Sentences with phrase «of electrical power generation»

We wanted to isolate the climate effects alone of shifting a fixed amount of electrical power generation (1 TWe as base case).

The corporation is the industry body authorized by the federal government to enforce reliability rules for the interlocking system of electrical power generation and transmission.

In the attempt to put a stop to further reactor construction, the antinuclear movement may be tempted to constipate the system — to plug up the radwaste outlet for the nuclear industry — hoping thereby to force a shutdown of electrical power generation.

Not exact matches

Rossello highlighted how the island's electrical grid, which was severely dilapidated even prior to the storms, was obsolete and working off of a generation system that was 28 years older than the average electric power utility in the United States.

The Powership will generate high voltage electrical energy at one of the lowest prices for thermal power generation.

Power engineers are already sketching the outlines of the next - generation electrical grid that will keep our homes and factories humming with clean — but fluctuating — renewable energy.

For several years, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas has investigated various materials in search of those whose electrical properties might make them suitable for small, energy - efficient transistors to power next - generation electronic devices.

More than 100 gigawatts of geothermal power (one tenth of the current U.S. electrical generation) could be developed for $ 1 billion during the next 40 years — at the full cost of one carbon - capturing coal - fired power plant or one - third the cost of a new nuclear generator.

The Obama administration and the Interior Department last week decided it will waive penalties for up to three decades to wind energy farms that kill bald eagles in the generation of electrical power.

Response: SMR - 160 can be sited at the center of an industrial cluster to provide safe, dependable, carbon - free electrical energy or industrial steam to power a variety of industries such as desalination and hydrogen generation.

Real - time, direct, electrical detection of sequencing, combined with the enormous amount of computing power in both the Ion Proton ™ Sequencer and Ion Proton ™ Torrent Server, enables generation of high quality sequencing results from DNA library to variants in a single day.

The new sports car generation makes its debut in the classic Porsche pairing of Boxster and Boxster S. Both models are powered by flat - six engines with direct petrol injection, the efficiency of which is further enhanced by electrical system recuperation, thermal management and start / stop function.

Powered by the fifth generation of battery and drivetrain technology, from 2021 the BMW Group will be capable of offering all - electric vehicles with a range of up to 700 kilometres and plug - in hybrids with an electrical range of up to 100 kilometres.

The gasoline engine of the e-POWER system is strictly for electrical power generation with minimal influence from the opening and closing of the throttle, allowing the engine to always operate in its optimum condition.

But over the next decade, 60 million cars are expected to feature a 48 - volt electrical system, with a 10kw practical power limit, which will introduce the next generation of auto stop - start.

It's wide range of electrical and electronic products find application in power generation, distribution, control, protection and final consumption.

~ 13 times less than land use changes (3.4 gigatons) ~ 11.5 times less than light - duty vehicles (3.0 gigatons) ~ 5.3 times less than concrete production (1.4 gigatons) ~ 2 dozen 1000 MW coal - fired power plants (2 % of the world's coal - fired electrical generation) Or, roughly the same CO2 emissions as Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Poland or South Africa.

As a (now retired) electrical engineer (NYS Professional licensed) knowledgeable about power generation who has watched the challenge of meeting our energy needs over decades I can state with some expertise that the US is in a serious bind as to meeting our nation's energy needs.

This project will allow a certain proportion of fossil - fuel powered electrical generation to be taken offline during the daytime, reducing CO2 emissions and providing more energy independence for the region.

In the early 1970s, Energy Probe saw nuclear power as a relatively clean and economic alternative to coal, then a highly polluting form of electrical generation.

«The US forest sector is well set up and managed, meets our sustainability criteria and the supplies of sustainable biomass are plentiful,» says Melanie Wedgbury from Drax Power — the largest British electrical power generation comPower — the largest British electrical power generation compower generation company.

Increasing nuclear power plant efficiency from 1980 to today came from two areas: first, improvements to how operators re-fuel reactors, and keep plants and their workers safe; second, increasing the heat and electrical generation of plants through «up - rates.»

How are we going to counteract, or handle the impact of ever - increasing non-renewable electrical power generation?

