Sentences with phrase «natural gas generators»

The amount of electricity from coal - fired power plants hit a record low while that from natural gas generators hit a record high.

We would have to swap out these for the typical cheaper low usage peaking natural gas generators that are less efficient and higher polluting.

I read that Trump's recent trip to China concluded with trade deals which included GE's sale of natural gas generators to China, a bunch of them.

So we asked in our research: What would happen if current low natural gas prices or pollution control policies caused all US coal - burning power plants to be replaced by natural gas generators?

The electric power sector has the flexibility to shift some amount of baseload power generation, much of which has traditionally been fueled by coal, to underutilized natural gas generators without requiring additional investments in infrastructure.

Recently, with natural gas prices declining and coal prices rising, dispatching natural gas generators in some parts of the country has become increasingly competitive with running coal generators.

The unveiling included a program at the microgrid, which consists of solar panels, battery storage and a backup natural gas generator.

Most coal - fired generation was added in the 1960s - 1970s, while the vast majority of its natural gas - fired generation was built since 2001, with new natural gas generators achieving greater operational efficiencies than the older coal generators.

This is because power prices often reflect the operating costs of marginal natural gas generators, and natural gas fuel prices are keenly sensitive to winter weather (colder temperatures mean more gas burned for space heating).

Since the Brown ranch is not connected to the grid, the microgrid includes backup in the form of a 24 - kWh natural gas generator to keep the power flowing when sunlight is scarce.

A simple solution could be peaking natural gas generators or hydro storage with enough reserve turbine capacity.

The proposed facilities would source the required energy and heat from natural gas generators, but capture CO2 emissions from combusting the fossil fuel.

A researcher is about to test a technology that he says could be a breakthrough for curbing greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants, natural gas generators and other industrial facilities.

A natural gas generator will be used to keep the company's data centre and other emergency systems running.