Sentences with phrase «plants have closed»

The Sierra Club, which has a Beyond Coal campaign, said 142 U.S. coal - fired power plants have closed during its efforts, representing 105 gigawatts of electrical capacity.

Three large coal plants have closed during 2016: Longannet, Ferrybridge C and Rugeley (see map and tables).

Five U.S. nuclear plants have closed prematurely since 2013.

The fragile economic situation of most Americans has been starkly evident in communities where plants have closed or moved away.

On December 3, the workers received three days» notice that the 40 - plus - year - old plant would close.

On February 20th, Gillman announced that the Iowa plant would close immediately.

City economic development officials contacted the food conglomerate but weren't able to schedule a meeting before announcement that Oscar Mayer plant would close.

ALBANY, N.Y. — The controversial Indian Point nuclear power plant would close by 2021 under a pending agreement between plant owner Entergy Corp. and the state of New York.

Skerpon pointed out that Entergy continued to negotiate with representatives of Gov. Andrew Cuomo after announcing Nov. 2 that the plant would close.

PSC Chair Audrey Zibelman said at the time that nuclear plants are unique and that requiring a formal notice of closure would magnify the likelihood that a nuclear plant would close before subsidies could be negotiated.

The official announcement came January 9 that the plant would close by 2021 per an agreement reached by parent company Entergy, New York state and Riverkeeper.

The PSC last year decided to subsidize the Ginna plant temporarily after Exelon told state officials the plant would close otherwise.

The Duisburg - Hochfeld plant has closed last week (1), and the last coal unit at the Werdohl - Elverlingsen plant will follow suit on 31 March (2).

Not exact matches

«If nuclear received a fraction of those subsidies, there would be no risk of nuclear plants closing in California or anywhere else.»

The company had no immediate comment, but a few neighbours interviewed Wednesday dismissed the complaints and worried that jobs might be lost if the plant is forced to close.

Ford (f) has repeatedly said it has no plans to close any U.S. plants and likely could not do so under the terms of the current United Auto Workers contract that expires in 2019.

In September, Ford confirmed that all of the company's small - car production will leave U.S. plants and head to lower - cost Mexico by 2019, but no plants would be closed as a result.

Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

This is not a plan to «create jobs» for low and medium - skilled workers in Leamington and London, who have few options now that their plants are closed.

Since governments are going to have to spend significant amounts of money if the plant closes, why not simply pay to keep the plant open instead?

The plan promoted by the Green party would have meant closing three of Switzerland's five nuclear plants next year, with the last shutting in 2029.

The big automakers are also running leaner operations — they closed a number of underperforming plants during the crisis — and their balance sheets are the cleanest they've been in years.

Silver Lake Resources has flagged more job losses in July with the announcement that it plans to close its Lakewood facility in Kalgoorlie, which is the company's second plant to shut down this year.

People have a sense that medium - skilled industrial jobs at big factories used to hold communities together, and that after those plants closed, communities hurt in ways both economic and social.

Now that they've closed plants and restructured pensions (in the U.S., at least), they can make money even if they sell 12 million cars, says Fenton.

Shiite - majority Iran has threatened to close the strait and plant naval mines to assert its power over Saudi Arabia and other Sunni states.

The closing of the factory will leave 635 hourly workers and 72 salaried people without jobs in Madison, but that's just one of seven plants that Kraft Heinz announced it would shutter on Nov. 4 in a plan to cut 14 % of Kraft Heinz's North American factory workforce.

They saw three possible scenarios: Harvester would reduce its capital commitment to SRC, causing the plant to deteriorate in an agonizing process of layoffs and cutbacks; the plant would be closed; or the plant would be sold.

JERUSALEM, April 9 - Debt - laden Teva Pharmaceutical Industries said on Monday it would close an unprofitable plant in the Israeli port city of Ashdod in March 2019 after failing to find a buyer for the facility.

Some of the giants will also go under — and those that survive will cut their payrolls, close plants or offices, and outsource even more than they have in the past.

REBBL, the plant - based beverage company, has closed $ 10 million in Series D funding led by Boulder Investment Group Reprise (BIGR).

Thanks to the work of P&G's analytics group, the company has reworked many of its shipping patterns, and closed or relocated several manufacturing plants, production facilities, and warehouses, generating more than $ 1 billion in savings.

Wynne gave a spirited defence to Hudak's not unreasonable» corporate welfare» description of the Liberal 10 - year, $ 2.5 - billion Jobs and Prosperity Fund (JPF) by stating that if Tim Hudak were premier, he would have let Chrysler and GM's Ontario plants close during the 2008 - 10 automotive industry crisis.

JOHANNESBURG, March 19 - Tiger Brands has closed its factory in Pretoria after listeria was detected at the plant as South Africa faces the worst global outbreak of the disease that has killed 180 people since January 2017.

Last month, the world's largest soup maker announced it would be closing its California plant, leaving 700 employees out of work.

Heinz, which was previously acquired by 3G and Buffett, already has made headlines for slashing jobs, closing plants and reducing headquarters to trim expenses.

For months, employees at Carrier's Indianapolis plant have closely followed the company's plans to close the factory and Donald Trump's promise to keep it from doing so.

While Chevron's takeover and BC LNG's contract move Canada closer to having an LNG industry, their experience suggests not all proposed LNG plants will get built in the first place, those that do will likely take longer than expected, and there will be hard bargaining between the suppliers in Canada and the buyers in Asia.

«At the same time as we have created our digital business, we have also already effectively exited certain traditional operations, closing 13 manufacturing plants and 130 processing labs, and reducing our workforce by 47,000 since 2003.

«On our reckoning, since NAFTA's enactment, fewer than 5 % of U.S. workers who have lost jobs from sizable layoffs (such as when large plants close down) can be attributed to rising imports from Mexico,» wrote its authors, PIIE senior fellow Gary Clyde Hufbauer and research analyst Cathleen Cimino - Isaacs.

At least one fifth of the coal plants in the U.S. have been closed, or are in the process of closing, over the past several years due to their inability to economically meet emissions standards from the EPA.

However, there are challenges, like low aluminum prices, which have weighed on business and caused plant closings.

Olnick said FPL would like to see a change in state laws and local ordinances to adopt and enforce «Right Tree, Right Place,» to ensure trees aren't planted too close to lines and equipment and allow FPL access to remove those trees.

The New Energy Capital Cleantech Infrastructure Fund announced that it has closed an investment of $ 20 million to fund the development and construction of solar PV power plants by Cypress Creek Renewables, LLC.

Automotive seating giant Lear Corp. has notified Unifor that it plans to close a plant where workers who have been on strike since the weekend rejected a tentative agreement to settle the labour dispute.

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.

This led to concerns that Kraft Heinz — like so many multinational corporations — would seek to make money not by producing something new or useful but by cutting jobs and closing plants.

When the meat processing plant traditionally closed for a holiday break at noon on Christmas Eve day, workers would stop in and hold an impromptu cocktail party at the Esquire Club, he said.

In response to my question about what, if anything, the city or state could have done to keep Madison's Oscar Mayer plant open, Kraft Heinz spokesman Michael Mullen said «the closing of the Madison factory was based entirely on the need to reduce operational redundancies and eliminate excess capacity within our North American network.»

Workers leave the Kraft Foods - Oscar Mayer headquarters and plant in Madison on Nov. 4, 2015, the day parent company Kraft Heinz Food Co. announced it would close the facility.