Sentences with phrase «new gas turbines»

They have faulted Gov. Cuomo for continuing to promote the burning of fracked gas across the state, including his proposal to add two new gas turbines in Arbor Hill to heat the Empire State Plaza.

The Greek corporation informed that its wholly - owned Turkish subsidiary will be providing Ghana with ten brand new gas turbines manufactured by General Electric (GE).

Not exact matches

More than 100 clergy issued a letter to the governor urging him to have the New York Power Authority seek clean - energy alternatives to a plan that would install natural gas - fired turbines in the Sheridan Hollow neighborhood.

Also at 11:30 a.m., the Sheridan Hollow Alliance for Renewable Energy, ally organizations and local residents will gather at the site of two new proposed fracked gas turbines to call on Cuomo to halt the proposal and reissue a request for proposals for renewable energy solutions, 79 Sheridan Ave., Albany.

In the months before design and construction takes place for the new 16MW microgrid — a locally sourced power grid consisting of two gas turbine generators — to be located in the downtown neighborhood of Sheridan Hollow, community groups are reaching out in search of concrete answers from project planners.

A slew of new coal - fired generators are coming online, he noted, and while those plants are sleeker and more efficient, they're still not nearly as clean as gas - fired turbines or renewable power sources.

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 so is the cost of any method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions enough to make a similar difference — whether it's doubling the fuel efficiency of every single car and truck on the road (which would cost a few trillion dollars and take at least 15 years) or building scores of new wind turbines for each turbine already turning today or erecting hundreds of new solar cell arrays for every array in use today.

These results were affirmed during the full - scale gas turbine test, validating the predictive accuracy of the new simulation methods developed on Titan.

With the computational team's initial doubts now a distant memory, GE entered a world of new possibilities for evaluating gas turbine engines.

Applying its new methods to the 2015 gas turbine, the team predicted a low instability level in the latest design that was acceptable for operation and would not affect performance.

At the same time, old, inefficient «peaker» units — so - called because they run no more than 77 hours a year when electricity demand in the state is at its highest — will be shut down or replaced by newer natural gas — fired turbines.

The idea is that the new layer will be used in both aircraft engines and gas turbines within two years.

GE's F - class gas turbine technology and financing to help power New York's upcoming Cricket Valley Energy Center

Engine upgrade includes a new camshaft profile, lash adjusters, low - tension piston rings and a 9.7:1 compression ratio 4.7 - liter V - 8 engine adds knock sensors and exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) for improved efficiency Getrag 238 six - speed manual transmission replaces the NV3500 five - speed manual on 3.7 - liter and 4.7 - liter Magnum engines Low Lockup Speed and turbine damper added to 545RFE with 4.7 - liter engine.

The power unit of the new 911 GT2 is based on the six - cylinder boxer engine of the 911 Turbo, with air supply by two exhaust gas turbochargers featuring variable turbine geometry (VTG).

While the most common type of petrol turbocharger today, the radial turbocharger, features a radial exhaust gas flow to the turbine wheel, the new Continental turbocharger features a radial - axial flow — hence the name RAAX.

Plenty of opposition to the turbines themselves has appeared, even in rural areas, but robust opposition to building new conduits for getting energy from sources to markets, whether the medium is pipelines carrying natural gas or wires for electrons, has been seen for decades.

This is a valuable long - view chart from the Energy Information Administration showing how natural gas plants and wind turbines have been the dominant sources of new electricity generation capacity in the United States in recent years.

Electricity from new installations — which are being erected at a pace of roughly one turbine every two and a half hours around the country — sells for less than 6 cents per kWh, a price competitive with natural gas.

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GE Power in early December 2017 said its 9HA.02 gas turbine reached a new milestone by exceeding 64 % efficiency in combined cycle power plants.

The NRDC cites the «2016 State of the Market» report by PJM, the largest grid operator in North America, as showing that «new entrant natural gas - fired combined cycle plants, combustion turbine plants, and solar are economical, but that new coal and nuclear plants are not.»

The project, which will take up to three years to complete, will increase its capacity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 10 percent, by eliminating all use of fuel oil (except for emergencies) and installing newer, more efficient turbines.

Orders for GE's newest, large gas - fired turbines have fallen 35 percent in the two years since the deal closed, and industry estimates show demand for conventional plants is unlikely to hit 2017 levels again for at least a decade.

