Sentences with phrase «generation plants when»

Transmission utilities like Central Maine Power Company and Emera Maine were prohibited from owning generation plants when the Restructuring Act was passed 16 years ago.

* «We will direct the establishment of new generation plants when it is determined by the PSC that an energy company is not developing a generating site due to private economic interests.»

Not exact matches

But it seems safe to guess that, when the time comes, reform and development will be in the air, a sense of forgotten truth to be reasserted, of imbalance to be corrected; also, that if the Church's garden then seems to need weeding, some at least of the weeds will be of our generation's planting.

The start of the first Green Revolution in rice, Zeigler thought back, could have been in July 1963 when IRRI's first breeder, Peter Jennings, found F2 (second - generation) rice plants from a set of 38 crosses involving dwarf rice varieties from Taiwan.

The idea behind these cleaning products that are composed primarily of plant ingredients and free of toxins began three generations ago when Van Vlahakis created the formula and started the company.

When New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed the Energy Highway in 2012 to bring power from generation plants upstate to load centers in and around New York City, Upstate New York Power responded that the plants could play an «important role» for the proposal.

As a teacher of Physics in the university, I was excited when the late President Umaru Yar» Adua awarded a contract of some N40bn for an alternative - energy, wind - powered electricity generation plant to be sited, naturally, at Katsina State.

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 approval of the natural gas - fired plant came at a time when the administration was generally attempting to move away from fossil fuel generation and toward renewable energy generation, per its Reforming Energy Vision, which seeks to make the energy grid more reliant on renewable sources and more efficient.

When operational with CO2 capture, the coal plant will have an emissions profile similar to that of natural gas, a first in power generation.

As electricity use spikes across the country in the summertime when more people use air conditioning, electric power companies turn to more coal and natural gas power plants to help meet the demand, reducing renewables» share of total U.S. power generation, Comstock said.

Natural gas might still have an advantage over coal when burned to create electricity, because gas - fired power plants tend to be newer and far more efficient than older facilities that provide the bulk of the country's coal - fired generation.

When the government of Ethiopia finishes building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2017 or 2018, it will not only have built the largest hydroelectric power - generation plant in Africa, but also stirred up tensions among African nations, and indelibly altered a river that itself has guided millennia of human history in the region.

The start of the first Green Revolution in rice, Zeigler thought back, could have been in July 1963 when IRRI's first breeder, Peter Jennings, found F2 (second - generation) rice plants from a set of 38 crosses involving dwarf rice varieties from Taiwan.

Nomadic sans used the plant to control their hunger when going out for long hunts, and generations later, Unique Hoodia found a way to incorporate the plant's benefits into its own.

When it is at its best, the film finds the perfect symbiotic balance between Kerouac's prose and the solemn beauty of the open road, where the adventures of a young dreamer plant the seeds of not only one man's future, but an entire generation of literary hopefuls.

This report says that Mazda's new plant in Salamanca, Mexico, will produce around 50,000 vehicles per year for Toyota when the next - generation Mazda 2 begins production in 2015.

The reduction at the Lansing Grand River plant is also a temporary measure, as the facility will once again ramp up capacity when the next - generation Chevrolet Camaro begins production in Lansing.

The first - generation model was produced at Volkswagen's plant in Puebla, Mexico, until 2010, when it was succeeded by a second - generation model that remains on sale today.

With further investment set to increase production capacity at the Leipzig plant when the third - generation Cayenne arrives in 2017, company boss Matthias Müller has brought the coupe variant of Porsche's strongest - selling model into its new model development program.

When invasive plants are found, we document their locations and do our best to remove them, as well as plan future visits to the sites to remove the next generations.

But mark my words, right - wingers will start screaming about compensation when all those shiny new gas - fired power plants they're building are threatened with closure when we start thinking seriously about building a modern grid that can shuttle electricity instead of curtailing renewable generation in one area while simultaneously turning on fossils in another.

