Sentences with phrase «natural gas plants»

One option is to return to the agency's approach in its original 2012 proposal, in which it pointed to new natural gas plants as the basis for its standard.

Watch him make his way through a burning natural gas plant in an attempt to save our heating prices and catch some terrorists.

Indeed, the flexibility and storage facilities of natural gas plants allow the electricity production systems to effectively match the electricity demand with the electricity supply.

Regardless, the team emphasized that meeting upcoming greenhouse gas emission targets will require deeper emissions cuts than just building natural gas plants with low methane leakage.

Wind turbines cost around $ 2 per watt, solar including installation around $ 2 per watt, some combined cycle natural gas plants around $ 1 per watt.

Coal and nuclear plants have their fuel «stored» on site, but this is much more difficult for natural gas plants.

Meanwhile, the company also faces criticism about its near - term plan to build a $ 1 billion, 1,100 MW natural gas plant to replace a portion of its aging coal fleet.

Between 2002 and 2012, the annual electrical generation from coal - fired plants fell by 2 %, while the amount of electricity generated by natural gas plants rose by 37 %.

Power companies that need large amounts of power, but aren't naturally sunny or windy, will inevitably turn to cleaner burning natural gas plants over coal plants.

They found that because natural gas plants are overall more efficient than coal plants, producing more energy per unit of carbon, they could cause less warming in the long term.

A hot summer forecast means more demand for power, potentially served by flexible natural gas plants.

While utilization rises in the summer, the average natural gas plant capacity factor remains below 70 percent in the summer months of 2015.

Coal, nuclear, and many natural gas plants depend on having sufficient water for cooling, which means that severe droughts and heat waves can put electricity generation at risk.

It will also include incentives for upstate nuclear facilities, which provide a significant source of carbon - free power, but are struggling financially against natural gas plants.

When demand spikes beyond the carrying capacity of that limited transmission, the utility calls on three in - basin natural gas plants.

And suddenly natural gas plants are being looked at for closure too.

Instead, it has since built two huge natural gas plants and received approval to build a third.

Until now, the answer has been to build large and dirty natural gas plants.

Many experts warn that thousands of coal and natural gas plants worldwide will have to be fitted with the technology in order to limit global emissions to safe levels.

And two new natural gas plants are being constructed in the surrounding area.

Each of these plants can run reliably, and natural gas plants in particular can increase or decrease their output to follow changes in electricity demand.

The key factors, they found, are power plant efficiency and, in the case of natural gas plants, methane leakage during the supply process.

A poll taken at a recent conference of American utility CEOs suggested almost all plan to build natural gas plants for their next generation of capacity.

Although a combined cycle natural gas plant could easily meet the standard, even the most efficient coal plant would have to cut about 40 percent of its CO2 emissions.

The LNG Canada consortium has awarded a contract, reported to be worth C$ 14 billion, to design and build a liquefied natural gas plant at Kitimat, British Columbia, even though the...

Table 9.3 used for tight oil and Table 9.2 dry unproved natural gas (shale gas) resource estimate was multiplied by 1.045 so as to include natural gas plant liquids for an unproved wet natural gas volume.

The Sierra Club, which strongly opposes the Kemper project — «It's dirty, it's expensive, and it's unnecessary,» said Louie Miller, the Club's state director — argues that the state as a whole has excess generating capacity and that Mississippi Power, which serves southern Mississippi, could have bought an existing natural gas plant at a fraction of the cost of building Kemper.

If the carbon regulations the Administration imposes on new and existing power plants affect natural gas plants as well, the economic pain only gets worse.

About a thousand demonstrators walked from the site of a proposed natural gas plant in Albany's Sheridan Hollow neighborhood to the Capitol.

Democratic candidate Cynthia Nixon visited the Finger Lakes to voice her opposition to a controversial proposed liquefied natural gas plant on Seneca Lake.

Building more natural gas plants, Shearer said, simply extends that commitment to fossil fuels.

Utilities are starting to buy big battery banks as a way to avoid building and operating new expensive natural gas plants.

Overall, all the scenarios foresee an increased reliance on natural gas; the EPA calls for switching over coal - fired power plants to burn natural gas and for more use of existing natural gas plants that are idle.

As part of the largest investment in coal - fueled synthetic natural gas plants in history, the central Chinese government recently has approved construction of nine large - scale plants capable of producing more than 37 billion cubic meters of synthetic natural gas annually.

TAKE ACTION: Tell California's Public Utilities Commission to replace San Onofre with clean energy, not natural gas plants!

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.

APS wants to spend $ 500 million to increase the net site capacity for the Ocotillo natural gas plant in Tempe by 290 MW, from 330 to 620 MW.

While natural gas plant construction has slowed, it is unclear if and when California will be able to rely on renewable power for most or all of its needs, which many of its legislators are striving to achieve.

The average U.S. natural gas plant, which emits 800 to 850 pounds of CO2 per megawatt, meets that standard; coal plants emit an average of 1,768 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt.

Unlike natural gas plants, small renewable projects do not have devastating environmental and climate impacts that aggravate food and water scarcity and desertification, issues with which much of sub-Saharan Africa already struggles.

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.

Michigan regulators Friday approved DTE Energy's request to build a $ 1 billion, 1,100 megawatt natural gas plant, concluding a nine - month process that brought strong pushback from clean energy groups.

This affects 11 natural gas plants providing 12,000 megawatts of capacity on the ISO grid.