Sentences with phrase «new power plants»

It would essentially replace a market - driven process for new power plant capacity and site decisions with a centralized state process.

New power plants in developing countries will keep demand high for decades.

The groups all claimed at the time that rising energy efficiency meant electric utilities didn't need to build new power plants of any kind.

Now the world is facing a tidal wave of new power plants fired by coal, experts say.

The rules on new power plants, which will face legal challenges, are the easy part.

Renewable energy continues to dominate new power plant capacity and distributed generation has contributed an increasingly large share.

Now the drive to fuel new power plants with natural gas will consume big volumes.

Prior to 1975, utilities were required to go through a multi-year process to obtain permits from numerous federal, state and local agencies before constructing new power plants.

Most new power plants will be run on natural gas.

We can only increase energy supply while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions if new power plants turn away from using the atmosphere as a waste dump.

Nobody's going to shut down their brand new power plant for many decades.

Therefore, inflation in the cost to build new power plants means more capital at work and more capital earning a guaranteed return for regulated utility investors.

As we add new power plants to our electricity grid, new capacity must be based on clean energy sources, rather than gas or other fossil fuels.

Instead new power plants had to be built or existing plants that were expensive to run were kept on when, economically speaking, they should have been shut.

The Polish government and Polish utilities are planning to build a dozen new power plants.

As talk of building new power plants rises sharply, so does the cost.

The excess power those rooftop solar owners send to the grid during peak production times also reduces the need for costly and profitable new power plants.

The company doesn't plan to deploy sensors that determine real - time power needs and allow operators to adjust production, thus avoiding running or building costly new power plants.

By reducing the amount of energy used, efficiency improvements also reduce the amount of energy that must be generated and, therefore, the need for new power plants.

The rules on new power plants will soon face a 60 - day public comment period, likely to be followed by intensive industry and environmental lobbying and possible court challenges.

The costs involved in building new power plants; such as coal, natural gas, or nuclear, are incredibly high.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued the first - ever limits on heat - trapping pollution from new power plants in March, ignoring protests from the energy industry and Republicans who fear regulation will raise electricity prices and kill off coal as an energy source.

Bill McKibben makes a strong case that despite the EPA's new power plant regulations and increasing fuel efficiency in cars, President Obama has largely been a failure in terms of pursuing a progressive energy policy

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The zone is intended to address transmission bottlenecks and attract investment in new power plants by, as Maserjian puts it, artificially raising electricity prices.

He said Cuomo's energy plan is centered around imported fracked - gas, which requires new power plants and associated pipelines, compressor stations, and gas storage facilities.

«We established the state's first carbon dioxide emissions standard when siting new power plants which will ensure that no new dirty, coal - burning plants will be built in the State of New York, period,» Cuomo said.

So please join me in standing up for our children's future and support the EPA's groundbreaking new rule to limit carbon pollution from new power plants today.

The Building Sector has effectively imposed a market - based moratorium on the need for new power plant generating capacity in the U.S.

«Most of the country is either meeting the EPA standards now, or is expected to meet them in a few years as new power plant controls kick in,» said senior author Joel Schwartz, professor of environmental epidemiology.

[10] Although new power plants, when equipped with state - of - the - art pollution controls, have significantly less of the type of pollutants that cause acid rain, fine particulate pollution, and mercury toxicity, no currently proposed plants include any equipment to capture emissions of carbon dioxide.

Hal Quinn, president and chief executive of the National Mining Association, said the new standard «effectively bans coal from America's power portfolio, leaving new power plants equipped with even the most efficient and environmentally advanced technologies out in the cold.»

«Even new power plants to be built by 2020 are expected to save 160 to 575 million tonnes annually.»

Renewables, like every other utility, is dependent on the debt markets to finance new power plant construction.

In Kemper County, Mississippi, the same company is pioneering a technology that many experts believe will be crucial to preventing a climate disaster: It's building the world's first new power plant designed to capture and store most of its carbon.

The Kemper County coal CCS plant in Mississippi will be a completely new power plant using pre-combustion carbon capture.

«Recent market developments are influencing the pace of new power plant projects in the U.S. industry - wide,» said Danny Roderick, vice-president for nuclear plant projects at GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy.

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.

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Expectations for what kinds of and how many new power plants will be built in Texas vary.

The jury in the Joe Percoco federal corruption trial resumes its work today, after appearing to focus much of its attention last Friday on the low - show job given to Percoco's wife, Lisa, by a Maryland - based energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, which is behind a controversial new power plant in Orange County.

Local officials, charged with meeting aggressive economic targets for their region's industry, tend to ignore national environmental regulations, covering up spills and building new power plants behind the backs of central government regulators.

But stringent climate policies could make the cost of emission so high that coal power generation is no longer competitive, leaving new power plants sitting idle and their owners and investors with huge losses — a problem known as stranded capacity.

The Department of Energy, meanwhile, is working with governors and transmission officials in Texas and the western United States on a multi-year computer project to find the best locations for new power plants faced with growing scarcity in nearby water resources to cool down their operations.

One new power plant costs between $ 1 billion and $ 10 billion these days; a new generation of power plants would total about $ 10 trillion!