GWP could buy solar panels from other companies in the US and complete the manufacturing doing only the back - end of the panels at Grayson, use only the new technology gas turbine built in 2003 and invest in storage.

Natural gas the real replacement, but new Michigan wind mandate means more turbine towers coming, too

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.

The newly privatised companies invested in the new combined cycle generating technologies, which used gas turbines and were gas fired.

The scope of Thursday's new agreement will initially focus for one to two years on how to further boost efficiency in separating and concentrating carbon dioxide from the exhaust of gas - fueled power turbines.

The wind turbines themselves would cover 57 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean, yet would produce slightly less electricity than a «new baseload 350 MW gas - fired combined cycle generating unit,» which would «occupy only a few acres.»

Fortunately, the foundation for this has been laid with two new technologies: the gas - electric hybrid cars pioneered by Toyota and advanced - design wind turbines.

But what does the increasing role of energy storage as peaker replacement mean for investments in new combustion turbine, or even combined cycle plants, and gas pipelines?

Recent adaptation of offshore oil and gas industry construction vessels (OCVs) for work with wind projects prompted ABS this year to establish a new chapter in its manual and officially designate a Wind IMR unit dedicated to offshore wind turbine installation, maintenance and repair.

New storage projects are in the news all over, including a 10 - MW battery coupled to a Southern California Edison gas turbine; a multi-kilowatt flywheel that will store four hours of power for Hawaiian Electric; and a proposed 393 - MW pumped hydro project in southern Oregon's Klamath basin that faces opposition from local tribes.

At extremely high levels of renewables, flexibility resources do become more important and things like demand response, new fast - ramp gas turbines, or energy storage might be viable.

Since completing the parts agreement, the company team has negotiated long - term service agreements for the existing General Electric, Siemens, and Mitsubishi turbines, and created a new parts exchange program with General Electric for the two newest natural gas - fired units at Cherokee Generating Station near Denver.

What's the difference between building wind turbines on expropriated property and doing the same thing for a new oil / gas pipeline, oh yes the wind turbine doesn't create an environmental disaster that destroys the surround properties, wild life and ground water that takes generations to become usable again.

The obvious choice was Diablo, which would not be as adept at backing up new wind and solar power as nimble gas turbines are.

According to projections by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the average rate for new combined cycle natural gas - fired plants (which use both a gas and a steam turbine) going online in 2018 will be around $ 48 per megawatt hour (MWh).

The news media reported: «The authors calculate that, by building approximately 250,000 new turbines, America could eliminate almost two - thirds of its coal - generated capacity...» The news media also reported that such action would allow the U.S. to meet the Kyoto Protocolís 1999 greenhouse gas targets and simultaneously improve health, acid deposition, smog, and visibility problems associated with coal.

The take home message from this is that, in an efficient grid with 17 % of electricity generated by wind and 53 % by relatively new combined cycle gas turbines, the wind generation is only 53 % effective at avoiding CO2 emissions.

To replace just 20 % of the United States» 995,000 MW of total installed generating capacity, we would need to blanket an area the size of Kansas with wind turbines, and then add nearly a thousand 600 - MW gas - fired backup generators... and thousands of miles of new high voltage transmission lines.

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.

Indeed, last month the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said that the latest data on wind turbine performance and costs suggests that wind power is likely to be more cost - effective than natural gas over the next 20 years, and it could account for the majority of new generating capacity added over that that time in Texas.

This year has seen some leading gas turbine manufacturers promoting new products as the ideal partner to wind or large solar in both the 50 Hz and 60 Hz markets.

He pointed to natural - gas - fired turbines at New York University, which kept delivering heat, hot water and electricity during Sandy, as one operating within Con Ed's region.

These units would have to be phased out in favor of new peaking gas - fired turbines and huge numbers of them equal in capacity to the added wind power capacity.

Using Fischer - Tropsch (FT) synthetic fuel or blend can significantly reduce gaseous particulate matter and gaseous emissions compared to standard military jet (JP - 8) fuel when used in a T63 gas - turbine helicopter engine, according to a new study by a team from the Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University and... Read more →

It should also be noted that much new generation is fueled by natural gas, and Lazard estimates the levelized cost of new gas combined - cycle turbines at 4.2 - 7.8 cents per kWh.