Sentences with phrase «other large power plants»

Installation of closed - cycle cooling at Indian Point would reduce these impacts by more than 95 percent and is a feasible technology used at other large power plants around the country.

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Alberta prides itself on being the only jurisdiction in North America that demands coal - fired power plants, oilsands upgraders and other large industrial facilities reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

It also says technology to capture carbon from power plants and other industrial facilities — so - called carbon capture and storage — needs support in order to encourage large - scale projects.

The power industry is highly regional, and some states have big solar and wind industries, while others benefit from large natural gas resources, or have long had major coal plants.

On Wednesday, March 22, 2017, Assemblymember Kavanagh, Chair of the Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee, held a press conference with Energy Chair Amy Paulin, Corporations Chair Jeffrey Dinowitz, Environmental Conservation Chair Steve Englebright, and other Assemblymembers to question the lack of transparency by the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) regarding massive subsidies to a large corporation to operate upstate nuclear power plants that are set to take effect on April 1.

The extra electricity, which can increase by as much as a gigawatt — or the output of a large nuclear power plant — in under an hour, must be quickly sold to other utilities or in many cases it is wasted.

Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, petrochemical plants, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large livestock farms (dairy cows, pigs, poultry, etc.), PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.

Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large animal farms, PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.

Google will also become TVA's 12th directly served customer, along with a host of chemical plants, steel mills and other large industrial power consumers.

The transition of the Widows Creek Fossil Plant near Stevenson, Ala., into Google's 14th global data center marks the end of an era for what was one of the nation's largest coal - fired power plants and one of the Tennessee Valley's largest emitters of carbon dioxide and other air pollution.

That will be important for other capture projects down the road, he said, since a large power plant would require multiple injection wells to store all its carbon dioxide.

Scientists from the University of York have developed an innovative new green method of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power stations, chemical and other large scale manufacturing plants.

And if a home generating its own electricity with solar panels and batteries isn't connected to the grid, the home isn't culpable for any of the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that spew from natural gas power plants or coal - fired power plants — the globe's largest contributor to climate change.

The scientists estimated that the amount of contaminated water flowing into the ocean from this brackish groundwater source below the sandy beaches is as large as the input from two other known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the nuclear power plant site itself, and outflow from rivers that continue to carry cesium from the fallout on land in 2011 to the ocean on river - borne particles.

By precisely calibrating the mirrors with computer algorithms driving shoe box — size motors, eSolar can build its sunlight - harvesting power plants with many more small, flat mirrors, roughly one square meter in size, as opposed to the large, curved specialty mirrors employed in other designs.

capture, where the CO2 is removed by chemical processes from power plants and other large industrial facilities, such as refineries or cement plants.

Others hope that it will also allow OCO - 2 to go beyond large natural sources and sinks, such as oceans and forests, to detect CO2 emanating from sprawling urban areas or even large power plants.

Problems have also afflicted spinning flywheels, which allow power plants and other large energy users to store and release powerful surges of energy.

China is the world's largest SO2 emitter, mostly due to the burning of high - sulfur coal in its many coal - fired power plants, which lack the technology used in many other countries to remove sulfur from smoke stack emissions.

Off - grid solar is already providing electricity to communities in rural Africa, India, the Caribbean and elsewhere who will never get access to grid power from nuclear or any other form of large, centralized generation, because the resources to build either the grids or the giant power plants do not exist, nor do those communities have the wealth to purchase grid power.

Among other points, Mr. Romm says the «fourth generation» form of nuclear power discussed by Dr. Hansen has no greater potential benefits than other technologies (solar - thermal power plants, for example) that were not mentioned but that could be deployed at large scale much more quickly.

The Worldwatch Institute and Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors recently analyzed the full greenhouse impacts of natural gas and coal — from the well or mine to the power plant — and the work supports other studies pointing to a large and clear climate advantage from gas as a source of electricity.

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.

... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....

There are many other technologies for storing excess electricity from renewable power plants, but all have unique disadvantages that make them unattractive on a large scale.

