Sentences with phrase «low plant costs»

Take advantage of China's lower plant costs, typically just 40 % (in land, buildings and machinery) of what a comparable facility would cost in Canada.

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In September, Ford confirmed that all of the company's small - car production will leave U.S. plants and head to lower - cost Mexico by 2019, but no plants would be closed as a result.

The company is trying to blaze the fastest, most practical and lowest - cost path to commercial fusion power, with the near - term goal of developing a full - scale prototype fusion power plant for the comparative bargain of $ 500 million.

NEW YORK, April 1 - FirstEnergy Corp said late on Saturday its nuclear and coal power plant units filed for bankruptcy court protection as the company looks to restructure, sell assets and win government support to cope with competitors using lower - cost natural gas.

The company says that its proposed plant will have lower capital and operational costs than more conventional brine based projects which will contribute to its predicted 51 % ROI.

Gas had other advantages, including lower emissions, lower capital costs and the ability to locate the plant right where the customers are in Calgary since gas pipelines are everywhere, he explains.

The shale - growth - driven natural gas output is expected to bring benefits to the petrochemical industry as manufacturers will continue to enjoy low - cost feedstock for plants in and close to areas where shale gas and natural gas plant liquids production is abundant.

«Storage effectively provides a low - cost source of power, eliminating the need for the highest cost, least efficient conventional power plant,» says the report.

Barron's noted that an opening of a new plant could lower the company's zinc break - even costs by $ 0.20 per pound.

Because these systems require no plant cooling water or heavy electrical services, the installation and maintenance costs are low and the ROI is high due to the increased productivity this technology can provide.

This further extends plant - wide control capabilities and connects electrical management and control, reducing infrastructure duplication resulting in easier implementation and lower total cost of ownership.

The technology — designed to lower investment, operational and maintenance costs in screening of municipal and industrial waste water with compacting of extracted solids — has also cut the amount of maintenance and waste that has to be handled by plant operators, reducing operational health hazards and improving OHS performance.

It is the only vegetable fat with a solid consistency at non-tropical room temperature, and has become widely used as a low - cost, versatile and plant - based alternative to animal fats.

Australia's major wine groups ship large quantities of lower - end commercial wine to bottling plants in the United Kingdom and Europe in large bladder - type containers to save costs in a highly competitive export market which has been squeezed by the high Australian dollar.

Plant - sourced ingredients, are becoming increasing popular because of their sustainability, versatility, and relatively low cost, as well as their well - deserved health halo.

Problems with plant diseases, rising labor costs, and competition from lower - priced imported peppers have led to a 75 percent decline in the acreage devoted to growing chiles in the state in the last twenty years.

The plant, based in Scriba, Oswego County, is being closed due to greatly reduced revenues and low natural gas prices, along with high operational costs.

So the owner of an old coal - fired plant or hydroelectric plant - with lower costs butthe same sale price - «practically has a printing press» for money, Norlander said.

NRG's Tonawanda and Dunkirk plants burn relatively low - cost coal.

However, supporters argue tree planting is low cost compared to other mitigation options, making it especially attractive to developing countries, many of which are set to become major polluters.

Now Tata is pointing to unrealistically low prices of Chinese steel as a factor behind the closure of Port Talbot plant, alongside high energy prices and the extra cost of climate change policies.

Mohl said increasing operational costs combined with low natural gas prices have cut into revenues and that Entergy was facing a hard choice on the plant even before negotiations began with the state.

In recent years, historically low natural gas prices have driven down wholesale electricity costs as plant owners switched to that fuel, making nuclear power less competitive financially.

The agreement allowed CPV to buy lower - cost credits in New York for the unnamed New Jersey power plant, prosecutors say.

The Governor outlined his vision for the Energy Highway in his 2012 State of the State Address, calling for «a private - sector funded $ 2 billion «Energy Highway» system that will tap into the generation capacity and renewable energy potential in Upstate and Western NY to bring low - cost power to meet the tremendous energy needs in Downstate New York» and for the repowering of old and dirty plants to stop pollution in urban neighborhoods.

