Sentences with phrase «gas electric plants»

So in this budget, we're continuing to push for the transition from coal - fired plants to natural - gas electric plants.

Not exact matches

Electric utilities have been replacing coal plants with gas - fired facilities because they are more efficient and less expensive to operate.

The energy company operates electric and natural gas utilities in San Diego and Southern California, clean energy plants across the U.S., and energy distribution systems across the Americas.

Electric power generation from coal and natural gas plants is responsible for 40 % of U.S. carbon emissions.

This project would have served gas - fired electric power plants.

Thanks to our nuclear power plants, greenhouse gas emissions from New York's electric generating plants are just one fourth (per capita) of what is produced on average across the U. S.

Bald and Golden eagles are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Act and with the sighting of a pair of nesting eagles in the path of the Millennium Pipeline lateral, opponents of the CPV electric generating plant say the gas pipeline can not be extended to the facility in the Town of Wawayanda.

«Reducing carbon pollution from electric power plants is a good start, but the goal must be phasing out coal, oil, and natural gas as our energy sources,» said Howie Hawkins, Green candidate for Governor of New York (http://www.howiehawkins.org).

FitzPatrick struggles to make money because wholesale electric prices in Central New York have been depressed by plentiful natural gas, which fuels many power plants.

Irradiated fuel from Nuclear Electric's advanced gas cooled reactors was expected to be processed at Sellafield, in the thermal oxide reprocessing plant, which still needs government approval to begin operating.

Such a carbon tax could help keep coal, oil and natural gas safely in the ground in favor of alternatives like electric cars and cleaner power plants.

The electric power industry can achieve deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 by building new nuclear plants, sequestering coal - plant emissions, boosting wind energy and improving efficiency, the industry's top research group said yesterday.

The NRC's inspection report, released Friday, did not flag the plant's owner, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) for a serious violation of the rules the commission has imposed to assure the plant's safe shutdown in an anticipated emergency.

This is possibly the newest market in the world, a would - be global attempt to create a trade in the greenhouse gas emissions from any nation's fleet of cars, household refrigerators, electric power plants, factories, even farms.

If production continues as planned, over the next couple of decades natural gas could supplant coal as the leading domestic fossil fuel, serving as a cleaner way to heat our homes and fire our electric plants.

While the federal licenses for Pacific Gas & Electric's Diablo Canyon plant, near San Luis Obispo, and Southern California Edison's San Onofre plant are valid for at least another decade, both utilities have begun the renewal process ahead of time.

Energy company SCANA subsidiary South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. (SCE&G) plans to add two AP - 1000 reactors to its nuclear power plant near Jenkinsville, S.C., by 2016 and 2019, whereas the Tennessee Valley Authority will finally complete Watts Bar Unit 2 near Chattanooga, Tenn. — more than 30 years after construction began, including a nearly two - decade hiatus — next year.

As electricity use spikes across the country in the summertime when more people use air conditioning, electric power companies turn to more coal and natural gas power plants to help meet the demand, reducing renewables» share of total U.S. power generation, Comstock said.

In the «business as usual» scenario, the auto industry followed its current rate of vehicle diversification — utilizing efficient internal combustion, electric and hybrid models, and the power sector utilized mostly natural gas and renewable plants.

Mazda isn't hedging its bets on electric power just yet, believing that until the worldwide electrical grid is predominantly powered by renewable energy, an electric vehicle's tailpipe emissions are too far offset by the dirtiness and high CO2 values of the fossil - fuelled coal, oil, and gas power plants that supply their electricity.

For instance, Toyota's line of hybrid models has expanded from the first - generation Prius, a pipsqueak that arrived in the United States in 2001 with a 70 - horsepower gasoline engine and a 44 - horsepower electric motor, to include larger vehicles such as the Highlander, a hybrid utility wagon with a total of 268 horsepower from its gas and electric power plants.

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.

It is used by the luxury SUV Bentayga and it's the same power plant used by the mighty Audi SQ7: a 4.0 - litre V8 TDI featuring variable - geometry, sequential twin - scroll turbochargers that are powered by the exhaust gases, while a third electric supercharger — powered by Bentley's innovative 48V system — spools up within 30 microseconds to minimize turbo lag.

The Niro is powered by the same 1.6 - liter Kappa gas - electric hybrid power plant that you'll find beneath the hood of its cousin, the Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid.

Buyers will choose from three new power plants, including a 2.5 - liter 4 - cylinder, a 3.5 - liter V6, and a dramatically improved gas - electric hybrid system promising efficiency that approaches the vaunted Toyota Prius.

