Sentences with phrase «gas plants have»

Coal and nuclear plants and natural gas plants have not been required to make power without using water, nor have they had to undergo environmental reviews challenging their water use.

Gas plants have useful lives of 25 years or more.

And in Texas, the nation's largest organized market, where even combined - cycle gas plants have come under pressure.

Existing gas plants have been struggling financially across Europe, with the economics for new gas looking even less favourable.

If current estimates are correct that the leakage rate is around 3 percent, then we calculated that switching all coal plants to average - efficiency natural gas plants would have little effect on the power sector's contribution to climate change.

«This means gas plants would be competing with other gas plants with similar scale,» he said, adding that the trading component of the program would initially be limited.

«China's synthetic gas plants would be greenhouse giants.»

«But natural gas plants would help reduce other types of air pollution that damage our health, and would be somewhat better for climate in the long term.»

«If there is substantial natural gas leakage, then building new natural gas plants would lead to more near term climate damage than using the old dirty coal plants,» explained Caldeira.

The new proposed gas plant would replace the power from DTE's Trenton Channel Power Plant and two others.

The proposed new gas plants would be built in Southern California as part of a plan being supported by Governor Brown.

New gas plants would lock in more carbon pollution for decades to come and would undermine California's climate targets.

The natural gas plant would replace some capacity lost as the Indian Point nuclear plant closes.

If global power sector emissions remain flat until 2025, before falling more steeply later on, then losses could reach $ 8.3 tn by 2060 and early retirements of coal and gas plants would climb to 2,350 GW.

A large percentage of proposed coal - to - gas plants would be built in Northwest China

wind not blowing for days at a time), roughly the same amount of natural gas plant has to be idled ready to step in if the wind cuts out.

This is because we estimate that under this scenario a 50 % - efficient gas plant would most likely have to displace even the very limited number of 46 % - highest - efficiency coal plants, and also the 43 % - highest - efficiency lignite plants.

Not exact matches

The LNG Canada and Kitimat LNG projects, as well as a fourth plant proposed for the northern B.C. coast by Malaysian state energy company Petronas and Calgary - based Progress Energy, will likely have to wait for new pipelines to be built directly from the shale gas fields of northeastern B.C. Kitimat LNG's owners are separately developing the Pacific Trails pipeline to their terminal.

Estimates vary widely on just how much methane is leaked from the vast network of oil and gas wells, pipelines and processing plants, but the problem has cast doubt on how much better natural gas is than coal for the environment.

HANOI, April 26 - PetroVietnam Power Corp, or PV Power, has been granted government approval to build two gas - fired power plants in southern Vietnam at a total cost of nearly $ 1.5 billion, its parent company said on Thursday.

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

Coal and nuclear generators would be uniquely suited because, unlike gas plants, they aren't fed by pipelines.

The New Democrats have sharply criticized the Liberals over the estimated $ 1.1 - billion cost of cancelling two gas plants, but won't say if they'll topple the government they've propped up for the last two years.

Long - running plans by Vikas Rambal's Perdaman Industries to build a multi-billion dollar urea manufacturing plant in Western Australia have received a fillip, with his group signing a gas supply agreement with Woodside Petroleum.

So we asked in our research: What would happen if current low natural gas prices or pollution control policies caused all US coal - burning power plants to be replaced by natural gas generators?

Perth - based Pacific Energy has acquired the 10 - megawatt Nova gas - fired power generation plant in Victoria for $ 7.5 million.

Cleaner burning natural gas has been replacing aging coal power plants in droves over the past several years thanks to both economics and environmental reasons.

Those interests align with Beyond Meat's mission: to create a plant - based product that looks, tastes, and behaves just like meat but has a much lower environmental impact because it takes livestock — one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions — out of the equation.

Energy giant Woodside Petroleum has signed a project development agreement with US - based Sempra Energy for a potential liquefied natural gas plant in Texas.

Aberdeen - headquartered energy services firm Wood Group PSN has won a contract with Woodside to provide engineering and construction management services at its Karratha Gas Plant Life Extension program, for an undisclosed amount.

A joint venture between UGL and UK company Cape has won a contract to provide services to the Woodside Petroleum - operated Karratha gas plant for an undisclosed sum.

VANCOUVER — The B.C. government has struck a deal with the Haisla First Nation that the province says could help fast track a liquefied natural gas plant near Kitimat.

French energy giant Engie SA bought the cargo to meet high gas demand during freezing weather in the northeast U.S.. Although not completely unheard of (Norway has previously sent LNG to the U.S.), this would have been the first time that the country imported a cargo from northwest European storage tanks, some of which undoubtedly came from the $ 27 billion Yamal LNG plant Russia started a month ago.

The deal is part of the B.C. government's natural gas strategy launched last year that would see three plants built on the coast to develop liquefied natural gas for export to Asia.

Schneider confirmed that the incident had occurred and that it had issued a security alert to customers of the technology, which cyber experts said is widely used in the energy industry, including at nuclear facilities, and oil and gas plants.

The purchase would help Vistra expand into the Midwest and Northeast, where Dynegy operates a number of natural gas and coal - fired plants.

She had to answer for the cancellation of two gas plants that will cost an estimated $ 1.1 billion, a criminal probe into the questionable business dealings of the province's Ornge air ambulance service and a multimillion - dollar decision to bail out the MaRS innovation and research complex in Toronto.

More likely, there are still nuclear plants running, and there may even be some natural gas plants lingering in the system — not running at full capacity, but they have the ability to power up quickly when there's not a lot of sun or wind.

The unexpected boom in U.S. natural gas production over the last decade has pushed down power prices, making it harder for companies that operate plants to turn a profit.

However, to be viable, these plants would have required market conditions which have only existed for four or five years in the relatively short history of global gas trade to prevail for most of the next 30 years.

Until recently, battery storage has been a far more expensive means of meeting demand surges than natural gas «peaker» plants.

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey undergrouGas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey undergrougas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

CB&I has designed numerous liquefied natural gas plants around the world, and with demand for LNG conversion facilities rising in North America, Torres thinks it's poised to make huge profits.

So far, a handful of engineers, administrative staff, accountants and gas - plant operators have taken advantage of it.

To drive down energy costs for businesses and families, we've focused on inexpensive and cleaner - burning natural gas, and last month, Calpine Corporation broke ground on a new power plant in Dover that is expected to serve about a quarter of a million homes.

Those gas - fired plants were originally going to be built in Mississauga and Oakville until the Liberals cancelled them days before the 2011 election, which the auditor general said would cost ratepayers up to $ 1.1 billion.

HANOI, April 26 (Reuters)- PetroVietnam Power Corp, or PV Power, has been granted government approval to build two gas - fired electricity plants in southern Vietnam at a total cost of nearly $ 1.5 billion, its parent company said on Thursday.

The supply of energy to a Gympie coffee plant has set a precedent for Kleenheat Gas Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Perth - based national agricultural and industrial group, Wesfarmers Limited.

By the time the plant was complete in 2009, the fracking boom in the U.S. had suddenly created a giant glut of gas that sank the export scheme.

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