Sentences with phrase «large coal and nuclear»

Some of that havoc is high - profile and headline - making, as in the recent requests from utilities (and attempts by the Trump administration) to bail out large coal and nuclear plants.

But large coal and nuclear plants generally can't do that.

PJM's other proposal would let large coal and nuclear plants bid into the auctions that determine each area's «locational marginal price.»

Not exact matches

The idea is that utilities generate large amounts of clean power in remote, large power plants in much the same way that natural gas, coal, and nuclear power are generated today.

With high oil prices persistently poised to derail the global economy, with large economies like Germany and Japan swearing off nuclear in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, with coal hampered by looming emissions caps, unexpectedly abundant gas seems poised to fill the energy void.

Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, petrochemical plants, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large livestock farms (dairy cows, pigs, poultry, etc.), PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.

Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large animal farms, PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.

About 20 percent of U.S. electricity comes from nuclear power plants, making it the third - largest source of electricity in the country after coal (45 percent) and natural gas (23 percent).

In large swathes of the U.S., where more electricity comes from coal and natural gas than nuclear or renewables, that is a harder claim.

If it is not, coal at power plants could be replaced by natural gas, nuclear power and large - scale renewable energy projects.

This would include costs like storing and monitoring nuclear waste indefinitely, CO2 emitted to the atmosphere by fossil fuels, nitrous oxides and sulfur oxides from coal degrading the environment through acid rain, maintaining a large military to protect our oil supply lines from the middle east, pollutants entering water supplies from solar panel manufacture, pollutants generated by drilling for gas, etc., etc..

I think that in a sustainable energy economy of the future, most electricity will be generated, stored and used locally, and large centralized generating stations (which by then will be predominantly wind turbine farms and concentrating solar thermal power plants, coal and nuclear having been phased out) will play a much smaller role.

Coal and oil use climb relentlessly, at a rate similar to that for growth in wind, solar, and nuclear power, but in vastly larger quantities.

In other markets where windpower was significant, like the Midwest / Central and Texas regions, the large majority of negative pricing were attributed to nuclear, coal and less flexible natural gas power plant operations unable to adjust as demand changed.

Several sources say the energy company NRG has provided large contributions to BEST to kill nuclear and replace it with coal, in addition to natural gas.

Ray Long, vice president of National State and Federal Government Affairs at NRG noted his company, one of the largest independent power producers in the nation, owns a fleet that uses diverse fuel sources, including nuclear, coal, gas, wind, and solar.

The NRDC cites the «2016 State of the Market» report by PJM, the largest grid operator in North America, as showing that «new entrant natural gas - fired combined cycle plants, combustion turbine plants, and solar are economical, but that new coal and nuclear plants are not.»

There was a time when bigger was better on the grid, when large nuclear and coal - fired plants offered economies of scale, says the NRDC report.

As utilities plan for the closure of large, dispatchable baseload coal and nuclear plants, Michigan's system will be forced to rely on a smaller suite of energy options — specifically natural gas, renewables, and conservation measures.

That is not a particularly happy thought, since the implication is that action to stop emissions (to raise my personal issue, replacing coal power with nuclear) would cause a large and very rapid temperature increase.

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 mAnd 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 mand nuclear plants played a larger role in the generation mix.

I just think clean coal, natural gas, and most all nuclear power, are the best optins to to use for large scale power for a long time.

Both the US and Australia are large exporters of coal and this can only increase when Germany, and potentially Japan, close their nuclear power stations.

* since 2000, Europe has added 47 GW of new wind energy, but only 9.6 GW of coal and a mere 1.2 GW of nuclear * The carbon price required for large scale expansion in wind power (to 20 per cent of all US electricity by 2030) is estimated at $ 50 / ton

Along with the company's portfolio of conventional coal, nuclear and natural gas power plants, Crane began investing in the mid-2000s in large wind and solar power plants, and acquiring companies involved in rooftop solar installations, home efficiency tools and electric vehicle charging networks.

And in China, wind power — despite accounting for less than 3 percent of electricity generation — recently overtook nuclear to become the country's third largest power source after coal and hydropowAnd in China, wind power — despite accounting for less than 3 percent of electricity generation — recently overtook nuclear to become the country's third largest power source after coal and hydropowand hydropower.

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.

is changing as thousands of renewable sites are added to an ageing fleet of tens of large centralised coal, nuclear and gas plants.

4th generation nuclear power (4th GNP) and coal - fired power plants with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) at present are the best candidates to provide large baseload nearly carbon - free power (in case renewable energies can not do the entire job).

You are also apparently unaware that it is the same big, «bad» oil, gas, coal, and nuclear corporations that own wind — ie: GE, FPL, BP, AES, Iberdrola, Siemens, etc — many of whom have NOT paid any taxes in the U.S. in years, in large part thanks to their «investments» in wind.

Nuclear power plants require enormous amounts of fresh water to operate — they are on rank 3 on the largest water footprint of energy sources after hydro - electric power (obviously) and shortly behind coal — leaving all other energy sources way behind, including gas, wind, solar, etc..

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It would have a small effect on electricity from a grid that is mostly nuclear and renewables (like France) but have a large effect on electricity from a grid like Australia's that is generated by 70 % coal and 20 % natural gas.

Larger turbines (like coal, nuclear and most natural gas) going down unexpectedly can be much more disruptive since you are losing 100x as much power (or more!)

In recent years, as the large - scale deployment of renewable generation gathers pace and the contribution of conventional power generation (gas, coal and nuclear) to electricity supply dwindles, popular concern over grid stability and reliability has grown substantially.

In the traditional model of a national electricity system — widely used for more than 50 years — large conventional gas, coal and nuclear generation plants supply large centres of demand.

The thing is when you have a wind farm with say 100 2 MW turbines, the failure of one turbine will not interrupt service, but large coal, nuclear and gas units tripping off line can cause more troubles.

The Trump administration has proposed a controversial policy to provide large subsidies to both nuclear reactors and coal power plants.

The fact is that over the last five years, wind power has added more new electric generating capacity in the USA than coal and nuclear combined — in spite of the fact that both coal and nuclear have enjoyed large, and permanent public subsidies, while subsidies for wind have been small, short - term and therefore unreliable.

Just down the road from us is Didcot A power station, a large coal - burning plant with poor pollution control and therefore with substantial effects on local air quality, as well as more substantial emissions of radiation than from any UK nuclear power station and a Co2 output of about 8 million tonnes a year.

While utilities in Ohio, New York and elsewhere have sought «around market» charges after affiliated coal and nuclear plants became less competitive, Germany's large utilities are charting new paths forward as that country curbs its reliance on fossil fuels.

Large generators are powered by hydro, nuclear, coal, oil and gas.

I lump in large - scale sequestration along with nuclear (and here in the U.S. at least, «clean coal»); what they have in common is that much money will be made by the usual suspects.

In comparison, analogous damages associated with the generation of electricity to power a midsize electric vehicle (EV; 2013 Nissan Leaf, 0.29 kWh mile − 1 (fueleconomy.gov)-RRB- are $ 840 yr − 1 for electricity from coal, $ 290 yr − 1 for electricity from natural gas and miniscule for nuclear or renewables (again the contrast is slightly larger using US - specific valuation; see ESM).