Sentences with phrase «natural gas turbines»

Traditionally, grid operators have relied on spinning reserves, usually natural gas turbines, that can be brought online very quickly.

Wind and solar are intermittent and unreliable methods for generating electricity that requires backup, usually with natural gas turbines, which increases costs.

Natural gas turbines replaced solar power capacity during the August 21st solar eclipse, highlighting the carbon - light fossil fuel's emerging role as a gateway «green» energy in the coming decades, according to a report by Fortune released before the sun took its proverbial nap.

Simpson and Shue also criticized NYPA for writing its initial call for developers — called a request for proposal (RFP), which was made in early 2017 — that limited responses only to projects using natural gas turbines.

Fossil fuel industries collect some $ 4 billion a year in tax breaks and other aid, reports Taxpayers for Common Sense, a group of nonpartisan budget watchdogs — and that figure doesn't even take into account hidden forms of support, such as the Pentagon's jet aircraft research and development that led to efficient new natural gas turbines.

But a 2003 ruling in a suit over natural gas turbines found the failure to disclose CO2 emissions «counter to NEPA.»

One might argue the answer is zero in the Pacific Northwest where most power is hydro, but even in heavy hydro / nuclear areas, the incremental marginal demand is typically picked up by natural gas turbines.

Earlier this year, there was a competitive bid for power interests in Arizona, and interestingly photovoltaics and battery won that against what I would have guessed would have won, a peaking natural gas turbine.

The recipient of POWER magazine's 2016 Plant of the Year Award mainly because of the efficiency of the Siemens - built natural gas turbines, the Lausward plant's Fortuna Unit has largely been economically viable because of the heat it has been able to sell to the city — and not just for its electricity.

Lower emissions from natural gas turbines and lignite power plants compensated for the increase in CO2 emissions from hard coal plants.

«With modest success in the technology management program, these cycles could compete with combined - cycle natural gas turbines and carbon capture and storage,» Dennis said.

That's easy to do with coal plants and natural gas turbines.

A natural gas turbine can reach about 350, while a coal plant equipped with carbon capture — such as the innovative Boundary Dam CCS project in Canada — can release less than 130 kg of CO2 per megawatt - hour.

Unlike traditional backup generators that run on diesel fuel, these natural gas turbines offer a more efficient solution and, more importantly, ensure the utility avoids building a new power plant.

Instead, the company adopts new plans to add 101 MW of wind power and 45.5 MW of geothermal power by 2011, and to develop a natural gas turbine in Idaho by 2012.

And as demonstrated at the Princeton University microgrid, a natural gas turbine generator can react and respond quickly to an unforeseen voltage sag caused by a dense cloud passing over a 4.5 MW solar farm.