Sentences with phrase «power plant closure»

That's one possible outcome of the looming Indian Point nuclear power plant closure, which the Cuomo administration earlier this year said would happen by 2021.

The nuclear energy industry, and the grey metal that powers it, struggled to overcome the Fukushima disaster that, directly or indirectly, led to numerous power plant closures this year.

In a new report from Moody's, and reported on by SNL, the ratings agency predicts that cheap natural gas could lead to another massive wave of coal - fired power plant closures over the next year and a half.

Power plant closures reduced coal's share from 30 % to 22 % of the mix.

COAL - fired power plant closures have become the order of the day for Australia's virtue - signalling and global warming theory - obsessed political class who think that destroying the country's industrial heartland, and imposing crippling energy - poverty on its citizens is a worthwhile price to pay for «saving the planet».

NETL's study is only the latest to highlight risks of continued power plant closures.

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The report, conducted by DOE staff, said that continued closure of baseload plants puts areas of the country at greater risk of power outages.

A mediator will be appointed to work out the contentious details of plant closures with power companies, who were not represented at the announcement.

The closure of Hydro - Quebec's Gentilly - 2 nuclear power plant temporarily lowers Quebec's fiscal capacity, as measured under the Equalization program, which in turn lowers Ontario's Equalization entitlement over a three - year period.

Closures of a significant number of coal - fired power plants (for which compliance is too costly) will undermine reliability of the electrical grid and increase the risk of brownouts and blackouts.

The closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is three years away, but already the local school district is preparing for the possibility of teacher layoffs, higher taxes and even shutting down a school.

The Democratic chairman of the Westchester County Board of Legislators said Thursday legislation to support Republican County Executive Rob Astorino's planned lawsuit to stop or delay the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is dead on arrival.

A Hudson Valley - based environmental group will hold a panel discussion Wednesday in Manhattan about the impending closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

A report commissioned by two environmental groups shows that low - carbon options will be ready to replace the more than 2,000 megawatts of power lost by the closure of New York's Indian Point nuclear power plant in four years.

Astorino, speaking with reporters on Monday after addressing the Conservative Party's annual confab in Albany, pointed to a federal law that gives the Department of Energy authority over the closure of nuclear power plants.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino plans to speak with Energy Sectetary - designate Rick Perry about the planned closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan.

Paving the way for Indian Point's termination, the state Legislature last month passed legislation making it easier to site new nuclear plants, which conceivably might be needed to replace power lost by Indian Point's closure.

County Executive Rob Astorino kicked off his Town Hall series in the northern Westchester town of Cortlandt last night, where the planned closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant will have an impact.

The loss in just a few years of Indian Point's 2,000 megawatts of clean, emission - free power, however, should be no consolation for environmentalists who truly support clean air and climate - change goals but ironically are celebrating the plant's closure.

It's hoped that energy generated from the project could, in part, replace the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

«The plan included the immediate permanent closure of six nuclear power plants that had been temporarily shut down for testing in March 2011, and two more that have been offline a few years with technical problems.

Cuomo has a complicated relationship with nuclear power, however, having called for the closure of Indian Point considering the plant's proximity to New York City and the lack of a viable evacuation plan should a crisis occur.

The impending closure of the Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego County is already financially impacting the nearby Mexico School District.

Riverkeeper has also been advocating for the closure of Indian Point nuclear power plant, located in the Town of Buchanan, Westchester County, New York.

One of the Democratic presidential hopefuls is calling for the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

Nuclear and coal - burning power plants across the state are struggling to compete with cheap natural gas and some have announced closures in recent months.

Murphy says he was upset by what he did not hear regarding the closure by 2021 of Indian Point nuclear power plant, in his 40th state Senate District.

While Cuomo has seized upon every hiccup at the Indian Point nuclear plant downstate to amplify his calls for its closure, he has touted the benefits of the FitzPatrick plant and other upstate nuclear power generation.

Members of a Tompkins County group that is looking to force permanent closure of the Cayuga Power Plant in Lansing delivered more than 10,000 comments to Governor Cuomo and the Public Service Commission Monday urging regulators to deny a plan to repower the plant with naturalPlant in Lansing delivered more than 10,000 comments to Governor Cuomo and the Public Service Commission Monday urging regulators to deny a plan to repower the plant with naturalplant with natural gas.

