Sentences with phrase «generating stations»

Australian electricity and natural gas giant AGL Energy announced plans last week to shut down the two - gigawatt Liddell coal - fired generating station in New South...

The first «turnkey» plant, Oyster Creek nuclear generating station in New Jersey was sold for less than $ 100 million in 1964 — a price well below what it would ultimately cost to build the reactor.

Skilled in operation of power generating stations preventative maintenance and component assembly.

It is true that there will almost certainly not be a new coal - fired electric generating station built in the U.S. for at least the next several years, but the hiatus won't be caused by any specific rule.

Heat rate: A measure of generating station thermal efficiency commonly stated as Btu per kilowatthour.

Manitoba Hydro has been taking on large amounts of debt to build new generating stations in the north and an extensive transmission line to bring the energy south.

The Site C project is a 1,100 - megawatt dam and generating station on the Peace River in northern B.C. that will flood parts of the traditional territory of the West Moberly and Prophet River First Nations.

Hundreds of thousands of real human beings have been killed outright by coal barons or slowly by coal - fired electrical generating stations (death machines is a more accurate term).

The poster child for this is the State of South Australia, which has now suffered from five state electricity blackouts in the last six months as a result of closing down dependable fossil fuel generating stations in favor of unreliable «renewable» sources.

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.

During part of that period, the state was suing the Huntley and Dunkirk generating stations over their heavy pollution.

NRG owns five other power plants in New York besides Dunkirk, including the 1,628 - megawatt Oswego generating station, which seldom runs.

Bert Hamelers, Ph.D., and colleagues explain that electric power - generating stations worldwide release about 12 billion tons of CO2 annually from combustion of coal, oil and natural gas.

Tracking this rapid growth is a challenge, however, because PV solar is more often used at a consumer's location — e.g., rooftop solar panels — and less often in large, centralized generating stations like other technologies.

SF6 - insulated equipment is predominantly used in the transmission system that manages the high voltages carried between generating stations and customer load centers.

When the facility went into service, it was the largest solar generating station in Wisconsin.

However, these electricity output numbers are tiny when considered in light of total Texas electricity production and / or annual production from other generating stations in Texas.

The project is currently evaluating designs, materials and supply chains and working toward vendor and energy industry standards to bring fusion energy from the lab to local generating stations.

In July, electrical utility Enmax Corp. started construction of the Shepard generating station in its hometown of Calgary.

Other real estate assets are being revitalized, including the former Lakeview generating station property in southeastern Mississauga, which is expected to see a balanced mix of commercial, residential and recreational development over the next decade; and the Seaton Lands in Pickering, where one of the largest new urban communities in Canada will be developed over the next 20 years.

That includes developing 2.4 gigawatts of offshore wind, he said in his State of the State address this month, by far the nation's highest target, equaling the capacity of the Niagara Falls generating station.

Most nuclear reactors, including those at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi generating station, are essentially high - tech kettles that efficiently boil water to produce electricity.

As politicians in the Hague this week thrash out ways of limiting the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, industry strategists are forecasting the demise of giant, centralised generating stations.

Consequently, any power company planning a big generating station that takes six or eight years to build does so without a clear prediction of what demand will be by the time the plant is finished.

When a commercial nuclear generating station irradiates a nuclear fuel rod, nuclear power production does not result in significant greenhouse gas emissions and during normal operations the radioactivity emissions produce far fewer health effects than emissions from coal - fueled plants.

His experience in these organizations included design - engineering and permitting for nuclear, coal and gas generating stations across the United States.

Most of you will no doubt be familiar with the first three apps in that list: Pandora offers streaming Internet radio with custom - generated stations based on artists and songs that you like.

The reason coal matters so much is that it offers the best route for getting leverage on emissions — because coal is used mainly in large central generating stations that are managed by professionals and where economies of scale favor the installation of carbon storage, etc..

Some 1,200 new coal - fired power plants are being planned across the globe despite concerns about greenhouse gas emissions from such generating stations, the most polluting type, the World Resources Institute estimates.

Prior to the 1990 US acid rain program implementation, American generating stations emitted 24 million tons of SO2 and current emissions are about 10.5 million tons.

Here in Arizona, the EPA is proposing to reduce harmful nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from the Navajo Generating Station (NGS), a coal plant that is one of the largest sources of NOx emissions in the U.S. as well as from the Apache, Coronado, Sundt, and Cholla generating stations.

It also is eyeing four large - scale projects across sites that could generate up to 260 megawatts — about two - thirds the capacity of Salt Lake City's Gadsby generating station.

The agency has hinted it will not require carbon capture, but that it may force many of the oldest generating stations to close down.

«We appreciate the efforts of our employees who have made Indian Point one of the most reliable generating stations in New York State.»

In addition, energy is used in harvesting and transport while vast stretches of land are needed to create the forests to supply generating stations with the wood they need.»

In this work, I employ time series linear regression with time fixed effects to empirically estimate the effect of each likely explanatory variable on the average day - ahead locational marginal price (LMP) earned by 19 nuclear generating stations located in PJM from January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2016.

Rising demand for continuous and reliable electricity along with upgradation of existing generating stations will stimulate the business landscape.

Some sort of combined tidal defence, artificial reef and renewable energy generating station.

Wind and solar, on the other hand, offer a decentralized model, in which smaller generating stations, spread across a large area, work together to provide power.

The measure has been championed by PSEG, which says its 2.3 - GW Salem and 1.2 - GW Hope Creek nuclear generating stations need subsidies even though they are currently profitable.

The Carillon generating station, built in 1962, produces some 753 MW of energy.

It's not likely we'll be seeing tornado generating stations operating in Toronto anytime soon, but Michaud's vortex engine is drawing attention, and has already attracted some research funding from the Ontario Centres of Excellence.

NRG Energy has partnered with JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration to develop a commercial - scale post-combustion CCS project at NRG's WA Parish generating station southwest of Houston, Texas.

In London, Ont., officials at a sports facility are objecting to the construction of a biofuel generating station nearby.

On the North Island of New Zealand, a geothermal generating station is a reliable source of carbon - free energy.