Sentences with phrase «taken over a power plant»

Protesters have claimed to have taken over a power plant in Kent, UK.

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Separately, the Nikkei reported over the weekend that Hitachi will ask the UK government to take a direct stake in the company that is set to build and operate a nuclear power plant in Wales.

It may be pertinent to mention that the book value of the power plant which is currently estimated at USD 325 million after five (5) years, with a life cycle of around 15 -20 years, will be handed over to the Government as a debt free asset which can be used to leverage and raise financing as a collateral or else the Government may choose to sell the operating asset to any investor who may not like to take any development risk, hence the plant being operational and in its best conditions.

Touting his government's work in the energy sector, he said, «it has taken a lot of hard work and effort fast tracking the deployment of emergency plants and speeding up the completion of ongoing plants ensuring that we added more than 800 megawatts of power over an 18 - month period.»

If the current private owner can not justify keeping the plant open and a new owner can not be found, then it should be taken over by the New York State Power Authority (NYPA), and managed directly under that body.

Gov. CUomo this week rejected a plea for the New York Power Authority to take over the soon - to - close FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo expressed doubt about a proposed plan for New York state to take over the financially impaired FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego County.

Exelon has agreed to take over the FitzPatrick nuclear power plant from Entergy for at least another 12 years, «and keep it producing nuclear power for years and years to come,» Cuomo announced outside the Central New York facility as workers cheered.

Her legislation, offered near the end of session, authorized the state Power Authority to use eminent domain in taking over the FitzPatrick plant.

«New York State has literally taken billions of dollars over the decades out of that plant to subsidize the other power plants that lose money and worse yet, billions have been dumped into New York State's general fund budget,» Jacobs said.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday he does not want the New York Power Authority to take over FitzPatrick nuclear plant, rejecting one of the last best hopes of people who are trying to prevent the money - losing plant from closing six months from now.

To become a mechanic that works on planes and such you need to take schooling for over 18 months.You must get 18 months of practical experience with either power plants or airframes, or 30 months of practical experience working on both at the same time.

I have just had a re-map pushing power to 361 bhp and with the M sport suspension, now is absurdley quick, teh tuning potential is with the BMW, they can take over 400 BHP with no inner strengthening where as the Audi's 2 liter plant would require strengthening to gain decent power increases.

A brightly lit and flashy power plant level would be ideal for Bright Man, but when Cut Man takes over, he severs the power lines and makes a darker, more sinister stage.

The Art Gallery of York University opens Marlon Griffiths: Symbols of Endurance on Sept. 23 at 6 p.m.; The Power Plant opens an exhibition of celebrated Canadian video artist Mark Lewis on Sept. 26; Cooper Cole opens two solo shows featuring two Los Angeles - based artists, Davida Nemeroff and JPW 3 on Sept. 25; and the annual Canadian Art Hop — which is at it sounds, a roving tour of galleries and talks within them — takes place this weekend at galleries and museums all over town.

Imagine a man or woman being so arrogant, and selfish, that they'd take a job driving a CO2 belching truck, or dig for coal in a mine, or fish for salmon in the ocean, or fly a CO2 belching airliner, or flip beef patties that came from CH4 exhausting cows, or teaching a classroom of students all of whom belch CO2 and exhaust CH4 and whom will have offspring that produces even more of those evil gases, or working as a climate scientist in an office heated by CO2 belching FFs and occasionally traveling around the world by CO2 belching airliner — all the while using computers made from FFs and powered by CO2 belching FF power plants, or working as a Senator from Tennessee who was President of the USA for a few hours and who travels all over the world in CO2 belching airliners, or one of the millions of people who mine, process, manufacture and transport every product you have ever seen in your life and all the ones you haven't seen as well.

This is usually how it goes: politician wannabe gets campaign contributions from private sector guy, gets into office, legislates in favor of private sector guy, private sector guy contributes more, politician guy takes vacation in Italy (or goes for a hike on the Appalachian trail)... gets re-elected, the word gets out that he «plays,» more private sector guys contribute to his campaign, voters are pleased to see the name of their representative in print, like the new wardrobe, the new hairstyle, believe all change is good and re-elect the politician again... politician feels the power, creates agency to watch over private sector guy, agency takes fact - finding trip to France... raises taxes on private sector guy, writes legislation that taxes private sector guy if his plant emits CO2 while producing widgets... voters are in awe and re-elect the politician... private sector guy whines, politician makes him ambassador to Taiwan, limits how much the new private guy taking his place can earn, and taxes all widgets so new private guy will make more environmentally friendly ones... voters swoon, pay more for widgets, lose job in widget factory, hate private guy, re-elect their pol... politician buries $ 5 billion aid to Taiwan in next appropriation bill...... kind of makes a case for term limits, doesn't it.

Here is how we could fix the costs, but admittedly it will take decades for all the impediments we» cve imposed over the past 5o years to be washed out of the cost of nuclear power plants.

The site was originally planned for a 540 MW concentrating solar power (CSP) plant, with Sonoran West Solar Holdings taking over the project after the original developer, BrightSource Energy, ran into financial obstacles.

Although variable renewable energy sources were critical to European society for some 500 years before fossil fuels took over, there were no chemical batteries, no electric transmission lines, and no balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants to deal with the variable energy output of wind and water power.

«Bioenergy advocates often claim that CO2 pollution from wood - burning power plants doesn't harm the climate, because biomass is sourced from «forestry residues» (tree tops and branches left over after the tree trunk is taken away for sawtimber or pulp).

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While the war on coal in the United States has taken its toll, with the closure of over 250 coal - fired power plants, and a resulting increase in what people pay for their electricity, the price of natural gas will likely rise to where coal will be competitive.

But then I went on to envisage, at least in my own mind, a time when large fossil fuel generators had all closed own — mainly in order to avoid ruining our one and only habitable planet — and that the 24/7 power supply would be a mix of Solar PV, solar thermal (eg CSP), wind and the lesser sources such as hydro, tidal, geothermal etc having taken over the complete electricity supply — especially since Australia doesn't have, and is almost certain never to have, nuclear fission plants.

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