Sentences with phrase «plant capacity around»

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In 2012, there were around 2,150 thermal waste treatment plants operating globally with a total annual waste treatment capacity of almost 250 million tons.

The North West Shelf and Pluto LNG plants have a combined capacity of over 20 million metric tons per year, around 85 percent of Australia's annual exports.

«We investigated whether coiling wire around the lower part of the plant stems to reduce the capacity of xylem to transport water to the shoot would result in low shoot moisture conditions and increase the sugar concentration of fruit like salt and water stresses,» the authors said.

American nuclear power reactors operated that year around the clock at about 90 percent capacity, whereas coal - fired plants operated at about 73 percent, hydroelectric plants at 29 percent, natural gas from 16 to 38 percent, wind at 27 percent, solar at 19 percent, and geothermal at 75 percent.»

I recently visted China's most efficient and cleanest PF plant (near Xiamen, it is still being built and will be around 6GW capacity when completed (it's already 3.8 GW) but it has no space for capture plant to be retro - fitted and it is doubtful (though not certain) that appropriate geological storage is available nearby.

Solar panels, with a capacity totaling 70,000 megawatts, and geothermal power plants, with a capacity of some 11,000 megawatts, are generating electricity around the world.

Nuclear power plants in the US run around 90 percent of the time, so they have a 90 percent capacity factor.

Overall, around 3,330 MW of renewable energy generation capacity was contracted through the round, including 149.4 MW of geothermal projects, 133.8 MW of biomass power plants and other minor renewables.

Recharge The wind industry added a further 54GW of plant to the grid around the world last year, with turbines in more than 90 countries making up an installed generating capacity of 486.8 GW, according to figures from the Global Wind Energy Council's (GWEC) latest Global Wind Report.

Do you think 40 + GW of coal power plant capacity sits around idling when solar and wind do their thing?

That would bring total closures of coal and gas plants over the coming four years to 49GW (around a third of total thermal capacity)-- which just happens to match the amount of wind and solar capacity that UBS anticipates will be added over the same period.

For 24 GW of power plants operating at an average of 13 % capacity factor (assumed by EDM - 2011), the land area would be around 35 million hectares and involve nearly 75,000 average sized wheat farms.

For a 30 megawatt power plant at a 70 % capacity factor the land area would be around 240,000 hectares and involve nearly 500 average sized wheat farms.

Coal plants nationwide already only run around half of the time, nearly every Indian coal plant violates the country's new air pollution standard, and India's Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has proposed closing nearly 50 GW of coal capacity by 2027.

The largest plants will have generating capacities of around 1,000 megawatts (MW), enough to supply electricity to as many as 900,000 homes.

Coal Fleet: How many coal - fired power plants operate around the U.S. and how much generating capacity do they provide?

It indeed means that around 90 % of the total so - called installed wind power (turbine capacity) must be available from conventional power plants, in order to compensate for the variations of wind power.»

Seawater desalination plants cost around $ 1 for each litre per day capacity, and about $ 1 for each kilolitre of desalinated water they produce.

It shows the location, operating status and generating capacity of all 667 reactors that have been built, or are under construction, around the world, ever since Russia's tiny Obninsk plant became the first to supply power to the grid in 1954.