large fossil fuel plants.

«In addition, fossil fuel plants benefit from better storage technology as they are able to supply electricity without incurring high ramping costs.»

Unlike fossil fuel plants, wind turbines and photovoltaic cells can not be switched on and off at will: The wind blows when it blows and the sun shines when it shines, regardless of demand.

With that you're able to offset or even prevent fossil fuel plants from being built.»

It's a grand vision for essentially being carbon - free by 2050, Producing electricity from clean generation sources including nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, and with any remaining fossil fuel plants hooked up to carbon capture and storage systems.

The major other advantage of CDR from fossil fuel plant cleanup is that air capture can be done anywhere and thus where the carbon can be both removed, used, and sequestered with the use even making the sequestration profitable.

In June 2016, APS filed for a $ 3.6 billion rate increase (Docket E-01345A-16-0036) to go into effect July 2017, including higher fixed charges, new demand charges for solar customers, lowering the rate paid for distributed solar from the retail rate (12 - 13 cents / kWh) to wholesale rate (3 cents / kWh), and spending billions of dollars to introduce fossil fuel plants, including one of the Western U.S.'s oldest and dirtiest coal plants, into rate base.

Energy storage avoids curtailment and it's the only supply - side strategy that can make a balancing capacity of fossil fuel plants redundant, at least in theory.

, interconnectors, battery storage (lithium - ion is only one technology — vanadium flow works also) and biofuels in legacy fossil fuel plants will all help us to clear that bar.

I think greater renewable penetration forcing fossil fuel plant into greater intermittency is exactly the direction we should be heading, preferably with them moving into the backup role in a planned way.

It may not seem fair that existing fossil fuel plant bears the greatest burden of the costs of more time offline but, then, it's not fair we all collectively bear the burden of the full and true costs of that «low cost» forever into the future.

Eversource owns more than 1,100 MW of regulated generation in the region, including three major fossil fuel plants in New Hampshire.

Technology and innovation, coupled with smart policy, are changing the game and put California at the cusp of rendering fossil fuel plants obsolete.

Nor has it always been a boon to the poor when international capital parachutes in to back enormous fossil fuel plants.