Sentences with phrase «of electricity the plants»

The amount of electricity the plants provide to each building will vary between 15 % and 35 % of total consumption.

Not exact matches

The giant mining operations of Asia stack thousands of computers in dimly lit factory buildings powered by cheap electricity from coal - fed generating plants.

Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

Unabated coal refers to the production of electricity from a coal plant without using treatments to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

Today, there are 13 solar plants, four wind farms and six geothermal plants online, generating about 3,500 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 573,000 homes.

The plant operates when the spot price of electricity exceeds the cost of acquiring gas plus an allowance.

Beyond using this clean electricity to power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel - cell cars) on the road by 2020.

«Our solar plants are going to lose over half of their ability to generate electricity during the two to two and a half hours that the eclipse will be impacting our area,» says Steven Greenlee, spokesperson for the California Independent System Operator, or CAISO, one of the largest independent grid operators in the world.

«Coal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thursday.

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.

Just as importantly, his work on the distribution of electricity led to the world's first power plant in New York City (though his technology choice, direct current (DC), was eventually surpassed by the alternating current approach (AC) championed by rival inventor, Nikola Tesla).

The work was low margin, but the profits from it augmented cash flow and covered a significant portion of the plant's overhead (electricity, water, taxes, etc.).

HANOI, April 26 (Reuters)- PetroVietnam Power Corp, or PV Power, has been granted government approval to build two gas - fired electricity plants in southern Vietnam at a total cost of nearly $ 1.5 billion, its parent company said on Thursday.

Liska agrees that using some of the residue to make electricity, or planting cover crops, would reduce carbon emissions.

Recurrent Energy, a U.S. subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc., is redefining what it means to be a mainstream clean energy company, with utility - scale solar plants that provide competitive clean electricity.

In the US, for instance, a proposal to force California's two nuclear power plants — which generate 16 percent of the state's electricity — to shut down immediately when the Nuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in November.

The plant's original plan called for producing enough solar panels to generate 1,000 megawatts of electricity, although Peter Rive, SolarCity's chief technology officer, said this month that improvements to the equipment design and factory layout could allow it to produce more than 1 gigawatt in panels.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Power Plant Operations Report The generation fuel mix of electricity in the Northeast Census division of the United States has shifted dramatically over the past Continue Reading

The most recent data from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) finds that a cost - shift does not occur until distributed solar penetration reaches 10 % of electricity sales, and even then that the impact is minimal compared to other drivers of rate increases, like new gas plants or transmission lines.

The country has a large number of geothermal and hydroelectric power plants, which provide a massive electricity surplus to the island nation.

GREG WARREN: With coal fired and natural gas plants continuing to generate around two thirds of the nation's electricity and renewables accounting to less than 10 percent, there remains plenty of room for growth.

** JPMorgan Chase & Co's commodity trading arm is looking to sell more of the electricity deals it has with U.S. power plants and wind farms, a source familiar with the business said on Wednesday, at a time when Wall Street's involvement in physical commodity markets is under heightened scrutiny.

Also, the French believe that Frau Merkel played politics and an anti-French card by moving to halt electricity production at seven NUCLEAR POWER plants, thus making the French look bad as well as having the impact of driving up electricity prices.

The price collapse of solar panels has led to tumbling electricity prices at photovoltaic plants worldwide.

Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

The Alberta government received the final report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on carbon, introduce a limit on overall emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.

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...

Puerto Rico gets much of its electricity from large central power plants on the southern coast of the island and transmits power to load centers on its north side, as you can see on this map of the island's transmission system.

The nuclear power plants in use around the world today use fission, or the splitting of heavy atoms such as uranium, to release energy for electricity.

If electricity use continues to double every nine years, huge amounts of power will have to come from 500 years» worth of coal supplies and lots of nuclear power plants — by this time possibly breeder or fusion plants.

Undaunted, the company built a distilled spirits plant in Downey, Calif., and partnered with a China - based engineering firm that custom - built production machinery for the plant, which uses air as its main power source instead of only electricity.

Results achieved over hundreds of plants globally have achieved removal of organic waste from discharge water of between 70 - 99 per cent, with many of the plants installed by Global Water Engineering also capturing the organic waste converted to methane and using it to power boilers and electricity generators.

Similar global expertise is embodied in the GWE anaerobic technologies of which more than 300 have been completed worldwide, including more than 70 that generate biogas to replace fossil fuels in fuelling boilers and processing plant or to sellback to the electricity grid.

Benefits of the company's new wastewater and green energy plant mean that DMPI can replace fossil fuels with green energy, and given the high prices of electricity form the Grid and the sometimes erratic supply, the plant will achieve rapid ROI payback.

You can donate to CarbonFund.org and select from a menu of certified carbon offset projects that include planting trees in severely fire - damanaged forests and innovative project that converts cow manure into methane that then generates the electricity to run a war desalination plant.

This can be direct income to the Government as the Plant may continue to generate electricity at 4.5 c / kWh while the Government can make additional profit of at least 3.5 c / kwh for the next 15 - 20 years.

The mandate would be another step toward the governor's goal of a 40 percent reduction in carbon emissions from plants supplying the state's electricity.

The plant, which opened in the 1970s and employs about 1,000 workers, has a capacity of up to 2,000 megawatts — about 25 % of the electricity used in New York City and Westchester County, according to Entergy.

The plant is part of the strategy, along with Champlain Hudson Power Express in Rockland, to replace the electricity lost when Indian Point closes in 2020.

The increase in demand for electricity, reduction in the quantity of water at the Akosombo Dam, irregular gas supply from the West Africa Gas Pipeline Company in Nigeria, irregular maintenance programmes and late procurement of crude oil to power generation plants, have conspired to plunge the country in the current power crisis.

As a teacher of Physics in the university, I was excited when the late President Umaru Yar» Adua awarded a contract of some N40bn for an alternative - energy, wind - powered electricity generation plant to be sited, naturally, at Katsina State.

The plant provides about 25 percent of the electricity for New York City and Westchester.

The world's first nuclear power plant to produce electricity from the atom: Experimental Breeder Reactor 1, in the Great Basin Desert of Idaho.

In 2017, for instance, according to the US Energy Information Administration, the levelised cost of electricity, which is a key comparator of generating effectiveness, is likely to average $ 96 / MWh for new wind plant as opposed to $ 97.4 / MWh for conventional coal.

Meanwhile, Cuomo is closing a fully operating plant that supplies NYC with a substantial percentage of its electricity.

Since this plant a big part of Cuomo's Indian Point electricity replacement plan, what's the backup plan?

$ 1.5 million will construct a Biomass plant that will generate steam and electricity for customers of Griffiss Business and Technology Park in Rome, continuing support for technological innovation in the Mohawk Valley.

«The plant electrifies parts of a National Power Training Institute of Nigeria (NAPTIN) training site in Kainji, which helps to reduce electricity costs.

Under Grannis, the DEC came up with the brilliant idea of closing Indian Point power plant, which produces 1/3 of NYC's electricity, in order to protect plankton and fish eggs in 1 percent of the Hudson's water.

The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed on Wednesday at Governor's office, Ibadan, is targeted at generating 1,000 megawatts of electricity and providing independent power plants across the zones of the state.