Sentences with phrase «gas generating plants»

California, Arizona, Michigan, and Massachusetts are saying «no» to new natural gas generating plants, and California even wants to get rid of some of its older gas plants.

Dominion Virginia Power is currently engaged in an aggressive build - out of natural gas generating plants, with three new units representing 4,300 megawatts of generating capacity, coming online between 2014 and 2019.

California, Arizona, Michigan, and Massachusetts are saying «no» to new natural gas generating plants, and California even wants to get...

Corporations like Dominion Resources and Duke Energy are investing in gas transmission pipelines and gas generating plants only because they think they can profit from them now, and force captive utility customers to bear the cost of paying off the worthless assets later.

Not exact matches

A bolder bet is Shell's effort to build solar farms near gas - fired power plants, constructing hybrid generating systems that allow Shell to do what amounts to new - energy arbitrage: tap different energy sources at different times and in different amounts to maximize profits.

The idea is that utilities generate large amounts of clean power in remote, large power plants in much the same way that natural gas, coal, and nuclear power are generated today.

37.5 megawatts is about the size of a small solar farm; a large natural gas or coal plant can generate several hundred megawatts of power.

RESOLVED: That Berkshire Hathaway Inc. («Berkshire») establish reasonable, quantitative goals for reduction of greenhouse gas and other air emissions at its energy - generating holdings; and that Berkshire publish a report to shareholders by January 31, 2015 (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on how it will achieve these goals — including possible plans to retrofit or retire existing coal - burning plants at Berkshire - held companies.

GREG WARREN: With coal fired and natural gas plants continuing to generate around two thirds of the nation's electricity and renewables accounting to less than 10 percent, there remains plenty of room for growth.

Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners LP owns and operates a portfolio of renewable power generating facilities including 193 hydroelectric generating stations 11 wind facilities and two natural gas - fired plants in USA Canada and Brazil.

Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.

This is the first on - site AD plant in the dairy industry in Europe to feed bio-methane to the gas grid, generated exclusively by digesting its cheese - making residues.

Similarly, a top official of Egbin Power Station, who also pleaded anonymity, said that the power plant, with a capacity of 1,320 megawatts, now generates 340 megawatts due to gas constraint.

Meanwhile, the end of the remedial works indicates that, the process to connect the TEN fields to the Atuabo plant has been completed with a significant increase in the amount of natural gas produced to run the power generating facilities at Aboadze, to improve the overall reliability of power supply to the general public.

This will be compounded by the projection that «Gas supply from jubilee field will also stop as the FPSO is expected to shut down for repairs for a period between three to six months,» Mr. Agyarko said, thus the Asogli and AMERI plants may not be able to generate enough power.

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.

All bad ideas, but if there's no electricity because there's not enough natural gas to power gas fired generating plants that's what will be forced upon us.

One key piece for the plant, the natural gas pipeline to supply the fuel to generate power, isn't being built by CPV.

This is equivalent to the annual electricity generated by three large gas power plants.

Simultaneously, natural gas is sent to the cell stack to generate electrical power that could in theory be sent back to a power plant and cancel out the parasitic load.

THE world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

Canadian company Carbon Engineering is combining captured CO2 with hydrogen gas to generate synthetic gasoline at its pilot plant north of Vancouver.

Most electricity in the United States is generated at power plants that run on coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.

Another $ 3.5 - billion plant planned for Sweetwater, Tex., would burn pulverized coal to generate 600 MW of electricity while capturing its 5.75 million metric tons of emissions postcombustion with amine or ammonia scrubbers or, possibly, with advanced membranes that separate CO2 from other flue gases.

Fischetti: Right, if you think about a long trough that reflects sunlight, it concentrates the sunlight along a pipe that runs parallel to the long trough and concentrate [s] the sunlight like a magnifying glass, [which] heats the fluid inside this pipe really hot, so the hot fluid circulates out to a somewhat traditional power plant where it's allowed to expand into high pressure gas that turns a turbine which generates electricity.

Renewable electricity produces just 5 % to 6 % of the greenhouse gas emissions created by coal - fired energy plants, and 8 % to 10 % of those generated from gas - fired plants.

But there's a catch: The electricity that comes out of the socket is typically generated in power plants that burn coal or natural gas and emit plenty of CO2.

The analysis by Yang and Jackson finds that if the gas produced by the new plants is used to generate electricity, the total lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would be 36 percent to 82 percent higher than pulverized coal - fired power.

Thermal power plants — those that consume coal, oil, natural gas or uranium — generate more than 90 percent of U.S. electricity, and they are water hogs.

And if a home generating its own electricity with solar panels and batteries isn't connected to the grid, the home isn't culpable for any of the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that spew from natural gas power plants or coal - fired power plants — the globe's largest contributor to climate change.

The world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

According to the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), based in Washington DC, the best sites can generate electricity for as little as 5.5 cents per kilowatt - hour, compared with 8 or 9 cents per kilowatt - hour for natural gas plants.

When coal - and natural gas — fed plants produce ammonia, they generate two main by - products: heat and carbon dioxide (CO2).

The «well - to - wire» research showed new natural - gas power plants are responsible for less than half as much greenhouse gas per kilowatt hour of electricity generated as existing coal power plants.

The knowledge gained from such research could inform the design, selection, and improvement of adsorbent materials and membranes for capturing gases such as radioactive krypton and xenon generated by nuclear power plants.

Gas turbines are the engines that generate electricity in power plants.

And that manufacturing contributes to a global greenhouse gas hit of more than 200 million tons of carbon dioxide each year — the same amount about 150 coal power plants generate annually.

The change, if implemented, could make natural gas a less attractive option for generating electricity in power plants.

If the price on carbon is high enough to penalize coal consumption, the theory is it creates economic incentives to retrofit coal plants or use gas or wind power to generate electricity.

LONDON — Power - generating stations worldwide release 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year as they burn coal, oil or natural gas; home and commercial heating plants release another 11 billion tons.

Here you can crank a handle to generate electricity to electrolyse water into hydrogen and oxygen (and recombine them with a bang), operate a miniature chemical plant or a gas scrubber, measure the pH of various common substances, or discover your personal hot spots by lying against a large sheet of liquid crystals.

The amount of electricity generated from natural gas in the U.S. is expected to surpass power generated from coal for the first time in 2016, and no new coal - fired power plants are on the drawing board in the U.S.

The state - owned Nigeria Agip Oil Company plans instead to generate electricity from the waste gas of its Kwale plant, displacing fossil fuels that might otherwise have been consumed.

Between 2002 and 2012, the annual electrical generation from coal - fired plants fell by 2 %, while the amount of electricity generated by natural gas plants rose by 37 %.

The article notes that the shift to gas, so far, is restricted to the city, and some of the pollution from coal combustion will simply be generated elsewhere as plants outside the city pollute to supply electricity to the center of power.

The biggest drop was in emissions from coal — which is primarily used to generate electricity — as power plants switched to cheaper natural gas and as the use of carbon - free wind energy more than quadrupled.

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.

Another 8 percent came from biomass and plants that burn gas from landfills (which generates carbon but is considered «renewable» because the gas is released by decomposing garbage).