Sentences with phrase «gas capacity»

About 65 % of the existing natural gas capacity added after 1980 is combined - cycle units.

For natural gas power plant developers, there is a strong business case for investing in new gas capacity.

While natural gas capacity was added in 2017, growing renewable supply and slightly declining electricity demand meant that less natural gas was used to produce electricity.

However, there are concerns around the scheme's ability to secure new gas capacity.

Net wind capacity additions totaled 10,043 megawatts (MW) in 2012, while net natural gas capacity additions totaled 7,206 MW.

Apache recently added tons of natural gas capacity in what it believes will be the best unconventional natural gas acreage in all of North America.

In Colorado the utility that serves most of the state, Xcel Energy, is now building a megawatt of natural gas capacity for every megawatt of wind so that it is ready to come online quickly to provide power when the wind tails off.

They imposed a temporary moratorium on buying or building new natural gas capacity over 150 MW and ordered APS to return with plans to acquire more renewables.

This would translate to a total production from gas of around 130 TWh, a level we estimate to be close to Germany's maximum potential given current 30 GW of nameplate gas capacity.

Arizona Public Service's 15 - year plan called for adding 5.3 gigawatts of natural gas by 2032, bringing the company's total gas capacity to 8.7 GW.

Along with releasing the price index report, Mexico's pipeline system operator (CENAGAS) launched its natural gas capacity reservation system with electronic bulletin boards for posting natural gas flows.

However, working gas inventories are forecast to be at a record high by November 1, 2012 of nearly 4,000 Bcf, close to total U.S. demonstrated peak working gas capacity.

Today the Sierra Club filed a petition with the Virginia State Corporation Commission seeking a Declaratory Judgment that Dominion Virginia Power's arrangement to obtain gas capacity in the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is subject to Commission approval under the Virginia Affiliates Act.

Natural gas accounted for 59 % of net generation in 2013, and 3,940 MW of new natural gas capacity came online in 2013, which will help address some of the reserve capacity needs for balancing renewables, as well as replace some of the baseload power that was lost when two of the state's four nuclear units were retired in 2012.

... Frankly, it's likely the opponents of gas knew they needed some type of study to attempt to refute the 30 studies that say we need gas capacity.»

Nearly 60 % of the natural gas capacity added in 2013 was located in California.

Under existing market conditions, the study found «there is no electric sector reliability deficiency through 2030, and that no additional pipeline gas capacity is needed to meet electric reliability needs,» according to a summary of the research.

Consequently, we assume that current gas capacity will run close to maximum capacity with no new capacity coming online

New England's grid operator issued a report in January outlining several worst - case scenarios should gas capacity grow.

On the plus side, the study notes that an increase in natural gas capacity doesn't necessarily correlate to an increase in fossils burned.

Other recent natural gas capacity additions are primarily combustion turbines, typically used as peaking units.

Without the pipelines, New England will have insufficient natural gas capacity for electric generation during cold winters.

Furthermore, why should DVP commit itself (and its customers) to a huge amount of natural gas capacity over twenty - year period when there are better, cleaner options available?

a level we estimate to be close to Germany's maximum potential given current 30 GW of nameplate gas capacity.

We've already seen in Australia how rooftop solar, improved efficiency, and a low carbon price have reduced demand for grid electricity resulted in the shutdown of gigawatts of coal power and the shelving of plans for new gas capacity.

The tiff is a mirror image of the fights produced when pipeline companies overbuilt natural gas capacity in Alberta in the 1990s, which has led to problems that continue today.

In the California Independent System Operator's (CAISO) Summer Loads & Resource Assessment, CAISO noted that the generation supply was expected to be adequate in order to meet peak electrical demand requirements in spite of drought - related concerns, in part because of recent renewable and natural gas capacity additions.

«Consumers throughout the Northeast, particularly our state's manufacturers, need additional natural gas capacity.»

In 2013, 6,861 MWe of natural gas capacity were added.

On June 9, 2011, AEP announced that, based on impending EPA regulations as proposed, AEP's compliance plan would retire nearly 6,000 megawatts (MW) of coal - fueled power generation; upgrade or install new advanced emissions reduction equipment on another 10,100 MW; refuel 1,070 MW of coal generation as 932 MW of natural gas capacity; and build 1,220 MW of natural gas - fueled generation.

And for the ten states that WRI analyzed — including coal - reliant Pennsylvania and Ohio — achieving «moderate to ambitious carbon reductions» would be within reach if those states boost efficiency, add renewable and natural gas capacity, and upgrade existing coal plants.

EIA expects electricity generated from natural gas to grow by 6.5 % between 2015 and 2040, with an addition of 70 GW of natural gas capacity.

The Clean Energy Future: Protecting the Climate, Creating Jobs, and Saving Money puts forth a plan that expands renewable energy and energy efficiency, phases out all coal - fired power by 2050, and decreases natural gas capacity, along with modest changes in other sectors.

Natural gas capacity additions were less than in 2012, as 6,861 MW were added in 2013, compared to 9,210 MW in 2012.

(Gas capacity is also misleading: with very constrained supplies, gas - powered stations in India operate at only 20 % of capacity.)

As this occurs, natural gas capacity can be redirected to a higher - value role: providing «load - balancing» services to future electricity grids.

Further, the natural gas capacity is dispatchable by the grid operator and is able to run 24/7 while wind and solar generating capacity are dependent on outside forces, i.e. the wind and the sun.

Europeans have spent over $ 5 billion Euros per gigawatt of wind and solar PV capacity, while natural gas capacity could have been obtained for about 1 billion Euros per gigawatt.

IEEFA finds India's wind and solar energy costs have fallen 50 % to as low as $ 38 per megawatt hour (MWh) over the past two years, with renewable energy bids in new auctions costing 20 % less than the cost of wholesale electricity from existing Indian coal generation, and 30 - 50 % less than the required cost to justify new imported coal or liquefied natural gas capacity.

Their primary concern is that a great deal of new gas capacity will be built: 8GW are already under way and their modelling suggests another 17GW will be built as existing plants age and coal plants look more likely to be shut down early.

Going forward, if the U.S. is going to dramatically reduce carbon pollution in line with the Obama administration's goals and international benchmarks, it will take much more than building new natural gas capacity to replace coal, according to a new study published in the journal Nature last week.

According to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) latest monthly «Energy Infrastructure Update», the US grid added more than 70 times as much renewable energy capacity as natural gas capacity.

So California needs enough natural gas capacity to supply the evening peak, but for most of the midday, it doesn't need any of it.

The June 2 proposal from the EPA sets standards for each state based on the carbon from their coal and gas - fired power plants, and then used a formula based on available natural - gas capacity, renewables use and energy use cuts to set state goals for cuts by 2030.

The government wants new gas capacity to fill the gap, though there is disagreement over the scale of the requirement and the impact on UK climate goals.