Sentences with phrase «new natural gas plants in»

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.

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

Not exact matches

OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government says its new regulations to phase out power plants fired by coal and natural gas will cost more than $ 2.2 billion, but potentially save the country billions more in reduced health care costs.

To drive down energy costs for businesses and families, we've focused on inexpensive and cleaner - burning natural gas, and last month, Calpine Corporation broke ground on a new power plant in Dover that is expected to serve about a quarter of a million homes.

Natural gas - fired plants look attractive at current gas prices, certainly, but hands up — who wants a new gas plant in their neighbourhood?

In the middle third of the U.S., wind farms have an all - in cost that is less than a third that of a new natural gas - fired plant, and wind power is also well below the cost of power from large - scale solar farms.&raquIn the middle third of the U.S., wind farms have an all - in cost that is less than a third that of a new natural gas - fired plant, and wind power is also well below the cost of power from large - scale solar farms.&raquin cost that is less than a third that of a new natural gas - fired plant, and wind power is also well below the cost of power from large - scale solar farms.»

Three elected officials joined an environmental group Monday in calling on the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation to revoke or suspend an essential permit for a natural gas power plant in Orange County.

1) Repeal the Triborough Amendment; 2) State pick - up of Medicaid costs from counties; 3) Roll - back of Medicaid entitlements / coverages to median national levels; 4) Major reform of SEQR process which blocks projects Upstate; 5) Repeal NY's participation in RGGI; 6) Cut 50 percent of staff at DOE, DOH, DEC in order to let the other half do their jobs, which means serving the people instead of feeding the bureaucratic monster; 7) Support expansion of nuclear plants at Oswego, construction of new plants elsewhere; 8) Tort reform to allow doctors to practice medicine, instead of fleeing NY; 9) Use the bully pulpit to support natural gas drilling and tell the envirowackos to grow up.

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

A halt to the Millennium pipeline feeding the CPV power plant could send a message that not only does New York ban extraction, but the state is also clamping down on the use of natural gas from beyond its borders in favor of renewables such as wind or solar.

The organizers said the main goals of the event were to persuade Cuomo to block all new natural gas infrastructure in the state, including pipelines and power plants; move toward 100 percent renewable energy, and tax emissions to fund the transition.

BY KATHY KAHN Approximately 150 persons gathered Tuesday night at the West Haverstraw Community Center for a discussion about a proposed plant in neighboring Stony Point, which would convert New York City trash to natural gas.

On March 12, the New York State Assembly amended the state budget bill addressing capital projects (A9504b) «for services and expenses related to the design and construction on Sheridan Avenue in Albany of a cogeneration plant and microgrid, to operate on renewable energy, natural gas and / or fuel oil.»

The City's Independent Budget Office has a new report out on the impact drilling for natural gas in the Catskill / Delaware watershed would have on water rates, mainly because of the need for another filtration plant.

Hawkins opposes any investment in new fossil fuel infrastructure, including natural gas pipelines and power plants, LNG port terminals, liquefied propane and butane and natural gas storage in the Seneca Lake salt caverns, and crude oil heaters at the Port of Albany.

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.

Maxwell Ball, manager for clean coal technologies at SaskPower in Regina, which owns the plant, says that the company was surprised to learn that it would be cheaper in the long term to keep burning coal at Boundary Dam and sell the carbon dioxide to oil companies to boost production in the oil field than to build a new natural - gas plant.

This risk factor pushes the «levelized» or all - in price of nuclear power from new units to 8.4 cents per kilowatt - hour, the MIT study concludes, versus 6.2 cents for coal - fired plants and 6.5 cents for natural gas generation (if gas is priced at $ 7 per million British thermal units, or roughly 1,000 cubic feet of flowing gas).

The extraordinary growth in fracking — the hydraulic fracturing of deeply buried shale rock to extract natural gas — has transformed the United States over the past 15 years, boosting energy stocks, cutting pollution from conventional coal - power plants, and creating new jobs.

Over the past two decades some 90 percent of the new plants built in the U.S. have been natural gas — fired power plants.

Coal - powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers.

Coal - powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study.

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.

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

[According to] the MIT Study, in the United States today new nuclear plants are far from being competitive with new natural gas or coal - fueled power plants.

Other factors that have significantly contributed to reduced U.S. carbon emissions are the recent new growth in domestic natural gas production - consumption and EPA regulations that have restricted new coal power plant construction.

