Not exact matches
In addition to well sites, Berggren says, «we're seeing more and more midstream applications» — for example, conditioning the
fuel for use in a power
plant or local
gas distribution networks.
Sewage treatment
plants went offline, railways suspended service,
gas stations couldn't pump
fuel, and mobile communications were disrupted.
Demand for natural
gas is on the rise as more domestic power
plants burn the
fuel and a number of liquefied natural
gas export terminals are slated to open in the coming years.
Anticipating this demand, the manufacturers of power
plant equipment — Siemens, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, GE — are focusing their energies on coming out with new
gas -
fuelled systems.
In recent years, oil and
gas majors like Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell have invested billions of dollars into LNG projects in countries like Australia and Qatar, while further vast sums have been spent on
plants that turn LNG back into
gas in consuming countries, all in the belief the world's need for the
fuel would rise rapidly — especially as countries, particularly in Asia, sought to move away from more polluting -LSB-...]
Even as we've begun to improve efficiency in factories and power
plants, our cars and trucks have grown bigger and more wasteful: average
fuel efficiency actually declined in the 1990s, even as engineers came up with one technology after another that could have saved
gas.
The boilers replace heavy
fuel oil units and would slash the
plant's greenhouse
gas emissions by 3,500 t a year, First Milk claimed.
Until we control our
fuel, until we bring all those
Gas fields or at least those that can fire the thermal
plants on, we still have a challenge,» Mr Jinapor stated.
The report authored by the chief energy policy adviser to government, the Energy Commission, says the amount required will expended on natural
gas, light crude oil, diesel and heavy
fuel oil to power the various thermal
plants as the country looks to contain the threat of erratic energy supply on the economy.
According to the report, about US$ 494million will be required to procure natural
gas for the various thermal
plants as there is bound to be at least a supply deficit of 65,000 mmscf, as it has been estimated that the
gas flow required for
fuelling the thermal
plants this year will range between 120,000 - 146,400 mmscf.
U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan rejected claims that federal law preempted New York and its Public Service Commission from offering credits to promote clean energy and reduce reliance on fossil -
fueled or
gas plants.
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.
Fifty - seven percent of the state's power generation is from natural
gas -
fueled plants.
He said government will next week go to Parliament to seek approval for a Liquid Natural
Gas contract as an alternative
fuel for the country's
plants, particularly those within the Tema enclave.
The President was hopeful that generation of
gas from the Western Region to the power enclave near Tema will be accelerated so that the excess
gas can
fuel plants like Sunon Asogli.
It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil
fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines,
gas - fired power
plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil
fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.
According to the same form, Percoco's wife — a former middle - school teacher — was paid by a Connecticut consultant with ties to a third company, Competitive Power Ventures, that is in the process of constructing a natural -
gas -
fueled power
plant in Orange County.
A government where energy performance is measured by the power in our homes, offices and not by the increase in the number of
plants with no crude or
gas to
fuel.
That year, prosecutors alleged, the first bribe scheme began not long after Percoco, who had been a member of Cuomo's tiny inner circle, had dinner at a Connecticut restaurant with Peter Galbraith Kelly, an executive with an energy company that at the time was trying to build a
gas -
fueled power
plant in Orange County.
In recent years, historically low natural
gas prices have driven down wholesale electricity costs as
plant owners switched to that
fuel, making nuclear power less competitive financially.
The approval of the natural
gas - fired
plant came at a time when the administration was generally attempting to move away from fossil
fuel generation and toward renewable energy generation, per its Reforming Energy Vision, which seeks to make the energy grid more reliant on renewable sources and more efficient.
-RRB- «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.»
At the very least, Reinhardt hopes the planners will consider biogas,
fuel material from food waste and wastewater treatment
plants, for combustion instead of the natural
gas.
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.»
The major remaining permits needed for the natural
gas - powered
plant, which was part of an alleged bribery scheme involving a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, are for pipelines to deliver the
fuel.
One key piece for the
plant, the natural
gas pipeline to supply the
fuel to generate power, isn't being built by CPV.
The 7.9 - mile natural
gas pipeline to
fuel the
plant's generators is being built by the Millennium Pipeline Co..
