Sentences with phrase «power plant capacity»

It would essentially replace a market - driven process for new power plant capacity and site decisions with a centralized state process.

This abundance and affordability is why natural gas accounts for more than half of all recent power plant capacity additions.

Solar made up over a half of the added power plant capacity during the first quarter of 2016.

Renewable energy continues to dominate new power plant capacity and distributed generation has contributed an increasingly large share.

According to the Operating Performance Rankings industry report in the Nov. / Dec. 2008 issue of Electric Light & Power, coal - fired power plant capacity factors range from 72 percent to 93 percent, combined cycle from 41 percent to 86 percent and nuclear from 90 percent to 96 percent.

The U.S. experienced relatively sluggish gains in total new power plant capacity in 2017, when compared to 2016, but it also saw another, more positive outcome: a notable surge in distributed solar.

Because power demand has risen slower than expected and renewable energy has come online faster than expected, national coal - fired power plant capacity factors (how often a plant runs) fell from 77.5 % in 2010 to 56.7 % in 2016 - 2017.

For one, natural gas is beating out coal as the most economically viable fossil fuel for power generation in North America, and renewables — even when coupled with demand side management tools (e.g. battery storage, load response)-- are getting effective enough to compete against coal for new power plant capacity around the world.

While these developments are to be celebrated, there remains a sobering reality: they still leave a lot of headroom for China to expand its coal power plant capacity between now and 2030, even though its coal fleet is already more than twice the size of the US coal fleet.

A new study from researchers at the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford has warned that a fifth of current global power plant capacity is at risk of becoming stranded assets under a scenario in which the planet reaches its climate goals of halting warming at 1.5 to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.

The NERC report also assumes only 11 GW to 12 GW of new power plant capacity annually, but the U.S. grid has added 30 GW of new capacity yearly since 2000, Moore wrote.

It was the biggest quarter ever for solar, which supplied one - third of over 7.3 gigawatts of new power plant capacity added to the grid.

The «motivational bill» isn't expected to pass, but its author hopes it will spur discussion about how Minnesota replaces retiring power plant capacity.

That represents more than 10 % of the region's total installed power plant capacity, according to the ISO.

And until 2015, most of Germany's new - build conventional power plant capacity will be coal - based, analysts say, pointing at a project pipeline of 8 GW of new coal - fired capacity compared with 1 GW of new gas - fired installations.

Even though we plan to add over 60 billion square feet of new buildings to our building stock (a 23.3 % increase) over the next two decades, and renovate as much or more, Building Sector operational energy consumption — which accounts for 75.7 % of electricity use — will be low enough to prevent the need for any new power plant capacity in the U.S.

Think of it another way, in the last 7 year cycle FCA had an average FCF of $ 36 million a year, and now FCA is expanding into different rail cars types and the refurbishment / rebuilt market, more gigawatts of coal fired power plant capacity will begin construction in 09 then was build in the last 7 years and FCA has $ 162 million in cash from the 05 IPO.

Along with Senate Bill 437, this bill replaces the current market - driven process for new power plant capacity and site decision with a more centralized process inspired by Obama - era regulations expected to be repealed in 2017.

«How great this need for conventional power plant capacity actually is depends on a number of variables,» says the Economics Ministry, adding that «it is... very difficult to put a figure on the power plant capacity needed.»

Most of these requirements take the form of a «renewable portfolio standard» (RPS) adopted by 26 states and the District of Columbia or «alternative energy portfolio standard» (AEPS) adopted by three states, which requires a certain percentage of a utility's power plant capacity or generation to come from renewable or alternative energy sources by a given date.

Renewable energy continues to grow substantially in the U.S. and in 2014 it remains a large portion of new power plant capacity — 30 % or more through the first three quarters.