Few new U.S. nuclear plants are expected to come online in the future, in large part because nuclear power is not currently economically competitive with other energy sources.

On other notes, Rogers said he is intrigued about the prospect of modular nuclear plants — «By 2030 they will be cost competitive with the larger nuclear plants,» he said — and by 2050 nuclear (despite the Fukushima disaster) and solar could become mainstays in the power business.

Climate policy uncertainty, all other premises being equal, slows down the introduction of new technologies when compared with conventional ones, because it adds an additional risk to other large existing ones — the risk premiums for new technologies can be as high as 40 % of the capital investment cost for a power plant.

In addition to the 2,250 MW NGS, the reservation is surrounded by four other large and toxic coal - fired power plants: the San Juan Generating Station (1,800 MW), the Four Corners Power Plant (2,040 MW), Escalate (250 MW), and Cholla Power Plant (995power plants: the San Juan Generating Station (1,800 MW), the Four Corners Power Plant (2,040 MW), Escalate (250 MW), and Cholla Power Plant (995Power Plant (2,040 MW), Escalate (250 MW), and Cholla Power Plant (995Power Plant (995 MW).

However, the failure of the United States to control its largest source of greenhouse gas emissions — coal - fired power plants — is a prime excuse used by China and other developing countries for not limiting their own emissions more strictly.

In a Harrisburg Pennsylvania newspaper article the claim was made that (32) «Unfortunately, the largest contributor to the problem, the electric utility industry, continues to get a free ride on its mercury pollution... other sources are reducing emissions, not such requirements exist for coal - fired power plants.»

The divisions the bills have created within the state — with the utility commission, some lawmakers, clean energy advocates and the executive branch on one side, and Xcel and other members of the legislature on the other — echo wider debates about large nuclear power plants in the U.S., and who should pay for them.

«If coal is to continue as a primary component of the nation's future energy supply in a carbon - constrained world, large - scale demonstrations of carbon management technologies — especially carbon capture and sequestration — are needed to prove the commercial readiness of technologies to significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal - based power plants and other energy conversion processes,» says the report.

Emissions from coal - fired power plants and other industrial concerns in China have made it the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, putting more climate - changing gases into the atmosphere each year than the US and the European Union combined.

Although the United States produces a large amount of coal (about 728 million short tons in 2016), some power plants along the Gulf Coast and the Atlantic Ocean sometimes find it cheaper to import coal from other countries than to obtain coal from U.S. coal - producing regions.

And there are other companies looking to install large solar power plants in Ghana, including what would be the largest in Africa.

In addition to regulating fuel economy, EPA is applying Clean Air Act permitting requirements to large stationary sources of greenhouse gases: power plants, refineries, steel mills, pulp and paper factories, and cement production facilities.63 EPA will soon establish greenhouse gas New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for coal - fired power plants and petroleum refineries.64 If these go unchallenged, it is likely that EPA will develop greenhouse gas performance standards for numerous other industrial source categories.

Nuclear power plants require enormous amounts of fresh water to operate — they are on rank 3 on the largest water footprint of energy sources after hydro - electric power (obviously) and shortly behind coal — leaving all other energy sources way behind, including gas, wind, solar, etc..

In reading the comments on nuclear versus other power sources and then some of the earlier comments on whther small scale chages per household versus larger scale power plants, made me think about a tangential issue.

Now another company is vying for the title of world's largest solar photovoltaic power plant, and they have communities from across the US competing with each other for the right to host it.

In case you hadn't heard, the chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, Fred Upton (R - MI) wants to scrap EPA plans to to regulate carbon emissions from power plants and other large industrial sources altogether.

Enel SpA, Europe's largest utility, is in talks to sell power from wind, solar and other renewable energy plants to the Swiss cryptocurrency company Envion AG, according to people wi...

Coal - fired power plants are the nation's largest source of mercury, sulfur dioxide (SO2) pollution, carbon pollution and many other deadly pollutants that can trigger heart attacks and contribute to respiratory problems.