Sentences with phrase «natural gas plant near»

VANCOUVER — The B.C. government has struck a deal with the Haisla First Nation that the province says could help fast track a liquefied natural gas plant near Kitimat.

Not exact matches

DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Michigan regulators on Friday cleared DTE Energy's request to build a near - $ 1 billion natural gas power plant, the first approval of such a large facility for a regulated utility in decades and a move that coincides with the retirement of coal - fired plants.

Officials addressed the construction of a natural gas pipeline near the plant, expected to be completed by year's end.

Natural gas combined - cycle power plants are already heavily favored by utilities to the near exclusion of coal, said Joost de Gouw, an atmospheric scientist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

Does it makes sense to replace old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas power plants today, as a bridge to a longer - term transition toward near zero - emission energy generation technologies such as solar, wind, or nuclear power?

«If there is substantial natural gas leakage, then building new natural gas plants would lead to more near term climate damage than using the old dirty coal plants,» explained Caldeira.

Insiders say the most vulnerable are the National Accelerator Centre near Cape - town, home to a number of particle accelerators, including a powerful cyclotron used for medical, biological and physical research; Mossgas, the multi-billion rand project set up to beat oil sanctions by pumping natural gas ashore from beneath the Indian Ocean; and the Koeberg nuclear power plant at Melkbosstrand.

Natural gas peaker plants are expensive and controversial; you want them near the user, but the NIMBYs come out in force.

Safety is a core value of the oil and natural gas industry — safety for workers, communities near active operations and the environment, from protecting plants and animals to reducing emissions for cleaner air.

CPV Valley Energy Center is a 650 MW combined - cycle, natural gas - fired generating plant near Middletown, NY that is much further along and expected to be online in February 2018.

Whether smaller - scale coal plants make economic sense is another matter, particularly as the cost of producing renewable energy comes down, and natural gas prices remain at near - historic lows, well under $ 3 / MMBtu.

The Duke - owned Belews Creek Station near Winston - Salem; Marshall Steam Station near Statesville; and the Mayo and Roxboro Plants north of Durham on the Virginia state line all appear uneconomic compared with natural gas.

Of these, nine are not only uncompetitive with existing natural gas, but also with wind energy: Hammond Steam Generating Station and three out of four units at Bowen Steam Plant, both near Rome in northwest Georgia; McIntosh Steam Plant northwest of Savannah; and one unit at Plant Wansley, west of Newnan near the Alabama border.

If we build these natural gas plants, we reduce incentives to build the near zero emission energy system we really need.

Between 2010 - 2020, rapid near - term investment in natural gas electricity - generating capacity can progressively replace Australia's dirtiest coal - fired power plants for baseload power.

As a result, building out natural gas — or so - called «cleaner» fuel options — to replace coal plants would have a near indistinguishable impact on global warming over the next century.

The analysis identifies which units are no longer economic and may face retirement, features four snapshots of communities located near coal plants, and cautions states against a potentially risky wholesale shift away from coal to natural gas.

New natural gas might run coal out of some regions slightly faster than otherwise, but overall renewables would deploy faster with a near - universal rule of no new natural gas plants.

Hence in this latter comparison, which primarily compares the effect of the CO2 and CH4 emitted by these two sectors (and hence the leak rate threshold decreases with a nearer - term perspective), even very small leak rates would make the mean natural gas plant as environmentally damaging as coal.

Add that to that the fact the electricity from solar thermal plants — which produce energy at 13 - 17 cents per kilowatt - hour (kWh)-- is competitively priced but still higher than power generated by natural gas, and you may question how many solar thermal plants will be built in the near future.