Sentences with phrase «fuel power plants under»

The coalition will also encourage the EPA to limit climate change - causing carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants under the Clean Power Plan, push for federal controls on methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, and work on controlling emissions from large - scale industry facilities, said the New York attorney general's office in a statement.

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.

Not exact matches

with carbon pricing and other measures, including eliminating coal - fired power plants, cutting methane emissions from the oil industry, and making cleaner fuels, Canada will still be 90 million tonnes shy of its international emissions targets set in 2015 under the Paris agreement

Under the Reforming Energy Vision plan, power will come from smaller sources, including solar and wind, not large power plants that burn fossil fuels.

The original fossil fuel is back in the spotlight, under fire for being the biggest contributor to climate change (when burned in power plants).

At the top of the list are two landmark climate regulations developed under former president Barack Obama: one, now on hold pending a lawsuit, would reduce emissions from power plants; the other, already in place, sets aggressive fuel - efficiency requirements for vehicles up to 2025.

Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) has secured fuel reloads up to 2034 for its Cooper nuclear power plant under a newly signed contract with Global Nuclear Fuels (Power District (NPPD) has secured fuel reloads up to 2034 for its Cooper nuclear power plant under a newly signed contract with Global Nuclear Fuels (power plant under a newly signed contract with Global Nuclear Fuels (GNF).

Under a Westinghouse contract, NAC provided comprehensive services to transport irradiated fuel from Exelon's Braidwood nuclear power plant (Illinois) to the Studsvik hot cell in Sweden for post-irradiation examination.

Under terms of the contract, as amended in 1996, United States Enrichment Corporation (i) purchased the enrichment portion of the blended - down material and sold it to its electric utility customers for use in fabricating fuel for their commercial nuclear power plants, and (ii) transferred to TENEX a quantity of natural uranium equal to the natural uranium component of the low enriched uranium.

At a plausible GHG emissions price of $ 50 / t CO2eq under a future US carbon mitigation policy, such co-production systems competing as power suppliers would be able to provide low - GHG - emitting synthetic fuels at the same unit cost as for coal synfuels characterized by ten times the GHG emission rate that are produced in plants having three times the synfuel output capacity and requiring twice the total capital investment.

Dropping 4 gigatons may appear easier than it is as experts consider many future emissions to already be «locked in» due to fossil fuel power plants that are already running or currently under construction.

Under RGGI, fossil fuel power plants must curb the amount of CO2 they emit each year to a pre-determined level, initially set at 188 million tons of CO2 across the ten - state region.

The Clean Power Plan aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing fossil fuel - fired power plants by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 — still a far cry from what is needed to meet our commitments under the Paris Climate Accord to keep global warming at or below 2 degrees CelPower Plan aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing fossil fuel - fired power plants by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 — still a far cry from what is needed to meet our commitments under the Paris Climate Accord to keep global warming at or below 2 degrees Celpower plants by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 — still a far cry from what is needed to meet our commitments under the Paris Climate Accord to keep global warming at or below 2 degrees Celsius.

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WASHINGTON (October 27, 2015)-- Members of Congress have introduced resolutions of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act this week, seeking to block the Clean Power Plan, the landmark initiative to cut the dangerous carbon pollution from power plants fueling climate chPower Plan, the landmark initiative to cut the dangerous carbon pollution from power plants fueling climate chpower plants fueling climate change.

There are quite a few smaller mixed fuel / biomass power plants mainly for steam, which fall under another regulatory category.

Under the guise of claiming Ontario's debt was a result of expensive nuclear power plants he set about implementing an anti-fossil fuel agenda.

Around $ 1 billion that Japan has pledged under a U.N. initiative to help developing countries fight global warming has actually gone to support Japanese coal - fired power plants in Indonesia, despite the fact that coal is the most carbon intensive fuel in the world.

The stakes are high, particularly in view of the Obama EPA's war on coal mining, coal - fired power plants, businesses and industries that require reliable, affordable electricity — and families, communities and entire states whose jobs, health and welfare will suffer under this anti-fossil fuel agenda.

So I was wondering if this can be avoided with the Th - type power plant, or perhaps more generally, the concept of fuel used in a liquid state as suggested in the link from the Brave New Climate site (I think it's under Blogroll — just look for Thorium)-- which allows easier processing of fuel and removal of some isotopes.

The 1.8 - liter Prius engine is the first Toyota power plant that requires no belts under the hood for better fuel economy and less potential maintenance.

Under PHE auspices, Evgeny Yantovski, one of the originators of the concept of Zero Emission Power Plants, has written a startlingly imaginative tribute to the late Tommy Gold, «Thomas Gold and the Future of Methane as a Fuel,» in which Evgeny presents Fayalite as a fuel, with methane being the energy carrFuel,» in which Evgeny presents Fayalite as a fuel, with methane being the energy carrfuel, with methane being the energy carrier.

Under home hydrogen it was suggested that water could be broken up into water hydrogen and oxygen in a home - scale plant when power was cheap and plentiful and these could then be recombined in a fuel - cell with regeneration of electricity as required.