Sentences with phrase «natural gas capacity»

About 65 % of the existing natural gas capacity added after 1980 is combined - cycle units.

While natural gas capacity was added in 2017, growing renewable supply and slightly declining electricity demand meant that less natural gas was used to produce electricity.

Apache recently added tons of natural gas capacity in what it believes will be the best unconventional natural gas acreage in all of North America.

The tiff is a mirror image of the fights produced when pipeline companies overbuilt natural gas capacity in Alberta in the 1990s, which has led to problems that continue today.

Net wind capacity additions totaled 10,043 megawatts (MW) in 2012, while net natural gas capacity additions totaled 7,206 MW.

Natural gas accounted for 59 % of net generation in 2013, and 3,940 MW of new natural gas capacity came online in 2013, which will help address some of the reserve capacity needs for balancing renewables, as well as replace some of the baseload power that was lost when two of the state's four nuclear units were retired in 2012.

Furthermore, why should DVP commit itself (and its customers) to a huge amount of natural gas capacity over twenty - year period when there are better, cleaner options available?

Without the pipelines, New England will have insufficient natural gas capacity for electric generation during cold winters.

«Consumers throughout the Northeast, particularly our state's manufacturers, need additional natural gas capacity.»

The Clean Energy Future: Protecting the Climate, Creating Jobs, and Saving Money puts forth a plan that expands renewable energy and energy efficiency, phases out all coal - fired power by 2050, and decreases natural gas capacity, along with modest changes in other sectors.

Other recent natural gas capacity additions are primarily combustion turbines, typically used as peaking units.

IEEFA finds India's wind and solar energy costs have fallen 50 % to as low as $ 38 per megawatt hour (MWh) over the past two years, with renewable energy bids in new auctions costing 20 % less than the cost of wholesale electricity from existing Indian coal generation, and 30 - 50 % less than the required cost to justify new imported coal or liquefied natural gas capacity.

According to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) latest monthly «Energy Infrastructure Update», the US grid added more than 70 times as much renewable energy capacity as natural gas capacity.

So California needs enough natural gas capacity to supply the evening peak, but for most of the midday, it doesn't need any of it.

On the plus side, the study notes that an increase in natural gas capacity doesn't necessarily correlate to an increase in fossils burned.

They imposed a temporary moratorium on buying or building new natural gas capacity over 150 MW and ordered APS to return with plans to acquire more renewables.

In Colorado the utility that serves most of the state, Xcel Energy, is now building a megawatt of natural gas capacity for every megawatt of wind so that it is ready to come online quickly to provide power when the wind tails off.

In the California Independent System Operator's (CAISO) Summer Loads & Resource Assessment, CAISO noted that the generation supply was expected to be adequate in order to meet peak electrical demand requirements in spite of drought - related concerns, in part because of recent renewable and natural gas capacity additions.

In 2013, 6,861 MWe of natural gas capacity were added.

Europeans have spent over $ 5 billion Euros per gigawatt of wind and solar PV capacity, while natural gas capacity could have been obtained for about 1 billion Euros per gigawatt.

Along with releasing the price index report, Mexico's pipeline system operator (CENAGAS) launched its natural gas capacity reservation system with electronic bulletin boards for posting natural gas flows.

On June 9, 2011, AEP announced that, based on impending EPA regulations as proposed, AEP's compliance plan would retire nearly 6,000 megawatts (MW) of coal - fueled power generation; upgrade or install new advanced emissions reduction equipment on another 10,100 MW; refuel 1,070 MW of coal generation as 932 MW of natural gas capacity; and build 1,220 MW of natural gas - fueled generation.

And for the ten states that WRI analyzed — including coal - reliant Pennsylvania and Ohio — achieving «moderate to ambitious carbon reductions» would be within reach if those states boost efficiency, add renewable and natural gas capacity, and upgrade existing coal plants.

EIA expects electricity generated from natural gas to grow by 6.5 % between 2015 and 2040, with an addition of 70 GW of natural gas capacity.

Natural gas capacity additions were less than in 2012, as 6,861 MW were added in 2013, compared to 9,210 MW in 2012.

Nearly 60 % of the natural gas capacity added in 2013 was located in California.

As this occurs, natural gas capacity can be redirected to a higher - value role: providing «load - balancing» services to future electricity grids.

Further, the natural gas capacity is dispatchable by the grid operator and is able to run 24/7 while wind and solar generating capacity are dependent on outside forces, i.e. the wind and the sun.

Going forward, if the U.S. is going to dramatically reduce carbon pollution in line with the Obama administration's goals and international benchmarks, it will take much more than building new natural gas capacity to replace coal, according to a new study published in the journal Nature last week.