Given that a coal - fired electricity generation plant produces about 1 ton of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour, Borenstein estimated that the price of greenhouse gas reductions would have to range from about $ 150 to $ 500 per ton of greenhouse gases to make the current solar PV technology a worthwhile investment when greenhouse gas reductions are considered.

In practice, power plants have priority over other water withdrawals from the same source (usually a river), and when water is in short supply — e.g. in the Southeast right now — the demands of power generation are competing with municipal water supplies, irrigation, etc..

Even when the plants do a Fukushima (an exceedingly rare occurrence and the frequency per unit of electricity produced is decreasing), the fatalities and health consequences are negligible and, properly normalised for the amount of electricity they supply, are less than any other electricity generation technology operating routinely.

«The study seems an outlier in saying that when «all known costs» are considered, the average U.S. cost of producing electricity from established coal - fired plants is far less than new wind - power generation,»

When one plant increases generation, other plants generate less.

It asks the value of the fuel saved when renewables generation allows the backing off of power plants.

«The study seems an outlier in saying that when «all known costs» are considered, the average U.S. cost of producing electricity from established coal - fired plants is far less than new wind - power generation,» PolitiFact found.

The report calls for ageing fossil fuel and nuclear power plants to be replaced by renewable generation when they reach the end of their operational lives.

When combined with thermal storage capacity of several hours of full - capacity generation, CSP plants can continue to produce electricity even when clouds block the sun, or after sundown or in early morning when power demand stepsWhen combined with thermal storage capacity of several hours of full - capacity generation, CSP plants can continue to produce electricity even when clouds block the sun, or after sundown or in early morning when power demand stepswhen clouds block the sun, or after sundown or in early morning when power demand stepswhen power demand steps up.

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».

The study linked to in your point # 5 points out that there is increased CO2 when modulating coal fired plants to account for gaps in wind generation, and that offsets any CO2 emissions saved with wind power.

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.

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.

That also includes using a definition of «levelized cost» that deliberately ignores the hidden costs of maintaining a normal fuel - based generation grid capable of carrying the entire load because PV and wind (however cheap or expensive they might be when they are working) are literally incapable of working 24 × 7 and at best reduce the rate at which conventional plants consume fuel without reducing or eliminating the need for conventional plants.

Power plant operators are responsible for monitoring this equipment and deciding when to switch from solar generation to the secondary source.

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.

«This case is about whether Ohioans and other customers across the country will be made to subsidize uneconomic power plants at a time when Ohioans should be benefitting in their electric bills from lower prices in the competitive generation markets,» said a filing by the Office of the Ohio Consumers» Counsel with federal regulators.

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.

This paper considers how best to change the economic calculus of power plant developers so they internalize CCS costs when selecting new generation technologies.

What gets bad is when we are not allowed to run base load coal plants efficiently, and when we have to cycle them up and down to chase wind generation's variable output.

Comparing it to other generation it would be good to know maintenance costs, output, availability and all the other things planners look at when studying power plant additions as well as projections as to how the technology might improve.

This reflects both seasonal growth and added renewable generation capacity, as well as maintenance and refueling schedules for nuclear power plants, which normally undergo maintenance during spring and fall months, when overall electricity demand is lower.

* The huge Texas projects will provide very little electricity, particularly when compared to total Texasí electric generation and to the output from «conventional» generating plants.

When you build a nuclear plant you are building tomorrow's generation with today's dollars.

The huge Texas projects will provide very little electricity, particularly when compared to Total Texasí electric generation and to the output from «conventional» generating plants 2 1.

Thus, when people today buy electricity from coal - fired power plants, or fill their cars with conventional gasoline, they are unwittingly setting in motion damages that will strike future generations.

The spring is typically a low period for all types of electric generation, as this is when many plants go offline for scheduled maintenance.

Owned by the newer version of E.ON, the CHP plant can achieve a total efficiency greater than 95 % when taking into consideration both heat and power generation.