Sentences with phrase «power plants as»

As part of the estimated US$ 45 million buyout, Luminant settled a series of lawsuits with Environmental Defense and the Natural Resources Defense Council and agreed to cancel 8 of its planned 11 new Texas coal - fired power plants as well as several new coal - fired plants in Pennsylvania and Virginia, back federal legislation to create a cap - and - trade system regulating CO2 emissions, and double spending on energy efficiency.

I should stress that I am completely in favour of using the current natural gas power plants as much as possible.

The other obvious thing to do is to halt the construction of new fossil - fuel based power plants, and start shutting down coal - fired power plants as soon as possible.

Mr. Pataki also supports a federal limit on emissions of carbon dioxide, the dominant heat - trapping gas, from power plants as part of a broader cleanup of the plants.

However, along with that policy, we did not build as many power plants as we could have, particularly nuclear plants.

The Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) released a video this week revealing the cozy relationship between the biomass industry and legislators like Senator Susan Collins (R - Maine) who are pushing Congress to adopt laws that would classify biomass power plants as carbon neutral.

«Conventional power plants as a part of the national energy mix are unavoidable for the foreseeable future,» Cottbus Mayor Frank Szymanski, a noted brown - coal supporter, said in a December speech.

In the U.S., federal agencies are being pressured to recognize biomass power plants as carbon - neutral sources of energy.

European power companies could save billions of dollars by stepping up closure of coal - fired power plants as nearly all of them will be loss - making in Europe by 2030, think - tank Carbon Tracker Initiative says.

Yes, we should shut down coal plants and phase out natural gas power plants as soon as possible, but I don't see that happening until way beyond the «too late» stage.

Significantly reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions and prevent backsliding on progress made to date by maintaining the operations of carbon - free nuclear power plants as the state transitions to a 50 percent renewable requirement; and,

«They've convinced certain legislators in Congress to vote for legislation written by biomass industry lobbyists that would force EPA to treat tree - burning power plants as if they have zero carbon emissions, claiming that as long as US forest stocks are stable or growing by any amount, this offsets the carbon pollution pouring from the smokestacks of wood - burning power plants.»

The John Locke Foundation released a «spotlight» report describing gas - fired power plants as «far more efficient and far less expensive than solar and wind plants.»

This not only includes renewables, but also including the adoption of state - of - the - art technologies for new coal power plants as well as construction of more hydropower.

cited construction of nuclear power plants as one of the areas that «we might be able to work on together.»

Even though mercury is listed as a HAP in § 112 (b) and power plants emit mercury, § 112 (n)(1)(A) requires EPA to list power plants as a HAP source category only if the Administrator determines, through a multi-year study, that such regulation is «appropriate and necessary» after «imposition» of other CAA «requirements.»

In an agreement announced on Feb. 26, 2007, TXU agreed to cancel 8 of its planned 11 new Texas coal - fired power plants as well as several new coal - fired plants in Pennsylvania and Virginia, back federal legislation to create a cap - and - trade system regulating CO2 emissions, and double spending on energy efficiency.

If clean energy is really such an obvious economic choice, why are China and India still building coal - fired power plants as fast as they can?

The Capitol dome looms behind smokestacks of a coal - fired power plant in Washington, D.C. Obama announced plans Tuesday to issue new emissions regulations for U.S. power plants as part of a wider strategy to address climate change.

This report reveals for the first time the current health impacts of existing coal - fired power plants as well as projected health impacts of operating and planned power plants in the Philippines.

Why don't those who fear CO2 strongly support the building of large numbers of modern nuclear power plants as a productive start?

Experts aside, the general public has no trust in nuclear power plants as evidenced by the current boundless consumption of iodine pills.

Of course, lower wholesale electricity prices hurt gas - fired power plants as well, but the low prices are «most harmful to coal - based generators and to a lesser extent nuclear - based generators.»

The political pressures behind DOE's request to declare coal and nuclear power plants as vital to a reliable grid.

[12] In other words, there would be just as many non-renewable power plants as there are today.

The public filings reveal, however, that the maximum amount Atlantic Coast can charge any customer is more than three times the amount that another company, Transcontinental, can charge for pipeline capacity that services the exact same power plants as Atlantic Coast.

We wouldn't be able to close any current power plants as were running at close to capacity and can't count on wind energy to be readily available, i.e. during peak power demands of low wind energy seasons.

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.

Step 1: Estimate annual changes in electric generation and emissions of air pollutants at power plants as a result of RGGI implementation from 2009 to 2014 using electricity dispatch modeling and EPA emissions data for EGUs.

The transportation sector has eclipsed power plants as the biggest source of US carbon emissions, and EPA calculated in 2010 that the tougher fuel - efficiency standards would prevent more than one year's worth of total US carbon emissions over the lifetime of new vehicles sold from 2012 through 2025.

«Either China or the United States can build as many power plants as they want as long as they are offset in other sectors,» he said.

Building as many more nuke power plants as we can manage will help people.

With China, India, and the rest of the developing world building coal power plants as fast as they can get them on line at the rate of about 4 to 5 per week.

The American Lung Association supports the phase out of conventional coal - fired power plants as the nation transitions to a clean energy future.

Conversion of coal plants to burn wood, dedicated new - build wood burning power plants as well as combined heat and power and biomass boilers for heating are creating huge new demand for wood pellets.

Nevertheless, based on the most optimistic future projections of nuclear power construction times of 4 — 5 yr and those times based on historic data, we assume future construction times due to nuclear power plants as 4 — 9 yr.

They simply use their existing fossil power plants as backup.

They own and operate nuclear power plants as well.

The LEON can be had with pretty much the same power plants as its VW group stablemates.

In China, which already has twice as many coal power plants as the U.S., coal use has skyrocketed by 400 % between 1980 and 2006.

It was one of 233 birds recovered from the sites of three Californian desert solar power plants as part of a federal investigation.

The challengers had argued, in part, that the Clean Air Act prohibits the federal government from regulating power plants as it has proposed because the facilities are already covered by a separate regulation.

Federal legislation promoting wood - burning power plants as a «carbon neutral» way to make energy is drawing criticism from some scientists.

Rather, it draws electricity from states across the U.S. West, including from coal - fired power plants as far away as Idaho — a problem that may get worse as California shuts down its own most polluting power plants.

No Obama climate regulation has drawn Trump's ire more than the Clean Power Plan, which would limit carbon emissions from existing coal - fired power plants as a way to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

Environmentally friendly modern concretes already include volcanic ash or fly ash from coal - burning power plants as partial substitutes for Portland cement, with good results.

Twenty years ago those activities contributed similar amounts of heavy - metal pollution but have since drastically cleaned up their acts, leaving power plants as the leading manmade source, by far, of mercury emissions in this country.

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to shutter the Indian Point nuclear power plant as soon as 2020 sparked praise and skepticism from stakeholders as they learned about it on Friday.

SCRIBA, N.Y. - If Entergy shuts down the FitzPatrick nuclear power plant as planned, the reactor could sit dormant for 50 years before its owner begins to tear it down and clean up the site.