Sentences with phrase «old power plants»

The second emergency measure, which has so far not been used, would see a reserve of old power plants fired up.

Other developers are finding old power plants attractive as well.

The country has plans to construct a set of new reactors to maintain electricity supply and cut carbon dioxide emissions as a generation of older power plants is shut down.

Puente would serve a local reliability need triggered by the retirement of older power plants in the area in 2020.

State hearings on LIPA's plan for future energy sources begin in Smithtown today, giving Long Islanders a chance to be heard on a plan that seeks to vastly increase green - energy resources while shelving plans to overhaul old power plants.

Dreyfus, their leader (played by Gary Oldman) has a plan: Get the city's old power plant working again.

The truth is if you produce power using old power plants, you're going to be emitting more carbon — but to upgrade those plants, energy's going to be a little bit more expensive, at least on the front end.

You have to have scrubbers, you have to have standards, you have to take old power plants out of service and put in new power plants with higher standards.

But wind and solar farms aren't all sited near old nuclear or fossil fuel power plants (in fact, some areas with fewer older power plants, such as the Great Plains and Southwest, offer some of the country's best renewable potential).

Particularly in growing urban areas, smart infill development simply provides more enduring value than crappy old power plants.

Japan is now operating full time old power plants meant to operate while the nuclear plants are down, and it is challenging to keep them on.

Cordish Co. is preparing to dovetail its latest old power plant with that demographic.

Amid the flurry of claims and counter-claims over an old power plant, The Australian Financial Review weighs up the arguments, leaving aside...

Amid the flurry of claims and counter-claims over an old power plant, The Australian Financial Review weighs up the arguments, leaving aside the political point - scoring.

Joan Cartan - Hansen showed scientists at work in an underground chamber at an old power plant in Idaho, swabbing the forearms and noses of hibernating bats in search of evidence for a deadly fungus that has been killing millions of bats across the nation.

«No one drives a 30 - year - old car, so why should we rely on 60 - year - old power plants?»

Old power plants could be retrofitted with BlackLight Power reactors, which would produce no emissions or hazardous waste, Mills says.

Director: Gareth Edwards Cast: Aaron Taylor - Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Sally Hawkins, Juliette Binoche with David Strathairn and Bryan Cranston Plot: Joe Brody (Cranston) loses everything, setting him on a hunt to find out what really happened with his old power plant, unaware that it is connected to the myth of Godzilla.

The double - overhead cam, 24 - valve, 190 - horsepower engine generates only one horsepower more than the old power plant, but it delivers 14 percent more torque.

Whine all you want about the smaller engine, but it beats the old power plant's 411 horsepower and 434 pound - feet of torque.

Heather Arnold: The Tate Modern in London is located in an old power plant on the Thames, and is one of my favorites.

The CaixaForum is a restoration and expansion of one of the few examples of industrial architecture in Madrid's historical center, the old power plant Central Eléctrica del Mediodía.

I remember about 10 years ago when he was governor of Texas when he fought tooth and nail to make sure that the old power plants in Texas that were built during or directly after World War II had no pollution controls because they should be «Grandfathered In» (built before pollution control requirements.)

The oldest power plants tend to be hydropower generators.

The one thing so far that unifies the energy industry is its opposition to the Jeffords emissions bill in its current form, mainly because it stipulates that old power plants install the latest technology to clean up emissions within five years.

In this slideshow, three residents share what Long Island's marine waters mean to them and the community they live in, as well as their thoughts on the impact that old power plants have had on the marine environment.

One of Utah's oldest power plants is slated to close next year due to costly Environmental Protection Agency regulations limiting mercury emissions from coal plants.

In response, National Grid introduced the Supplemental Balancing Reserve, which paid some older power plants to remain available to generate in case of a shortfall in supply instead of closing or being mothballed.

And the reason is simple — those stricter Clean Air regs would mean that the coal companies and utilities would have to seriously upgrade and clean up some of the nation's dirtier, older power plants, and probably take some offline.

By reducing our electricity demand and our reliance on older power plants, we're reducing emissions that way.

The weaving wooden Plant Tram Urban Garden itself will stay on display at Suvilahti, an old power plant and gasworks in the north east of the city, through Sept. 16 as part of World Design Capital Helsinki 2012.

The cost of having another daughter means Homer must give up his bowling alley dream and get back his old power plant job, which he does, for his new daughter.

In the 1980s, amusement - park operator Six Flags failed to make a go of the old power plant as an entertainment destination.