Sentences with phrase «nuclear plants in»

While nuclear, imported hydropower and renewables made up more than half of the state's generation output in 2015, regulators are concerned low - priced natural gas generation would replace retiring nuclear plants in electricity markets, raising emissions and putting the goal in doubt.

If we use full - cost pricing — requiring utilities to absorb the costs of disposing of nuclear waste, of decommissioning a plant when it wears out, and of insuring reactors against possible accidents and terrorist attacks — building nuclear plants in a competitive electricity market is simply not economical.

According to Judson, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency made a decision not to support existing nuclear plants in the Clean Power Plan because demand can be met without them.

This proposal would reward coal and nuclear plants in competitive markets that store fuel on site, with the rationale being that these fuel sources are more fuel secure.

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

Back in 1975 or so, there were projections that within 25 years, there would be 1000 nuclear plants in the U.S..

Do we really want to build nuclear plants in a world that is becoming less politically, economically, and socially stable?

«I believe that there is little opening for new nuclear plants in the near future,» he said.

Doing so required them to overturn a law, written under the SPD - Green coalition that held power in 2000, that would have shut down all nuclear plants in Germany by 2020 under a planned obsolescence scheme.

Trump should work Congress to significantly increase the financing of U.S. nuclear plants in foreign nations, and personally involve himself in selling projects to allied nations.

The measure deals a small setback for Exelon Corp., whose subsidiaries own the R.E Ginna and Nine Mile Point nuclear plants in upstate New York.

Now, with the financial failures of Areva and Westinghouse, KEPCO is the only Western nuclear firm capable of competing with Rosatom, which is seeking to finance, build, own and operate nuclear plants in foreign nations.

A big part of the reason is because Environmental Progress has loudly and repeatedly pointed out that closing nuclear plants in the name of climate change is not just hypocrisy but rather greenwashing of the worst order.

Even as they write blog posts claiming to oppose replacing nuclear plants with fossil fuels, the Sierra Club, NRDC and EDF are all supporting the replacement of Indian Point in New York, Diablo Canyon in California, and nuclear plants in Ohio, with natural gas.

And there is the reality that — in the name of protecting the environment — closing nuclear plants in every case, from Germany and Vermont to California and Japan, directly and instantly harms the environment by drastically increasing air pollution and promoting the expansion of mining and development for energy production.

That wind subsidy is 23 years old and about twice as large as the support extended to nuclear plants in New York.

Korsnick warned that all seven operating nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania will be replaced by coal and natural gas if state legislatures fail to follow the lead of New York, Illinois, Connecticut, and New Jersey.

Nuclear plants in Arizona are paying a premium to buy waste water at $ 300 an acre - foot from wastewater treatment facilities to cool nuclear plants.

It's important to keep in mind that all the nuclear plants in Japan withstood the earthquake.

Your proposal to build new nuclear plants in place of new coal - fired plants makes sense, except to those people who have been brainwashed by the earlier anti-nuclear fear mongering campaigns by environmental lobby groups like WWF and Greenpeace.

His company owns a dozen coal, gas and nuclear plants in Texas, and generation revenues for that region dropped more than $ 90 million last year, primarily because of lower power prices in the state.

At its nuclear plants in France, EDF plans to install solar photovoltaics, make use of its own «smart plug» smart charging terminals, and deploy autonomous electric shuttle vehicles.

We've seen a lot of the nuclear plants in the United States have had their licenses extended.

Although industry representatives may have convinced some political leaders that this is a good idea, there is little evidence of private capital investing in nuclear plants in competitive electricity markets.

Although there is much talk of building new nuclear plants in the United States, there are none under construction.

At other facilities, including both coal plants in Texas during Hurricane Harvey and nuclear plants in Florida during Hurricane Irma, staff had to be evacuated, forcing those plants offline.

The bill expands renewable energy development while keeping Exelon's struggling nuclear plants in operation.

If we use full - cost pricing — requiring utilities to absorb the costs of disposing of nuclear waste, of decommissioning the plant when it is worn out, and of insuring the reactors against possible accidents and terrorist attacks — building nuclear plants in a competitive electricity market is clearly not economical.

It said that transmission upgrades will be in place to help overcome FirstEnergy's closure of three nuclear plants in the next three to four years.

Full (non-emergency production of nuclear plants in the USA would be twenty - four 1.5 GW reactors completed per year and could be at that level by 2020.

Facing economic pressure from cheap natural gas and renewable energy, roughly one - half of U.S. nuclear plants in competitive markets are at risk of early retirement.

Those higher prices could keep noncompetitive coal and nuclear plants in the market longer than they would otherwise stay, said attorney Jennifer Chen at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

FirstEnergy asked the Department of Energy for an emergency order to protect all coal and nuclear plants in the PJM territory just before its generation subsidiaries filed for bankruptcy.

Proposed changes to PJM's energy pricing system could reward coal and nuclear plants in Ohio and elsewhere in the region while making consumers pay more, claim critics.

PJM vice president Stu Bresler said the plan described in the grid operator's November 15 report was in the works well before the Department of Energy proposed rules to guarantee cost recovery for coal and nuclear plants in the PJM region and certain other competitive markets.

It's not too late to save the nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Seven nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania produce 30 percent more power than all of the solar in the United States.

If lawmakers fail to act soon, four nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania will be replaced with fossil fuels and emissions will rise the equivalent of adding six million cars to the road.

In early 2012, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved construction permits for four 1,100 - megawatt reactors at two existing nuclear plants in the southeastern states of Georgia and South Carolina, the first permits for new plants since 1978.

My calculations suggest the CO2 sequestration costs would be halved using nuclear power (allowing for the higher cost of nuclear plants in Antarctica and allowing for the need to disperse the excess heat).

«The fact is — and I don't want my message to be misconstrued in this part — I don't think we're building any more nuclear plants in the United States.

PJM is also promoting other actions that Panfil, Chen and others have said could keep inefficient coal and nuclear plants in the market longer.

Although we don't know yet just how bad the situation is at Japan's damaged nuclear plants in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami, the events across the Pacific are already triggering a new and differently tinged debate over nuclear power back here at home.

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 York.

Here's a profitability outlook for all 61 nuclear plants in the U.S. over the short term (between 2017 and 2019), according to the research entity.

Our biggest victories to date were saving nuclear plants in Illinois and New York, and is now fighting to save nuclear plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, California, South Korea, Germany and other states and nations.

Almost everything anti-nuclear groups have said about the cancellation of nuclear plants in Ohio turns out to be false.

EDF is working alongside the American Petroleum Institute (Big Oil & Natural Gas) to lobby against saving nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Federal regulators have denied requests from a multitude of energy interest groups seeking to slow down a 60 - day review of an Energy Department proposal that could upend the country's wholesale energy markets, by propping up coal and nuclear plants in the name of grid resiliency.

In fact, Massachusetts» energy policies put at risk two other nuclear plants in the New England grid, Millstone and Seabrook.