Sentences with phrase «generation plant system»

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Speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr. Obagmey stated that though the plant will not transform Ghana's power generation systems, it will stabilize power production and help reduce cost significantly.

The New York Independent System Operator released a report analyzing the retirement of the Indian Point nuclear plant, concluding that system reliability criteria can be met with one or more types of solutions including generation, transmission, energy efficiency, and demand response meaSystem Operator released a report analyzing the retirement of the Indian Point nuclear plant, concluding that system reliability criteria can be met with one or more types of solutions including generation, transmission, energy efficiency, and demand response measystem reliability criteria can be met with one or more types of solutions including generation, transmission, energy efficiency, and demand response measures.

There will be a new generation of equipment to control the flow between treatment facilities, pumping stations and tanks; there is a system to alert customers and large institutions, such as hospitals, to interruptions in service; old pipes are replaced more rapidly to limit leaks; and officials are working toward a system to move water from north to south, so the Southtowns can rely on the Van De Water treatment plant on the Niagara River should the Sturgeon Point plant on Lake Erie fail or lose its links to customers, like when a 42 - inch main failed last summer.

The Governor outlined his vision for the Energy Highway in his 2012 State of the State Address, calling for «a private - sector funded $ 2 billion «Energy Highway» system that will tap into the generation capacity and renewable energy potential in Upstate and Western NY to bring low - cost power to meet the tremendous energy needs in Downstate New York» and for the repowering of old and dirty plants to stop pollution in urban neighborhoods.

Faster - growing root systems could allow new plants to take hold more quickly, including perennial grasses like switchgrass and Miscanthus, which are considered viable feedstocks for next - generation biofuel.

But this sort of cogeneration system, if you want to call it that, of using the power plant output and the waste heat from that to drive the desalination plants, he was saying, you know, in 20 years that probably could be a great model and an efficient model for water generation in Southern California.

While electricity lines west and east of the Rockies are tied together as two synchronized generation systems, their power plants humming in close unison, two - thirds of Texas stands by itself.

In one of his more intriguing passages on biological systems, he notes that humanity has failed to realize that «operation of natural ecosystems is exemplary,» in that their processing of organic waste gives rise to a new generation of plants.

This gene seems to be a blueprint for plant smell: Some 30 to 40 other agriculturally important plants, including tobacco and the petunia, use the same smell - generation system.

NuScale estimates that the plant's full power output will be available > 95 percent of the time, making it one of the most reliable electric generation systems available.

Approaches successful in other systems, such as modeling signal transduction and synthetic biology methodologies [32] could improve future generations of detector plants by enhancing signal transmission and providing means to deal with biological «noise».

The short generation time and relatively compact genome of Arabidopsis make it an ideal model system for understanding numerous features of plant biology, including ones that are of great pharmaceutical or agricultural value.

With coal, the plants are cheap to build, the coal is cheap to mine, and a «natural monopoly» system of electricity generation and distribution helps lock out any renewable competition, leading to further economic advantages over renewables.

Progressive utilities are assisting customers to the extent they can with these systems, because incrementally capitalizing grid tie can be attractive compared to capitalizing monolithic generation plants and because they do not demand an ongoing input of money for the electricity they generate.

It's a grand vision for essentially being carbon - free by 2050, Producing electricity from clean generation sources including nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, and with any remaining fossil fuel plants hooked up to carbon capture and storage systems.

Then, «right after the daylight hours, as other plants — primarily gas — are ramped up to compensate for the rapid ramp - down of inflexible solar production,» he explained, citing simulations by the California Independent System Operator Corporation (CAISO) that show that stored CSP generation can be dispatched.

In the immediate aftermath of eliminating nearly 5 GW of secured generation capacity in the southern German region alone following Fukushima, the Federal Network Agency, in conjunction with German transmission system operators, warned that failure of key network equipment or a major power plant — caused by potential overloading of transmission routes and by voltage control in the southern region — could critically jeopardize security and reliability of the German power supply.

