Sentences with phrase «new electric plants»

No longer will new electric plants be allowed to endanger our health with unchecked carbon pollution and the climate change it causes.

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NAMIE, Japan, March 27 - At a small plant intended to help revitalise a town ravaged by the 2011 earthquake, Nissan Motor Co is giving its costly electric vehicle batteries new life after they pass their peak performance.

However, Speth left open the possibility of new investment in Britain such as an electric battery and car plant if the conditions, including pilot testing and support from science, were right.

The electric - car maker is «jammed to the gills» at its current California location so another new plant is needed.

Whoopee, a new coal port when solar power is now shutting down coal / electric plants.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)-- The U.S. Department of Energy said Wednesday that it is entering negotiations with General Electric's nuclear division on a proposal to replace an aging uranium enrichment plant in Kentucky with a new facility.

«Owing to the increased precision involved in moulding caps, many manufacturers today are prepared to invest in new high - performance plant and switch from hydraulic and hybrid to all - electric injection moulding systems,» concludes Kevin.

The company said the continued operation of the nuclear plants is a «crucial way» to keep down New York's carbon emissions, as well as electric costs, and a «realistic» plan to meet the state's 2030 clean energy standards.

Thanks to our nuclear power plants, greenhouse gas emissions from New York's electric generating plants are just one fourth (per capita) of what is produced on average across the U. S.

On Jan. 21, 2011, he visited the General Electric plant in Schenectady to stress the importance of new technology, particularly renewable energy sources that can be manufactured in America and exported globally.

«Reducing carbon pollution from electric power plants is a good start, but the goal must be phasing out coal, oil, and natural gas as our energy sources,» said Howie Hawkins, Green candidate for Governor of New York (http://www.howiehawkins.org).

General Electric Co. says it plans to close an electrical components plant in upstate New York and move the work to Florida.

The New York Power Authority said Thursday it would not be conducting its own investigation into the recent equipment failures at the Greenport electric plant, which caused a village - wide power outage last month and subsequent smaller outages.

FitzPatrick struggles to make money because wholesale electric prices in Central New York have been depressed by plentiful natural gas, which fuels many power plants.

New York lawmakers should use all tools available to fight this issue head on through legislation, such as S. 4417, introduced by Senator Tony Avella, which would direct the state PSC to repeal any electric rate increase «where such increase is a subsidy to upstate nuclear power plants.»

Scott Segal, executive director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, which represents utility interests in Washington, said Bloomberg's findings about the effect of the new EPA rule on coal plants are «very consistent» with what his group concluded in its own review of the regulation.

The Electric Power Research Institute's report on decarbonizing electricity generation said an «aggressive» push on new technologies could lower 2005 - level carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 41 percent in 2030.

The electric power industry can achieve deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 by building new nuclear plants, sequestering coal - plant emissions, boosting wind energy and improving efficiency, the industry's top research group said yesterday.

We are building our first two new nuclear reactors since the early 1970s at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant [in eastern Georgia], and that's a start.

Additional energy capacity will come from two new reactors at Plant Vogtle, a nuclear power plant in eastern Georgia, near the South Carolina border, that Georgia Power owns jointly with Oglethorpe Power Corp., the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and Dalton UtiliPlant Vogtle, a nuclear power plant in eastern Georgia, near the South Carolina border, that Georgia Power owns jointly with Oglethorpe Power Corp., the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and Dalton Utiliplant in eastern Georgia, near the South Carolina border, that Georgia Power owns jointly with Oglethorpe Power Corp., the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and Dalton Utilities.

Some analysts expect that existing grid capacity may be enough to power U.S. electric cars in the near future, yet they do not rule out the possibility of new coal or nuclear plants coming on line if renewable energy sources are not developed

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This is possibly the newest market in the world, a would - be global attempt to create a trade in the greenhouse gas emissions from any nation's fleet of cars, household refrigerators, electric power plants, factories, even farms.

The DoE issued $ 6.5 billion in loan guarantees for two new Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors already under construction at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia in February.

Southern Co. and its partners have dug 27.5 meters down into that soil to reach bedrock and are now filling up the hole to provide a stable foundation for what is likely to be the first of a new generation of reactors in the U.S.: two new AP - 1000 models at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant that stand next to two older pressurized water reactors, which came online in the 1980s.

