Sentences with phrase «power plant owners»

But a new study shows that delaying climate policies could prove even worse for power plant owners.

In 2004, eight states sued a group of power plant owners for common law damages caused by their CO2 emissions.

Second, it would give power plant owners and states broad flexibility to meet standards in the most cost - effective way.

Most coal - fired power plant owners have not yet opted to install easily available technology that could reduce up to 90 % of their mercury emissions.

Basically, solar or wind power plant owners sell all of the electricity they produce to the grid for a set, financially lucrative price.

And even if an industrial project meets environmental regulations, incorporating or turning on clean technology is not going to be a priority for factory or power plant owners if it means added costs.

In any case, if we're going to resort to that level of government involvement in energy markets, why not just ban new coal - fired power plants and give huge tax breaks and subsidies to coal power plant owners who close their operations and invest in solar - and wind - based replacements?

Remote power plant owner Pacific Energy (PEA) was another.

Remote power plant owner Pacific Energy (PEA) was another.

«Projected retirements of coal - fired generating capacity in [EIA's annual Energy Outlook report] include retirements above and beyond those reported to EIA as planned by power plant owners and operators,» the agency noted.

Texas declined to create a plan, and along with power plant owners took its objections to the EPA's plan...

Since RGGI was launched seven years ago, the program has collected more than $ 925 million from power plant owners to cover greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change.

U.S. nuclear power plant owners are gaining regulatory approval to run aging reactors longer but, as the power plants age, the need for rigorous safety supervision steadily mounts

For example, when power plant owners seek building permits for a given site they must show that the new installations will meet EPA air - quality standards; similar requirements from a new agency should have to be met for water usage.

Here's how RGGI works: Using an auction system, the states offer a declining number of carbon emissions credits each year, which power plant owners bid on and are then required to use to offset their carbon dioxide emissions.

In 2012, SETO also launched a research program that helped utilities, grid operators, and solar power plant owners to better predict when, where, and how much solar power will be produced.

In the rulemaking for the Carbon Pollution Standards, EPA repeatedly explained that it expects power plant owners to defray the tremendous cost of CCS by selling captured carbon dioxide to oil producers for use in EOR.

The need for the «pipeline tax» arose because power plant owners have been buying natural gas on the spot market, rather than through long - term contracts, which pipeline developers need to have to obtain federal approval.

Under that program, power plant owners who installed equipment to scrub the sulfur dioxide out of the emissions from their smokestacks could then sell for a profit any leftover allowances to other polluters unable or unwilling to make the pricey upgrades.

Projected retirements of coal - fired generating capacity in the AEO2014 include retirements above and beyond those reported to EIA as planned by power plant owners and operators.

For example, some Bitcoin miners are able to make agreements with power plant owners to whereby the miners can set up an operation right near the point of supply.

Congress should establish financial incentives for power plant owners to purchase safer reactor designs and make safety upgrades by increasing the liability of the nuclear industry for a nuclear accident.

Virginia's limit, or «cap,» on carbon dioxide emissions would tighten 30 percent between 2020 and 2030, while adding measures to maintain market stability with a reserve of credits that power plant owners can purchase to help them comply.

The power plant owners are also helped in this task by the fact that, prior to the RGGI auction, governments had simply given away allowances to pollute to the polluters based on how much they had emitted in previous years.

Power plant owners and speculators yesterday bid for the right to emit carbon dioxide (CO2) as part of a new multistate government program designed to reduce global warming pollution.

Well before the first 20 - year relicensing period ends, power plant owners will have to know what new components and equipment upgrades will be required to extend the lives of current reactors to 80 years, and how high the costs and regulatory hurdles will be, before deciding whether to take that route or decommission the plants and shutter them, industry officials say.

Babcock sells a roughly equal amount of environmental systems to power plant owners who want to reduce emissions of various pollutants.

«Making customers pay subsidies to power plant owners is a bad idea.»

Now that the final rule has been released, policymakers, state governments, utility and power plant owners, and other stakeholders are weighing their options to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) from the power sector for compliance with the rule.

Achieving this required the cooperation of the power plant owners and managers, in particular for gathering the data.

Power Plant Owner & Utility Differ on Consumer Impact It's Getting Hot In Here points out that this means only one source in the county will feel the pinch, an 850 MW coal power plant, located 40 miles from Washington DC, and owned by the Mirant Corporation.

Under that program, power plant owners who installed equipment to scrub the sulfur dioxide out of the emissions from their smokestacks could then sell for a profit any leftover allowances to other polluters unable or unwilling to make the pricey upgrades.

The power plant owners are also helped in this task by the fact that, prior to the RGGI auction, governments had simply given away allowances to pollute to the polluters based on how much they had emitted in previous years.

Power plant owners and speculators yesterday bid for the right to emit carbon dioxide (CO2) as part of a new multistate government program designed to reduce global warming pollution.