This is particularly relevant for power systems where the peak load is expected to increase at the same time as conventional power plants to be replaced by intermittent renewable power generation.

... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....

The Clean Power Plan lays out a legal system designed to be flexible, using legal precedent to offer power plants the option of fulfilling their goals by shifting generation to clean energy off - site.

The model was perfected by Enron when it raped and pillaged the Californian power market in the late 1990s and early 2000s: engineer a deliberate «outage» at a gas - fired generation plant, allow the grid to almost collapse and then extort outrageous prices from the grid manager to prevent a «system black».

Traditionally, when presented with a constraint on the system relating to reliability, load growth or the introduction of intermittent generation, a utility had one option: build new infrastructure, such as new substations, power plants or transmission lines.

The only real risk is that modern Western countries will damage their economies and the welfare of their citizens by altering their energy generation and distribution systems in the ways advocated by the alarmists, and if successful, will starve plants of the carbon dioxide they need during the next ice age and stunt their potential growth in the meantime.

At the same time, this technology is opening up new business areas, such as the development of intelligent energy management systems or the consolidation of decentralized generation systems into virtual power plants or decentralized single home storage systems into virtual large - scale storage systems.

Each of their communities owns and operations its own electric distribution systems, and some operate local power generation plants.

And many of those outages have been tied to the distribution system, rather than the type of generation source — even when coal and nuclear plants played a larger role in the generation mix.

Second, there is now no business motivation to bear the cost of CCS systems when selecting new generation technologies even though the cost of electricity from IGCC plants is in fact lower than from SCPC plants once CCS costs are taken into account.

But there's a new coal - based power generation technology, Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle, or IGCC, which allows CCS systems in new plants to more efficiently capture and store CO2 because the CO2 can be removed before combustion.

If all that happens — if the grandiose solar plants get built, and new dams arise in the north, and the nuclear plants get financed, and the deepwater pipeline gets laid — India could, perhaps, solve the conundrum of «bloody coal» and overhaul its power generation system.

The term distributed generation distinguishes these systems from the large, centralized power plants that provide the vast majority of the nation's power.

To replace a 1500 MW coal plant with wind turbines means you will need way more than 1500 MW of installed capacity of wind generation to get an average of 1500 MW of power even if you had a perfect energy storage system.

The supply is unreliable, although more consistent than wind generation which is notoriously unreliable and thermal, nuclear, or hydro power (if available) is required to carry sufficient reserve in the grid system to compensate for any changes in solar plant output due to any changes in sunlight during the day.

In June 2009, the State Water Resources Control Board issued a draft policy on the use of ocean water for power plant cooling, which effectively requires generation units using once - through cooling (OTC) to undertake substantial investment, which means refitting their cooling systems or repowering, or to retire.

electric power plants are: (1) survey and assess the capacity, cost, and location of potential depleted gas and oil wells that are suitable CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- repositories (with the cooperation of the oil and gas industry); (2) conduct research on the feasibility of ocean disposal, with objectives of determining the cost, residence time, and environmental effects for different methods of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- injection; (3) perform an in - depth survey of knowledge concerning the feasibility of using deep, confined aquifers for disposal and, if feasible, identify potential disposal locations (with the cooperation of the oil and gas industry); (4) evaluate, on a common basis, system and design alternatives for integration of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- capture systems with emerging and advanced technologies for power generation; and prepare a conceptual design, an analysis of barrier issues, and a preliminary cost estimate for pipeline networks necessary to transport a significant portion of the CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- to potentially feasible disposal locations.

