Sentences with phrase «raise plant efficiency»

For example, some Southeast Asian countries have just recently started to use coal - fired power plants; but plant efficiency is only about 32 %, very low compared with USC, which could raise plant efficiency up to 45 %.

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This occurs because TPP raises efficiency in Japanese plants in the US, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Malaysia, and Vietnam.

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The three components of this carbon - cutting effort are halting deforestation while planting trees to sequester carbon (see Chapter 8), raising energy efficiency worldwide (see Chapter 11), and harnessing the earth's renewable sources of energy (see Chapter 12).

The overriding objective would be to raise the global average efficiency of coal - fired power plants and so minimise CO2 emissions which will otherwise be emitted while maintaining legitimate economic development and poverty alleviation efforts.

(2007) • Contribution of Renewables to Energy Security (2007) • Modelling Investment Risks and Uncertainties with Real Options Approach (2007) • Financing Energy Efficient Homes Existing Policy Responses to Financial Barriers (2007) • CO2 Allowance and Electricity Price Interaction - Impact on Industry's Electricity Purchasing Strategies in Europe (2007) • CO2 Capture Ready Plants (2007) • Fuel - Efficient Road Vehicle Non-Engine Components (2007) • Impact of Climate Change Policy Uncertainty on Power Generation Investments (2006) • Raising the Profile of Energy Efficiency in China — Case Study of Standby Power Efficiency (2006) • Barriers to the Diffusion of Solar Thermal Technologies (2006) • Barriers to Technology Diffusion: The Case of Compact Fluorescent Lamps (2006) • Certainty versus Ambition — Economic Efficiency in Mitigating Climate Change (2006) • Sectoral Crediting Mechanisms for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Institutional and Operational Issues (2006) • Sectoral Approaches to GHG Mitigation: Scenarios for Integration (2006) • Energy Efficiency in the Refurbishment of High - Rise Residential Buildings (2006) • Can Energy - Efficient Electrical Appliances Be Considered «Environmental Goods»?

If the efficiency level of the other 49 states were raised to that of New York, the most energy - efficient state, the energy saved would be sufficient to close 80 percent of the country's coal - fired power plants.

At Georgetown University today, Obama stated that his administration would expand renewable energy projects on federal lands, raise energy efficiency standards on appliances, and, most importantly, limit carbon pollution from both existing and new power plants, which represent about 40 percent of the U.S.'s emissions.

Raising the average global efficiency of coal plants from 33 % to 40 % with off - the - shelf technology available today would save 2 gigatonnes of CO2 emissions.

Among the bills that failed were the Clean Jobs Bill (CJB)(HB 2607 / SB1485)-- a proposal that would raise efficiency standards and the state RPS — and a bill that would establish a separate clean energy portfolio standard aimed at providing extra income for Exelon's Illinois nuclear plants (HB 3293).

Stabilizing climate, for Brown, means systematically raising energy efficiency, making a massive investment in renewable energy, and planting trees to sequester carbon.