Sentences with phrase «plants in competitive markets»

This proposal would reward coal and nuclear plants in competitive markets that store fuel on site, with the rationale being that these fuel sources are more fuel secure.

Facing economic pressure from cheap natural gas and renewable energy, roughly one - half of U.S. nuclear plants in competitive markets are at risk of early retirement.

Not exact matches

While the plants must be competitive in the electrical utility market, it is the environmental impact that could be the most exciting.

Plant - based milk is already showing a tendency to take market share from the sales of conventional milk in the U.S., with sales in one category growing as sales in another category decline.21 It seems plausible that cultured and plant - based meat will similarly take market share from the sales of conventional meat, especially as it becomes more cost - competitive, widely available, and harder to distinguish from conventional meat in taste and texPlant - based milk is already showing a tendency to take market share from the sales of conventional milk in the U.S., with sales in one category growing as sales in another category decline.21 It seems plausible that cultured and plant - based meat will similarly take market share from the sales of conventional meat, especially as it becomes more cost - competitive, widely available, and harder to distinguish from conventional meat in taste and texplant - based meat will similarly take market share from the sales of conventional meat, especially as it becomes more cost - competitive, widely available, and harder to distinguish from conventional meat in taste and texture.

The complexity of title plants and the need to have records on most every piece of property in a given geographic area to be competitive in the market has led to the consolidation of the industry to a small group of large players.

Accolade hasn't made any final decisions on whether it will list in Australia or the United Kingdom, where it operates a huge bottling plant at Bristol and is the market leader in wine sales in the highly competitive British market, although CHAMP is leaning toward a listing on the ASX.

DuPont Nutrition & Health has created a unique way to combine plant - based and fermented beverages — opening a novel category in today's competitive beverage market.

Australia's major wine groups ship large quantities of lower - end commercial wine to bottling plants in the United Kingdom and Europe in large bladder - type containers to save costs in a highly competitive export market which has been squeezed by the high Australian dollar.

Andres Wiemken from the University of Basel explains this phenomenon as follows: «The plant exploits the competitive situation of the two fungi in a targeted manner, triggering what is essentially a market - based process determined by cost and performance.»

Secretary Perry's attempts to tip the scale in favor of uneconomic coal and nuclear power plants to provide a «resilience» benefit that doesn't exist would have increased carbon emissions, raised costs to consumers, and distorted competitive markets.»

Combinations of high gas prices and significantly lower capital costs could make nuclear plants competitive with fossil fuel plants, but the bottom line is that in the current economic climate, commercial nuclear generation is not even close to being competitive with fossil - fueled plants and there is no easy path to a competitive market for new nuclear plants.

This project was supported by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (grant number 2012 -67013-19460) from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA Hatch program funds to multiple researchers in this project, NSF Plant Genome Research Project # 1238014, the USDA - ARS, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the Iowa Corn Promotion Board, the Nebraska Corn Board, the Minnesota Corn Research and Promotion Council, the Illinois Corn Marketing Board, and the National Corn Growers Association.

Marcel Kuhn, the associate producer for Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2, spoke with [a] listdaily about the free update and how the game manages to stay ahead in a market full of competitive shooters.

In competitive electricity markets, changes in any number of variables, including fuel prices, weather, and plant and system operational changes, can cause variations in the level of electricity dispatched by a given power plant (or group of plants) from year to yeaIn competitive electricity markets, changes in any number of variables, including fuel prices, weather, and plant and system operational changes, can cause variations in the level of electricity dispatched by a given power plant (or group of plants) from year to yeain any number of variables, including fuel prices, weather, and plant and system operational changes, can cause variations in the level of electricity dispatched by a given power plant (or group of plants) from year to yeain the level of electricity dispatched by a given power plant (or group of plants) from year to year.

An analysis of coal plants in Texas found that cheaper wind and solar on the grid is contributing to a market transformation where coal is no longer cost competitive.

PJM vice president Stu Bresler said the plan described in the grid operator's November 15 report was in the works well before the Department of Energy proposed rules to guarantee cost recovery for coal and nuclear plants in the PJM region and certain other competitive markets.

«This case is about whether Ohioans and other customers across the country will be made to subsidize uneconomic power plants at a time when Ohioans should be benefitting in their electric bills from lower prices in the competitive generation markets,» said a filing by the Office of the Ohio Consumers» Counsel with federal regulators.

Existing U.S. nuclear power generating plants operate under increasingly competitive market conditions brought on by relatively low natural gas prices, increasing electricity generation from renewable energy sources, and limited growth in electric power demand.

If we use full - cost pricing — requiring utilities to absorb the costs of disposing of nuclear waste, of decommissioning the plant when it is worn out, and of insuring the reactors against possible accidents and terrorist attacks — building nuclear plants in a competitive electricity market is clearly not economical.

Two years ago, Duke Energy said it would move away from organized competitive markets, with 11 of the company's 13 generating plants selling power in the PJM market, the largest independent wholesale market.

A host of recent studies have suggested much of the pipeline of new coal plants the coal mining industry is depending on may never be built as environmental concerns in key markets such as China and India escalate and competition from gas and increasingly cost - competitive renewables intensifies.

Although industry representatives may have convinced some political leaders that this is a good idea, there is little evidence of private capital investing in nuclear plants in competitive electricity markets.

Few nuclear power plants are being built in countries with competitive electricity markets.

FERC is unlikely to take up the proposal as written, analysts and former regulators agreed, but regulators currently at the agency have indicated they plan to address plant compensation and reliability questions — making the NOPR the Trump administration's opening salvo in what is likely to be a long and contentious regulatory battle over the future of the fuel mix and competitive electricity markets.

Back in April, DOE Secretary Perry issued a memo calling for a reliability study of U.S. power systems, expressing concerns that competitive markets, renewables, and regulations were forcing retirement of baseload (i.e. coal and nuclear) power plants critical to reliability.

These «zero emissions credits (ZECs)» give a value to avoided carbon dioxide emissions from nuclear power in order to boost the ability of the nuclear plants to bid into the competitive markets.

«Exelon is asking the legislature to change the rules of the competitive market in a way that would bail out its economically uncompetitive nuclear plants,» Learner said.

Photo: Vlasta JuricekMore good news on the renewable energy front Monday: The cost of onshore wind power has dropped to record lows, and in some regions is competitive with electricity generated by coal - fired plants, according to a survey by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, a market research firm.

In an address broadcast on Facebook, Maria Korsnick, NEI president and CEO, said that nuclear plants that operate in competitive wholesale markets «are obviously under significant economic stress.&raquIn an address broadcast on Facebook, Maria Korsnick, NEI president and CEO, said that nuclear plants that operate in competitive wholesale markets «are obviously under significant economic stress.&raquin competitive wholesale markets «are obviously under significant economic stress.»

While utilities in Ohio, New York and elsewhere have sought «around market» charges after affiliated coal and nuclear plants became less competitive, Germany's large utilities are charting new paths forward as that country curbs its reliance on fossil fuels.

D1's position as a leading developer in jatropha plant science differentiates us significantly in a market that increasingly requires biofuels that are not only competitive but also sustainable.

If we use full - cost pricing — requiring utilities to absorb the costs of disposing of nuclear waste, of decommissioning a plant when it wears out, and of insuring reactors against possible accidents and terrorist attacks — building nuclear plants in a competitive electricity market is simply not economical.