Sentences with phrase «generating unit emissions»

RGGI is a «Cap and Auction» program that caps electric generating unit emissions and then auctions permits to emit CO2 or allowances.

Not exact matches

When equipped with the manual transmission the unit returns a combined cycle fuel consumption of 5.9 l / 100 km and generates CO2 emissions of only 138 g / km - reduction of 0.7 l / 100 km and 12 g / km.

When equipped with the manual transmission and Stop & Start technology, the improved 1.4 D - 4D 90 unit returns a combined cycle fuel consumption of 3.8 l / 100 km and generates CO2 emissions of only 99 g / km - a reduction of 0.6 l / 100 km and 10 g / km.

The brief was not only to create an efficient unit that allowed the optimum operation of the engine to minimise emissions and generate the target power level, but also to produce an enjoyable sound.

When equipped with a 6 - speed manual transmission, the unit returns a combined cycle fuel consumption of 6.6 L / 100 km (36 mpg US) and generates CO2 emissions of 152 g / km.

When equipped with the manual transmission and a CCo, the 1.4 D - 4D 90 unit returns a combined cycle fuel consumption of 4.7 l / 100 km and generates CO2 emissions of only 124 g / km.

When equipped with a 6 - speed manual transmission, the unit returns a combined cycle fuel consumption of 6.6 l / 100 km and generates CO2 emissions of only 152 g / km.

If the caller claims they can generate Australian carbon credit units through a carbon offset project, check if the project is listed on the Clean Energy Regulator's Emissions Reduction Fund project register.

Feb. 8, 2008), as the Act removed oil and coal - fired electric utility steam generating units (EGUs) from the list of sources of hazardous air pollutants and instead regulated the emissions through a cap - and - trade program.

Coal, on the other hand, seems to be plentiful, it causes more emissions per energy unit generated, and it has some side issues such as soot and other particulates, including aerosols which may actually be cooling the planet.

«Use of full or partial CCS technology should not be part of the BSER [best system of emissions reduction] for existing EGUs [electricity generating units] because it would be more expensive than the measures determined to be part of the BSER, particularly if applied broadly to the overall source category.»

Today (June 25th) is the deadline for submitting comments on the EPA's proposed Carbon Pollution Standard Rule, which will establish first - ever New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil - fuel electric generating units.

The CPP specifies intensity rate targets for existing fossil fuel - fired electric generating units operating or under construction as of early 2014, with the stated aim of reducing carbon emissions in the power sector by 30 % from 2005 levels by 2030.

The state - level emissions performance goals under the proposed Clean Power Plan are not based on a simple emission rate calculation (emissions divided by generation) for generation provided by existing fossil - fired electric generating units.

Rather, the goals are established and compliance is assessed using a formula that provides varying treatment of specific generation sources and demand - side efficiency programs that can displace CO2 emissions from existing generating units that are regulated under the Clean Power Plan proposal.

Those units would annually generate approximately 17 terawatts (TWh) of electricity — about 3/4 % of annual electricity consumption in the UK — and produce 150 % of C02 emissions of coal generation and 300 % of gas generation.

This report responds to an August 2014 request to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) from Representative Lamar Smith, Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for an analysis of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed Clean Power Plan under which states would be required to develop plans to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rates from existing fossil - fired electricity generating units.1 Appendix A provides a copy of the request letter.

It does not consider any potential health or environmental benefits from reducing CO2 emissions from existing electric generating units covered by the proposed Clean Power Plan.

In April 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a new source performance standard (NSPS), limiting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from new fossil fuel — fired electric generating units (EGUs).

Each spreadsheet lists the model estimates of capacity additions (what electric generating capacity the model and what the states tell the model to include because of regulations); generation (how much the existing and projected units will produce); prices (including firm power prices, energy prices, capacity prices, allowance prices, natural gas prices, and renewable energy credit prices); total CO2 emissions; fuel consumption for different fuel types; and transmission flows into and out of the RGGI power grids.