Also, coaxing yeast to move beyond glucose to sugars found in non-food plant fibers could lower costs.

And the vegetation can keep the roof cooler in summer, lowering interior air - conditioning costs and therefore peak demand on area power plants.

Yet John Thompson, director of the fossil transition project at the Clean Air Task Force, said Kemper still could open the door for CO2 capture with countries like Poland and India with low - rank coals, by lowering costs for the second generation of plants.

Using these structures as oil absorbers might potentially solve two problems at the same time — the removal of unwanted plants and the production of natural and selective oil sorbent material at low - cost.

And once the plant reaches full bore, certain fixed costs get spread over the whole output, lowering the cost of an individual battery.

Due to the lower costs of production (lower pesticide use) and higher yields resulting from the planting of Bt cotton, farmers have experienced increased incomes.

«Essentially, a natural gas plant can comply with the EPA's proposed standard at a much lower cost, which begs the question of why investors would choose to build coal with CCS,» the report states.

Today's bill, H.R. 720, funds the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, which provides for low - cost loans to communities that need to repair and build wastewater treatment plants and sewage lines.

«Gasification looks today to be the lowest - cost option with carbon capture [but] there is no plant that integrates gasification with capture and sequestration.»

They concluded that it could be feasible to produce hydrogen in factory - scale electrolysis facilities at costs ranging from $ 1.60 and $ 10.40 per kilogram — competitive at the low end with current practices based on methane — though some of their assumptions were based on new plant designs and materials.

The current cost of delivering nuclear - generated electricity is low in part because many plants were paid for long ago, Lovins notes.

But if the fitness cost is low, those plants will produce just as many seeds as plants that don't have the allele.

Plants with the lowest marginal cost — that is, those that can produce additional electricity most cheaply — are selected first by the market.

Low - cost cooking oils rich in linoleic acid have been disappearing from grocery shelves, fueled by industry's push for plants that have been modified to produce oils higher in oleic acid.

«The NRC has been pressured by the nuclear industry, directly and through Congress, to low - ball the potential consequences of a fire because of concerns that increased costs could result in shutting down more nuclear power plants,» said paper co-author Frank von Hippel, a senior research physicist at Princeton's Program on Science and Global Security (SGS), based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

For a solar thermal plant, this results in higher capacity at lower operating costs.

This insatiable demand for plant cellulose — based writing and packaging materials may end up having a silver lining: a component for a new type of low - cost, Earth - friendly rechargeable battery.

«The relative cost of new energy is lower and lower because fossil fuel is more and more expensive,» explained Lu Jinxiang, CEO of A-Power, a Chinese builder of power plants, during a visit to the company's Shenyang wind turbine factory.

«In China the cost for a nuclear power plant is as low as $ 1,500 per kilowatt,» he said.

This investigation will not only be beneficial for space exploration, but it will also show how communities on Earth with little to no agricultural land and sunlight can grow edible plants in small spaces at relatively low costs.

The Phenocart is a low - cost, mobile way to gauge the health of thousands of plants quickly and accurately.

Wheeler examined International Energy Agency data for 174 countries on investments in six low - carbon power sources (hydro, geothermal, nuclear, biomass, wind and solar) to find the incremental costs of clean power compared to a cheaper, carbon - intensive option like a conventional coal - fired power plant.

Scientists can readily obtain extensive genetic information for any plant species of interest, at a relatively low cost, rapidly accelerating the pace of genome sequencing.

The UD finding gives hope that a natural, low - cost solution — a probiotic for rice plants — may be in sight to protect this global food source from accumulating harmful levels of one of the deadliest poisons on the planet.

He estimated that a 100 MW OTEC plant would cost in excess of $ 1 billion to build using current technologies, and that the cost would not be significantly lower for a scaled - down plant.