Sentences with phrase «plant construction costs»

In a report released in late June, the Sierra Club said runaway plant construction costs and rising global coal prices have made the plants financially risky investments.

Synapse evaluates power plant construction costs, repowering options, siting decisions, availability, efficiency, emissions characteristics, environmental control options, water usage, and cooling.

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Such factors include, among others, general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; the actual results of current and future exploration activities; the actual results of reclamation activities; conclusions of economic evaluations; meeting various expected cost estimates; changes in project parameters and / or economic assessments as plans continue to be refined; future prices of metals; possible variations of mineral grade or recovery rates; the risk that actual costs may exceed estimated costs; failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated; accidents, labour disputes and other risks of the mining industry; political instability; delays in obtaining governmental approvals or financing or in the completion of development or construction activities, as well as those factors discussed in the section entitled «Risk Factors» in the Company's Annual Information Form for the year ended December 31, 2017 dated March 15, 2018.

Southern has struggled over the past few years with cost over runs from the construction of two new nuclear power plants (Vogle and Kemper).

Fonterra estimated the cheese plant construction to cost NZ$ 141m ($ 90.7 m).

Foremost Farms received a $ 12m bond from the Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF) to support construction of a 55,000 - square - foot dairy processing plant in west central Michigan, estimated to cost $ 57.9 m.

The last thing such power systems will need will be huge centralised power plants at the end of the grid, not able to switch on and off, and having to be paid back over many years for the huge upfront cost of construction.

1) Repeal the Triborough Amendment; 2) State pick - up of Medicaid costs from counties; 3) Roll - back of Medicaid entitlements / coverages to median national levels; 4) Major reform of SEQR process which blocks projects Upstate; 5) Repeal NY's participation in RGGI; 6) Cut 50 percent of staff at DOE, DOH, DEC in order to let the other half do their jobs, which means serving the people instead of feeding the bureaucratic monster; 7) Support expansion of nuclear plants at Oswego, construction of new plants elsewhere; 8) Tort reform to allow doctors to practice medicine, instead of fleeing NY; 9) Use the bully pulpit to support natural gas drilling and tell the envirowackos to grow up.

Critics gripe that New York taxpayers are footing $ 750 million in construction and equipment costs of the plant, whose prospects for profitability look doubtful without the help of further government subsidies.

California - based Niagara Bottling is proposing the construction of a 414,800 - square - foot plant at an estimated cost of $ 53 million to build off Boice's Lane.

Stateside, money may be the biggest deterrent to further development, since construction costs for a radically new reactor could far exceed the $ 10 billion - plus price tag for a conventional uranium plant.

For many Africans and Africa observers, the massive Medupi and Kusile coal plants being built by South Africa's Eskom at a cost of more than $ 20 billion, or the 6,000 - MW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam under construction on the Blue Nile River for an estimated $ 4 billion, are hallmarks of the continent's progress toward electrification.

And while EPA designed the rule to accommodate fossil fuel plants equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, the Barnett report said such plants are unlikely to find favor with investors unless Congress provides incentives to defray their higher construction and operation costs.

In the west, water shortages are a reality now, so the country is considering the construction of three massive desalination plants, at a cost of more than a billion dollars each, to create freshwater.

The study estimates that new nuclear plants carry a heavy risk premium because of uncertain construction costs.

Once the construction costs of a nuclear plant are amortized, its operating costs are less than those of any fossil fuel — fired plant, including coal.

Considering nuclear power plants already have problems with construction cost overruns, any additional costs are likely to meet resistance.

If a plant runs $ 5 billion in «overnight» costs and the money is spent over five years, interest on capital during the period of construction — the utility's version of a home builder's construction loan — could add hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars.

UniStar has not listed precise costs, but in recent briefings Wallace has pointed to other studies of standardized plants that quote «overnight costs» (not counting interest for construction) of $ 4,000 to $ 6,000 per kilowatt of capacity.

We do not expect to incur any further general and administrative expenses related to plant development activities, which include startup and commissioning activities at our plants prior to beginning production as well as incremental overhead costs related to our construction activities.

This collaborative commercialization program will also work to confirm projected construction and operating costs and identify a lead - plant owner and operator for the joint aSMR.