And this same period saw the expansion of fossil fuel burning from the traditional family needs like heating / cooking, then on to quickly power - up both modern modern agriculture and also the industrial - mass production revolution in manufacturing industries, and finally the large - scale generation of ubiquitous electrical power, eventually distributed into nearly every home and business in the industrialized societies, with close to 24x7x365 availability.

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Thorium reactors could be a game changer here for power generation and heat with serviced buildings; but we'll still a long way off of good electrical storage in transportation — aircraft, trucks, ships, and cars will continue to burn oil products until that eureka moment)

This was apparently the fault of Western environmentalists, who had somehow obliged the clinic to use solar power, which is «at least 3 times more expensive than conventional forms of electrical generation.»

For the first third of this year, renewables and nuclear power have been running neck - in - neck with renewables providing 20.20 percent of U.S. net electrical generation during the four - month period (January to April) compared to 20.75 percent for nuclear power.

Nuclear power plants occupy a small area relative to their electrical generation output, the smallest physical footprint of any major energy source.

General Electric, one of the world's largest suppliers of electrical power plant equipment, is all fired up about large markets for new coal - fired generation in India and China as America's shut down.

And, as a result of human ingenuity and the free market (which got us where we are today), new technologies will come along that will eventually replace fossil fuels for many of the lower added - value end uses, such as electrical power generation or transportation.

New government stats on falling carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from electrical power generation point to a good - news story on energy and climate, one that should grab the attention of policymakers nationally and in the states.

4) For nations (like USA) with large coal reserves, it makes economic sense to exploit these in a «clean» way; electrical power generation is an efficient use of this resource, which enables flue gas cleanup 5) Carbon taxes do nothing to change our planet's future climate (no tax ever did).

Expressed in financial terms, the health costs linked to biomass burning for power generation run into billions of euros each year, with health costs associated with emissions from former coal and co-fired plants amounting to 137,000 euros per year on average for every megawatt of electrical capacity installed.

Unbundling is also needed (separating electrical power generation and power transmission and distribution) so that a system can be established that ensures the necessary fair and neutral control and operation of power transmission and distribution grids.

Here in Canada, the governors of the province of Ontario made a huge investment in wind turbines for electrical power generation.

The common view is that a high fraction of renewable power generation would be costly, and would either often leave us in the dark or would require massive electrical storage.

Natural gas generation is capable of providing on - demand «dispatchable» power, ramping up quickly and following real - time changes in electrical load.

Our grid connected and off grid wind turbine systems, which consist of our 2.4 kW and 10 kW devices and related equipment, are utilized for electrical power generation for applications and markets such as residential, micro-grid based rural electrification, agricultural, small business, rural electric utility systems, as well as other private, corporate infrastructure and government applications.

For example — we currently use about 1/3 of our total natural gas production in electrical power generation.

With these additions, Canada has reached a total of 9.7 GW of online wind energy electrical generation capability — enough to power 3 million average Canadian homes annually.

60 Wind Generation Historically Small wind turbines used for Wind Generation Historically Small wind turbines used for agriculture use — pump water Provide electrical needs for isolated homes Extracts ~ 3 kW of power with wind vanes no larger than 1m long Modern Wind turbines with vanes larger than 50 m can extract megawatts of power from the wind Blades designed to function similar to airplane wings utilizing lift created by the wind flowing over the surface to turn the blades — more efficient Turbines mounted on tall towers or at sea can take advantage of higher winds.

Generation must at all times match power consumption, that is a simple necessity of the way any electrical system works.

Power produced and sold from landfill gas - fueled electrical generation facilities is one of the most reliable sources of renewable energy.

«The common view is that a high fraction of renewable power generation would be costly and would either often leave us in the dark or require massive electrical storage,» say the researchers.

Note that most of the storage, transport, and power generation technology for methane is already mature, and that a strong reliance on methane could reduce the need for large electrical grids with huge generating plants.

This will further expand the country's use of coal for electrical power generation, writes Dan Yurman, nuclear energy specialist and author of the Neutron Bytes blog.

This is a pretty big deal — about half of U.S. electrical generation comes from cheap - but - dirty coal power, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Aside from the excellent information provided on the breakdown of energy sources used to power the Australian electrical grid, the main figure in contention is highlighted in red — the percentage of coal - fired power used per day versus all other sources of generation.

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