Sentences with phrase «nuclear generating capacity»

The US Nuclear Energy Institute has called on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to move quickly to define, foster and retain resiliency on the country's electricity grid before further nuclear generating capacity is lost through premature plant retirements.

The United States, with 104 nuclear reactors generating some 19 percent of the country's electricity, leads the world in nuclear generating capacity.

In terms of the outlook for increased nuclear generating capacity he stressed the need to increase «safety culture» in Russia as well as the power and resources of the Russian nuclear safety regulator.

Indeed, as the European Union actually saw net reductions in coal and nuclear generating capacity in 2009, wind accounted for close to 40 percent of all newly installed capacity, making it the region's number one new power source for the second straight year.

In an illuminating article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, nuclear consultant Mycle Schneider projects an imminent decline in world nuclear generating capacity.

Unless governments start routinely granting operating permits for reactors more than 40 years old, a half - century of growth in world nuclear generating capacity is about to be replaced by a long - term decline.

This however doesn't translate well everywhere: I doubt there's a lot of political interest in supplying despots in 3rd world developing countries nuclear generating capacity.

And while the world's nuclear generating capacity is estimated to expand by only 1,000 megawatts this year, wind generating capacity will likely grow by 30,000 megawatts.

It says this means brown coal and nuclear generating capacity could fall quicker than most people would expect from the average increase in solar and wind.

Electricity generation from nuclear power worldwide increases from 2.6 trillion kilowatthours in 2010 to 5.5 trillion kilowatthours in 2040, as concerns about energy security and greenhouse gas emissions support the development of new nuclear generating capacity.

Over that same time period, nuclear generating capacity in Europe fell by 13 GW and coal - fired generation fell by 25 GW.

Since 2012, as the traditional leaders in nuclear energy production have remained stagnant or backed off of their reliance on nuclear in the wake of Fukushima, China has added 11 new reactors and over 11 gigawatts of nuclear generating capacity.

If all reactors being built are ultimately completed, total nuclear generating capacity will decline by at least 2,806 MW (three percent) by 2025, planned additions against planned retirements.

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Concerns about rising fossil fuel prices, energy security, and greenhouse gas emissions support the development of new nuclear generating capacity.

If the first repository sited is done so on grossly inadequate standards, a terrible precedent will have been set for all future repository sites (which may very well be in the West despite the region's comparative lack of nuclear generating capacity).

It has also invited the nuclear industry to «make the commercial case for new nuclear generating capacity».

Not exact matches

Last year, new photovoltaic panels installed in the U.S. had the capacity to generate up to 4.2 gigawatts of electricity, about as much as four nuclear reactors.

«We'll need renewables, new nuclear, fossil fuels with CCS, and the cables to hook them all up to the grid as a large slice of our current generating capacity shuts down.»

THE world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

Targets for nuclear power range from 35 % of generating capacity down to zero — a total nuclear phaseout — although those close to the deliberations believe the government will settle on 15 % when it finalizes the policy this summer.

The world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

The Qinshan addition is one of 20 new nuclear power plants undergoing construction or approved for construction in China today, part of a bid to increase the nuclear share of China's electricity - generating capacity from less than 2 percent to 5 percent.

Currently 435 nuclear reactors operate around the world, with an electrical generating capacity of approximately 370 gigawatts (GW), providing about 17 percent of the world's electricity.

«It's important to forecast how much renewable power will be generated, because that tells us how much conventional generation capacity — whether nuclear, gas, or coal — needs to be brought online.

Operating nuclear power reactors have a generating capacity of more than 380,000 megawatts of electric power.

By the time that new nuclear power plants can even begin to generate any «carbon free» electricity, we can build and deploy hundreds of gigawatts of wind and solar generating capacity — and that's with today's mainstream, already commercialized technology, let alone the innovations like thin - film solar that are just beginning to enter the market.

During a peak viewing time when most sets are on, such as the Super Bowl, TVs in the state collectively suck up the equivalent of 40 % of the power generated by the San Onofre nuclear power station running at full capacity.

Some new analysis done by Synapse Energy Economics, at the request of NRDC and Riverkeeper, shows that the state of New York could close the aging Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the plant.

Out of its total 35,843 MW of electric generating capacity in 2005 (3.36 % of the U.S. total), AEP gets 69.0 % from coal, 22.2 % from natural gas, 6.4 % from nuclear, and 2.3 % from hydroelectricity.

By 2020, Sweden will have decommissioned four reactors in five years, reducing nuclear's total generating capacity in the country by 2.7 GWe net.

But because nuclear plants operate at a 90 % and higher capacity factor while offshore wind at 40 %, the electricity generated from the new wind will be less than Pilgrim's.

China plans to raise its total installed nuclear power generating capacity to 70 GW by 2020 and to raise the proportion of China's nuclear power to 5 % of the total installed electricity generating capacity by 2020.

An upcoming series of Today in Energy articles will examine trends in generating capacity additions by fuel type, for coal, hydro, nuclear, natural gas, petroleum, and wind.

About half of Japan's nuclear reactors will probably have to be inspected, reducing the nation's power generating capacity by 15 %.

This is because the same capacity nuclear plant generates three times more power than a wind turbine.

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Out of its total 13,041 MW of electric generating capacity in 2005 (1.22 % of the U.S. total), DTE Energy produces 61.3 % from coal, 16.4 % from natural gas, 11.7 % from oil, 9.3 % from nuclear, and 0.2 % from biomass.

Meanwhile, nearly 42,000 MW of synchronous generating capacity (coal, nuclear, and natural gas) retired between 2011 and 2014.

[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»

Dr Schiffer argued that nuclear energy is a viable means in diversifying existing generating capacities, while limiting the growth of carbon emissions and securing power supply.

This guidance document presents projections of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the world's nuclear power generating capacity.

The capacity market approach pays utilities and other operators billions of pounds to commit to keep their coal, gas, nuclear and hydro power plants open, for up to four years ahead, regardless of whether they were planning to do this anyway, and regardless of whether they generate any electricity.

India has been trying to grow its nuclear power sector since the 1950s, and currently has just 5 GW of capacity generating about 3 percent of the country's power.

Consequently, there are now 17 nuclear power stations around the earthquake - prone Japanese archipelago, comprising 54 nuclear reactors that provide 30 percent of Japan's total electricity generating capacity.

Within weeks, the company announced it was putting its baseload generating plants, with a combined capacity of over 13 GW, including coal and nuclear units, on the auction block.

To get a sense of the costs of nuclear waste disposal, we need not look beyond the United States, which leads the world with 101,000 megawatts of nuclear - generating capacity (compared with 63,000 megawatts in second - ranked France).

He emphasized nuclear's anchor role in the US electricity mix, with 12 % of US generating capacity contributing around 20 % of the electricity supply at a cost of 2 cents per kilowatt - hour (kWh).

As of 2012, nuclear accounted for 26 percent of the total generating capacity, according to energy ministry data, though it typically accounts for about a third of power generation, while only making up about 3 - 4 percent of energy costs.

That is because there may not be enough stream flow for hydroelectric stations, and coal and nuclear power plant may not be able to get enough water through the cooling systems to keep generating at peak capacity, especially in the summer months.