Sentences with phrase «state runs on natural gas»
Instead of using coal, the state runs on natural gas and increasingly, renewable power.
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Most electricity in the United States is generated at power plants that run on coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.
Choosing natural gas to power our vehicles would send the United States down the same expensive and inefficient path that created our addiction to foreign oil and our dependence on a resource that will ultimately run out.
The newest coal - fired generator in the state, the enormous Unit 6 at the Rogers Energy Complex in Cliffside, is being converted to run flexibly on either coal or gas, while coal - fired Unit 5 was excluded by the UCS analysis because it is being converted to run partially on natural gas, but would also fail the economic stress test compared to natural gas and wind.
He collected data on crude oil, natural gas, coal, and cement production worldwide by three types of entities: investor - owned (e.g. ExxonMobil), state - owned (e.g. Saudi Aramco) and government - run entities (e.g. North Korea's coal industry).
Yes, it will be possible someday to run an energy grid almost entirely on wind and solar, using demand - shifting and energy storage for the role natural gas (the dominant energy source in the state) plays today.
With cheap natural gas substituting coal for electricity production, a sustained downturn in coal demand in China, and tough new regulations on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, pure play coal companies like Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) and Arch Coal (NYSE: ACI), are having a horrible run of it.
Federal and state governments are already paying tens of thousands of dollars per vehicle to companies that convert trucks to run on natural gas.