Sentences with phrase «n't electric power plants»

It isn't electric power plants or grids.

Not exact matches

The New York Power Authority said Thursday it would not be conducting its own investigation into the recent equipment failures at the Greenport electric plant, which caused a village - wide power outage last month and subsequent smaller outPower Authority said Thursday it would not be conducting its own investigation into the recent equipment failures at the Greenport electric plant, which caused a village - wide power outage last month and subsequent smaller outpower outage last month and subsequent smaller outages.

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Some analysts expect that existing grid capacity may be enough to power U.S. electric cars in the near future, yet they do not rule out the possibility of new coal or nuclear plants coming on line if renewable energy sources are not developed

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Much has changed in the modern electric power plant since Thomas Edison's era, but the parts that actually turn heat into electrons haven't changed since his eureka moments.

Without a level playing field and a steady price on carbon, companies can not assess whether advanced technologies such as «clean coal» power plants or electric vehicles will ever make economic sense.

Electric currents that flow into and out of the ionosphere, which AMPERE monitors, have various effects on it as well as the atmosphere in general that can cause problems with tracking LEO space debris, the use of GPS systems, and even terrestrial power plants — as was the case when a geomagnetic storm took down Quebec's power grid in 1989, Anderson says, adding, «The operators didn't know what was happening.»

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), which owns the plant, recorded high levels of radioactivity in a drainage ditch that runs to the sea from the tank, but could not detect anything in the seawater itself.

All the eight companies involved, including embattled plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co, declined to comment or could not be reached for comment on his case.

(Tokyo Electric Power Company, the plant operator, later suggested that the hydrogen that had exploded had come not from exposed spent fuel but from the melted reactor core in the adjacent Unit 3.)

In its newly - released Safety Evaluation Report, the NRC concluded NuScale provided a method to justify that its SMR plant electric power supplies need not be classified as Class 1E.

The coal mines that are opening are tiny and many of them will be producing metallurgical coal for the steel industry, not feeding coal - fired electric power plants for utilities.

Kansai Electric Power Company has today announced that it will not seek permission to restart units 1 and 2 of its Ohi nuclear power plant in Japan's Fukui PrefecPower Company has today announced that it will not seek permission to restart units 1 and 2 of its Ohi nuclear power plant in Japan's Fukui Prefecpower plant in Japan's Fukui Prefecture.

Mazda isn't hedging its bets on electric power just yet, believing that until the worldwide electrical grid is predominantly powered by renewable energy, an electric vehicle's tailpipe emissions are too far offset by the dirtiness and high CO2 values of the fossil - fuelled coal, oil, and gas power plants that supply their electricity.

This letter to the Billings Gazette, Billings, Montana, followed the Beartooth Electric Cooperative annual meeting where management repeated its contention that a planned coal - fired plant was needed (and clean), that previous purchases of power were not appropriate going forward, and that conservation was not an area for the co-op to support in any way.

I don't see a nuclear power plant getting built in Guinea any time soon, yet students there still have to hike to an airport parking lot to do their homework under the only electric lights for miles around.

Algae Facility Planned, But Details Not Finalized Announced yesterday, HR BioPetroleum will be partnering with Alexander & Baldwin, Hawaiian Electric and Maui Electric to pursue development of an algae facility next to the Ma'alaea power plant on the island of Maui.

China is also championing electric car ownership, but with a big majority of electric power produced from coal power plants, the emphasis on electric bikes and electric cars might not enough of a dent in overall pollution.

On July 14, 2011, American Electric Power said it had decided to table plans to build the full - scale carbon - capture plant at Mountaineer, saying they did not believe state regulators would let the company recover its costs by charging customers, thus leaving it no «compelling regulatory or business reason to continue the program.»

Auxiliary generator: A generator at the electric plant site that provides power for the operation of the electrical generating equipment itself, including related demands such as plant lighting, during periods when the electric plant is not operating and power is unavailable from the grid.

Scientist James Conca said Southern California electric ratepayers should not have to pick up the $ 830 million net cost of permanently closing the San Onofre nuclear power plant because it is still operable without any safety issues.

The groups all claimed at the time that rising energy efficiency meant electric utilities didn't need to build new power plants of any kind.

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.»

Specifically, McCarthy and the Air Office over which she presides gave Congress and the electric power sector false assurances that the EPA's greenhouse gas regulations would not require utilities planning to build new coal - fired power plants to «fuel switch» to natural gas.

So it turns out, if you diversify renewables by type so they're not all affected by weather the same way, you diversify them by location, so they don't all see the same weather at the same time, and you integrate them with the resources on the grid, both power plants and ways to save or shift electric use, then you can have a largely, or wholly renewable electric supply system at very reasonable cost, with greater reliability and resilience than we have right now.

If merchant power plant operators couldn't make margins on the electric market and didn't foresee an uplift in the reasonable future, they needed to leave the market — and they did.

The project sponsor also omits the fact that it has contracted with General Electric to build less - efficient steam turbines that GE itself says are designed for supercritical power plants, not the requisite ultra-supercritical level of efficiency.

Also, critics contended that the zero - emissions standard was erroneous, because while electric cars themselves don't pollute, the power plants that make electricity do — a fair point.

And even if you stomp your feet hard enough and get your way and all coal mining is eliminated, then the people of rural China and India will not receive electric power from central power plants and will burn locally mined coal and wood in their homes causing horrific air pollution and deforestation.

In addition, the rates do not reflect shipments made to cogenerators and other end - users of electricity and are based only on shipments made to plants in the electric power sector.

For one billion dollars they could secure America's electric grid with solar flare proof transformers, preventing every nuclear power plant in America from melting down during a Carrington level solar flare, which is overdue to happen and will cause a nuclear holocaust guaranteed due to the fact that they take years to cool off even after cold shutdown, they'll run out of deisel after a few days, the pumps don't work when there's no power.

By three to one (75 %) the public believes that the EPA, not Congress, should determine whether stricter limits are needed on air pollution from electric power plants.

According to NHK World, Chubu Electric Power Company is considering whether or not to decommission the number 1 and 2 nuclear reactors at its power pPower Company is considering whether or not to decommission the number 1 and 2 nuclear reactors at its power ppower plant:

Nick Akins, president and CEO of the coal - heavy utility American Electric Power, has said flat out that «there will not be any new coal plants built, with the current price of gas and the forecast for the future for gas.»

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On top of that also add the waste heat from electric power stations, and even the thermal pollution from nuke plants (Even though they do not emit co2) and airplanes and I reckon that is a lot of heat energy that used to be a form of carbon now warming up the atmosphere.

There's no reason you can't have a fun and rewarding Christmas without lighting up your yard like a electric power plant.