And, new power plants with the various anti-pollution technologies (and / or, in many cases using natural gas instead of coal) are much cleaner than the older plants.

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.

New coal plants cost three to four times as much as they did three years ago, due to the embedded cost of petroleum and natural gas in plant construction, materials and labor.

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.

In June I heard a report about a new EU - wide study done in the UK that showed clearly that by combining all forms of renewables: wind all over Europe, solar in North Africa, hydo, hydro storage, solar thermal, and demand management, you could meet a slowly growing EU load with almost no natural gas for peaking plants to help level the loaIn June I heard a report about a new EU - wide study done in the UK that showed clearly that by combining all forms of renewables: wind all over Europe, solar in North Africa, hydo, hydro storage, solar thermal, and demand management, you could meet a slowly growing EU load with almost no natural gas for peaking plants to help level the loain the UK that showed clearly that by combining all forms of renewables: wind all over Europe, solar in North Africa, hydo, hydro storage, solar thermal, and demand management, you could meet a slowly growing EU load with almost no natural gas for peaking plants to help level the loain North Africa, hydo, hydro storage, solar thermal, and demand management, you could meet a slowly growing EU load with almost no natural gas for peaking plants to help level the load.

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.

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 coalition will also encourage the EPA to limit climate change - causing carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants under the Clean Power Plan, push for federal controls on methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, and work on controlling emissions from large - scale industry facilities, said the New York attorney general's office in a statement.

A new fleet of power plants fired by natural gas may have better fit the jagged generation gap left by the nuclear phaseout, given gas power's reduced carbon emissions and flexibility to balance feed - in variations.

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.

States could allow generation from new, not - under - construction plants to displace generation (and emissions) from existing coal or natural gas plants that were accounted for in the emission rate computation.

In an article posted at Mother Jones today, Bill McKibben takes down the Obama administration's pro-fracking policy and argues that creating a new generation of natural gas infrastructure — pipelines, power plants, export terminals — is not a bridge to... Continue reading →

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.»

In such an environment, natural gas might seem like an obvious choice, and in fact the German Green Party is on record as favoring new gas plants over increased coal generatioIn such an environment, natural gas might seem like an obvious choice, and in fact the German Green Party is on record as favoring new gas plants over increased coal generatioin fact the German Green Party is on record as favoring new gas plants over increased coal generation.

Those groups have attacked the proposed rule, tried to block new nuclear plants in Georgia and South Carolina, and are all on the record supporting the replacement of zero - emissions nuclear plants with natural gas in Ohio, California and New Yonew nuclear plants in Georgia and South Carolina, and are all on the record supporting the replacement of zero - emissions nuclear plants with natural gas in Ohio, California and New YoNew York.

Few new coal plants are being built in the United States anyway, as utilities increasingly favor cheaper, cleaner, and newly abundant natural gas.

The solar numbers pale in comparison to the more than 4,600 MW of new natural gas combined - cycle plants Dominion has been building just in this decade.

Together with a final rule setting standards for new power plants, EPA will create the first nationwide limits on carbon emissions from coal and and natural gas power plants, the largest source of emissions in the US economy.

Dominion Virginia Power is currently engaged in an aggressive build - out of natural gas generating plants, with three new units representing 4,300 megawatts of generating capacity, coming online between 2014 and 2019.

Columbia is challenging both Duke's application for approval of a new gas plant in Ashville and the merger of Duke with Piedmont Natural Gas, another partner in the Atlantic Coast Pipeligas plant in Ashville and the merger of Duke with Piedmont Natural Gas, another partner in the Atlantic Coast PipeliGas, another partner in the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

There is evidence that the Midwest is steadily decarbonizing its electricity generation through a combination of new state - level policies (for example, energy efficiency and renewable energy standards) and will continue to do so in response to low natural gas prices, falling prices for renewable electricity (for example, wind and solar), greater market demand for lower - carbon energy from consumers, and new EPA regulations governing new power plants.

With power industry restructuring in the 1990s, the construction of new power plants was dominated by independent power producers who favored natural gas generation due to short construction times and low capital costs.

In Arizona, regulators voted for a nine - month pause on any new large gas - fired power plants and told the state's largest investor - owned utilities that their future plans relied too heavily on natural gas and should include more wind and solar, electricity storage, and energy efficiency.

In a new report from Moody's, and reported on by SNL, the ratings agency predicts that cheap natural gas could lead to another massive wave of coal - fired power plant closures over the next year and a half.