Sentences with phrase «plant closed because»

Essentially, the coal - fired plants closed because they are now required to remove various pollutants from their stack gases, but can not afford to retrofit the plants with the pollution control equipment.

Not exact matches

If our device could be moved close to where it is needed, but still on the energy producer's side of that equation, yet just outside the meter, then the energy producers could have millions of these small devices that they own and operate, because grandma doesn't want to become her own utility company because she has a solar panel, but if the utility companies and energy providers could compete with each other to have small units that are so close to the loads, they still get the full advantage of being a supplier of energy, except with just millions of little plants, they can avoid needing transmission lines, distribution lines, substations, et cetera, that everybody is talking about being expensive, unreliable, and subject to issues.

Displaced workers are defined as persons 20 years of age and older who lost or left jobs because their plant or company closed or moved, there was insufficient work for them to do, or their position or shift was abolished.

«We're trying to get plants in larger areas closer to the customers we serve,» Stacks says, adding the new plant helps the company save money on shipping and logistics costs because of its proximity to two large cities.

«That won't ever happen to a Turbana plantain — because our manufacturing plant is so close to the farmlands.»

The Staggs have planted 600 trees along trellises, which allow for easier maintenance because they keep the trees short and close together, making for a compact orchard.

I planted everything way too close together because I was working with a very limited amount of space and totally underestimated how big everything would get.

My kids — city dwellers that they are — seemed really interested in seeing up close how the food was planted and harvested, perhaps all the more so because the Angel family's own children participate in the process.

[214] Euan Phimister has said that bills are likely to increase across the whole of Great Britain because renewable schemes and new nuclear power stations in England are both receiving higher subsidies than the power plants which will shortly close due to environmental regulations.

Entergy officials say they will close the plant in late 2016 or early 2017 because it has been losing about $ 60 million a year.

Cuomo also wants to close Entergy's Indian Point nuclear plant, which employs 1,000 in Westchester County, because of its proximity to New York City.

FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant employees and members of the public rallied to save the plant's jobs in October 2015 when Entergy was pondering whether or not to close the facility because of economic loPlant employees and members of the public rallied to save the plant's jobs in October 2015 when Entergy was pondering whether or not to close the facility because of economic loplant's jobs in October 2015 when Entergy was pondering whether or not to close the facility because of economic losses.

There is one nuclear plant Cuomo does want to close; Indian Point over safety concerns because of its proximity to New York City.

Even when a deal to close the plant was on table, Cuomo balked because he would have to make the decision alone.

However, at least two of the state's nuclear reactors are in danger of closing within the next few years and would significantly increase air pollution because they would be replaced by fossil - fuel burning power plants in the near future.

The state will provide up to $ 30 million to communities that lose property tax revenue because an electric generating plant closes if the Legislature approves a state budget bill printed yesterday.

Cuomo has repeatedly called for that plant to be closed because of its proximity to the city.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has publicly stated several times that he's opposed to the continued operation of that plant, but he is in support of FitzPatrick, which Entergy plans to close the next year because of economic losses.

The Cayuga coal - burning plant outside Ithaca may close and the R.E. Ginna facility in Western New York is being subsidized by ratepayers for another few years because it is needed to maintain the state's electrical grid reliability.

Cuomo, who has long wanted the plant to close, has said Indian Point must shut down because it is too close to New York City and has ordered multiple investigations into it since its two reactors» series of unplanned shutdowns.

Maintenance issues at Indian Point have been seized upon by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who wants the plant to close for safety reasons because it is about 30 miles from Manhattan.

The owners of the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant are planning to close the facility in January 2017 because competition from natural gas has driven down profits.

Hartz said that in addition to new jobs, the town's economy is cleaner now because of the closing of Huntley, a coal - fired power plant that had been one of Erie County's biggest polluters.

