Sentences with phrase «reporting by power plants»

«Based on the results of our study, we recommend that states adopt a policy of mandatory greenhouse gas emissions registry and reporting by power plants,» says Eri Saikawa, an assistant professor in Emory's Department of Environmental Sciences.

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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.

The report, conducted by DOE staff, said that continued closure of baseload plants puts areas of the country at greater risk of power outages.

They report that in 2011, Alberta coal power plants produced over 40 megatonnes of CO2: «the same amount produced by roughly half of all cars on the road in Canada today.»

The report authored by the chief energy policy adviser to government, the Energy Commission, says the amount required will expended on natural gas, light crude oil, diesel and heavy fuel oil to power the various thermal plants as the country looks to contain the threat of erratic energy supply on the economy.

A report commissioned by two environmental groups shows that low - carbon options will be ready to replace the more than 2,000 megawatts of power lost by the closure of New York's Indian Point nuclear power plant in four years.

The Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County would close by 2021 according to a New York Times report and subsequent others Friday.

Indian Point boosts New York's economy by $ 1.5 billion per year A new report claims that the Indian Point nuclear power plant contributes more than $ 1.5 billion to New York's economy every year.

A new report by New York City's Department of Environmental Protection suggests that not renewing the nuclear power plants licenses in 2015 and 2016 respectively would have significant impact on New York City.

Gahl says his group's report finds inspections of power plant sites and their smokestack emissions are down by 44 %, and inspection of potential water pollutions sites have plummeted by 74 %.

Among the report's more controversial proposals is a plan to move spent fuel out of Indian Point in Buchanan along with 16 other power plants without direct access to railroad lines, by barge, down the Hudson River.

Following reports that Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the owner of the Indian Point nuclear power plant have been hashing out a deal to close the plant by 2021, Republican Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino says such a plan would wreak economic havoc.

Blair Horner of NYPIRG discusses their latest report on the impact of the $ 7.6 billion bailout for three nuclear power plants near Lake Ontario and the lack of transparency by the Cuomo administration since.

In 2006, 20 years after reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was encased in cement, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency released a report compiled by a panel of 100 scientists on the long - term health effects of the level 7 nuclear disaster and future risks for those exposed.

After all, no one has ever died in a commercial nuclear power accident on American soil; in contrast, emissions from fossil - fuel plants kill 24,000 Americans each year, according to a 2004 report commissioned by the Clean Air Task Force, an environmental group.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

The Electric Power Research Institute's report on decarbonizing electricity generation said an «aggressive» push on new technologies could lower 2005 - level carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 41 percent in Power Research Institute's report on decarbonizing electricity generation said an «aggressive» push on new technologies could lower 2005 - level carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 41 percent in power plants by 41 percent in 2030.

Those figures, say the authors of the report, an update on a similar report in 2003, mean that «even if all the announced plans for new nuclear power plant construction are realized, the total will be well behind that needed for reaching a thousand gigawatts of new capacity worldwide by 2050.»

«The increase in domestic coal consumption is driven by huge demand from existing and upcoming coal - fired power plants,» the report said.

The findings, reported today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, add to a burgeoning debate over the climate impact of replacing oil - and coal - fired power plants with those fuelled by natural gas.

A report by Western Resource Advocates notes that «thermoelectric power plants in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah consumed an estimated 292 million gallons of water a day in 2005 - approximately equal to the water consumed by Denver, Phoenix, and Albuquerque, combined.»

A report by the group concludes that biomass gasi - fication plants could generate more power more cleanly and cheaply than conventional fossil fuels.

The M.I.T. report predicts that even if the world's fleet of more than 400 nuclear power plants grew to be 4,000 such plants that then operated for a century, the cost of the electricity from those facilities would rise by a mere 1 percent as a result of the increased demand for uranium.

But Paul Hatchwell, an environment consultant, wrote recently in a report for the World Wide Fund for Nature that both the Sizewell site and the Bradwell nuclear power plant in Essex, built on marshes by the Blackwater estuary, are «poorly defended».

The report, produced with Greenpeace India, uses power plant data compiled by former World Bank air pollution analyst Sarath Guttikunda, founding director of a Delhi - based organization focused on sharing scientific information called Urban Emissions.