By further strengthening the Regional Greenhouse
Gas Initiative and welcoming new state members, New York will continue its progress in slashing emissions from existing fossil
fuel power
plants.
The project involves the development, ownership, operation and management of the 400MW Combined Cycle
Plant to be
fueled by either Liquefied Petroleum
Gas (LPG) or Natural
Gas (NG) for a 25 - year period by Early Power Limited in Tema, strategically close to the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR).
Gitner tried to show the relationship between Howe and Kelly was not a quid pro quo arrangement designed to benefit CPV's development of a controversial
gas -
fueled power
plant in Orange County.
Hawkins opposes any investment in new fossil
fuel infrastructure, including natural
gas pipelines and power
plants, LNG port terminals, liquefied propane and butane and natural
gas storage in the Seneca Lake salt caverns, and crude oil heaters at the Port of Albany.
According to Ghana's Energy Commission, Ghana National
Gas Company's (GNGC) Atuabo gas supply, as at April 2017, had a share of 39.1 % of the total fuel supply mix for generation plants, with the West Africa Gas Pipeline having 9.1
Gas Company's (GNGC) Atuabo
gas supply, as at April 2017, had a share of 39.1 % of the total fuel supply mix for generation plants, with the West Africa Gas Pipeline having 9.1
gas supply, as at April 2017, had a share of 39.1 % of the total
fuel supply mix for generation
plants, with the West Africa
Gas Pipeline having 9.1
Gas Pipeline having 9.1 %.
Without the
gas pipeline, they say they could run the
plant on
fuel oil.
They have also questioned why the Cuomo administration was pushing forward with a natural
gas - fired power
plant at a time when it was implementing climate policies, such as a fracking ban, that turned the state away from fossil
fuel reliance.
And it also means that he has to stop supporting the use of fossil
fuels, including his idea to spend perhaps a hundred million dollars to expand the
gas plant that is heating the Empire State Plaza and lock in
gas emissions into a low - income people - of - color community for the next 30 years in the Arbor Hill area.»
FitzPatrick struggles to make money because wholesale electric prices in Central New York have been depressed by plentiful natural
gas, which
fuels many power
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.
Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal
fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids;
gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power
plants.
Some older nuclear
plants simply can't compete on cost with
gas -
fuelled rivals.
Those supply issues and a surge in natural
gas demand for
fueling power
plants and vehicles could drive up
gas prices over time.
The glut of cheap
gas and tightening regulations on air pollutants have prompted the planned closure of 175 coal - fired power
plants by 2016, representing 8.5 percent of all coal -
fueled electricity capacity in the country.
The New
Plant Fuel «Green diesel,» as it's being called, isn't the first effort to use plants to power cars; your gas tank probably has a blend of gas and plant - derived ethanol inside it right
Plant Fuel «Green diesel,» as it's being called, isn't the first effort to use
plants to power cars; your
gas tank probably has a blend of
gas and
plant - derived ethanol inside it right
plant - derived ethanol inside it right now.
In a modeling study of coal, oil, and natural
gas, Zhang and Caldeira compared the warming caused by combustion to the warming caused by the carbon dioxide released by a single instance of burning, such as one lump of coal, and by a power
plant that is continuously burning
fuel.
Irradiated
fuel from Nuclear Electric's advanced
gas cooled reactors was expected to be processed at Sellafield, in the thermal oxide reprocessing
plant, which still needs government approval to begin operating.
In its test in its Danbury lab, the company plans to mix carbon dioxide, air and nitrogen to simulate coal
plant emissions and then shoot those
gases into a
fuel cell stack.
Most electricity in the United States is generated at power
plants that run on coal and natural
gas — fossil
fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.
It also asserts that Brazil's dams are among the dirtiest in the world, producing more greenhouse
gas emissions in some cases than fossil
fuel plants.
Natural
gas blended with renewable hydrogen also produces less emissions than regular natural
gas when used at a power
plant or as a transport
fuel.
Diesellike
fuel derived from
plant oils might avoid that problem as well as supply similar greenhouse
gas reduction (depending on how the
plants are cultivated).
A crucial distinction in the global - warming balance sheet — and another stumbling block for beginners starting to count carbons — is that researchers treat
fuel from current
plant growth as causing zero net greenhouse -
gas emissions.