Appalachian is making significant investments in transmission infrastructure to improve grid reliability and to support recent coal -
fueled power plant closings responding to environmental requirements.
Not exact matches
Boosted
Fuel Efficiency Standards Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis Passed Mini Stimuli Began Asia «Pivot Increased Support for Veterans Tightened Sanctions on Iran Created Conditions to Begin
Closing Dirtiest
Power Plants Passed Credit Card Reforms Eliminated Catch - 22 in Pay Equality Laws Improved Food Safety System Expanded National Service Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection Gave the FDA
Power to Regulate Tobacco Pushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Mission Improved School Nutrition Expanded Hate Crimes Protections Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill Pushed Broadband Coverage Expanded Health Coverage for Children Helped South Sudan Declare Independence Killed the F - 22
Many of the same warnings Mario Cuomo heard in the 1980s about Shoreham are the same ones his son hears today from supporters of Indian Point:
Closing a nuclear
plant will result in blackouts, a less reliable electric grid and increased air pollution as fossil
fuels are burned to replace the lost emissions - free nuclear
power; customers could face higher bills; more than 1,000 jobs will be lost, and tax revenue for schools and towns will dissipate.
However, at least two of the state's nuclear reactors are in danger of
closing within the next few years and would significantly increase air pollution because they would be replaced by fossil -
fuel burning
power plants in the near future.
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).
The James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear
Power Plant will
close at the end of its current
fuel cycle, at the end of 2016 or early 2017.
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.
What in effect, we would be doing is displacing 300 oil - fired
power plants and another 300 coal - fired
power plants; so the land required for 600 fossil
fuel power plants — if you are going to think that way, if you consider the whole system, which includes mining coal, which includes drilling for oil, the refining of all that, it's not just the
power plant — that the land tradeoff actually gets to be fairly
close, you know, the solar
power plant is the footprint of the solar
power and that's it.
The gas / electric hybrid system improves around town
fuel economy by 40 percent, with highway numbers staying
close to the same as the standard
power plant.
At least one of the
power plants due to be partially closed, the Welsh Power Plant in Pittsburg, Texas, is entirely fueled by the basin's coal, according to
power plants due to be partially
closed, the Welsh
Power Plant in Pittsburg, Texas, is entirely fueled by the basin's coal, according to
Power Plant in Pittsburg, Texas, is entirely
fueled by the basin's coal, according to AEP.
Action is being taken on this now with the government recently announcing plans to
close old, inefficient coal
fuelled power plants and replace them with modern high efficiency technology.
The head of Illinois anti-nuclear organization Environmental Law and Policy Center — which is funded by fossil
fuel interests and other energy companies that would benefit from
closing nuclear
plants — has doubled down on his efforts to increase carbon emissions by
closing nuclear
power plants and replacing them with fossil
fuels.
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If New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo succeeds in his effort to
close Indian Point nuclear
power plant, carbon emissions will spike and the state will become more dependent on fossil
fuels than it has been since 2000, a new Environmental Progress (EP) analysis finds.
The order directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to rewrite the Clean
Power Plan, which would have closed hundreds of fossil fuel power plants and replaced them with renewable sources of energy such as wind and s
Power Plan, which would have
closed hundreds of fossil
fuel power plants and replaced them with renewable sources of energy such as wind and s
power plants and replaced them with renewable sources of energy such as wind and solar.
Despite green groups» claims that nuclear
power can be easily replaced by wind, solar and energy efficiency, recently
closed plants from Vermont Yankee to California's San Onofre have been replaced overwhelmingly with fossil -
fueled power.
We are hopeful that Mr. Trump and his campaign will take a
closer look at energy efficiency as an energy resource to promote energy security so that current and future generations are less dependent on imported
fuels as well as to ensure that we all have cleaner air to breathe since energy efficiency helps reduce the smog and global warming pollutants emitted from fossil -
fueled power plants.
But then I went on to envisage, at least in my own mind, a time when large fossil
fuel generators had all
closed own — mainly in order to avoid ruining our one and only habitable planet — and that the 24/7
power supply would be a mix of Solar PV, solar thermal (eg CSP), wind and the lesser sources such as hydro, tidal, geothermal etc having taken over the complete electricity supply — especially since Australia doesn't have, and is almost certain never to have, nuclear fission
plants.
«Nearly one of every five existing coal - fired
power plants is
closing or converting to other
fuel sources.»
He noted that China in recent years had tripled its capacity for wind generation, enacted vehicle
fuel standards tougher than those in America and
closed hundreds of obsolete, coal - fired
power plants.