Sentences with phrase «new natural gas»

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.

But the flood of new natural gas supply due to fracking caused the opposite to occur.

But a less publicized move to replace the head of a federal regulatory agency will almost certainly slow federal approval for new natural gas pipelines.

People must close zero CO2 nuclear power plants and build new natural gas power plants that make CO2 in order to make up for the unpredictable and intermittent nature of wind and solar power.

From 15 cents / kWh in 1991 to about 6.5 cents / kWh today, a price that is competitive with new natural gas power plants.

This includes developing needed infrastructure such as new natural gas pipelines, additional storage capacity and more.

For a number of months we've been talking about the need for more efficient and predictable federal processes for the permitting of energy infrastructure — including new natural gas pipelines and added capacity.

The utility will make up that capacity with three new natural gas units that recently came online, as well as through energy efficiency, new solar investments and slower economic growth.

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

They imposed a temporary moratorium on buying or building new natural gas capacity over 150 MW and ordered APS to return with plans to acquire more renewables.

Natural gas accounted for 59 % of net generation in 2013, and 3,940 MW of new natural gas capacity came online in 2013, which will help address some of the reserve capacity needs for balancing renewables, as well as replace some of the baseload power that was lost when two of the state's four nuclear units were retired in 2012.

The number of new natural gas wells drilled each year in the United States has skyrocketed, from 17,500 in 2000 to a peak of more than 33,000 in 2008.

More specifically, between January to March, 18 megawatts of new natural gas generating capacity were added, whereas 1,291 MW of new renewables.

Pairing batteries with renewable energy facilities offers a potential alternative, but the price point for such facilities remains too high to compete with new natural gas combined cycle plants.

Between 2000 - 2014, there were 117 GW of new wind energy capacity installed in Europe, 101 GW of new natural gas fired capacity and 88 GW of new solar capacity.

New natural gas furnace - 2017.

Furthermore, a comprehensive natural gas infrastructure connecting to the Northern Territory could provide an export route for new natural gas supplies discovered and exploited in northern South Australia.

Impact of Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32) Scoping Plan Electricity Resource Goals On New Natural Gas - Fired Generation, publication # CEC -200-2009-011.

Instead, they imposed a temporary freeze on most new natural gas projects and asked the power company to draw up plans for acquiring more renewable energy.

On the heels of an announcement that the plant may be replaced with new natural gas facilities, today the My Generation campaign released a new video and online petition urging the Public Utilities Commission and Governor Brown to reject a plan that would add new air pollution to Southern California and move California backwards on its climate goals.

A spate of water contamination problems in Pennsylvania have been linked to new natural gas drilling in the state

Buru has found very promising new natural gas supplies in the Canning Basin southeast of Broome.

Aboriginal Relations Minister Ida Chong said the deal is the key to unlocking a whole new natural gas export industry in the province.

While there wasn't any material news related to the natural gas refueling company, reports that deliveries of a highly anticipated new natural gas engine have begun could be driving its stock price higher.

DTE Energy wants to replace three old coal plants with a huge new natural gas burning one.

These problems result from the closure of a number of coal - fired electric plants in recent years in these states and the refusal of local politicians to approve new natural gas pipelines or local fracking for natural gas, in many cases for alleged climate «reasons.»

A separate article, from Utility Dive, reports how new natural gas, not renewables, is the culprit in beating down demand for nuclear generation.

Canada, on the other hand, has yet to regulate new natural gas generation.

Strategically - placed, Greece could represent an important crossroads for the diversification of supplies and new natural gas routes in Europe, the consortium said.

New natural gas development guidelines released for Delaware River Basin raise major concerns.

Cuomo can aim for his aggressive goals to reduce climate - changing greenhouse gas emissions in the state, or he can see a network of proposed new natural gas pipelines built.

The expanded use of drilling technology to extract resources trapped in tight formations 8,000 feet underground has opened the door to trillions of cubic feet of new natural gas reserves.

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.

«The combination of weak electricity demand and new natural gas resources has pushed the moment of solar grid parity farther away,» Book says.

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.

One analyst from the Bloomberg New Energy Finance research group projected that floating wind projects by 2020 could cost more than twice per megawatt than conventional offshore wind, which itself has been estimated, on average, to cost about three times more per megawatt than many new natural gas and coal power stations.

«California can either continue to lead on climate protection, or move backwards with new natural gas pollution.»

Most coal - fired generation was added in the 1960s - 1970s, while the vast majority of its natural gas - fired generation was built since 2001, with new natural gas generators achieving greater operational efficiencies than the older coal generators.

We do not need expensive new natural gas pipelines or to develop counterproductive bailouts to uneconomic fossil fuel generators, which would only raise electricity bills, bring more polluting energy into the region, exacerbate climate change, and slow New England's progress toward a clean, resilient, and fuel secure grid.

AB 32, California's nation - leading greenhouse gas emissions reductions law, and the state's Renewable Energy Standard (RES), requiring state utilities to obtain one - third of their power from renewable sources by 2020, will not only drive the growth of renewables capacity, Hertel said, but also necessitate new natural gas - burning power plants or result in serious power supply problems.

Natural gas CCS: limited new natural gas plants in many places, with construction under pressure from intermittent renewables; reluctance by some stakeholders to get CCS associated with natural gas power because it may then become effectively impossible to build; also U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) CCS funding is specifically for coal.

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If Cuomo prevails in his efforts to shut down the Indian Point nuclear reactors, this may assuage foes of nuclear power, but it will amplify the pressure to build new natural gas power plants, and / or transmission lines.

The letter to the Environmental Protection Agency from Attorney General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma carried a blunt accusation: Federal regulators were grossly overestimating the amount of air pollution caused by energy companies drilling new natural gas wells in his state.

Meanwhile, Duke's regulated subsidiaries, Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress, filed integrated resource plans in North and South Carolina that call for up to nine new natural gas generating units, totaling 8,300 MW.

Closure of coal - fired power plants hasn't affected reserve margins since new capacity from new natural gas plants is also being built.

At the same time, the AEO 2016 Reference case projects over 100 GW of new natural gas combined cycle capacity being added between 2016 and 2040, and nearly 200 GW of new solar and wind added over the same period.