Sentences with phrase «operation coal and nuclear»

Of course, that means a very different kind of industry to the existing one, based on continuous operation coal and nuclear.

Not exact matches

About 85 % of the value of Babcock & Wilcox comes from the nuclear operations business that serves the U.S. Navy as its end customer and the power general on business that serves mainly U.S. coal power plants.

VRE's signals of increased flexibility does have the potential of reducing revenue and operations profits for nuclear and coal plants, less so for natural gas sourced units.

In other markets where windpower was significant, like the Midwest / Central and Texas regions, the large majority of negative pricing were attributed to nuclear, coal and less flexible natural gas power plant operations unable to adjust as demand changed.

In the 1970s and 1980s, anti-nuclear groups forced the cancellation of 150 percent more nuclear plants than were ever built, which led to the building, and continued operation, of coal and natural gas plants.

As nuclear and coal operations shut down, some jobs may be lost in those sectors.

Climate change — and, forthat matter, the enormous present - day health risks associated with burning coal, oil, and gas — simply dwarf any legitimate risk associated with the operation of nuclear power plants.

You have to ask if expanding wind power is truly wise, especially when you consider that most of the United State» s refineries and coal - fired and nuclear power plants — many of which are still in operation — were built prior to 1980.

Our working paper includes several variations of the proposal, including a 10 - year lifespan for the policy instead of 25, policies that support only coal generators or only nuclear, and policies that only guarantee recovery of the costs of continued operation («going - forward» costs) rather than guaranteeing profits.

We do not need subsidies any more for alternative energy, we need the other technologies to fully pay for the «externalities» of their operations, such as damaged kids, shortened lives, remediation of their damages, safe and permanent handling of their wastes, (such as coal ash and high level nuclear waste), and the like.

Lawrence Berkeley and Argonne National Laboratories examine the growth of solar, wind and natural gas power plant operations on wholesale power markets and the impact on nuclear and coal generators.

Other states have not been so direct, but nonetheless, coal plants have been shutting down in droves even as multiple nuclear plants have also opted to wind down operations in the past five years, citing difficult market structures and competition from low - priced natural gas.

Nuclear power is safer than coal and when construction and operation are included it omits less CO2 than any comparable alternative.