Not exact matches
The proposal comes as nuclear
facilities across the country feel the financial pressure of cheap
natural gas produced by the fracking boom and after Entergy has already decided to close its Vermont Yankee
facility for economic reasons.
Meanwhile, the end of the remedial works indicates that, the process to connect the TEN fields to the Atuabo plant has been completed with a significant increase in the amount of
natural gas produced to run the power generating
facilities at Aboadze, to improve the overall reliability of power supply to the general public.
Cuomo has said the nuclear power
produced at those
facilities is preferable to coal or
natural gas as the state transitions to renewable energy.
By looking at the plant's total annual utility use and the fraction of yearly operations needed to print a single issue of DISCOVER, David Hakenewerth, a manager at Quebecor's Jonesboro
facility, determined that
producing one month's edition of the magazine consumes 63,364 kilowatt - hours of electricity and 1,704 therms of
natural gas.
That flexible - fueling advantage has, however, enabled Sunnyvale, Calif. - based Bloom Energy to sell some 120
natural gas — fuel SOFCs, stand - alone heat and power units that
produce both electricity and heat for a local site, to green - minded Fortune 500 corporate plants and state university
facilities — notably, subsidized distributed power demonstration projects in California.
A clean, renewable alternative to fossil - fuel based
natural gas, Bullfrog's green
natural gas is
produced in Canada from biogas
facilities that have met strict environmental criteria as defined by ICF International.
With cap and trade and enough arm twisting, at todays ($ 4)
natural gas prices, some of that might be
produced from the available
natural gas facilities.
Of the country's 6,000 coal, oil,
natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar electric - generating
facilities, a small sub-group of mostly coal - fired power generators
produces more than its share of the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions compared with the electricity it
produces, the report found.
The Pixley Biogas, LLC anaerobic digester
facility produces biomethane from cow manure to replace the
natural gas used to heat Calgren Renewable Fuels» ethanol vehicle fuel.
With U.S. livestock and poultry production now concentrated in large
facilities, the use of animal waste in anaerobic digesters to
produce methane (
natural gas) is catching on fast.
Weiss said that, while
natural gas burns cleaner, the NETL study concluded that the end - to - end emissions involved in moving U.S.
natural gas to an LNG export
facility, then liquefying it, then shipping it across the ocean, then de-liquefying it, and shipping it to users in other countries, would be as energy and emissions intensive, or more, than using regionally
produced coal — i.e., because of the LNG export supply chain, it has no advantage over coal.
Our costs have fallen 58 per cent in the last five years, and we know projects that tap into Alberta's high - quality wind resources can
produce electricity more affordably today than any other generating technology aside from combined - cycle
natural gas plants and
gas co-generation
facilities.
At current
natural gas prices, these storage
facilities have capital and operating costs of approximately 8 cents / kWh of electricity
produced.
(Sec. 388) Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant, on either a competitive or noncompetitive basis, a lease, easement, or right - of - way on the outer Continental Shelf for activities not otherwise authorized under specified laws, if those activities: (1) support exploration, development, production, transportation, or storage of oil,
natural gas; (2)
produce or support production, transportation, or transmission of energy from sources other than oil and
gas; or (3) use, for energy - related or marine - related purposes,
facilities currently or previously used for activities authorized under this Act, unless prohibited by moratorium.
Coal
gas: Substitute
natural gas produced synthetically by the chemical reduction of coal at a coal gasification
facility.