Sentences with phrase «of cogeneration»

While historically the competitive benefits of cogeneration have been widely recognized by a large share of industry, which has invested in CHP to meet energy needs in a reliable and cost - effective way, this was viewed outside the prism of climate change and more as a way to reduce costs.

Yesterday's retail tariff is prohibiting the optimal dispatch of cogeneration resources as our grid is transforming with high levels of solar generation and potential overgeneration issues.

The 3.8 million gallons of thermal energy storage (TES) «enables optimization of the cogeneration system, permanent load shifting, and demand response,» the paper added.

I was in an e-mail conversation over the weekend with Pentland and Thomas G. Bourgeois, the deputy director of Pace University's Energy and Climate Center, who's a big fan of cogeneration of both heat and electricity at sites where it is used.

But this sort of cogeneration system, if you want to call it that, of using the power plant output and the waste heat from that to drive the desalination plants, he was saying, you know, in 20 years that probably could be a great model and an efficient model for water generation in Southern California.

On March 12, the New York State Assembly amended the state budget bill addressing capital projects (A9504b) «for services and expenses related to the design and construction on Sheridan Avenue in Albany of a cogeneration plant and microgrid, to operate on renewable energy, natural gas and / or fuel oil.»

A preliminary layout of the cogeneration microgrid from the project's Request for Proposal file.

«There is a conflicting public policy in terms of cogeneration.

-RRB- «for services and expenses related to the design and construction on Sheridan Avenue in Albany of a cogeneration plant and microgrid, to operate on renewable energy, natural gas and / or fuel oil.»

Last year, Shell purchased 550,000 tonnes of offsets, generated 615,000 credits through the use of cogeneration, and was still short of their compliance targets and so had to pay into the CCEMF at the specified $ 15 / ton rate.

Shell's emissions last year were 5Mt, so with their credits from Quest and their use of cogeneration, more than half of this could be offset, far exceeding the reductions which will be required under Alberta law.

In corporate developments, Fortress Paper's shares (TSX: FTP) fell nearly four per cent after the company said an unexpected mechanical water pump failure will further delay the startup of a cogeneration facility at its specialty cellulose mill in Thurso, Que.

Not exact matches

Since 2011, the Alternative Energy Technology program has taught the operational principles and economic feasibility of renewable energy sources including solar electric, solar thermal, hydro, wind, geothermal and cogeneration.

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

«Now it's time for the government to unapologetically promote Alberta's emissions reduction successes to date and clearly articulate support for the long - term growth of Alberta's energy industry, including the oil sands, conventional production, natural gas power, cogeneration and renewable energy.»

Another key complaint was the rising cost of energy bills resulting from incorrectly calculated energy expenses, which often included costs like «high efficiency cogeneration» and «stranded costs,» rendering customers often unaware of what they are paying for.

The cogeneration plant — which will be built in a dormant Sheridan Avenue facility attached to the large steam plant that still is used to heat and cool the Capitol complex — and microgrid will supply the 98 - acre Plaza's power, with ability to produce up to 90 percent of the complex's annual electric energy needs.

«They want them there just as an ultimate level of security, but they'll be roughly 90 percent less polluting than the existing ones... With just the diesel generators you can only power a couple of lights and maybe one elevator but if you actually wanted to use this as a shelter for an extended period of time you would need the cogeneration plant,» he said.

In Warren County, a multiyear investigation by the Sheriff's Department found there was probable cause to charge County Administrator Paul Dusek for allegedly misinforming the county board of supervisors during negotiation of an energy performance contract for a cogeneration plant.

In May, a group of Kenyan forestry experts, including the conservation secretary of the country's Environment Ministry, warned that the mathenge tree could be at risk of extinction if the cogeneration plant's need for local biomass leads to overharvesting of the trees.

We can extract the methane and we can use it for cogeneration of electricity and power.

With no forewarning (or at least none that I was aware of) it was announced in April that Kimberly Clark had decided to build their own cogeneration facility and thus not renew the contract!

So a revised per share value might now be in the range of $ 12.54 - $ 15.78 assuming no residual value for the cogeneration plant.

One of the company's three assets became irremediably impaired just after I invested; the company has a 50 % interest in a cogeneration plant at a Kimberly - Clark facility in Alabama with a 15 year contract due to expire in 2019.

Regency Affiliates I continue to hold Regency despite one of its three investments (the cogeneration plant at the Kimberly Clark plant in Arkansas) becoming basically valueless when Kimberly Clark announced that it would build its own co-generation facility rather than renew its contract with the facility in which Regency owns a 50 % interest.

First and foremost, Fortress Paper has continued is yearlong slide as a result of by continued pricing pressure on dissolving pulp and the delay in bringing the Thurso cogeneration plant on line.

