Sentences with phrase «prevents new power plants»

Washington Governor Christine Gregoire signs a bill that prevents new power plants from exceeding 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt hour of electricity generated, creating a de facto moratorium on building new coal - fired power plants in the state.

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And an additional 1,500 megawatts through energy efficiency and modernization of exisiting power plants by fixing current constraints that prevent certain plants from operating at full capacity, without building new power lines or new power plants.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday he does not want the New York Power Authority to take over FitzPatrick nuclear plant, rejecting one of the last best hopes of people who are trying to prevent the money - losing plant from closing six months from now.

A new, highly permeable carbon capture membrane developed by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could lead to more efficient ways of separating carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.

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If the USA had taken Hansen's advice back in the late 1980's and gone on a crash program of building next generation nukes there was probably a chance we could be exporting that technology now to China and India and it might have prevented the commissioning of many of the new coal power plants they are building.

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.

Expansion of grid supply by construction of big new coal fired power plants such as in the Hunter Valley and near Lithgow are going ahead and look to me to be intended to prevent the issue of decarbonising our energy supply getting mixed up with the issue of maintaining growth and reliability of supply; we'll have enough fossil fuel generating capacity that building low emissions capacity will remain «optional» and can be deferred another decade or two.

The first is to prevent the permitting and construction of new coal - fired power plants.

Europe Beyond Coal is an alliance of civil society groups working to catalyse the closures of coal mines and power plants, prevent the building of any new coal projects and hasten the just transition to clean, renewable energy and energy efficiency.

is an alliance of civil society groups working to catalyse the closures of coal mines and power plants, prevent the building of any new coal projects and hasten the just transition to clean, renewable energy and energy efficiency.

We can already see in New England where it was necessary to use oil - fired power plants last January to prevent blackouts.

Rather than encouraging the building of more efficient power plants, the California regulatory scheme prevented building new efficient power plants by forcing utilities to rely on the unreliable availability and predatory prices for imported electricity.

We are holding the line and preventing the construction of new coal - fired power plants in the West.

As Founder and President of Environmental Progress, Michael led the grassroots environmental effort to save nuclear power plants in Illinois and New York, which prevented an increase in emissions equivalent to adding 5.7 million cars to the road.

Even though we plan to add over 60 billion square feet of new buildings to our building stock (a 23.3 % increase) over the next two decades, and renovate as much or more, Building Sector operational energy consumption — which accounts for 75.7 % of electricity use — will be low enough to prevent the need for any new power plant capacity in the U.S.

A new, highly permeable carbon capture membrane developed by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could lead to more efficient ways of separating carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.

A new, highly permeable carbon capture membrane could lead to more efficient ways of separating carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.