Sentences with phrase «new electricity generating plants»

But the dollar investment in renewables fell by 14 percent from 2012, matching a decline in investment for all types of new electricity generating plants, perhaps as a result of slowing economic growth in some major economies.

Not exact matches

In 2017, for instance, according to the US Energy Information Administration, the levelised cost of electricity, which is a key comparator of generating effectiveness, is likely to average $ 96 / MWh for new wind plant as opposed to $ 97.4 / MWh for conventional coal.

According to the New York Times, the plant's two reactors generate about one - fourth of the electricity consumed in the city and in Westchester County.

THE world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

A new technology might be able to strip the CO2 from power plant emissions, and generate more electricity at the same time

The analysis by Yang and Jackson finds that if the gas produced by the new plants is used to generate electricity, the total lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would be 36 percent to 82 percent higher than pulverized coal - fired power.

The world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

The Qinshan addition is one of 20 new nuclear power plants undergoing construction or approved for construction in China today, part of a bid to increase the nuclear share of China's electricity - generating capacity from less than 2 percent to 5 percent.

The «well - to - wire» research showed new natural - gas power plants are responsible for less than half as much greenhouse gas per kilowatt hour of electricity generated as existing coal power plants.

Davis — Besse is running again, generating 7.7 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity in 2007, with a new reactor head scavenged from an uncompleted nuclear power plant in Michigan.

One of those gambles involves DOE's award of a $ 535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra Inc. in 2009 to help finance construction of a new plant in Fremont, Calif., to produce the company's cylindrical solar modules that employ thin - film chemical layers to generate electricity.

The amount of electricity generated from natural gas in the U.S. is expected to surpass power generated from coal for the first time in 2016, and no new coal - fired power plants are on the drawing board in the U.S.

And scientists continue to develop new ways to modernize power plants, generate cleaner electricity, and burn less gasoline while we drive.

A new breed of solar panel can do double duty on greenhouse roofs by not only generating renewable electricity, but also by using a light - altering dye to help optimize photosynthesis in the plants beneath them.

Most talk of algae and renewable energy on TreeHugger involves liquid biofuels, but a new plan being put forth in Venice hopes to use algae to generate electricity and allow the city take one large step towards being entirely off fossil fuels: The idea is to take two kinds of algae which are brought in attached to ships, Sargassum muticum and Undaria pinnafitida, and use it in a new 40 MW power plant.

By the time that new nuclear power plants can even begin to generate any «carbon free» electricity, we can build and deploy hundreds of gigawatts of wind and solar generating capacity — and that's with today's mainstream, already commercialized technology, let alone the innovations like thin - film solar that are just beginning to enter the market.

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

But because nuclear plants operate at a 90 % and higher capacity factor while offshore wind at 40 %, the electricity generated from the new wind will be less than Pilgrim's.

That simple change allows new plants to generate the same amount of electricity with 30 percent to 40 percent less coal.

It was decided that Olkiluoto Island in western Finland would host the new plant, where the Gulf of Bothnia could cool the steam used to turn the turbines and generate electricity.

Costs of generating electricity from coal and natural gas are rising as renewables penetrate the market and fossil fuel plants run less, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

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As part of his climate change initiative announced in June, President Obama declared, «Today I'm calling for an end of public financing for new coal plants overseas unless they deploy carbon capture technologies, or there's no other viable way for the poorest countries to generate electricity.»

However, photovoltaic solar plants recently started generating electricity in California, Illinois, New Jersey, Nevada, and Florida.

These flexibility needs are rapidly expanding as a result of numerous industry trends: (a) recognition by policymakers that renewable energy resources are needed to meet long - term emissions reductions goals; (b) customers» increasing desire to voluntarily procure renewable energy or generate electricity on - site; and (c) substantial technological improvements that have driven down the cost of renewable resources to the point where, even before accounting for tax incentives, they are the lowest - cost option for new generating plants in some regions of the country.

