Sentences with phrase «nuclear generation»

We need to keep in perspective how effective gas generation can be compared with nuclear generation in cutting global GHG emissions.

So, the frequency of severe accidents that causes 30 or more early fatalities is 15 times greater for coal generation than for nuclear generation.

In the traditional model of a national electricity system — widely used for more than 50 years — large conventional gas, coal and nuclear generation plants supply large centres of demand.

Whether replacing nuclear generation with other carbon - free resources is cost - effective remains to be seen.

Similarly, at - risk and under construction nuclear generation is no longer included in each state's target calculation.

Since 2005, the substitution of natural gas for coal as well as increases in renewable and nuclear generation helped to reduce these emissions.

But currently nuclear generation is less than 20 percent of the national electricity pie.

In comparison to renewable or nuclear generation options, however, it is rarely more expensive.

Instead it is only going to replace the loss of the no - CO2 nuclear generation.

The company's coal and nuclear generation divisions also recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

The final strategy appears to broaden this focus to include «clean fossil fuel and the world's safest nuclear generation».

On the technology front, improvements will be necessary for renewables, natural gas, coal, and nuclear generation technologies.

In 2014 the group reported that electricity from new solar and wind facilities cost up to 50 percent less than that from new nuclear generation.

For instance, a 2003 interdisciplinary study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology outlined a scenario of «low» nuclear growth that would still allow a tripling of nuclear generation by 2050.

«When governments start shedding nuclear generation capacity, we are going to need other energy sources to fill the gap.»

While the agency counted in - construction nuclear plants toward states» baseline emission rates under the finalized plan, it stopped short of including existing nuclear generation to lower baseline emissions rates for each state.

PSEG's generation subsidiary owns and operates nuclear plants in New Jersey and has interests in Pennsylvania nuclear generation as well.

-- In Ontario, with limited economic hydro and expensive storage, it is mathematically impossible to achieve low CO2 emissions at reasonable electricity prices without nuclear generation.

Workshop Schedule: Southern CA Reliability Issues Related to the Closure of San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station and Phase - Out.

Nucs Next: - If TreeHuggers largely take the opposing view, does that not create a political opening for more nuclear generation?

But by the end of the year, he now leads the nation's largest utility by customer base and netted financial support for his struggling nuclear generation in New York.

If the subsidy were distributed equally to all nuclear production in the state after the state's smallest plant, Oyster Creek, closes this year, the subsidy would be $ 11 per megawatt - hour (MWh) for the 27 terawatt - hours of nuclear generation from two other plants, Hope Creek and Salem.

Other nuclear plants were forced to close prematurely, including Rancho Seco and San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station, while Diablo Canyon is being forced to close by California's Renewable Portfolio Standard, which excludes nuclear.

Roughly 227 GW of installed wind capacity would be required to full replace the planned nuclear generation.

Michael Wallace retired in 2011 as vice chairman and COO of Constellation Energy and chairman of Constellation Energy Nuclear Group, which includes nuclear generation of 3,869 megawatts, three sites, and five units in two states.

Historically, coal and nuclear generation units supplied most of the baseload power demand in the United States partly because of their low fuel - related operating costs.

Many of the three billion people who do not have electricity would now have had it, saving many additional fatalities per year (not included in the number I gave previously which was only for replacing coal generation with nuclear generation).

TVA is also one of the nation's largest producers of hydropower, which like nuclear generation emits no greenhouse gases but has other environmental downsides.

The Tennessee Valley Authority is evaluating a potential site near the Clinch River in Roane County, Tenn., for the reactor and is a industrial consultant for Babcock & Wilcox, said Jack Bailey, TVA's vice president of nuclear generation development.

Lightbridge will be a global leader in the deployment of safe, transparent and commercially viable non-proliferative civil nuclear generation programs.

So nuclear generation is not as safe and it is more expensive than it would have been if it had been allowed to compete and develop on an equal footing with other electricity generation technologies.

In the US, the country with the most reactors, nuclear generation peaked in 2010 and is now also on the decline.

Nuclear capacity is also added in a sensitivity case in which new nuclear generation receives the same treatment as new renewable generation in compliance calculations (CPPNUC).

PJM's comments expressed concerns that its grid, although reliable and resilient today, could struggle as coal and nuclear generation continue to retire.

Rational economics suggests a transition in the US from natural gas fired generation to advanced nuclear generation sometime after the year 2025.

And while nuclear advocates have attempted to blame this on environmental groups, PG&E was clear that inflexible nuclear generation is not compatible with future grids that will incorporate large volumes of renewable energy.

But of course, there are good reasons to favor zero - fuel - cost renewables over fossil fuels and increasingly uneconomical nuclear generation.

Reduced nuclear generation due to outages and reduced hydropower generation both served to moderate declining electricity prices in much of the country.

When nuclear generation is replaced by a fuel source widely used for heating, we can anticipate price swings like those experienced during the 2014 polar vortex to become more routine.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), for the first time since July 1984, monthly U.S. electricity generation from utility - scale renewable energy sources exceeded nuclear generation in March and April 2017.

If you add in costs of spilled or wasted hydro power to make way for wind (3.4 TWh in the first six months) and steamed off nuclear generation at Bruce Power (unknown and unreported) the cost per / kWh would be higher still.

Because nuclear generation increases almost twice as much as coal generation in 2025, carbon emissions decrease slightly at first, but they increase in later years as older nuclear plants retire in spite of the subsidies based on the assumption that they can not renew their operating licenses beyond age 60.

You can see it in New York, where existing, carbon - free nuclear generation needs help from the state to keep running.