Sentences with phrase «power plant upgrades»

Under the draft rule, the EPA would let states and utilities meet the new standard with different approaches mixing four options including energy efficiency, shifting from coal to natural gas, investing in renewable energy and making power plant upgrades.

«There's a new sheriff in town,» agrees Salon's Andrew Leonard, pointing out that last week the Obama EPA started its own lawsuit over a coal power plant upgrade in Kansas that allegedly failed to add in required pollution controls.

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Plant upgrades to ethylene furnaces have saved approximately 540 billion BTUs of energy — enough to power 3,800 households.

Within the DuPont Packaging business, plant upgrades to ethylene furnaces have saved approximately 540 billion BTUs of energy — enough to power 3,800 households.

«The planned upgrades of our Niagara Power Vista and two other upstate visitors centers are the latest examples of the importance that the Power Authority places on being an integral member of the communities where our hydroelectric plants are located,» said John R. Koelmel, NYPA chairman.

Greenport Village Board members are set to vote on a resolution paving the way for additional upgrades at the power plant on Moores Lane during its regular session Monday evening.

For Georgia Power, the cost in plant upgrades is too steep.

Compared with other strategies — efficient appliances, upgraded power plants, new grid technology — it has cost them next to nothing.

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.

Upgrading India's electric - power distribution system, Benedick says, could double the effective energy output of existing coal - fired power plants.

These upgrades propagate to other steps in electricity production, allowing power plants to extract more work for a given unit of fuel.

And to avoid brownouts and absorb these surges, utilities will need to spend between $ 70 billion and $ 180 billion in grid upgrades — power plants and futuristic energy storage systems for which ratepayers would ultimately foot the bill.

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.

Incorporating an interim fuel storage system (HI - STORM UMAX) into the base SMR - 160 plant offering is a first - of - a-kind feature for any nuclear power plant, and will eliminate the need for major subsequent plant modifications and upgrades later in plant life, typically in excess of $ 100M.

It noted the high cost of upgrading the reactor to meet new safety standards introduced following the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The RX 350's upgraded power plant and advanced driver - assist systems, combined with the car's distinctive, aerodynamic form, give it performance credentials more in line with a crossover than with a full - size SUV.

Though Acura will stick to its tried and true 2.4 - liter inline - four VTEC power plant with no additional power increases, there are upgrades inside and out.

And although it shares a power plant with the Scat Pack model, the upgrades here go beyond standard equipment like the 900 - watt audio system and leather seating.

The highly anticipated RS version of Audi's popular hatchback takes performance and styling to the next level by fitting the limited edition model with distinct bodywork as well as an upgraded power plant.

Later, for the 2000 model year, the power plant of this distinctive vehicle was upgraded to 2.7 L. Besides, they launched the sportier and more powerful S version of the Porsche Boxster powered by a 3.2 L engine.

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Most if not all of these plants will not take advantage of newly developed but expensive clean coal technology to reduce sulfate emissions.Currently, the Clean Air Act here in the US has been revised and is weaker, not stronger, with respect to upgrading power plants to install pollution control equipment.

The truth is if you produce power using old power plants, you're going to be emitting more carbon — but to upgrade those plants, energy's going to be a little bit more expensive, at least on the front end.

An engineering report submitted to EPA in November 2009 recommended upgrading the rating of two surface impoundments at the Philip Sporn Power Plant in West Virginia from «poor» to «fair.»

Distributed storage promises enormous value to the electric system and to improving resilience, and the key to unlocking that value is the increasingly sophisticated and automated ways in which those assets can be operated, whether as a single smart asset to avoid a distribution line upgrade or as a virtual power plant of re-configurable aggregated assets.

Because German law requires renewable energy to be used first on the German grid, when Germany exports excess electricity to its European neighbors it primarily comes from coal plants... «If you want to use fluctuating renewable power, you have to upgrade the grids across Europe,» says Daniel Genz, a policy adviser with Vattenfall.

PV Tech caught up with Ugo Salerno, chairman and CEO of Italy - based advisory RINA, alongside the firm's technical director for power and renewables, Simon Turner, to discuss storage retrofits in the UK, financing floating PV and upgrading hastily built European solar plants.

