Sentences with phrase «large electric power plants»

The cap - and - trade rule applies to large electric power plants, large industrial plants, and fuel distributors (e.g., natural gas and petroleum).

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Operated by a team of fewer than 30 employees, the Kapolei, Hawaii - based company has fueled growth through major deals inked within the last year alone: the building of a $ 260 million plant in Idaho, a $ 370 million contract with Sanyo Electric Co. and a $ 678 million contract with Suntech Power to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in HaPower to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in Hapower system in Hawaii.

In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.

The cogeneration plant — which will be built in a dormant Sheridan Avenue facility attached to the large steam plant that still is used to heat and cool the Capitol complex — and microgrid will supply the 98 - acre Plaza's power, with ability to produce up to 90 percent of the complex's annual electric energy needs.

In comparison, American Electric Power's project would have cost $ 668 million to integrate saline injection with capture from a large coal plant.

It is home to a large coal - fired electric power plant that consumed up to 3,500 tons of coal per day since it began operating in the early 1950s.

Chris is the health and safety training manager of a large electric power generation company operating nuclear power plants throughout North America.

For instance, Toyota's line of hybrid models has expanded from the first - generation Prius, a pipsqueak that arrived in the United States in 2001 with a 70 - horsepower gasoline engine and a 44 - horsepower electric motor, to include larger vehicles such as the Highlander, a hybrid utility wagon with a total of 268 horsepower from its gas and electric power plants.

When finally completed, it will stand as the world's largest generator of hydro - electric power, with a yearly output equal to that of fifty million tons of coal or fifteen nuclear power plants.

There is no need for these societies to repeat the disaster of the western world's 19th century fossil - fueled industrial revolution, nor is there any possibility of them doing so, given that they can afford neither the cost of the fossil fuels nor the cost of building electric grids to distribute power from large, centralized power plants.

For a small fraction of the cost I could eliminate more greenhouse gas by converting the large Four Corners, coal - fired electric power plant in New Mexico to natural gas.

Also of potential large magnitude benefit, is (3) changing away from an electric power generating system where power plants are located in remote areas but are connected by a grid, whereby this practice has caused a massive energy wasting establishment.

Until the 1930s, hydroelectric - power plants equipped with water - turbine generating units produced the largest percentage of electric energy because they were less expensive to operate than thermal - power plants using steam - turbine units.

American Electric installed three «scrubbers» at its largest power - generating unit at its John Amos Plant in West Virginia.

Meanwhile, Shanghai Electric, a subsidiary of State Power Investment Corporation (one of China's top five power generators), is set to build a $ 3.9 bn concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in Dubai in a partnership with Saudi Arabia's ACWA Power The project will be the world's largest CSP project and have the world's tallest solar tower, at Power Investment Corporation (one of China's top five power generators), is set to build a $ 3.9 bn concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in Dubai in a partnership with Saudi Arabia's ACWA Power The project will be the world's largest CSP project and have the world's tallest solar tower, at power generators), is set to build a $ 3.9 bn concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in Dubai in a partnership with Saudi Arabia's ACWA Power The project will be the world's largest CSP project and have the world's tallest solar tower, at power (CSP) plant in Dubai in a partnership with Saudi Arabia's ACWA Power The project will be the world's largest CSP project and have the world's tallest solar tower, at Power The project will be the world's largest CSP project and have the world's tallest solar tower, at 260m.

Shanghai Electric Power Generation Group will partner with a Saudi Arabian firm to build desalination plants all over the world while Dalian Petrochemical is building China's largest wastewater utililzation plant.

In a Harrisburg Pennsylvania newspaper article the claim was made that (32) «Unfortunately, the largest contributor to the problem, the electric utility industry, continues to get a free ride on its mercury pollution... other sources are reducing emissions, not such requirements exist for coal - fired power plants.»

General Electric, one of the world's largest suppliers of electrical power plant equipment, is all fired up about large markets for new coal - fired generation in India and China as America's shut down.

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.

Yesterday Environmental Progress introduced a motion [pdf] and exhibits to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) arguing that it should suspend action on Pacific Gas & Electric's proposal to close California's largest source of clean energy, Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, until:

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.

Ignoring global warming issues, TXU Corp, open - pit coal mine and electric utility company, is embarking on the nation's single largest coal - oriented electric power plant construction campaign.

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..

It is here that Tata, India's giant conglomerate and largest private electric utility, has been building what it hopes will be one of the largest coal power plants in the world, the 4,000 - megawatt Tata Mundra.

Coal - fired electric power plants make up the largest source of national sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions.

My first is zero emission electric power plants or ZEPPs, very large ZEPPs.

When should we have done something: Without the influence of coal industry propaganda and lobbying: There would have been zero large fossil fueled electric power plants after 1970.

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«Power plants directly emit a long list of harmful pollutants,» the campaign's website says, «and electric utilities also remain the nation's largest industrial source of carbon dioxide, a significant contributor to global warming.»

The company has also recently begun construction on the 392 MW Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in Southern California's Mojave Desert, the world's largest solar thermal power plant under construction.

NPR Blog - According to photographer Jamey Stillings, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) will be the «world's largest concentrated solar thermal power plant» when complete at the end of this year.

1888: Stetson initiates the construction of the first large hydroelectric power plant in America, at Niagara Falls, New York, and at the same time establishes the standard for the American electric system.