Entergy said it will close the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant because it wasn't economically viable.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly said he wants the plant to be closed because of its proximity to New York City.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

Closing the older nuclear plants is not an option for many EU countries, which are facing an energy capacity crunch as other types of plant are being closed or mothballed because they can't cover their operating costs, or to meet stricter environmental regulation.

Because of a quirk of evolution, these plant chemicals are close enough to the natural hormone's shape to bind to the oestrogen receptors on cells in the human body.

Plant biologists know that stomata open when exposed to light and close in darkness, but the dynamics of this opening and closing have been little studied because there hasn't been a good way to directly measure them in real time.

Because CO2 can aid the growth of plants — and close down stomata as well to protect against O3 invasion — it was unclear how vegetation worldwide would respond to such an increase in emissions of both CO2 and O3.

Predicting exactly how plant and animal communities will change is close to impossible because of all the variables involved.

Because the optimal time window for planting the wheat will close at the end of March, the trial will be delayed for at least another year.

On June 30, following on work published in the scientific journal Nature by STRI post-doctoral fellow, Scott Mangan, a group of 50 researchers from 12 countries published a paper in Science (lead author, Joe LaManna, Washington University in St. Louis) showing that close plant relatives make bad neighbors and that the negative interactions between relatives are stronger in the tropics, which may explain why tropical forests are so rich in species diversity: Because plants do not do well next to their relatives, there is more space for non-relatives to fill.

«If this proposed mechanism is true, we should be seeing this in other plants,» Donoghue says, because many plants share close quarters with mosses and lichens and have similar wound responses.

But we can look at the evolutionary relations of the plants and say, «Oh, they are using something pretty close to both to treat malaria, so lets take those plants into the lab first before any of the other ones because they are most likely to be effective.»

Under red dwarf stars, plant - type life on land may not be possible because photosynthesis might not generate sufficient energy from infrared light to produce the oxygen needed to block dangerous ultraviolet light from such stars at the very close orbital distances needed for a planet to be warmed enough to have liquid water on its surface.

Because the stomata (pores on the leaves) of many plants will close at night, water will attempt to squeeze out at the edges and tips of leaves.

Because stomata of the plant usually close at night, water can squeeze out at the edges and tips of leaves, gathering in droplets.

And specifically about curcumin...... yes, most comes from China and is automatically suspect, and also because it is a root, and this plant medicine is certainly in need of closer scrutiny if one is taking it at the maximum dose (me).

Indelible images are planted in the mind of how one wishes life could be like, and these images often get in the way of being able to progress in life because no one can come close to the fantasy one has in the mind on who they want to partner with and how they should always behave.

American autoworkers are losing their jobs as their plants are being closed because of factors such as foreign competition.

Be sure not to plant to bring your kitten home close to your vacation time because it may take several weeks for your cats to be ok left home alone.

Because the LEDs produce far less heat than HPS lights, they can be placed very close to the plants to deliver high intensity lights to the surface of the leaves, including the lower branches and leaves in the understory.

I'm a plant growing aquaticist — who does NOT use CO2 fertilization but whose tank is overrun with plants anyway — mainly because I use a wet - dry filtered reef tank with a closed top where the water is mixed with air in large quantities in the sump keeping the amount of CO2 and O2 at optimal levels.

Ohio's nuclear plants generate 90 percent of Ohio's clean power, and could soon close prematurely because they are excluded from generous federal subsidies and state electricity mandates.

EP is doing this because we want to prevent nuclear plants from closing and increase the number of plants opening.

Scientist James Conca said Southern California electric ratepayers should not have to pick up the $ 830 million net cost of permanently closing the San Onofre nuclear power plant because it is still operable without any safety issues.

The Alpena cement plant is of particular concern because it sits on the banks of Lake Huron and in close proximity to residential areas of Alpena.

This is something important to understand because at 400ppm CO2 we are closer to 150ppm CO2 where plants begin to starve to death than 8000ppm CO2 when plants grow to gargantuan size.

Despite those investments the facility closed like many other coal - fired plants because the operating cost of burning coal was not competitive with gas - fired competition.