Sentences with phrase «steam generating facility»

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The facility just outside the town of New Haven boasts a single 65 - meter - high boiler capable of generating enough steam to pump out 1,300 megawatts of electricity — enough to power nearly one million average American homes a month — continuously.

The third facility studied was the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in Bernardino County, Calif., where birds can be burned as they pass through concentrated sunrays that are reflected off thousands of mirrors toward a solar power tower, where water is boiled to produce electricity - generating steam.

GlassPoint will build an 850 MW (thermal) solar thermal facility in Bakersfield, generating 12 million barrels of emissions - free steam annually for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) replacing natural gas.

(Sec. 242) Requires the Secretary to establish a program to make monetary awards to encourage the owners and operators of new and existing electric energy generation facilities or thermal energy production facilities using fossil or nuclear fuel to use innovative means of recovering thermal energy that is a potentially useful byproduct of electric power generation or other processes to: (1) generate additional electric energy; or (2) make sales of thermal energy not used for electric generation, in the form of steam, hot water, chilled water, or desiccant regeneration, or for other commercially valid purposes.

These facilities generate solar power by using lenses and reflectors to concentrate sunlight and use it to heat fluids, which can in turn produce steam to drive a turbine.

My duties were to manage the mechanical maintenance of all equipment associated with a 440 mega-watt scrubbed coal fired steam generating power facility.