Sentences with phrase «large nuclear power plant»

The construction of large nuclear power plants requires a lot of money to ensure safety and reliability.

At peak output, those solar farms would generate the equivalent electricity produced by several large nuclear power plants.

The divisions the bills have created within the state — with the utility commission, some lawmakers, clean energy advocates and the executive branch on one side, and Xcel and other members of the legislature on the other — echo wider debates about large nuclear power plants in the U.S., and who should pay for them.

Constructed in one third of the time needed to build current large nuclear power plants, the time value of capital is a significant contributor to the low capital cost.

Unlike large nuclear power plants, no electrically - powered pumps or heat exchangers are needed to ensure that the plant remains safely cooled and contained.

Given that Oyster Creek was the first large nuclear power plant in the US, it perhaps was destined to be one of the first to be retired.

15 GWe is 3 x large nuclear power plants 15 GWe is 3 x large hydro power plants 15 GWe is 15 x biggest Wind farms 15 GWe is 30 x biggest PV solar plants 15 GWe is 40 x Ivanpah CS solar plants

The extra electricity, which can increase by as much as a gigawatt — or the output of a large nuclear power plant — in under an hour, must be quickly sold to other utilities or in many cases it is wasted.

By contrast, a large nuclear power plant produces only a billion watts of continuous power.

Specifically, by 2030 the agency aims to put into geostationary orbit a solar - power generator that will transmit one gigawatt of energy to Earth, equivalent to the output of a large nuclear power plant.

The largest solar farm in the world, in China, generates almost as much electricity as a large nuclear power plant

«As the home of our country's largest nuclear power plant, Arizona and my administration have long benefited from safe, clean, reliable, and economically - beneficial nuclear energy.

At peak generation, this solar facility's electricity output would rival that of five large nuclear power plants.

Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station (PVNGS), at 3,937 MW, is the largest nuclear power plant in the U.S., and the 2nd largest of any U.S. power plant.

While renewables - plus - storage may not be ready to take over the role of large thermal generation plants — and in the case of Arizona, the US» largest nuclear power plant — in providing baseload energy, Huber said that in the hierarchy of needs, peaker plants which are often only run on a part - time basis to stabilise the grid, come first.

[275] As of 2011 [update], 47.6 % of total electricity generation was from nuclear power [274] The largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant, is located in Ukraine.

«If you wanted to power the entire world on nuclear, you'd need about 17,000 large nuclear power plants, each 850 megawatts,» Jacobson says.

Experts project that by 2010 the number of solar water heaters installed in China will equal the thermal equivalent of electrical capacity of 40 large nuclear power plants.