Cuomo's push to shut down Indian Point contrasts with the up to $ 7 billion ratepayer subsidy nuclear power plants in upstate New York are set to receive over 12 years, though the move likely figured into Indian Point's closure.

And the county faced a virtual calamity in late 2015 when the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant, which employs around 600 people, was headed for closure.

In one arrangement, Bharara alleges Kelly channeled several hundred thousand dollars to Percoco and his wife in exchange for help building a power plant in upstate New York, and for other public assistance the company never received — including a guarantee the state would find a buyer for energy from the facility, and the closure of the controversial Indian Point nuclear plant in Westchester, which the governor has advocated for.

Tonawanda Huntley Plant Aid: The Ken - Ton School District will receive $ 2.7 million more aid, the town of Tonawanda will receive an extra $ 1.8 million and the county an extra $ 1 million to offset massive property tax losses with the closure of NRG Energy's Huntley power plant on River Road, according to a statement from Sen. Chris Jacobs and Assemblyman Robin SchimmiPlant Aid: The Ken - Ton School District will receive $ 2.7 million more aid, the town of Tonawanda will receive an extra $ 1.8 million and the county an extra $ 1 million to offset massive property tax losses with the closure of NRG Energy's Huntley power plant on River Road, according to a statement from Sen. Chris Jacobs and Assemblyman Robin Schimmiplant on River Road, according to a statement from Sen. Chris Jacobs and Assemblyman Robin Schimminger.

CORTLANDT, N.Y. — The closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is three years away but already the local school district is preparing for the possibility of teacher layoffs, higher taxes and even shutting down a school.

He is actively planning for the rapid closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant, which is around 30 miles north of New York City and near Cuomo's home in Westchester County.

A New York state senator from the Hudson Valley believes there has been little progress regarding an action plan for the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

The glut of cheap gas and tightening regulations on air pollutants have prompted the planned closure of 175 coal - fired power plants by 2016, representing 8.5 percent of all coal - fueled electricity capacity in the country.

He also urged the closure of the Reid Gardner coal - fired power plant north of Las Vegas and endorsed solar power as an alternative.

Plant Kraft, another Georgia Power operation near Savannah slated for closure, has a history of «high priority violations» of the Clean Air Act dating back to at least 2010.

Climate change was a key focus for the nuclear industry under the Obama administration, including treatment under U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan and ongoing studies at DOE on how plant closures would affect U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

The last power from Widows Creek is expected in October, when the plant's last operating unit shuts down after a phased eight - unit closure that began in 2012.

Shocks to ratepayers In fact, Japan's electricity prices are now among the highest in Asia, a condition created partly by high - priced renewables, but also by its heavy reliance on imported energy fuels following the closure of its nuclear plants, which provided 26 percent of the country's power before 2011.

The government, said Major, welcomes steps by Central and Eastern European countries to adopt energy strategies which will help them to press ahead with early closure of the older, higher - risk Soviet - designed nuclear power plants like those at Bohunice.

The policy document also set new targets for the closure of coal - fired heating systems as well as the installation of equipment to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions at power stations, steel mills and cement plants.

But mark my words, right - wingers will start screaming about compensation when all those shiny new gas - fired power plants they're building are threatened with closure when we start thinking seriously about building a modern grid that can shuttle electricity instead of curtailing renewable generation in one area while simultaneously turning on fossils in another.

[ii] The political agenda in the province made it impossible to consider other options, resulting in the closure of the last coal - fired power plant in 2014 and making new coal plants illegal despite the knowledge that those plants contributed minimally to emissions of criteria pollutants in the province.

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Lignite of the Living Dead notes that utilities may keep coal plants running at a loss for many reasons, including: hopes that governments will make capacity payments for guaranteed power supply or payments to retire plants; expectations that competitors will close plants, pushing power prices up; the clean - up costs associated with retiring plants; and opposition to closures from governments for political reasons.

In October 2010, Ohio Power Co. filed an application with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for the approval of a December 2010 closure of the coal - fired Philip Sporn Power Plant unit 5, Ohio Power parent American Electric Power said in a Nov. 1 Form 10 - Q filing.

«But worldwide we've built more coal - burning power plants in the past decade than in any previous decade, and closures of old plants aren't keeping pace with this expansion.