Sentences with phrase «fuel plant owners»

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Exelon Corp., owner of Nine Mile Point, estimated it would cost about $ 125 million to resupply FitzPatrick with uranium fuel rods next fall, which would allow the plant to continue operating two years beyond when plant owner Entergy Corp. plans to shut it down, the administration official said.

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.

Entergy Corp., the plant owner, has said it will announce by the end of this month whether it plans to buy more nuclear fuel to keep the money - losing plant running past late 2016.

Mike Jones, a spokesman for the plant's owner, the Omaha Public Power District, said Fort Calhoun has a backup pump to provide water to the spent fuel in case the main system is lost.

One was a measure prohibiting plant owners from densely packing spent - fuel pools, requiring them to expedite transfer of all spent fuel that has cooled in pools for at least five years to dry storage casks, which are inherently safer.

Similarly, when a fossil fuel burning power plant dumps carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, its owners don't pay for the resulting climate disruption.

«Higher gas prices are rationing consumption by electricity generators, especially owners of combined - cycle plants that operate as baseload and consume large volumes of fuel.

Owners of the plants have been squeezed by regulations forcing expensive pollution control upgrades at the same time cheaper sources of fuel have rendered the plants unprofitable.

For example, the ISO recently filed a new request with FERC asking for authority to keep the natural gas - fueled Mystic power plant in Connecticut online even though the owner plans to retire it.

Our owners made a $ 1 billion investment in Best Available Control Technology (BACT) to create the cleanest coal - fueled power plant in Illinois — and one of the cleanest in the world.

Under the standard, which has been in full effect since Sep 1 2007, renewable fuel imports into the US are deemed to be «fossil fuels» for purposes of establishing compliance with US renewable fuel mandates unless the foreign plant owner agrees that their plants are effecitvely on US soil for purposes of US enforcement of EPA standards.