It was during his speech at a General Electric gas engine plant in Wisconsin on January 30th that President Obama made his off - the - cuff remark about art history being useless.

Whether the discussion turns to replacing coal - fired power plants with wind turbines and using electric cars instead of gas - driven SUVs, converting industrial agricultural practices to organic permaculture, or reversing the decline of ocean life though international regulations, it is an article of faith in the reform movement that we know what we need to do and all that's lacking is a sufficiently visionary leader to put more planet - friendly solutions in place.

It gets two or three times as much electric energy out of their natural gas, or whatever fuel, as we typically manage with our central power plant system.

The last time electric utilities and other investors bought lots of gas - fired plants in the late 1990s, a period when gas was also relatively cheap, there was fiscal bloodshed when gas prices skyrocketed.

For a small fraction of the cost I could eliminate more greenhouse gas by converting the large Four Corners, coal - fired electric power plant in New Mexico to natural gas.

The result is more CO2 production and doubling or quadrupling or more of your electric bill to pay for the natural gas, the natural gas power plant, the solar farm, the wind farm and new transformers and power lines.

The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Gas - Fired Generating Plant as Mitigation for Contingencies Threatening Southern California Electric Reliability.

And the carbon footprint per mile of driving an electric car declines every time the grid gets cleaner, whether from adding renewable energy sources or replacing a coal - fired generation plant with one using natural gas.

So what the proposal is really telling the electric utility industry is this: If you want to build a new coal - fired power plant, you'll have to build a natural gas combined cycle plant instead.

Thermal plants using nuclear energy or gas turbines to run steam - electric units are among these technological advances.

A torrent of regulations followed, «culminating» in EPA's recent proposal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing electric power plants.

The average operating heat rate for gas - fired power plants is about 21 % lower than coal - fired electric generation facilities, creating less CO2 emissions.

By Peter Gleick, President Emeritus and Chief Scientist June 24, 2016 The announcement that Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) will close the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant when its current operating licenses expire in 2025 has caused what can only be described as consternation mixed with occasional conniptions among the nuclear industry and some strongly

The fracking boom has transformed the electric power industry too; coal - fired plants all over the country have been switching to natural gas.

Earlier in January, California regulators approved Pacific Gas & Electric's application to retire the Diablo Canyon plant by 2025, following a protracted battle over the generating station that pitted local economic interests against environmentalists and other opponents of nuclear power.

The announcement that Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) will close the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant when its current operating licenses expire in 2025 has caused what can only be described as consternation mixed with occasional conniptions among the nuclear industry and some strongly pro-nuclear groups.

In December, however, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) suggested in its 2017 Long - Term Reliability Assessment that power generation from natural gas — fired units and renewable sources such as solar and wind will provide enough electricity to offset closures of coal and nuclear plants over the next decade, at least.

We learned in Chapter 9 that the energy differences between a diet rich in red meat and a plant - based diet is roughly the same as the energy - use difference between driving a Chevrolet Suburban sports utility vehicle and a Toyota Prius gas - electric hybrid.

Lauer says they picked the location, about 50 miles northeast of Detroit in East China Township, because there's existing natural gas and electric infrastructure and a «great workforce» that's already running two of the company's existing coal plants nearby.

Recently, the California Public Utilities Commission directed Pacific Gas and Electric, the state's largest electric utility, to solicit bids for renewable energy and storage projects to replace three natural gas planGas and Electric, the state's largest electric utility, to solicit bids for renewable energy and storage projects to replace three natural gasElectric, the state's largest electric utility, to solicit bids for renewable energy and storage projects to replace three natural gaselectric utility, to solicit bids for renewable energy and storage projects to replace three natural gas plangas plants.

Prices of coal and natural gas are key input costs at electric power plants in Pennsylvania and have taken different trajectories in the last couple of years.

DERs can include solar panels, combined heat and power plants, electricity storage, small natural gas - fuelled generators, electric vehicles and controllable loads, such as HVAC systems and electric water heaters.

As mentioned earlier, California is considering renewable and energy storage alternatives to three gas plants (the Metcalf Energy Center, Feather River Energy Center, and Yuba City Energy Center) on the Pacific Gas and Electric system that are needed for reliabiligas plants (the Metcalf Energy Center, Feather River Energy Center, and Yuba City Energy Center) on the Pacific Gas and Electric system that are needed for reliabiliGas and Electric system that are needed for reliability.

Within the heating sector, fee avoidance options include energy efficiency, switching to efficient electric heat paired with the electric sector tax avoidance options, and potentially switching to lower carbon heating options such as waste heat from sewage systems and wastewater treatment plants or buying «renewable natural gas» from bio-digesters, generated either within the District or from outside.