A 2008 environmental impact statement estimated a potential for 5,540 megawatts of new electric generation capacity from geothermal on BLM lands in Western states and Alaska by 2015 through 111 new geothermal power plants, with an additional 6,600 megawatts from another 133 plants by 2025.

Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)'s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer - Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by - product for power generation.

This 2004 photo shows the Danskammer electric power plant across the Hudson River, looking west from New Hamburg.

In the wake of President - elect Trump's November victory, Ford Motor Company has canceled plans for a new Mexican assembly plant and will instead invest $ 700 million in its Flat Rock, Michigan, factory to build a 300 - plus mile small electric sport / utility by 2020, a hybrid - powered fully autonomous vehicle by 2021, and a hybrid Mustang in 2020, CEO Mark Fields announced Tuesday morning.

Work on Porsche's manufacturing facility will create a new paint shop, a new assembly plant, and changes to the engine factory to accommodate electric propulsion production.

Having recently planned to invest in a new plant in North America, Jaguar Land Rover which is owned by Tata Group is now planning to build its first all - electric car in Austria.

The Michigan Assembly at Wayne, which is the plant that will produce the 2012 Ford Focus Electric, will be Ford's largest plant in North America after the new jobs are added.

Nissan announced plans to start full production of the new Nissan LEAF at its Smyrna Vehicle Assembly Plant later this year, as the company strengthens its global leadership in zero - emission electric vehicles.

Investment into the engine plant will allow it to add electric motor production to its capabilities, and the Germans say they'll be spending around $ 742m on that, a new assembly plant, and a new painting facility.

As production for the new Nissan LEAF has started at the Oppama plant in Japan, the automaker has released a video in which it shows the assembly process for their all - new 100 percent electric, zero emission model.

General Motors will be adding two shifts and 2,500 hourly and salaried jobs to the Detroit - Hamtramck assembly plant to build the new Chevrolet Malibu and the next - generation Impala alongside the Chevrolet Volt and Opel Ampera electric cars.

Buyers will choose from three new power plants, including a 2.5 - liter 4 - cylinder, a 3.5 - liter V6, and a dramatically improved gas - electric hybrid system promising efficiency that approaches the vaunted Toyota Prius.

Along with the current smart fortwo electric drive model and hybrid versions of the Mercedes C - Class, E-Class and S - Class, the plant will supply batteries for the new fortwo and forfour electric drive models which are expected to launch later in 2016.

SMYRNA, Tenn. — Nissan announced plans to start full production of the new Nissan LEAF at its Smyrna Vehicle Assembly Plant later this year, as the company strengthens its global leadership in zero - emission electric vehicles.

The new locomotive runs without any emissions inside the plant buildings and can operate for up to two hours at a time in purely electric mode.

Cadillac is also without a three - row crossover, but since the Orion plant builds small cars such as the 2014 Chevrolet Sonic, 2016 Buick Verano and, soon, the all - electric Chevrolet Bolt, chances are the new Caddy will be a small car as well.

If you will not be with your new puppy, you must crate him or her to keep the dog from chewing things like electric cords, plants, or cleaning chemical bottles that could cause irreversible harm to the puppy's developing body.

A new apartment building rises high above a line of tanker trucks carrying diesel to fuel a thermal electric plant in Rio Branco, the capital of Brazil's western-most Amazonian state of Acre.

E. g. if the sunlight is collected in outer space by large but practical thin plastic mirrors, it can be directed to any place on earth, preferably near existing hydro - electric plants, so that it would not be necessary to greatly increase the existing electric grid, all without any really new technology.

It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».

The Wall Street Journal and New York Times have pieces painting a convincing picture that officials at Tokyo Electric Power Company, reluctant to wreck a huge investment, hesitated to flood overheating parts of the damaged nuclear plant complex with corrosive seawater even though that step was clearly laid out in emergency plans.

For a small fraction of the cost I could eliminate more greenhouse gas by converting the large Four Corners, coal - fired electric power plant in New Mexico to natural gas.

«Without new coal - fueled plants in our state, experts predict that electric bills will skyrocket and Kansans will be more dependent than ever on hostile, foreign energy sources,» the ad said.

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