Sentences with phrase «generating plant closes»
The state will provide up to $ 30 million to communities that lose property tax revenue because an electric generating plant closes if the Legislature approves a state budget bill printed yesterday.
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/ Not exact matches
Thanks to the work of P&G's analytics group, the company has reworked many of its shipping patterns, and closed or relocated several manufacturing plants, production facilities, and warehouses, generating more than $ 1 billion in savings.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made it clear he wants the plant to close, although he also is seeking an alternative for the over 2,000 megawatts of power it generates, without which New York City would be in a serious bind.
After last year's announcement that Indian Point, which provides 25 percent of New York City and Westchester's electrical power, will start to close in 2020 and close entirely in 2021, Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised that «the state is fully prepared to replace the power generated by the plant at a negligible cost to ratepayers.»
Under red dwarf stars, plant - type life on land may not be possible because photosynthesis might not generate sufficient energy from infrared light to produce the oxygen needed to block dangerous ultraviolet light from such stars at the very close orbital distances needed for a planet to be warmed enough to have liquid water on its surface.
Some new analysis done by Synapse Energy Economics, at the request of NRDC and Riverkeeper, shows that the state of New York could close the aging Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the pPlant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the plantplant.
Ohio's nuclear plants generate 90 percent of Ohio's clean power, and could soon close prematurely because they are excluded from generous federal subsidies and state electricity mandates.
Germany is building and opening 10 new coal plants (7,285 MW) in the next two years bringing their hard coal generation capacity to over 32,000 MW, which is (ironically) close to the total generating capacity of all Ontario generators.
The Directed Electric Generation Facility Cessation Mitigation Program provides payments to municipalities that depended on large fossil - fired generating plant property taxes when those facilities are closed down which certainly does not translate into reductions.
If low carbon electricity production were used to generate the remaining electricity needed, and fossil fuel plants were closed, then a reduction of 60 % of all emissions from buildings would be possible by 2030, CAT says.
It has also partnered with the SELC and other groups pursuing new strategies to bankrupt and close coal - fired electricity generation plants, by generating misplaced fear about coal ash impoundments.
Denmark, the world's most wind - intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19 % of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil - fuel plant.
My Clean Break column today takes a closer look at efforts by Ontario Power Generation to convert some of its coal - fired generating assets into biomass - burning power plants, including potentially several units at its Nanticoke Generating Station — North America's largest coal plant.
Assertion: «getting anywhere close to 20 % of our final energy from RES will require a total redesign of the power system with heavy investments in flexible power plants, long distance transmission lines, demand response and energy storage» — most Western countries have gas networks easily able to carry the (P2G generated) gas needed for those «flexible power plants».
The previous article in respect to Ontario's decision to close our coal plants examined the MW (megawatt) capacity and the type of generating capacity added to our electricity grid since 2011.
Vermont Yankee (closed) Pilgrim Station (closing), Brayton Point (closing), and Salem Harbor (closed, but facing NIMBY opposition to its plan to re-fuel the oil / coal plant with natural gas) together had almost equal generating capacity as all the Maine power producers combined.
The reasons we use thermal plants for generating electricity is that these plants have a small footprint, can be located close to consumers, and produce electricity reliably at very high energy - densities.
Note also the intention to build hydrogen based power plant - you can use hydrogen burning turbines to generate electricity so the hydrogen economy is closer than you might think!.
«Tuning» the combustion output of the boilers causes little loss in total efficiency, implying that the biomass - to - electricity combustion efficiency is close to the 33 — 37 % range of an unmodified coal plant, an efficiency that stand - alone biomass generating capacity has yet to demonstrate.