Sentences with phrase «replace power generated»

In a recent study, Synapse found that energy efficiency, wind, and solar resources, along with transmission system improvements, can replace power generated by Indian Point Energy Center after the nuclear power plant retires in 2021.

Without the exaggerated numbers, there is no renewable energy source to replace the power generated from the sun and the wind during the long stretches of time when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow.

After last year's announcement that Indian Point, which provides 25 percent of New York City and Westchester's electrical power, will start to close in 2020 and close entirely in 2021, Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised that «the state is fully prepared to replace the power generated by the plant at a negligible cost to ratepayers.»

Maximizing the use of renewable sources of energy like wind in replacing the power generated by coal produces greenhouse gas reductions that are not only immediate, but sustainable over the long term.

Not exact matches

It's hoped that energy generated from the project could, in part, replace the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

The 650 - megawatt CPV plant in Orange County has already received a series of approvals from the Cuomo administration over the years, and is viewed by officials as key if the governor is to realize his long - term goal of shutting down the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County and replacing the energy it generates with other sources.

It remains unclear how the power generated by the plant would be replaced and how the state will deal with the impact on taxes in the area.

Transmission upgrades and efficiency measures already are in service, Cuomo said, adding that other generation resources ready to come online by 2021 will help generate more than enough electrical power to replace Indian Point's capacity.

It is our responsibility to fully understand how the generated power, and jobs associated with it, will be replaced,» said Republican Sen. Terrence Murphy.

Yet virtually all commercially available ankle and foot prosthetics are passive devices, containing spring mechanisms to absorb shock as a person walks but making no effort to replace the power - generating capabilities of the muscles in a person's lower limbs.

The most common definition is that renewable energy is from an energy resource that is replaced rapidly by a natural process such as power generated from the sun or from the wind.

These new trucks — which employ a diesel combustion engine along with a hydraulic high - pressure accumulator that stores energy captured during braking — get 35 percent better fuel economy and generate as much as 30 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions as compared to the non-hybrid diesel - powered vehicles they are replacing.

We replaced the valve and went back on the dyno only to discover the engine generated no increased power anywhere in the power curve.

Adaptation in my mind means adapting infrastructural services to a new energy source to replace the fossil fuel powered electrical generating facilities.

Lochbaum, the director of the nuclear safety project at the Union of Concerned Scientists, an advocacy group, said the challenge of replacing Indian Point had more to do with transmission of existing power than generating power.

The electricity generated is fed to the national grid, and replaces electricity which would otherwise be generated by fossil fuel fed power plants, resulting in further emission reductions.

Question 4: what would be the atmospheric CO2 consequences of an Apollo - like project to replace 25 % of America's fossil fuel powered electric generating capacity by PV power in 10 years?

Since, the solar power is Green House Gas (GHG) emissions free, the power generated will replace anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases estimated to be approximately 93,022 tonnes of CO2e per year, thereon displacing 95,145 MWh / year amount of electricity from the generation - mix of power plants connected to the INDIAN GRID, which is mainly dominated by fossil fuel based power plant.

The whole idea of renewable energy is to do just that; replace the dirtiest of the fossil - fuel - generated power.

This solution replaces conventional electricity - generating technologies such as coal, oil, and natural gas power plants, and is considered a «bridge solution» to a 100 % clean, renewable energy system.

The various components of your solar power system will need to be replaced at different times, but your system should continue to generate electricity for 25 to 35 years.

Wind - generated electricity should replace electricity from coal - fired power plants, the most polluting power source.

This important fact seems to have escaped T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oil tycoon from Texas who is now promoting a plan to replace natural gas in the electric power sector with wind - generated electricity and use the freed up natural gas to power a fleet of NGVs.

The EF, in turn, is used by EPA to justify all its climate regulations, including its ultra-expensive so - called «Clean Power Plan» (CPP -RCB- requiring that many coal plants be replaced with wind and solar - generated electric power at huge expense to ratepayers in terms of outlays and reductions in reliability as well as to taxpayers for government subsiPower Plan» (CPP -RCB- requiring that many coal plants be replaced with wind and solar - generated electric power at huge expense to ratepayers in terms of outlays and reductions in reliability as well as to taxpayers for government subsipower at huge expense to ratepayers in terms of outlays and reductions in reliability as well as to taxpayers for government subsidies.

What if a off shore wind power generates cheap electricity and innovators in selling heat pumps figure out how to replace gas heat with ground source heat pumps for less than natural gas connection and usage costs over the first ten year of the 20 year life of the heat pump and 50 - 100 year life of the ground source?

Replacing Fitzpatrick and Indian Point with natural gas would generate nearly four times more carbon emissions than New York is required to reduce under the federal EPA's Clean Power Plan, which Cuomo supports.

Between 2010 - 2020, rapid near - term investment in natural gas electricity - generating capacity can progressively replace Australia's dirtiest coal - fired power plants for baseload power.

To date the critics have been correct: Germany has not been able to replace the electricity from nuclear power plants with electricity from power plants that do not generate CO2.

Put another away — the nearly useless intermittent power generated by wind and solar has been replaced by two power deals with Quebec.

With that amount being applied to the installation of Concentrating Solar Thermal power stations of the trough type, this would build 60 gigawatts of generating capacity by 2020 thereby replacing most of Australia's coal powered infrastucture with indeffinite life solar thermal power.

Two - thirds of coal - generated electricity will be replaced by renewables — primarily wind power — while natural gas generation will continue to provide firm base - load reliability.

Nuclear plants generate a lot of power, and so there's a lot of money to be made by the energy companies that replace them.

No electricity is generated or needed, no membranes need to be cleaned or replaced, the device simply sucks water vapor from the seawater, condenses it, and then uses the power of the waves to pump it back to shore via it's tube - like tethers.

It could power about 200,000 homes and replace some baseload energy now being generated from coal and natural gas.

But you are only talking about replacing coal, so divide by two for the 50 % of power that coal generates.

Replacing it with a naturally occurring substance could save the industry a vast amount of money and reduce the overall cost for generating power from solar.»

We have developed 103 - landfill gas to energy projects over the past 20 years, which generate nearly 500 megawatts of power - the equivalent of providing energy for over 400,000 homes or replacing nearly seven million barrels of oil each year.

They are also trying to get others to pay the extremely high costs of rebuilding and replacing the non - «renewable» plus hydro parts of the current electric power generating system.

A better solution would be to have electric powered vehicles, better public transportation infrastructure to reduce private motor vehicle demand, civic infrastructure changes so daily commutes can be made shorter and use natural gas to replace electricity generated currently by coal.

A single three megawatt turbine in Australia can be expected to generate 8.8 GWh of electricity each year; on the assumption that this replaces the same amount of coal - fired power and based on the figures published in The Lancet, each such turbine will save two serious illnesses each year.