Sentences with phrase «thermal electric generating»

Hogan Lovells announced today that it closed approximately $ 1 billion in project financing on behalf of NextEra Energy Resources subsidiary Genesis Solar for the development of a 250 MW utility - scale solar thermal electric generating facility (more...)

Hogan Lovells announced today that it closed approximately $ 1 billion in project financing on behalf of NextEra Energy Resources subsidiary Genesis Solar for the development of a 250 MW utility - scale solar thermal electric generating facility.

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And with BrightSource Energy, it constructed the Ivanpah solar electric complex, a landscape of 350,000 heat - generating mirrors in California's Mojave Desert that's the largest solar - thermal plant on the planet.

On the chip's surface, which is cooled to near absolute zero -LRB--- 459 degrees Fahrenheit) to eliminate thermal vibrations, two tiny aluminum cones connected by an electric field generate extremely faint sound waves that bounce back and forth.

The full - size luxury SUV has a number of fuel - saving tricks up its sleeve too, including an ability to heat the cabin by leeching the excess thermal energy generated by the electric motor and the automatic transmission can disengage from the drivetrain, enabling a free - wheeling mode.

We need a new vision of the electric generation, transmission and distribution system rather than one that moves electricity generated at remote locations, arriving at the point of end use... with a loss of 67 percent of otherwise valuable thermal energy.

Until the 1930s, hydroelectric - power plants equipped with water - turbine generating units produced the largest percentage of electric energy because they were less expensive to operate than thermal - power plants using steam - turbine units.

Replacing firewood with solar thermal cookers, or even with electric hotplates fed by wind - generated electricity or with some other energy source, will lighten the load on forests.

(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.

Electric power can be supplied by solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays and by solar thermal systems in which the Sun heats a fluid that generates steam to drive a steam turbine.

-- The term «efficiency» means the operating efficiency of an electric generation facility as determined by the average annual heat rate of the facility, measured in British thermal units required to generate a kilowatt - hour of electricity from the facility.

Sixty - one percent of Canada's electric power is generated from hydro, 26 percent from thermal and 12 percent from nuclear energy sources.

The houses generate energy with photovoltaic (also called solar electric) systems that produce electricity and with solar thermal systems for space heating and cooling and water heating.

«Efficient biomass» is defined as thermal or electric energy or combined heat and power from biomass generating units with an overall efficiency of 50 percent or greater on an annual basis.

Next to low temperature heating, activation of the thermal mass and reuse of grey water, photovoltaics generate enough energy to have a surplus on a yearly basis, allowing for an electric car to use the excess electricity.