The collaboration will also include the near - term objectives of confirming projected construction and operating costs, as well as the identification of a lead plant owner / operator for the reactor.

Against orders, Godell continues investigating and learns that cost - cutting in the plant's construction has compromised its safety.

Southern has struggled over the past few years with cost over runs from the construction of two new nuclear power plants (Vogle and Kemper).

Just recently, Duke was given authority by Bush's former OMB Director, Mitch Daniels to force their customers to assume the risk for the plant even though the utility commission did not require Duke to file anything near a current construction cost estimate for the 630 Megawatt plant they are seeking to build in what is already the largest concentration of coal fired capacity in the world, SW Indiana.

I am not against nuclear, but looking at the plants currently under construction and their escalating cost and slipping schedules, I have pretty much lost faith in the nuclear industry to make any noticeable contribution towards solving this problem.

New coal plants cost three to four times as much as they did three years ago, due to the embedded cost of petroleum and natural gas in plant construction, materials and labor.

We are watching that process play out, for instance, and the Vogtle plant, currently under construction in Georgia — where, with the familiar pattern of cost overruns, and construction snafus, it seems possible that taxpayers will be taking yet another bath, courtesy of the nuclear industry.

The estimated costs are 207 billion and has required construction of a separate power plant to provide energy for capture, dehydration and compression of the CO2.

The cost of finding, evaluating, and receiving approval of a site for nuclear power plant construction easily runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

While the cost of building nuclear plants rose when it switched designs, construction costs fell when it built the same reactor on the same site using the same team.

The landowner clears the land, plants tobacco, contributes to the cost of the market roads, the construction of the dock for shipping, etc..

Already by the early 1970s, U.S. nuclear plant operators were seeking to standardize nuclear plant design to reduce the time and cost of licensing and construction.

The risk of projects being delayed during construction or once in operation declines; > all this leads to a lowering of the investors» risk premium > thus reducing the financing costs and the fixed O&M costs for the whole life of the power plants;

While geothermal projects require significant up - front capital investments, especially for exploration, drilling, and power plant construction, the typically low operation cost — including zero expense for fuel — means that over their lifetimes geothermal power plants are often cost - competitive with fossil fuel or nuclear power plants.

In addition to all this, in August investor - owned Duke Energy, the state's second largest utility, announced a proposed settlement with consumer, environmental and public interest groups that entails scrapping plans to complete construction of the Levy nuclear power plant without customers or the state having to pay for any more costs incurred.

That's high, but in the final 40 years of the plant's service life, after construction expenses are paid off, the cost would fall to about $ 30 per MWh.

SunPower has optimized every component of the power plant, reducing not only components costs, but construction installation costs.»

With power industry restructuring in the 1990s, the construction of new power plants was dominated by independent power producers who favored natural gas generation due to short construction times and low capital costs.

• Annual cost of «CO2 Deposition plants» (including construction, operation and maintenance, accommodation facilities and fly - in - fly - out airports)-- assume $ 100 million per plant per year.

The community has also benefited from construction jobs related to the project, creation of two full time jobs at L.P. Gill, and lower and more predictable energy costs at the local ethanol plant.

EPA officials, the emails showed, helped those groups gather petition signatures in support of regulations that critics say impose huge costs on coal - fired power plants and amount to a de facto moratorium on the construction of such plants.

In that region, utilities are allowed to increase their customers» rates to defray the cost of nuclear plants even before construction begins.

The cost of the plant has nearly doubled to more than $ 5 billion because of construction delays.

Hydroelectric plants can be added to dams with relatively low construction cost, providing revenue to offset the costs of dam operation.

It is completely logical for policy makers today to not support tearing down existing coal based power plants, while at the same time supporting the construction of new power plants that are both non CO2 emitting and cost effective.

Building new nuclear plants is also unlikely, with the only one now under construction in the U.S., the Vogtle plant in Georgia, estimated to cost a whopping $ 27 billion.

New nuclear power plants in this country are offered subsidies that now rival or exceed their total construction costs.

The remaining capital costs and construction debt the company was supposed to collect could not be recovered in a deregulated market where prices were set by power plants that had already paid off their mortgages.

Costs are projected for operation of 1000 - acre plant which is under construction in Hobbs, NM.