Sentences with phrase «purchased by power plants»

The shale gas targeted by drillers is mostly made of methane gas — the fuel purchased by power plants and used for home heating and cooking, which is also a powerful greenhouse gas.

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September 9 — The WSJ reports that officials from an Abu Dhabi - based state investment fund, International Petroleum Investment Co. (IPIC), claim IPIC never received nearly $ 1.4 billion in payments owed by 1MDB for the purchase of power plants in 2012.

HONG KONG — In 2012, with help from Goldman Sachs, a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund called 1Malaysia Development Berhad sold $ 3.5 billion worth of bonds backed by an Abu Dhabi government fund to help it purchase power plants.

To add insult to injury all of these facilities will soon be owned by foreign companies, Trans Canada (purchasing the Millennium Pipeline) and Global Infrastructure Partners new owners of the CPV Valley Power plant.

Beyond the 25 - year period, the power plant transfers to a nominated entity by the Government of Ghana at a purchase price of US$ 1.00.

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

Offset purchases by CDP - reporting companies neutralized less than 1 % of this total impact (50 million tonnes)-- an amount equivalent to closing 13 coal - fired power plants for a year.

Electricity generated by the Nevada Solar One power plant will be sold to Nevada Power Company and Sierra Pacific Power Company under long - term power purchase agreements (Ppower plant will be sold to Nevada Power Company and Sierra Pacific Power Company under long - term power purchase agreements (PPower Company and Sierra Pacific Power Company under long - term power purchase agreements (PPower Company under long - term power purchase agreements (Ppower purchase agreements (PPAs).

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.

«It wants to essentially re-regulate and require utilities to purchase 70 % of their power from nuclear plants owned by Exelon.

Starting in April 2017, the Clean Energy Standard requires all six New York investor - owned utilities and other energy suppliers to pay for the intrinsic value of carbon - free emissions from nuclear power plants by purchasing Zero - Emission Credits.

But coal generation also makes it into California's power supply by way of unspecified market purchases for bundles of electricity, which is different than electricity purchases from specific plants.

An August decision by the New York Public Service Commission (PSC) approving New York's Clean Energy Standard included a provision requiring the state's investor - owned utilities and other energy suppliers to pay for the intrinsic value of carbon - free emissions from nuclear power plants by purchasing «Zero - Emission Credits» (ZEC).

Representing Cambodia in its first arbitration before ICSID brought against it by the subsidiary of a US power producer under the local investment law and the power purchase and implementation agreements in a dispute relating to the construction of a power plant in Phnom Penh.

During the operation, RCMP undercover officers dealt with Tran to purchase a prospective grow house and then worked with various associated individuals who specialized in setting up the house, including the installation of lights and an illegal power by - pass system, and the supply of small marijuana plants.