Sentences with phrase «regional fuel mix»

Not exact matches

A recent study found that an electric car charged by utilities at night in the regional grid that stretches across Ohio, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia creates more greenhouse gas pollution than if owners plugged in their vehicles at random times throughout the daytime, when the utility fuel mixes are more varied.

Changes in the fuel mix play out in different ways across the country, reflecting regional variation in the economics of increases in natural gas generation and renewable capacity.

To sustain a clean, reliable and affordable power supply, federal, regional and state regulators need to recognize that a market - driven diversity of attributes, not an arbitrary, government - mandated fuel mix, will lead to the lowest cost and most reliable power for consumers.

An ISO New England study found that as the fuel mix shifted toward natural gas, regional emissions dropped 91 percent for sulfur dioxide and 56 percent for nitrogen oxide (as well as 22 percent for carbon dioxide) between 2006 and 2015.