Sentences with phrase «thermal electric power plants»

Prior to ICF, Steve worked for Luz Industries, an early developer of utility scale solar thermal electric power plants in Israel and California.

Not exact matches

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.

The Pasadena, Calif. - based specialist in solar thermal technology has landed a deal to license technology to Penglai Electric, which in turn will build 2 gigawatts of solar thermal power plants by 2021.

This deal has had implications for future power plant construction planning, because import of electricity from Bulgaria, at 3 - 3.5 cents per kWh, is actually cheaper than the incremental cost of producing electricity from a new thermal - electric power plant (about 5 cents per kWh).

Ausra has had a bit of a roller - coaster ride as a business, starting in Australia but relocating to California to produce its solar thermal electric - generation technology, and going from darling of the solar power plant industry to... well, this.

Commentators who predict a surge in natural gas demand from electric utilities likewise overlook the scope that power producers have to switch between coal and natural gas at their plants, depending on which thermal fuel offers the best economics.

Better to used sun for concentrated thermal power in small power plant then use the KW to power trains that get 3 to 5 times more passenger miles than electric cars.

On top of that also add the waste heat from electric power stations, and even the thermal pollution from nuke plants (Even though they do not emit co2) and airplanes and I reckon that is a lot of heat energy that used to be a form of carbon now warming up the atmosphere.

For sure locally, Hank, just as thermal power plants (and even hydro electric plant impoundments, for that matter) and built - up urban areas also have a significant climate effect on a local scale, but I took David's question to refer to the climate system as a whole.

ENGECORPS (1998b) Operation of Thermal Power Plants Integrated to the South / Southeastern Electric Network.

The company has also recently begun construction on the 392 MW Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in Southern California's Mojave Desert, the world's largest solar thermal power plant under construction.

NPR Blog - According to photographer Jamey Stillings, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) will be the «world's largest concentrated solar thermal power plant» when complete at the end of this year.

(OAKLAND, CA) August 6, 2010 — BrightSource Energy, Inc., developer of utility - scale solar thermal power plants, announced today that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for BrightSource's Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System.