Sentences with phrase «fuelled power plants currently»

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There is currently no approved national repository to begin removing it from temporary spent fuel pools located on - site at Indian Point and other U.S. nuclear power plants across the country.

DEQ will also be studying how a cap - and - trade program would interact with existing programs, including the state's renewable portfolio standard, its clean fuels program and U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan for power plants, which is currently on hold pending court challePower Plan for power plants, which is currently on hold pending court challepower plants, which is currently on hold pending court challenges.

GE's H - class heavy - duty gas turbines are currently the world's largest and most efficient gas turbines, capable of converting fuel and air into electricity at more than 62 percent power - plant efficiency when matched with a steam turbine generator, a setup known as combined cycle.

In fact, the country is currently firing all of its thermal power plants — LNG, coal, diesel and fuel oil — said Sauer, who added that it's «quite unusual.»

Nevermind that as currently operated, wind farms do virtually nothing to reduce the need for fossil fuel power plants.

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.

This partially displaces the electricity currently generated from conventional fossil fuel based power plants.

Coal - fired power plants currently fuel 37 % of global electricity and, in some...

There are currently dozens of massive proposed mines, off - and on - shore oil and gas development and fossil fuel generated power plants on the table.

Coal - fired power plants currently fuel 37 % of global electricity and, in some countries, coal fuels a higher percentage of electricity.

But if existing combustion power plants could be adapted to use metal powder instead of coal or other fossil fuels, then much of the existing power generating infrastructure could be used, and power generation could continue to be in the same places it is now, using the same grid as is currently supplying electricity.

EPA is currently moving forward with GHG regulations for fossil fuel - based power plants and petroleum refineries, with proposed standards... Continue reading →

While the need for nuclear power is absolutely critical in meeting our base load requirements (and reducing CO2 emissions, and reducing fuel risk by having a diversified generation portfolio of power plants)-- peaking load and generation options to meet this load (which solar currently fits into) is important also.

Minnesota currently has a 55 - megawatt power plant designed to burn poultry waste as its primary fuel that can power 44,000 homes with 100 daily truckloads of this turkey litter.

«Currently, diesel power plants generate approximately 60 percent of Samoa's electricity, making the country dependent upon imported fossil fuels,» Rapa J. Young, solar project team leader for EPC, noted in a statement.