It also doesn't include cogeneration (hybrid systems) for any of the three (solar, nuclear, coal)

Denmark's system is described in the second of your (Anne's) references, where it is notable that they have what they call «district heating» where much of the heat produced for residential heating is coproduced with electricity, that is cogeneration.

Instead of perpetuating the status quo concepts with enhancing of smart grid enhancements of the electric power infrastructure, we started looking at distributed generation that enabled utilization of discharged heat in cogeneration concepts.

While both fossil and biofuel processes are ripe for criticism at the moment, it's possible that a pairing of the two (cogeneration of heat and power with the heat used to serve the steam demand of a biofuel plant) could improve both EROI and EROE (energy return on emissions).

-- Micropower — the Economist's term for renewables, less big hydro, plus cogeneration — now produces one - fourth of the world's electricity (> 2x nuclear output); see RMI's July 2014 Micropower Database update for details.

We provide state - of - the - art technologies, tailored to your needs - from fuel cells and photovoltaics to cogeneration.

We have discussed the issue of waste heat before, in the context of both incandescent lightbulbs and the cogeneration of heat and power.

Another major project is the completion of a refurbishment of the campus Central Utility Plant, a cogeneration plant that currently supplies about 50 percent of the electricity to the main campus, as well as heat and chilled water to most of the central campus buildings.

CARB is still trying to ignore the fact that hydrogen fuel cells will not be operating in many cars ever, and in fact any hydrogen fuel cells should be operated instead in a stationary situation to use the heat in a cogeneration system to charge batteries for plug in hybrids whilst providing heat or cooling to a building and to use their high efficiency 24 hours a day instead of a few hours commuting.

By investing $ 1 billion in cogeneration over the past ten years, we have increased our capacity to 5,300 megawatts — enough to meet the annual energy needs of 2.5 million U.S. homes.

«Within a few decades, a geographically diverse country such as the United States might get 30 percent of its electricity from sunshine, 20 percent from hydropower, 20 percent from windpower, 10 percent from biomass, 10 percent from geothermal energy, and 10 percent from natural - gas - fired cogeneration.»

Our cogeneration facilities alone eliminate 6 million metric tons of greenhouse gases each year.

Each dollar spent on a new reactor buys about two to ten times less carbon savings and is 20 to 40 times slower, than spending that dollar on the cheaper, faster, safer solutions that make nuclear power unnecessary and uneconomic: efficient use of electricity, making heat and power together in factories or buildings («cogeneration»), and renewable energy.

Examples of these entities include, but are not limited to, independent power producers, power marketers and aggregators (both wholesale and retail), merchant transmission service providers, self - generation entities, and cogeneration firms with Qualifying Facility Status.

«(ii) a facility consisting of 1 or more cogeneration units that makes useful thermal energy available to an industrial or commercial process with 1 or more sales agreements executed before March 1, 2007, that govern the facility's useful thermal energy sales and provide for sales at a price (whether a fixed price or price formula) for useful thermal energy that does not allow for recovery of the costs of compliance with the limitation on greenhouse gas emissions under this title, provided that such agreements are not between entities that are affiliates of one another.

TANEU is basically a ratio of the energy performance of the proposed design (minus energy savings from renewable energy on site and any waste energy recovered on site from the chiller plant or cogeneration) to the energy performance of a standard reference design.

(Sec. 934) Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a program of research and development to evaluate the potential for concentrating solar power for hydrogen production, including cogeneration approaches for both hydrogen and electricity; and (2) report to Congress on the economic and technical potential for electricity or hydrogen production, with or without cogeneration, with concentrating solar power, including the economic and technical feasibility of potential construction of a pilot demonstration facility suitable for commercial production of electricity or hydrogen from concentrating solar power.

For example, a 525 megawatt cogeneration unit at a refinery might require 6 million gallons per day (MGD) of water intake, while a similar 525 megawatt coal - fired boiler could use more than 14 MGD.

[3] However, this comparison ignores the unknown degree of methane leakage from both the gas and the coal systems, the export of displaced coal that is then burned abroad, and cogeneration's potential displacement of some carbon - free generation.

The cogeneration of heat is a natural, but both require a long development period.

Natural gas is the preferred fuel for autoproducers, but there have been natural gas shortages in the late 1990s that have forced some of these small cogeneration power plants to turn to alternative fuels — not a preferred solution, since most alternative fuels are more expensive than natural gas (on a heat content basis, including deliver costs to the plant site) and some alternate fuels (such as heavy oils) have a high sulfur content.

Serving 70,000 Kiel households, the new GHKW cogeneration facility represents a total investment of about $ 290 million and is the largest investment in the history of Stadtwerke Kiel.

«We run a cogeneration plant that also produces carbon - free district heat, which under the law is equivalent to renewable energy,» said Udo Brockmeier, chairman of utility Stadtwerke Düsseldorf in an interview published in Siemens» in - house magazine.

Green energy is commonly thought of in the context of electricity, mechanical power, heating and cogeneration.