-- Not later than July 1, 2013, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report describing the extent by which the initiative has been enacted and the actual and projected effectiveness of the program under this section, including the energy efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions reductions, cost savings, and safety benefits at manufacturing facilities, power plants, refineries, hospitals, universities, government buildings, and other commercial and industrial locations.

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Here's just one case in point: As the New York Times reports, the nine Northeastern states (Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont) that make up the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) have announced an additional 30 % reduction in power plant greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, on top of the 40 % reduction already achieved since the initiative launched in 2009.

Last month, in an interview with James Kanter of The Times and International Herald Tribune, the new head of the energy agency, Maria van der Hoeven, discussed one point made in the report today — that concerns raised by the damage to the Fukushima Daiichi power plant could continue to dampen expansion of nuclear power and add to the challenge of avoiding a big accumulation of carbon dioxide, saying: «Such a reduction would certainly make it more difficult for the world to meet the goal of stabilizing the rise in temperature to 2 degrees Centigrade.»

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.

The report calls for ageing fossil fuel and nuclear power plants to be replaced by renewable generation when they reach the end of their operational lives.

The report said power generated by new and existing wind, solar, biomass, waste - to - energy, geothermal, marine, and small hydropower plants comprised about 12.1 % of global power generation in 2017, up from 11 % in 2016.

The EU could halve its emissions from its power plants by 2050 through the combined use of carbon capturing technologies and burning more biomass, a report has found.

The report also noted efforts by the Trump administration to prop up nuclear and coal - fired power plants.

According to a River Network report in June, electricity production by coal, nuclear and natural gas power plants is the fastest - growing use of freshwater in the U.S., accounting for more than half of all fresh, surface water withdrawals from rivers.

In a new report from Moody's, and reported on by SNL, the ratings agency predicts that cheap natural gas could lead to another massive wave of coal - fired power plant closures over the next year and a half.

According to the report, more than a quarter of the water withdrawn by fossil - fuel power plants to cool their generators goes up in steam — the remainder carries pollutants and excess heat into rivers and waterways, causing fish kills and algae blooms.

RGGI Inc. reported in September that CO2 emissions from power plants in its member states fell by nearly 20 percent from 2008 to 2009.

A new report upends the debate on grid resilience by putting customer security, distributed energy and local utilities before power plants.

The report focuses on ALEC's attempts to stop the Clean Power Plan, which set out to cut carbon emissions from power plants by 32 % over 2005 lePower Plan, which set out to cut carbon emissions from power plants by 32 % over 2005 lepower plants by 32 % over 2005 levels.

[7] According to a 2009 report by Environment America, «America's Biggest Polluters,» the Monroe Power Plant is the seventh largest carbon dioxide emitting plant in the nation, releasing 20.6 million tons of carbon dioxide in Plant is the seventh largest carbon dioxide emitting plant in the nation, releasing 20.6 million tons of carbon dioxide in plant in the nation, releasing 20.6 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2007.

The 30 % target, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, represents the first attempt by any president to regulate carbon pollution from power plants.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) plans to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants will cost America's economy over $ 50 billion a year between now and 2030, according to a new report issued by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy.

As a recent report by the Carbon Tracker Initiative highlights, grid costs become prohibitive for coal in rural areas when the investment needed to build a thermal power plant is combined with the cost of building electricity grid extensions and importing fuel.

by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and Tom Tanton, E&E Legal's Director of Science and Technology Assessment As Appearing in Flash Report The announcement last week from PG&E that it was closing Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, rudely came on the same day there were rolling blackouts in Los Angeles amidst sweltering temperatures.

[31] According to The Guardian, «The reports, claiming the power plant rules would lead to rolling blackouts, send electricity prices skyrocketing, and devastate local economies, are being published in 16 states by a network of pro-corporate and ultra-conservative thinktanks.»

Electricity can be supplied from a new wind farm in Australia at a cost of A$ 80 ($ 84) per megawatt hour, compared with A$ 143 a megawatt hour from a new coal - fired power plant or A$ 116 from a new station powered by natural gas when the cost of carbon emissions is included, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance report.

According to NRDC's Pathways report, by 2050, the current fleet of nuclear plants is mainly retired, and nuclear power makes up only 3 percent of total electricity production.

The report analyzes 2004 data submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Energy Information Administration by the nation's 100 largest power companies that collectively operate nearly 2,000 power plants.