Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel power generation»

Hays has a vast network of employers who we recruit for and are able to offer a variety of fossil fuel power generation jobs which include Mechanical Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Project Management, Planet Engineer, Structural Engineer and Controls Engineer jobs.

It also expects around 40,000 tons (36,300 tonnes) of CO2 to be saved each year as a result of replacing fossil fuel power generation.

Ultimately, the Commission is seeking a global phase - out of unabated fossil fuel power generation by 2050.

Our wind energy projects, like this one in the State of Maharashtra feed reliable, clean energy into the regional energy grid, helping to displace polluting fossil fuel power generation whilst also supporting the local community through a number of education, healthcare and training initiatives.

A growing number of governments have decided to diverge from the legacy fossil fuel power generation, and this rampant, deflationary trend around renewables will give economic credence to this decision.

«All countries should aim for a global phase - out of unabated fossil fuel power generation by 2050.

Despite early knowledge about climate change, electric utilities have continued to invest heavily in fossil fuel power generation over the past half a century, and since 1988 some have engaged in ongoing efforts to sow doubt about climate science and block legal limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

The report expects renewables will cost between $ 0.03 / kWh and $ 0.10 / kWh by 2020, while the current cost spectrum for fossil fuel power generation is $ 0.05 / kWh to $ 0.17 / kWh.

«This means that the mere existence of storage technology, which benefits both renewable and fossil fuel power generation, doesn't necessarily lead to lower carbon emissions from electricity generation.»

Technological innovations have dropped the price of wind and solar in some markets to be not only competitive with traditional fossil fuel power generation, but sometimes less expensive, said Malcolm Woolf, senior vice president of policy and government affairs for Advanced Energy Economy.

Not exact matches

Alberta and Saskatchewan stand out in Canada with power grids still heavily reliant upon fossil fuels, but both recently released targets for significantly more electricity generation from renewable sources.

The landmark report that found Alberta could reduce its reliance on fossil fuel power and replace that generation with a mix of mostly renewable energy sources within two decades.

The province can drastically reduce its reliance on fossil fuels for power generation and replace it with renewable energy sources such as wind, sun, biomass, hydro and geothermal energy.

GWE combine specialized know - how in generating biogas with our extensive range of anaerobic reactors, and in supply and installation of biogas re-use and handling systems for fossil fuel replacement or power generation.

The economy is primarily driven by primary industry, natural resources and secondary industry including coal mining, processing and fossil - fuel power generation [8] for the National Electricity Market.

«This report shows the government's plans are stacked in favour of nuclear power over renewable energy and are so vague they risk locking the UK into a new generation of polluting fossil fuels,» senior economy campaigner Simon Bullock commented.

Activists have said that's not enough and are pushing to move the state off fossil fuels entirely — including to heat homes, power cars and fuel electric generation.

Montante Development will pursue Silver LEED certification for the structure and incorporate solar power generation that will offset the equivalent of 1 million kWh of fossil fuels over the life of FTN's lease.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide derives from multiple natural sources including volcanic outgassing, the combustion of organic matter, and the respiration processes of living aerobic organisms; man - made sources of carbon dioxide come mainly from the burning of various fossil fuels for power generation and transport use.

By harnessing energy from the sun — «this handy fusion reactor in the sky,» he called it last night — getting enough renewable energy on the power grid and smoothing out energy generation and use between peak and off - peak hours, the nation and planet can shift away from fossil fuels» dominance as a power source, he told the crowd.

Thus, external costs in effect subsidize fossil - fuel power generation, either directly or via indirect effects on the society as a whole.

Meeting coal demand in Japan Indonesian coal is also expected to help fuel a surge in fossil power generation in Japan after that country shuttered its nuclear plants in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor meltdown in 2011.

Sometimes what the scientists have written has been political satire, like Leo Szilard's The Voice of the Dolphins or OR Frisch's charming little thought experiment On the Feasibility of Coal - burning Power Stations, in which he applied to fossil - fuel power generation the strictures imposed on nuclear plPower Stations, in which he applied to fossil - fuel power generation the strictures imposed on nuclear plpower generation the strictures imposed on nuclear plants.

In the United States, roughly two - thirds of all sulfur dioxide and a quarter of all nitrogen oxide come from electric power generation that relies on burning fossil fuels, such as coal.