It has also partnered with the SELC and other groups pursuing new strategies to bankrupt and close coal - fired electricity generation plants, by generating misplaced fear about coal ash impoundments.

Nearly $ 1 trillion (# 700bn) is being invested in new coal - fired power plants worldwide despite the fact that the demand for electricity generated from coal has declined for two years in a row, shows a new report released today.

While California's solar plants have generated billions of kilowatt hours of electricity for the past two decades, the Nevada Solar One plant will use new technologies to capture even more energy from the sun.

A new 265 MW gas - fired combined - cycle generating plant, on the other hand, would produce slightly more electricity on just a few acres.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

New electricity generated by coal - fired plants will outstrip that which was retired in 2015 and 2016 by a factor of five.

«A new study called Solar Vision 2025, issued by the Canadian Solar Industry Association and prepared by consultants Ernst & Young, reports the cost of solar power projects will be cut by more than 50 % before 2025, making the solar electricity competitive with electricity generated by oil, gas, hydro or nuclear plants,» said Dr. Shawn Qu, CEO and President of Canadian Solar.

The success of REV depends on communities taking charge of their own energy as New York increases the growth of electricity generation at customer sites to supplement power generated at central power plants.

Today around the world, new renewable power plants are being built that will generate electricity for less cost than fossil - fuel power plants.

Washington Governor Christine Gregoire signs a bill that prevents new power plants from exceeding 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt hour of electricity generated, creating a de facto moratorium on building new coal - fired power plants in the state.

Photo: Vlasta JuricekMore good news on the renewable energy front Monday: The cost of onshore wind power has dropped to record lows, and in some regions is competitive with electricity generated by coal - fired plants, according to a survey by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, a market research firm.

A key benefit of renewable energy is that electricity generated from new renewable resources displaces electricity generated from other types of power plants.

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) forthcoming climate change regulations for new and existing electricity generating units have been appropriately labeled the «war on coal,» [1] because the proposed limits for carbon dioxide emissions would essentially prohibit the construction of new coal - fired power plants and force existing ones into early retirement.

In New York City, San Francisco, and at another demonstration in Toronto, protesters drew attention to the fact that companies like Apple use electricity generated by coal plants to run their data centers — which power the cloud that is now sucking down a ballooning slice of the world's energy pie.

Having said that, I think we should go beyond market mechanisms, and institute an immediate, outright ban on the construction of any new coal - fired power plants and any new coal mines, and also announce a deadline within no more than ten years at which time the burning of coal to generate electricity will be illegal and all coal - fired power plants, and coal mines, will be shut down.

And scientists continue to develop new ways to modernize power plants, generate cleaner electricity, and burn less gasoline while we drive.

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA), Crude Oil Production, electronic database, at tonto.eia.doe.gov, updated 28 July 2008; American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), «Installed U.S. Wind Power Capacity Surged 45 % in 2007: American Wind Energy Association Market Report,» press release (Washington, DC: 17 January 2008); AWEA, U.S. Wind Energy Projects, electronic database, at www.awea.org/projects, updated 31 March 2009; future capacity calculated from Emerging Energy Research (EER), «US Wind Markets Surge to New Heights,» press release (Cambridge, MA: 14 August 2008); coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; residential consumption calculated using «Residential Sector Energy Consumption Estimates, 2005,» in DOE, EIA, Residential Energy Consumption Survey 2005 Status Report (Washington, DC: 2007), with capacity factor from DOE, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Power Technologies Energy Data Book (Golden, CO: August 2006); population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 February 2009.

However, burning trees releases carbon into the atmosphere immediately — more per unit of electricity generated than coal — and any new trees planted won't reach maturity and absorb the same amount of carbon for decades, if ever.

Moving from firewood to electricity generated in coal - fired plants is a genuine improvement, a technical remedy that separates cooking and heating from deforestation and severe indoor air pollution, even though the new source of energy contributes to local smog and global warming.

Electricity generated by new conventional fossil fuel power plants costs 7 − 13 cents per kilowatt - hour.

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