Sentences with phrase «new natural gas plants»

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.

This justifies APS» future plans, which include very little solar, and lots of new natural gas plants.

«If there is substantial natural gas leakage, then building new natural gas plants would lead to more near term climate damage than using the old dirty coal plants,» explained Caldeira.

The CPUC storage decision, which guides SCE and SDG&E to purchase a combined 745 MW of storage, can help ensure that a smart combination of energy storage and local clean energy can cost - effectively eliminate the need for new natural gas plants.

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.

Replacing old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas plants could cause climate damage to increase over the next decades, unless their methane leakage rates are very low and the new power plants are very efficient.

New coal and nuclear generation can not compete with «the very low price of natural gas and the efficiency of new natural gas plants,» as well as the declining price of renewable energy.

The annual cost of replacing all of South Korea's nuclear plants with natural gas would be $ 10 billion on top of a one - time cost of roughly $ 20 billion to build new natural gas plants.

«Simply put, these standards represent the cleanest standards we've put forth for new natural gas plants and new coal plants.»

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

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

«For new base load power in the U.S., nuclear power plants are likely to have higher levelized electricity costs than new coal plants (without carbon dioxide capture and sequestration) or new natural gas plants.

The significant conclusion of the report notes that «utility - scale, thin - film solar PV plants produce cheaper power, on average, than new natural gas plants.»

(Associated Press) • New natural gas plants are bringing more than $ 4.6 billion in investment to northeastern Ohio.

Virtually all new natural gas plants would meet the standard without additional controls.

«Everybody looks with excitement when a new natural gas plant is build,» ELPC head, Howard Learner said when justifying his efforts to replace nuclear plants with fossil fuels.

The utility wants to replace three retiring coal - fired power plants with the new natural gas plant in St. Clair County.

Government support helped establish offshore wind energy there, and now the industry can build wind farms that produce power more cheaply than new natural gas plants.

But despite the only modest increase in solar and wind generation over the last decade (from one percent to eight percent of generation), some state regulators and environmental groups are arguing that new natural gas plants are not needed and that renewable energy should replace some existing gas plants.

Circumventing a decades - old pact providing a market monopoly in exchange for public oversight, an investor - owned utility has proposed legislation to allow it to build a new natural gas plant criticized for its financial and environmental impact, and then stick customers... Read More

This issue came to a head earlier this year when the CPUC postponed a decision on approving a new natural gas plant just outside San Diego.

A 2011 UCS analysis of new nuclear projects in Florida and Georgia shows that the power provided by the new plants would be more expensive per kilowatt than several alternatives, including energy efficiency measures, renewable energy sources such as biomass and wind, and new natural gas plants.

A project from the Ohio University Sierra Student Coalition, Bobcats Beyond Gas, stepped in to organize against the proposal for a new natural gas plant.

A new natural gas plant might have costs around $ 1,000 / kW.

Over the short - term, it's most likely to occur through increased imports of Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) and hastily - built new natural gas plants.

New natural gas plants can power up and reduce output very quickly with minimal efficiency loss, and new NGCC — natural gas combined cycle — plants are specifically designed to offer flexibility to a renewables - heavy grid system.

SolarReserve has entered into a 25 - year power supply contract with NV Energy supplying power at $ 135 per MW - hour, but new natural gas plants are able to supply power for less than half that price ($ 52 per MW - hour).

New natural gas might run coal out of some regions slightly faster than otherwise, but overall renewables would deploy faster with a near - universal rule of no new natural gas plants.

We are happy to see that TVA has scaled back the size of its new natural gas plant and we remain hopeful that that TVA will take this opportunity to further reduce electricity costs and grow a local clean energy economy by investing in solar generation and low - cost wind in the Greater Memphis area.

EPA expects this CO2 standard to have negligible costs through 2022 (the intended time horizon of the standard), since very few new coal plants are planned, even without the proposed standard, and since developers of new natural gas plants should see minimal, if any, additional costs for compliance.

Besides adding locational benefits to the avoided cost, it shifted the definition of avoided cost from the lowest estimated price a utility would have to pay to obtain power from a new natural gas plant to the lowest estimated price a utility would have to pay to obtain power from a comparable resource.