«Consequently, the [United States] is importing decreasing amounts of these two fossil fuels, while using rising levels of its natural gas for power generation,» the report states.

Although renewable energy is making good progress, large - scale power generation is still dominated by burning fuel, whether uranium or fossil carbon.

The most promising of these options include renewable sources of a variety of types, advanced fossil - fuel technologies that can capture and sequester carbon, and hydrogen - powered fuel cells for vehicle propulsion and dispersed electricity generation.

«The use of waste heat for power production would allow additional electricity generation without any added consumption of fossil fuels,» said Bruce E. Logan, Evan Pugh Professor and Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering.

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.

When did you become convinced that greenhouse gas emissions from using fossil fuels for power generation is causing rapid global warming?

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We will seek to avoid the following: • Bonds that finance projects with substantial sustainability concerns such as first - generation biofuels, waste - to - energy plants using toxic substances, or projects that prolong fossil fuel dependence such as refurbishment of coal power plants.

If it takes 100 plus years to double the concentration of CO2, and if the equilibrium response is a 2C increase (Pierrehumbert, «Principles of Planetary Climate», p 623), and if the increased CO2 produces increased vegetation and crop growth, then the present rate of development of non-fossil fuel power and fuel generation is more appropriate than an Apollo type project or attempt to get rid of all fossil fuel use by 2050 starting now as fast as can be done.

Footnote * It's worth noting that Peter Raven was one of dozens of signatories to a 2014 «open letter to environmentalists on nuclear energy» endorsing this statement: «the full gamut of electricity - generation sources — including nuclear power — must be deployed to replace the burning of fossil fuels, if we are to have any chance of mitigating severe climate change.»

I would liken the predicament more to a Faustian bargain in which humanity has been granted supernatural power through the bounty of divine energy stored in fossil fuels; and after a few generations of blissful consumption, the devil has returned for his due.

Still, the technology used in current - generation CCS projects to capture CO2, amine absorption, is inadequate for a widely deployable solution to decarbonizing the world's fossil - fueled power plants.

I also, as some could predict, planned to ask how nuclear power fits, given the reality that a swift shutdown of the state's and region's nuclear reactors is unlikely and, without nuclear generation the challenge of a swift from fossil fuels becomes that much bigger.

Brook and Bradshaw argue that the full gamut of electricity - generation sources — including nuclear power — must be deployed to replace the burning of fossil fuels, if we are to have any chance of mitigating severe climate change.

This project will allow a certain proportion of fossil - fuel powered electrical generation to be taken offline during the daytime, reducing CO2 emissions and providing more energy independence for the region.

The past year, capital expenses for new power generation is nearly evenly split, between renewable and fossil fuel consuming plants, for new electrical generation.

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,

In January 2013, EEI published a playbook detailing how distributed solar energy generation is a threat to the utility industry's business model which in large part relies on large, costly fossil fuel power plants.

Even if the NAAQS for CO2 did not require much of the economy — all fossil - fuel - based power generation, manufacture, transport, and agriculture — to simply shut down, it would effectively prohibit growth in those sectors.

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

However, you don't want to argue for a rational solution — i.e. cheap nuclear power (which also happens to be 10 to 100 times safer than our currently accepted main source of electricity generation, fossil fuel) and also happens to be a near zero emission technology (in fact much lower than renewables given they need fossil fuel backup, and given solar needs about 10 times as much material per TWh on an LCA basis).

wind and solar do not replace fossil fuel generation, as that has to be maintained at and close to previous levels to cater for power needs when the unreliable, unpredictable wind and solar generation systems go off line or fail or just don't produce much power.

The hybrid system implemented, which includes a 4 - MW battery system combined with 4.5 MW of wind energy and 1 MW of PV solar power, has enabled up to 100 % renewable power penetration and dramatically decreased the levelized cost of energy for the island by replacing around two - thirds of fossil fuel - based generation with cheap renewable energy.

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.

Most of the global CO2 emissions issue could be solved with low cost nuclear power (low cost nuclear will replace, over the course of this century, fossil fuels for electricity generation which will then displace gas for heating and produce «energy carriers» to replace fossil fuels for transport fuels).

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