Sentences with phrase «of electric plants»

Our market - leading energy and environmental teams comprise lawyers with years of demonstrated experience in the financing, development, and sale of electric plants.
More recently, there have been alleged sabotage attempts of electric plants, deliberate and politicised hoarding to induce shortages [5], and several US embassy staff have been expelled after being accused of making overtures to the military.

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Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from old - fashioned air pollution, generated by electric power plants that burn fossil fuels.
Much of this fine particle pollution comes from electric power plants, either directly or as pollutants such as sulfur dioxide that chemically evolve downwind of the plant.
The greatest coup came early last year, when Ontario announced it had negotiated an agreement with a consortium of Korean companies, including Samsung and Korea Power Electric Corp. (Details remain mysterious, but included construction of CS Wind's turbine tower plant in Windsor, a blade manufacturing facility in Tillsonburg, and two other facilities.)
The crazy, real - life story of how the CEO of electric - car maker Tesla dazzled, seduced, squeezed, bluffed, manipulated, and prodded his way to epic state incentives to build a massive battery plant in the Nevada desert.
One of Yoh's hires, a Ph.D. in education, recognized that power operators at electric - and nuclear - power plants had the same need to get it right 100 % of the time; he was right.
Operated by a team of fewer than 30 employees, the Kapolei, Hawaii - based company has fueled growth through major deals inked within the last year alone: the building of a $ 260 million plant in Idaho, a $ 370 million contract with Sanyo Electric Co. and a $ 678 million contract with Suntech Power to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in Hawaii.
And it could mean a future viable source of energy that emits no pollution or radioactivity, burns no fossil fuels, and could be no more expensive to run than conventional coal or electric power plants.
And with BrightSource Energy, it constructed the Ivanpah solar electric complex, a landscape of 350,000 heat - generating mirrors in California's Mojave Desert that's the largest solar - thermal plant on the planet.
General Motors CEO Mary Barra says company expanding production of Chevrolet Bolt electric car at Detroit - area plant as EV demand grows.
Scott Segal, the head of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, will argue the CPP is expensive and illegal because it requires some utilities to reduce emissions «beyond the fence line» or far away from the power plants themselves.
Electric power generation from coal and natural gas plants is responsible for 40 % of U.S. carbon emissions.
From blast furnaces, basic oxygen furnaces, electric arc furnaces, pickling and rolling operations, to galvanizing - coating, coke and sinter plants, copper and aluminum production facilities — we have worked with all types and sizes of operations.
When electric - car maker Tesla touched off a multistate bidding war for its Gigafactory battery plant last year, most of the attention focused on the tax breaks and other incentives states were offering.
However, Speth left open the possibility of new investment in Britain such as an electric battery and car plant if the conditions, including pilot testing and support from science, were right.
Although favourable in many parts of North America, electric vehicles in China, where 77 % of the total electricity production is coal - derived and many plants do not have advanced air pollution controls, raise concerns regarding increased air...
Faraday Future has a promising view of high tech, state - of - the - art future electric cars as it breaks ground on its first production plant in North Las Vegas, Nevada.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)-- The U.S. Department of Energy said Wednesday that it is entering negotiations with General Electric's nuclear division on a proposal to replace an aging uranium enrichment plant in Kentucky with a new facility.
Many of the aging residents, post — World War II transplants from Appalachia, are retirees from union jobs at Ford or General Electric plants and are now celebrating fiftieth wedding anniversaries.
In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.
«We've completely renovated the plant we acquired, and outfitted it with state of the art, energy efficient HVAC systems and white LED lighting throughout the building, with future plans to install electric car charging stations.
Although the senior Jordan wasn't without a shadow in his past — he pleaded guilty in 1985 to having accepted a $ 7,000 kickback from a contractor while he was in charge of inventory control at a General Electric plant — as of Monday it appeared his death was the result of a random robbery.
The Trump administration accused Russia of engineering a series of cyberattacks that targeted American and European nuclear power plants and water and electric systems, and could have sabotaged or shut power plants off at will.
The battle is heating up over a statewide electric rate increase to subsidize upstate nuclear power plants that pits Governor Andrew Cuomo against a coalition of «good - government groups.»
It's also the date for an $ 8 billion bailout of some upstate nuclear power plants to begin, and more than 80 local government leaders are making a last - ditch effort to stop a plan that they say will cost electric utility ratepayers billions of dollars.
Ghana currently has a prototype nuclear power plant and is opened to nuclear investors for the development of high tech nuclear power plants for a West Africa Electric Power Pool project.
