Sentences with phrase «power plant shutdowns»

COAL»S COST In response to nuclear power plant shutdowns, Kentucky's coal - fired Paradise Fossil Plant (shown) began producing more power, and more air pollution.

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Perry has repeatedly said that storing fuel on site makes coal and nuclear plants less prone to shutdowns than other power generators in the event of disasters and attacks.

Count Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders among those wanting to shutdown the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

Onyi told pressmen in Port Harcourt that the youths broke into the Afam Power Plant facility, «chased all the technical engineers away and shutdown the transmission engine.

The Robert E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant in Ontario, N.Y., avoided a shutdown with state funds.

As New York State's attorney general, Andrew Cuomo joined then - Governor David Paterson in calling for the shutdown of the Indian Point nuclear power plant, located just upriver from New York City in Buchanan, N.Y..

If they decide the shutdown should be delayed, they could order utility ratepayers to subsidize the plant temporarily, but only until replacement power sources are found.

It's intended to help offset the loss in places like Oswego County where the Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant is slated to be shutdown in January.

They were countered by anti-nuclear activists who pushed for the shutdown of the power plants so the state can begin its transition to renewable energy source like wind and solar power.

New York state is investigating the unexpected shutdown of the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego County on Friday.

New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), New York State's grid operator, confirmed that, in 2021, when Indian Point closes, other power sources coupled with energy efficiency improvements are already set to take up virtually all the slack resulting from the plant's shutdown.

Senator Charles Schumer vows to do everything he can to stop the shutdown of the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego county.

For the second time in less than a week, the Nine Mile Point Unit 2 nuclear power plant in Oswego County experienced an automatic shutdown, due to a problem at the plant.

A lawsuit seeking to halt the shutdown of a long controversial nuclear power plant located at Indian Point in Buchanan is dead on arrival after staunch opposition from Westchester County's Democratic lawmakers.

According to a release from the Astorino administration, a tandem of lawsuits — which name Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, Indian Point operators Entergy, and the environmental group Hudson Riverkeeper — will seek to force the power plant's shutdown to undergo an environmental review process, claiming that the decision is subject to the State Environmental Quality Review Act, SEQR.

County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican, will personally sue New York state after an initial lawsuit seeking to halt the eventual shutdown of Westchester's Indian Point power plant was shot down by lawmakers this week.

The Indian Point 2 nuclear power plant recently came back online following a shutdown June 26 after an issue with a water pump.

They also are calling for the shutdown of the state's nuclear power plants such as Indian Point and a ban on fracking for natural gas.

Fifty - seven percent of the public opposed restarting existing nuclear power plants even if they satisfied new regulatory standards, and 73 percent supported a phaseout of nuclear power, with 14 percent advocating an immediate shutdown of all nuclear plants.

RUSSIA is ignoring Western calls for the immediate shutdown of its oldest nuclear power plants, and will keep them running into the next century.

«Other nuclear power plants in Japan are in normal operations or safely shutdown,» the JAIF reported Thursday.

While NRC concluded it did not pose a serious safety threat to the plant, it did disable one of the backup systems that would have to remove heat from the reactor in an emergency shutdown accompanied by a loss of outside power to the plant.

We are pleased to announce that Holtec's engineers have succeeded in designing SMR - 160 into a «walk - away» safe nuclear power plant, which means that if a calamity were to strike — similar to the tsunami that devastated Fukushima ̶ the plant will passively (without human intervention) switch to and remain in a safe shutdown and cooled configuration for an unlimited period.

NuScale Power has created a new kind of nuclear power plant - a smaller, scalable pressurized water reactor with passive safety features, allowing shutdown and self - cooling, with no operator action, no AC or DC power, and no external wPower has created a new kind of nuclear power plant - a smaller, scalable pressurized water reactor with passive safety features, allowing shutdown and self - cooling, with no operator action, no AC or DC power, and no external wpower plant - a smaller, scalable pressurized water reactor with passive safety features, allowing shutdown and self - cooling, with no operator action, no AC or DC power, and no external wpower, and no external water.

Critical facilities like nuclear power plants must be designed for a site - specific «maximum credible earthquake» as their safe - shutdown event.

Also, as is being reported from Japan, air conditioning is a life saver during hot summers, and energy - conservation efforts related to the precautionary shutdown of many of the country's nuclear power plants appear to have led to a surge in deaths from heat stroke.

An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in the regulations — meaning how much they would curb emissions beyond what's already happening to cut power plant carbon dioxide thanks to the natural gas boom, the shutdown of old coal - burning plants because of impending mercury - cutting rules (read the valuable Union of Concerned Scientists «Ripe for Retirement» report for more on this), improved energy efficiency and state mandates developing renewable electricity supplies.

The daunting economics of gas power in Germany, not surprisingly, has led to widespread curtailments and shutdowns across the country, including several state - of - the art plants unveiled in just the past few years.

The cities of Encinitas, Del Mar and Solana Beach weren't singing songs of joy about the proposed re-deployment of combined cycle gas - fired power plants to replace the 2,200 megawatts of power lost from the shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS).

As Yale Environment 360 reported in June, this is mainly a result of changes in the Chinese economy, where energy efficiency is improving fast, growth is shifting to low - carbon activities and public anger about smog is forcing the shutdown of coal - fired power plants in Beijing and elsewhere.

The Clean Power Plan, finalized August 3 by the Environmental Protection Agency, does not mandate the shutdown of any particular coal plant.

Over the past six months, at least four major nuclear power plants have been slated for shutdown, including the last one in operation in California.

Ramsauer warned against the hasty shutdown of half of the country's nuclear power plants in the wake of the Fukushima disaster back in 2011, «but no one wanted to listen».

That is why PURPA passed in 1978, to shutdown big government forcing customers to pay for big projects like nuclear power plants.

An even bigger improvement would be for governments to provide matching assistance to workers and communities affected by shutdowns of, for example, brown coal power plants.

Since the 2011 earthquake and the subsequent Fukushima nuclear accident, Japan has had to contend with various challenges in its energy sector: shutdown of all nuclear power plants has meant that Japan has faced increased fuel imports coupled with higher electricity prices.

This is not to say that environmental campaigners should ditch all existing efforts around closing coal power plants in favor of advocacy for CCS — instead, CCS can provide another valuable option for which these campaigners can advocate in contexts where the rapid shutdown of coal is undesirable and / or politically infeasible.

For one billion dollars they could secure America's electric grid with solar flare proof transformers, preventing every nuclear power plant in America from melting down during a Carrington level solar flare, which is overdue to happen and will cause a nuclear holocaust guaranteed due to the fact that they take years to cool off even after cold shutdown, they'll run out of deisel after a few days, the pumps don't work when there's no power.

Those that have been proposed (such as Hansen's trillion dollar shutdown of all coal - fired power plants in the USA by 2030) would have no measurable impact on global temperature (whatever that is) by 2100.

Of course, the moment that looks like becoming reality will be when the rolling shutdowns of coal plants will begin — to show everyone who has the real power in Australia's energy sector.

The client was alleged to have made false statements in order to obtain approval of a product used to protect safe shutdown cables in nuclear power plants.