Sentences with phrase «plants run on natural gas»

Available options might include peaker plants run on natural gas, or grid - scale banks of batteries, or dispatchable generation from concentrated solar power with thermal energy storage.

For the power supply they built two district heating plants running on natural gas with each 850 kWel and 1,050 kWth, three groundwater heat pumps and an absorption chiller.

Not exact matches

Both operate more cheaply than plants that run on oil and natural gas.

Cuomo announced in December 2013 that NRG Energy, owner of the failing Dunkirk coal - fired power plant, would negotiate a deal with National Grid to renovate Dunkirk to run on natural gas.

Most electricity in the United States is generated at power plants that run on coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.

Over the years, consumers have learned to expect electricity on demand from power plants that run on coal, natural gas or oil.

In other words, the more coal - fired power plants that can be replaced by those running on natural gas, the better it may be for the climate.

A lot of the systems design that people are looking at — like Christopher Clack — even if you can get the renewables up to 80 percent, then you have a piece there probably natural gas «peakers» [power plants that run in periods of high electricity demand], at least based on current technology, are way cheaper than any [energy] storage.

... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....

Unlike traditional backup generators that run on diesel fuel, these natural gas turbines offer a more efficient solution and, more importantly, ensure the utility avoids building a new power plant.

One advantage of CSP is that at night or on extremely cloudy days, the conventional generators can be run on natural gas or petroleum, allowing the plant to continue to generate power when the sun is not shining.

In May 2012, Tenaska said they would cut the plant's costs by 60 % and have it run on natural gas rather than coal, although it is believed the plant would be built so that it could later be retrofitted to begin transforming Illinois coal into synthetic natural gas.

Even including electrical losses from transmission, distribution, and battery charging, running a car on electricity from a natural gas power plant is more than twice as efficient.

Under normal driving conditions, well - to - wheel carbon dioxide emissions for vehicles running on electricity from natural gas — fired power plants are one fourth as high as emissions from cars directly burning natural gas.

Then subtract emissions from other Dynegy and NRG Energy Inc. coal units that have since 2012 announced plans to shut down in Illinois (Edwards 1, Crawford, Will County, Fisk, Wood River) and the conversion of NRG's Joliet plant to run on natural gas.

Most new power plants will be run on natural gas.