The cash - strapped MTA shouldn't have to pony up an electric bill surcharge imposed by Cuomo to support a trio of upstate nuclear plants, transit advocates fumed this week.
According to President Buhari, «In 2017 alone, we saw significant commitments and agreements by major global organisations in infrastructure projects such as: the proposed USD 9 billion Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical complex in Lagos; the completed USD 600 million Lafarge Plant in Calabar; the proposed rail stock; the proposed USD 1.3 billion public private partnership with General Electric on Rail Track Development and the proposed ENI / Agip rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refinery.
The company said the continued operation of the nuclear plants is a «crucial way» to keep down New York's carbon emissions, as well as electric costs, and a «realistic» plan to meet the state's 2030 clean energy standards.
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.
Many of the same warnings Mario Cuomo heard in the 1980s about Shoreham are the same ones his son hears today from supporters of Indian Point: Closing a nuclear plant will result in blackouts, a less reliable electric grid and increased air pollution as fossil fuels are burned to replace the lost emissions - free nuclear power; customers could face higher bills; more than 1,000 jobs will be lost, and tax revenue for schools and towns will dissipate.
He says the pension fund is also shifting away from investments like coal and he's not enthused about nuclear because as a resident of Long Island, electric customers are still paying for a nuclear plant which never opened.
Thanks to our nuclear power plants, greenhouse gas emissions from New York's electric generating plants are just one fourth (per capita) of what is produced on average across the U. S.
Bald and Golden eagles are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Act and with the sighting of a pair of nesting eagles in the path of the Millennium Pipeline lateral, opponents of the CPV electric generating plant say the gas pipeline can not be extended to the facility in the Town of Wawayanda.
On Jan. 21, 2011, he visited the General Electric plant in Schenectady to stress the importance of new technology, particularly renewable energy sources that can be manufactured in America and exported globally.
The chairman of the State Assembly Energy Committee has asked both Dynegy executives and the leadership of IBEW Local 320 to resume negotiations and enter into at least a temporary agreement to return workers to the job at the Danskammer and Roseton electric generating plants in the Town of Newburgh.
The plan was to join fellow Green Party candidate, gubernatorial hopeful Howie Hawkins, to draw attention to the pending closure of the General Electric plant in Fort Edward, a straight shot to the east from Funiciello's bakery, the Rock Hill Bakehouse, on Exchange Street....
Another question that many in Westchester have about the future of their electric and NYSEG or Con Ed bills are: What will the increases be when the Indian Point Power Plant closes in 2021?
Federal regulators have approved General Electric's plan to dismantle a Hudson River PCB cleanup plant used during six years of dredging, which concluded this fall.
«Reducing carbon pollution from electric power plants is a good start, but the goal must be phasing out coal, oil, and natural gas as our energy sources,» said Howie Hawkins, Green candidate for Governor of New York (http://www.howiehawkins.org).
Observing that display of interest in the electric cars followed a visit to the plant in South Buffalo, what Nicholas calls Gigafactory Two.
The cash - strapped MTA shouldn't have to pony up an electric bill surcharge imposed by Gov. Cuomo to support a trio of upstate nuclear plants, transit advocates fumed this week.
Capturing carbon emissions from electric power plants and other sources is a hot research topic because there's a lot of room for improvement.
No emissions,» says Wheeler, noting that the principal output of the process was a «light oil» that could be used at an electric power generation plant.
The agency, tasked with protecting the state's environment and public health, denied air quality permits for two 700 - megawatt, coal - fired power plants proposed by Sunflower Electric for Holcomb, a municipality in the southwestern corner of the state.
Scott Segal, executive director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, which represents utility interests in Washington, said Bloomberg's findings about the effect of the new EPA rule on coal plants are «very consistent» with what his group concluded in its own review of the regulation.
Such a carbon tax could help keep coal, oil and natural gas safely in the ground in favor of alternatives like electric cars and cleaner power plants.
Additional energy capacity will come from two new reactors at Plant Vogtle, a nuclear power plant in eastern Georgia, near the South Carolina border, that Georgia Power owns jointly with Oglethorpe Power Corp., the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and Dalton UtiliPlant Vogtle, a nuclear power plant in eastern Georgia, near the South Carolina border, that Georgia Power owns jointly with Oglethorpe Power Corp., the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and Dalton Utiliplant in eastern Georgia, near the South Carolina border, that Georgia Power owns jointly with Oglethorpe Power Corp., the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and Dalton Utilities.
The NRC's inspection report, released Friday, did not flag the plant's owner, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) for a serious violation of the rules the commission has imposed to assure the plant's safe shutdown in an anticipated emergency.
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