Sentences with phrase «nuclear unit westinghouse»

State incentives could «discourage premature retirement» and «encourage deployment of nuclear unit designs that reflect advances over earlier designs,» wrote the EPA in its proposed carbon dioxide rule, issued by the Obama administration on Monday.

Design electrical rating (capacity) net: The nominal net electrical output of a nuclear unit, as specified by the utility for the purpose of plant design.

Eliminating Price - Anderson would be total craziness as it would either (A) shut down every nuclear unit in the U.S. or (B) if Utilities could theoretically get adequate insurance from the private market to satisfy their bond - holders, regulators, and politicians — it would be extremely pricey and electricity rates would go through the roof.

What «Planning Engineer» never mentions is that there is not a Utility on the face of this Planet that would build a nuclear unit to meet its peaking load requirement (i.e., concept of capacity factors and costs per kWh).

Your outrage that the new Georgia Power nuclear unit (Vogtle) is only being built having a DOE Loan Guarantee?

«They're asking the DOE to declare that not just their power plants but every coal and nuclear unit in PJM should be given a profit guarantee,» said Dick Munson, director of Midwest Clean Energy for the Environmental Defense Fund.

The report reviews publicly available data on energy and capacity prices and nuclear unit costs from the Nuclear Energy Institute for 2013 through 2017.

The investment is a bet by Baupost's chief executive, Seth Klarman, that Toshiba, which has been rocked by accounting scandals as well as the financial demise of its bankrupt U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse Electric Corp, will stand by its pledge to pay out these claims.

«At once tragic and madcap, Sharpe's second novel offers an acidly funny portrait of a «diminished nuclear unit» coping with its patriarch's pharmacologically induced stroke.»

Having fingered brother Ben (Corey Stoll in present day, Tye Sheridan in 1985) for the murder of her entire nuclear unit, Libby lives in a prison of her own making.

The first truly large - scale nuclear unit — a 428,000 - kilowatt installation at San Onofre, Calif. — was licensed for construction as recently as February 24, 1964, and announcements of commercial nuclear power projects did not begin to gain momentum until the fall of 1965; yet by the summer of 1966 nuclear power had drawn abreast of fossil power in the utility marketplace.

Laurie Penny's article on p22 shows the progress made in political circles to accept different kinds of families - although MPs will argue that the Kelly report marks a large step backward for keeping a nuclear unit together.

Toshiba is seeking a minimum of $ 18 billion for the world's second - biggest producer of NAND chips and wants to get the deal done as quickly as possible to help it cover billions of dollars in cost overruns at now - bankrupt nuclear unit Westinghouse.

Toshiba is depending on the sale of the unit, the world's second - largest NAND chip maker, to cover billions of dollars in cost overruns at its now - bankrupt U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse.

The Japanese company has been in flux, after delaying its financial reports and struggling to sell its nuclear unit.

The auction of the prized asset is essential to Toshiba's plans to cover multi-billion writedowns at U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse that have plunged it into crisis.

A number of coal - and oil - fired power plants will likely be retired, and while Virginia's four existing nuclear units will remain in use, plans for a fifth reactor remain shelved, for now.

While all variations of the plan envision the relicensing of the company's four existing nuclear units at the Surry and North Anna stations, none calls for a third reactor at North Anna, which Dominion has been contemplating.

The program is currently supporting construction of new nuclear units that add emissions free electricity capacit to our grid, and help strengthen our diversity.

«We continue working very closely with all stakeholders to finalize a CES that properly values upstate nuclear units for their clean energy and reliability attributes.

Since then, over 20 nuclear units utilize the FHD including Chernobyl in Ukraine and Sizewell B in the U.K.

The NuScale Power Module's cost per kWh is competitive with other sources of base load electricity generation, and less than the cost per kWh of large nuclear units.

Construction of the two new nuclear units at Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle, among the first to be built in the United States in more than three decades, is also progressing well.

There are 12 nuclear units under construction in Europe alone to add 10,000 MWe of energy.

