Sentences with phrase «keep coal and nuclear»

designed to keep coal and nuclear plants online as FERC took on a broader examination of grid resilience.

That dynamic is perhaps clearest with Energy Secretary Rick Perry calling for subsidies to keep coal and nuclear plants open late last year.

Not exact matches

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

Dave wrote in Comment 9: ``... they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that create waste that can't be disposed of» and «Wind / Solar et al. is nice but is getting no funding and going nowhere fast right now, not to mention the fact that it might not do us much good anyway on the kind of unsustainable economic scales we (at least Americans) want to live at.»

Tennessee uses hydroelectric power with coal and nuclear power to keep the lights on for its residents, who use more electricity per capita than any other state, according to the NRDC.

Nuclear fuel is over one million times more «energy dense» than coal, and so it's easy for nuclear plants to keep several years worth of fuel on Nuclear fuel is over one million times more «energy dense» than coal, and so it's easy for nuclear plants to keep several years worth of fuel on nuclear plants to keep several years worth of fuel on - site.

PJM is also promoting other actions that Panfil, Chen and others have said could keep inefficient coal and nuclear plants in the market longer.

But it seems likely, by then, that the market will have shifted its focus to renewables, and perhaps nuclear, with coal unlikely to recover given renewables prices will keep falling.

Who is actively fighting to ensure government policies shutter U.S. nuclear energy facilities; keep domestic coal, natural gas, and oil in the ground; force up energy prices through taxes and regulations; and endanger national security by installing wind farms near military bases?

The capacity market approach pays utilities and other operators billions of pounds to commit to keep their coal, gas, nuclear and hydro power plants open, for up to four years ahead, regardless of whether they were planning to do this anyway, and regardless of whether they generate any electricity.

Basically, grid operators would have to prove why they shouldn't keep noncompetitive coal and nuclear plants online.

Those higher prices could keep noncompetitive coal and nuclear plants in the market longer than they would otherwise stay, said attorney Jennifer Chen at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Va., in April asked the agency to use its authority under the 1950s wartime law to keep retiring coal and nuclear plants online.

However, the rule references a report from IHS Markit (sponsored by NEI, EEI, and the U.S. Chamber) that says keeping a diverse portfolio of resources will be less expensive than if all coal and nuclear were to disappear... a ridiculous and irrelevant assumption.

Let's start by keeping CCS and nuclear out of the CDM and let's exclude coal power projects.

Until researchers can find a way to store energy at a large scale, coal and nuclear plants — which can't simply be switched on and off at will — must be kept running to guarantee a steady stream of electricity when the sun isn't shining.

That is because there may not be enough stream flow for hydroelectric stations, and coal and nuclear power plant may not be able to get enough water through the cooling systems to keep generating at peak capacity, especially in the summer months.

«DR could impact coal and nuclear plant retirement decisions by keeping down wholesale prices,» Feldman said.

Faced with concerns over how quickly new nuclear will progress through the planning and licensing system, and the possibility that even coal plants that are compliant with existing EU environmental regulation may be forced to close early by the proposed Industrial Emissions Directive, generators have little choice but to prepare to build a second wave of gas - fired plants (ie in addition to the 8GW currently under construction) to keep the lights on before new nuclear and some CCS coal plants start to come onto the system in the 2020s.

The main reason was that growth in renewables and nuclear power could not keep up with increased electricity demand, even though some sources have cited a drought - induced drop in hydropower output as a factor in the rebounding coal consumption.

Keep the current fission nuclear power running and replace oil, coal and gas with more wind and solar.

The truth is the U.S. doesn't need nuclear reactors and coal plants to keep the lights on — the Department of Energy's own grid reliability report confirmed that.

Legislation to keep Exelon's nuclear plants afloat included several aspects that drew the ire of environmentalists and the solar industry — particularly capacity payments to coal plants and changes to rate design and net metering.

As the Trump Administration continues to dig up legal maneuvers in an attempt to keep failing coal and nuclear plants online, cities across the United States are increasingly committing to source 100 % of their electricity from renewables.

For years the utilities have depended on rising capacity factors of nuclear and coal plants and power uprates for nuclear plants to keep up with the baseload demand.

The fabulous David Roberts over at Vox reports that even utility CEOs are now predicting that it will be cheaper to build new wind and solar than to keep running the old coal and nuclear plants that have already been built.

Nuclear and coal proponents, however, have backed such policies as a way to keep thousands of people from losing their jobs and to promote a resilient electric grid.

At the federal level, Energy Secretary Rick Perry proposed a rule to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to compensate baseload power plants that keep at least 90 days worth of fuel on - site — basically all nuclear power plants and some coal plants.

Federal and state officials are weighing proposals to keep otherwise uneconomic nuclear and coal - fired power plants from retiring.

The Energy Department keeps changing its nuclear - research strategy, and a «FutureGen» zero - emission coal demonstration project announced three and a half years ago by President Bush hasn't yet picked a site.