In its 2010 annual report Peabody notes that the New York Office of the Attorney General Subpoena wrote to Peabody on June 14, 2007 and referred to the company's «plans to build new coal - fired electric generating units,» and stated that the «increase in CO2 emissions from the operation of these units, in combination with Peabody Energy's other coal - fired power plants, will subject Peabody Energy to increased financial, regulatory, and litigation risks.»

Lifecycle direct and indirect greenhouse emissions associated with generating a unit of electricity from different fuels, in a 2C world in 2050 (coloured bars).

(1) deployment of technologies to capture and sequester carbon dioxide emissions from electric generating units or large industrial sources (except that assistance under this subtitle for such deployment shall be limited to the cost of retrofitting existing facilities with such technologies or the incremental cost of purchasing and installing such technologies at new facilities);

To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from finalizing any rule imposing any standard of performance for carbon dioxide emissions from any existing or new source that is a fossil fuel - fired electric utility generating unit unless and until carbon capture and storage is found to be technologically and economically feasible.

-- This subsection shall apply only to the distribution of emission allowances for carbon capture and sequestration projects at electric generating units after the capacity threshold identified in subsection (c)(1) is reached.

-- The qualifying emissions for a merchant coal unit for a given calendar year shall be the product of the number of megawatt hours of merchant coal unit sales generated by such unit in such calendar year and the average carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt hour generated by such unit during the base period under paragraph (2), provided that the number of megawatt hours in a given calendar year for purposes of such calculation shall be reduced in proportion to the portion of such unit's carbon dioxide emissions that are either --

New York is part of RGGI so there already is a tax (auction proceeds) on electrical generating unit CO2 emissions, there is a Climate Action Plan goal of an 80 % reduction of CO2 emissions from 1990 levels by 2050, and the State's draft Energy Plan is about to go public.

«S.J.Res.37 - A joint resolution to disapprove a rule promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency relating to emission standards for certain steam generating units,» Congress.gov.

Coal combustion generates the most CO2 emissions per unit of energy.

Once again, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson touted the supposedly huge benefits of controlling emissions of mercury (Hg) and other air toxics from U.S. coal - and oil - fired power plants (or electric generating units, EGUs).

Kilowatt - hours produced by wind turbines CAN NOT be assumed displace the emissions associated with an equal number of kWh from fossil - fueled generating units.

And finally, the leaked EPA document says that the agency is considering «developing a rule similarly intended to reduce CO2 emissions from existing fossil fuel electric utility generating units.»

First, there's EPA's effort to regulate power sector emissions — with carbon pollution guidelines proposed for existing power plants, on top of the already proposed guidelines for new electric utility generating units.

The EPA hasn't proposed hard emission limits; rather, it has constructed «pollution - to - power» ratios that establish carbon emission restrictions per unit of power generated.

John West — Also, do you not realize that with a few pounds of each fuel used one could determine CO2 Emissions / Unit of Electricity Generated in a lab or with a pilot study?

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has recently adopted a procedure regarding the application for and transfer of emissions reductions units generated after 2012 through Joint Implementation (JI) projects under Article 6 of the Kyoto Protocol.

The CPP is a proposed EPA regulation that would establish carbon dioxide (CO2) emission reduction guidelines for existing fossil fuel - fired electric generating units.

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) forthcoming climate change regulations for new and existing electricity generating units have been appropriately labeled the «war on coal,» [1] because the proposed limits for carbon dioxide emissions would essentially prohibit the construction of new coal - fired power plants and force existing ones into early retirement.

Then they say «Through a $ 50 Billion investment in new clean coal technologies, today's coal based generating fleet is already 70 % cleaner based on regulated emissions per unit of energy produced.»

Emissions producers have to buy permits or credits for every unit of electricity they generate based on the amount of carbon in that electricity.

CO2 emissions per unit of electricity generated are currently at the level the world needs to reach by 2045 in the Energy Technology Perspectives global 2 - degree scenario.

The rule would establish a new source performance standard (NSPS) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil - fuel electric generating units (EGUs).