The research needs that have high priority in establishing the technical, environmental, and economic feasibility of large - scale capture and disposal of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- from electric power plants are: (1) survey and assess the capacity, cost, and location of potential depleted gas and oil wells that are suitable CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- repositories (with the cooperation of the oil and gas industry); (2) conduct research on the feasibility of ocean disposal, with objectives of determining the cost, residence time, and environmental effects for different methods of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- injection; (3) perform an in - depth survey of knowledge concerning the feasibility of using deep, confined aquifers for disposal and, if feasible, identify potential disposal locations (with the cooperation of the oil and gas industry); (4) evaluate, on a common basis, more» system and design alternatives for integration of CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- capture systems with emerging and advanced technologies for power generation; and prepare a conceptual design, an analysis of barrier issues, and a preliminary cost estimate for pipeline networks necessary to transport a significant portion of the CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- to potentially feasible disposal locations.

Subtitle C: Next Generation Nuclear Plant Project -(Sec. 641) Instructs the Secretary to establish the Next Generation Nuclear Plant Project consisting of design, construction, and operation of a prototype plant, including a nuclear reactor: (1) based on Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems Initiative research and development; and (2) used to generate electricity or produce hydrogen, or do Plant Project -(Sec. 641) Instructs the Secretary to establish the Next Generation Nuclear Plant Project consisting of design, construction, and operation of a prototype plant, including a nuclear reactor: (1) based on Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems Initiative research and development; and (2) used to generate electricity or produce hydrogen, or do Plant Project consisting of design, construction, and operation of a prototype plant, including a nuclear reactor: (1) based on Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems Initiative research and development; and (2) used to generate electricity or produce hydrogen, or do plant, including a nuclear reactor: (1) based on Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems Initiative research and development; and (2) used to generate electricity or produce hydrogen, or do both.

-- The assessment shall contain an evaluation and analysis of electricity generation facilities that are constructed in accordance with different plant designs (including different cooling technologies such as water, air, and hybrid systems, and technologies designed to minimize carbon dioxide releases) based on the fuel used by the facility, including --

Techno - economic Performance of Direct Steam Generation Solar Tower Plants with High - temperature Concrete Thermal Energy Storage Systems

Thermal insulation is installed on almost every piping system and much of the plant equipment at power generation facilities.

South Consolidated Hydroelectric Unit constructed in 1981 on the South Canal 35 foot drop 1,400 kW capacity Crosscut Hydroelectric Plant began commercial operation in 1915 on the Crosscut Canal 116 foot drop 3,000 kW capacity Arizona Falls, a low - head hydropower system, is the Valley's newest hydroelectric generation station /

After: District heating system, fed from the central plant room at ground floor level, with each unit having a district heating station with local control of heating circuit and instantaneous generation of hot water via a plate heat exchanger.

Previously, solar power plants had depended on back up energy plants powered by carbon emitting fuels because a solar system's peak generation hours do not coincide with the utility's peak load hours after 5 p.m. Low sunlight meant low energy generation, and this challenge scaled back the environmental benefits of solar plants.

EWP will the construct its first commercial scale Sea Wave Power Plant, and reveal the exact prices of construction and production, which the company claims will be cheaper than any other renewable or traditional energy generation system.

CAISO data shows that during the hours that solar is being curtailed on a system - wide basis, the state continues to not only to run hydroelectric generation, but to import power, and the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant runs on a 24 - hour basis.

By contrast, under a «mass - based system,» states would have to meet an overall target for greenhouse - gas emissions and ensure that power plants either make those reductions at their facilities or finance efforts to achieve them in other ways, such as by reducing consumer demand or investing in carbon - free electricity generation.

Electric power system operators face a challenge as they seek to integrate rising quantities of intermittent generation from wind plants into the system mix.

A system approach examines US thermoelectric power generation and finds whilst individual plants may face constraints, overall the current system can adapt.

Looking at the overall electricity generation system the percentage of power generation plants that will be able to perform the sequestration process completely and successfully are likely to be small.

Australia's chief scientist Dr Alan Finkel has recommended that after 2020, wind and solar projects should be required to pair with energy storage capacity or dispatchable generation plants to enhance the security of the power system.

The growth in wind generation is a result of new wind plants coming online and grid expansions that have allowed more wind power to flow through the system to consumers.