«Assuming marginal load growth as the economy grows,» he said, «and taking out all the once - through cools, except the nuclear units, you have approximately 4,600 megawatts of ramping resources that you need by 2020.»

A December report from the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) said U.S. power generation from renewable sources, along with natural gas, would produce enough electricity to offset retirements of U.S. coal and nuclear units over the next 10 years.

EIA's assumption regarding the treatment of new nuclear units beyond those already under construction in the Base Policy case (CPP) is consistent with its reading of:

This is about the price paid to coal and nuclear units, which run almost all the time.

In Finland, used fuel management is currently handled by Posiva, a company mutually owned by the operators of the existing nuclear units.

No new nuclear units will be built in US due to high cost: Exelon official - Electric Power (platts.com)

Duke Energy Corp. continues to pursue the federal license to build and operate nuclear units in Cherokee County, near the North Carolina border, spokesman Ryan Mosier said.

At the end of 2010, there were 66 nuclear units, officially listed as «under construction» worldwide.

The nation's first ZEC programs began in New York and Illinois and require load - serving entities (e.g. electric utilities) to purchase ZECs from specified, in - state nuclear facilities (note: only certain nuclear units in New York and Illinois qualify).

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.

The nuclear units would require 3,500 construction positions and later 800 jobs for operating the plant.

(Note: Do people here at CE know that there is a Production Tax Credit (PTC) for new nuclear units [e.g., Georgia Power Vogtle units under construction] which is almost identical to the current wind PTC?)

«Exelon's bill would cost Illinois consumers $ 1.8 billion over 6 years to subsidize three of its eleven nuclear units,» said Environmental Law and Policy Center Executive Director Howard Learner.

In the coming years, there are plans to retire the two largest coal - fired power plants in the region, as well as one of the region's nuclear units.

While ISO - NE has not faced the issue of subsidized nuclear units bidding into the market, as in PJM and the New York ISO (NYISO), New England states are subsidizing wind and solar generation, distorting the competitive market.

When I was with the utility in the 1980's, we got our power from an integrated system of hydro, wind, supercritical gas boilers, photovoltaic, solar thermal, geothermal, pumped storage, fuel cells, nuclear units, landfill gas, anaerobic digestion, and even the emergency generators of the customers dispatched directly by the utility.

Phasing out the United States» entire nuclear power supply by 2030 would increase the country's carbon dioxide emissions by at least 5 % and as much as 13 %, depending on what mix of power plants replace the aging nuclear units.

California's electric market will face a number of challenges this summer, the greatest of which is making up the loss of two nuclear units (San Onofre 2 & 3) in an area of significant congestion on the electric system.

Refueling and maintenance outages for nuclear units (as well as fossil - fueled units) typically occur in the spring and fall «shoulder» seasons when demand for electricity is generally lower.

Korsnick specifically pointed to Ohio and Pennsylvania, which, without policy intervention, are poised to lose power from four uneconomic nuclear units owned by a bankrupt FirstEnergy subsidiary.

Baseload generators, like nuclear units, typically have high capacity factors, while peaking generators like natural gas - fired combustion turbines have low capacity factors.

Turkey Point Nuclear Units 6 & 7 Cost Estimate Range (2010 Dollars) Total Estimated Project Cost Total Dollars $ 12,854,294,106 — $ 18,746,643,845 Cost per kW $ 5,843 — $ 8,521

Further, while nuclear units can easily operate 50 or 60 years, solar panels have relatively short operational lifespans (20 to 30 years), so their disposal will become a problem in the next few decades.

The plant's nuclear units use ocean water for cooling.

Not exact matches

Putin fell short of confirming the existence of Status - 6, though he did say the December tests of its power unit «enabled us to begin developing a new type of strategic weapon» to carry a huge nuclear bomb.

But Toshiba could revise the positioning of its nuclear business if need be, said Tsunakawa, who has been credited with having shaped a medical equipment unit into a major earnings driver.