Sentences with phrase «traditional coal and nuclear»

This means natural gas generation can replace traditional coal and nuclear power that are no longer economic, as well as support intermittent renewable power.

Not exact matches

The Great Transition details this evolving trend, focusing on falling prices and rising adoption for wind, solar, electric vehicles, hydropower, geothermal energy, and energy efficiency; and the emerging turn from coal, nuclear power, oil, and traditional transportation that is happening faster than anticipated.

Both nuclear power and natural gas will be vital to providing clean, reliable energy to the U.S. economy as traditional renewables and coal with carbon capture and sequestration are further commercialized.

Both moves into renewables and nuclear represent a major change in Polish energy policy, diversifying away from the country's traditional coal - fired power base, in a bid to fill an electricity shortfall and meet EU emission standards.

Transmission has always been important to generation — typically transmission costs can be up to half the cost of new energy from even traditional sources like coal and nuclear power.

Traditional grids invented by Thomas Edison draw supplies from a handful of generators fueled mostly by coal, nuclear and natural gas plants, which can run around the clock.

Unfortunately, the report follows a thesis that the reliable energy future we all want must still rely primarily on traditional, or «baseload», forms of energy generation such as coal and nuclear.

Allowing RTO / ISOs to use a dispatch system that gives wind and solar preference over traditional methods of generating electricity, which is driving nuclear and coal - fired generation off the grid, and which will ultimately also drive natural gas generation from the grid.

Electricity generated by wind and solar is more expensive than electricity generated using traditional methods, e.g., coal - fired, natural gas combined cycle, nuclear and hydro power plants.

«Comparisons of wind, solar, nuclear, natural gas and coal sources of power coming on line by 2015 show that solar power will be 173 % more expensive per unit of energy delivered than traditional coal power, 140 % more than nuclear power and natural gas and 92 % more expensive than wind power.

«Wind and solar's «capacity factor» or availability to supply power is around 33 %, which means 67 % of the time wind and solar can not supply power and must be supplemented by a traditional energy source such as nuclear, natural gas or coal.

In the traditional model of a national electricity system — widely used for more than 50 years — large conventional gas, coal and nuclear generation plants supply large centres of demand.

A US Senate report notes, «Comparisons of wind, solar, nuclear, natural gas and coal sources of power coming on line by 2015 show that solar power will be 173 % more expensive per unit of energy delivered than traditional coal power, 140 % more than nuclear power and natural gas and 92 % more expensive than wind power.

Wind power is 42 % more expensive than nuclear and natural gas power... Wind and solar's» «capacity factor» or availability to supply power is around 33 %, which means 67 % of the time wind and solar can not supply power and must be supplemented by a traditional energy source such as nuclear, natural gas or coal.»

Electricity's carbon risks could be managed by new nuclear plants and «clean coal,» sustaining and even bolstering many of the power sector's century - old institutions — traditional business models, vendors, and regulators, coal - mining, even railroads.

All Neil has to do is point to a miffle / major modern nation with a reasonable amount of heavy industry and not abundantly blessed with hydro (like Norway) or traditional geothermal (like Iceland) which has managed to achieve the same kind of transition from coal with technosolar renewable power that France has managed with nuclear power.