And while closing the power plants would have an affect on «generator deliverability,» or the ability for those regions to export power to others, PJM also noted that «transmission upgrades are required to preserve deliverability of all existing PJM capacity resources under various contingency conditions» — or, in other words, that investments are needed regardless of the closure plans.

He contrasted the advantages of renewables over nuclear power plants as their ease of decommissioning: there is no long - lived radioactive waste to deal with, and upgrading, for example, offshore wind turbines, is cost - effective because the foundations and infrastructure are already built.

Increasingly strict controls on total coal capacity and power plant emissions are expected to prompt the retirement of up to 20 GW of older plants and spur technological upgrades to China's remaining 1,000 GW of coal power.

The Serbian government says aging and highly polluting power plants like Kostolac have to be upgraded or replaced.

The EU's unilateral climate policy is absurd: first consumers are forced to pay ever increasing subsidies for costly wind and solar energy; secondly they are asked to subsidise nuclear energy too; then, thirdly, they are forced to pay increasingly uneconomic coal and gas plants to back up power needed by intermittent wind and solar energy; fourthly, consumers are additionally hit by multi-billion subsidies that become necessary to upgrade the national grids; fifthly, the cost of power is made even more expensive by adding a unilateral Emissions Trading Scheme.

The most recent plan submitted was for a 262 MW upgrade to the 186 MW power plant, whose overall new volume would peak at 310 MW (the current peak is 267 MW).

The Clean Power Plan reached beyond individual plant upgrades by allowing generators unable to meet its emission standards to offset their power from lower carbon - emitting resources, such as renewaPower Plan reached beyond individual plant upgrades by allowing generators unable to meet its emission standards to offset their power from lower carbon - emitting resources, such as renewapower from lower carbon - emitting resources, such as renewables.

Another is that power plants that co-fire must, according to EPA regulations, upgrade the coal - fired facility to meet more rigorous new performance air emission standards....

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The Tennessee Valley Authority's Gallatin Fossil Plant, near Nashville, is set for a $ 1.1 billion environmental upgrade, a suite of sulfur dioxide scrubbing and ozone - busting equipment that operators hope will enable it to produce power through the next century.

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.

He urged, «Make sure that the Public Utility Commissions do not allow irrational investments in upgrading 50 - year - old coal - fired power plants.»

Many of the actions states could take to comply would occur «outside the fenceline» of power plants themselves (for instance, utilities could implement energy - efficiency upgrades in homes and businesses, or build more renewable energy).

Pruitt will argue that requiring outside - the - fenceline changes exceeds EPA's legal authority, that EPA can only require changes to individual power plants themselves — say, boiler upgrades, or the like.

Tokyo Electric upgrades the extent of the nuclear power plant woes, following the 9.1 earthquake and tsunami.

On April 9, 2003 the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. EPA announced a settlement agreement with Alcoa Inc. for an estimated $ 330 million to install a new coal - fired power plant at its aluminum production facility in Rockdale, Texas with upgraded pollution controls to help eliminate sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions.

The biggest energy news to come out of Brussels this week was the post-Fukushima nuclear stress test report leaked to French and German media, which concludes that the EU's nuclear power plants need to be upgraded considerably to bring them up to the highest safety standards.

The study found that the EPA rules, combined with a recent drop in the price of natural gas, could over the next four to five years cause the utility industry to accelerate retirement of old coal - fired power plants rather than spend to upgrade the plants» emissions controls.

Coal - fired power plants are also encouraged to increase their thermal coal stockpiles and upgrade their equipment to reduce emissions.

In his time at the EPA, Holmstead worked to weaken the new source review program, which ensures modified or upgraded power plants don't increase pollution after they are retrofitted, and «oversaw the development of the Bush Administration's Clear Skies Legislation,» which would have allowed for three times more power plant pollution than the Clean Air Act.

Tightening legislation required existing power plants to upgrade their emission equipment with some owners simply electing to close the facility as the upgrade was too expensive.

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Over the years, the city added upgrades — the plant generates 26 MW of power, and provides district heating to 140,000 residents in Copenhagen.