Sentences with phrase «turbines at the plant»

It uses carbon dioxide produced in combustion to drive turbines at the plant rather than steam.

Draeger says BMW has installed four wind turbines at the plant, and they provide more than 50 % of the energy needed for the cars» production.

Once reserves are confirmed and a power plant built, the steam that fuels turbines at the plant is virtually free.

Turbine Planning Decision Overturned The Lotus car company announced that it was planning to install wind turbines at its plant in Norfolk, UK, way back in the early part of 2007.

Not exact matches

An employees passes finished wind turbine blades at the Siemens AG plant in Aalborg, Denmark (Photo: Timothy Fadek / Bloomberg / Getty)

Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says that the oil that was spotted near the Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Scriba turns out to be oil from the turbine building roof at that power pPlant in Scriba turns out to be oil from the turbine building roof at that power plantplant.

While they wouldn't divulge the exact number of employees to be laid off, 15 hundred workers at the Schenectady steam turbine and generator plant will not be affected.

Most concentrating solar power plants with a storage component use molten salt to save up heat and release it at night to boil water and spin a turbine.

Arias says Torresol can either run the plant until the battery is exhausted, or it can modulate the power of the turbine during darkness so it is at its maximum between 11 and 11.30 pm, when electricity demand — and price — peaks, «so we are able to reach the next day without stopping the turbine».

Another approach operates at the bottom of New York City's East River, where in 2006 Verdant Power, Inc., planted six windmill - like turbines — each 16 feet (five meters) in diameter — 30 feet (nine meters) below the surface and churning at a peak rate of 32 revolutions per minute to transform strong tidal forces into electricity.

«The world desperately needs higher - efficiency gas turbines because the end result is millions of tons of carbon dioxide that's not going into the atmosphere,» said Citeno, noting that in the last 2 years, more than 50 percent of gas turbines manufactured at GE's Greenville plant were exported to other countries.

GE's H - class heavy - duty gas turbines are currently the world's largest and most efficient gas turbines, capable of converting fuel and air into electricity at more than 62 percent power - plant efficiency when matched with a steam turbine generator, a setup known as combined cycle.

The movie begins with a catastrophe at a Chinese power plant: a malicious little worm of code has wriggled its way into the system and shut down turbines in the cooling pool, leading to a reactor breach and the threat of meltdown.

Change Agents» Education coordinator Hanna Plant, who helped spur the sustainability drive at St Andrews (which is currently seeking planning permission for a 12MW turbine), sums it up: «Schools, colleges and universities are under increasing financial pressure, and increasing pressure to deliver on environmental objectives.

If you have a Power Plant that is severly damaged and it has no Power Turbines on it, you can build one and place it on the Power Plant, and the Power Plant will be set at full health for free without having to repair it!

You need concurrent fossil fuel plants running alongside solar cells and wind turbines at all times.»

And note that some solar thermal plants are now achieving availability on a par with coal - fired plants, due to storing excess heat from the day in molten salts and using it to run the turbines at night and in bad weather.

Maybe at some point the manufacturing plants for large offshore turbines will need to be located right on the shore so that the turbine parts don't have to be transported by road or rail..

Our seas will need to have tens of thousands to these wind turbines deployed at several per week to do the job in time and only shallow offshore is viable at the present time and that is inline with existing baseload fossil fuel coal and gas fired power plants along with existing nuclear ones to.

Even at 650 — 800 kg CO2 / MWh, ultra-supercritical plants are about twice as emissions intensive per MWh as the latest combined - cycle gas turbines.

To avoid over-estimation, electricity reference prices were capped at the levelised cost of a combined - cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant.

Orders for GE's newest, large gas - fired turbines have fallen 35 percent in the two years since the deal closed, and industry estimates show demand for conventional plants is unlikely to hit 2017 levels again for at least a decade.

First, to replace 1 kW of coal generation, almost 3 kW of wind generation will be needed, because wind turbines run at 30 % output on average as compared with about 88 % for a new coal plant.

Slated to commence in this year's third quarter, the scope of the Downer - GE ANZ consortium's work at the Boco Wind Farm includes construction of a 133 - kilovolt (kV) transmission line and substation; balance of plant, civil, and electrical infrastructure; erection and commissioning of the wind turbine generators.

The light heats water in a boiler at the top of the tower, creating steam, which is used to run a conventional steam turbine like those in a typical fossil - fired power plant.

At issue is the 400 - kilowatt turbine adjacent to the city's sewage treatment plant severely damaged by a lightning strike in February 2017.

That's because a working electricity system fueled mostly by wind turbines requires additional massive costs that a fossil fuel system does not: huge excess capacity (perhaps 300 - 400 %) to deal with conditions of light wind; gigantic batteries to store power for conditions of no wind at all, which can persist for days; extra transmission lines to bring electricity from windier areas to the rest of the country; and finally, an entire array of fossil fuel back - up plants for those occasions when the wind doesn't blow for a week and the batteries are dead.

«We've made incredible gains since acquiring the property,» Keith Longtin, general manager of Wind Products for GE Power & Water stated during a tour of the facility, pointing out that today's GE turbines are operating at close to 98 % availability, the same as a thermal coal plant.

Converting light into electricity with no moving parts is a profoundly different enterprise than turning a turbine to make power — the technology that is at work in coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydropower plants and, most visibly to the public, at wind farms.

Vestas has secured a 15 - year service contract covering 42 V90 - 2.0 MW turbines at the Topolog Dorobantu wind power plant in Tulcea County in Romania.

The Crescent Dunes and Ivanpah Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants use mirrors to focus the sun's rays onto a heat exchanger at the top of a 600 - foot - tall tower during the day to heat a fluid that is used, either directly or indirectly, to produce steam to drive a turbine generator that produces electricity.

Of course, there are also wind turbines, on land and at sea, hydroelectric power plants and biogas plants.

The fact is, many more birds (and bats) are dying at operating wind plants than we know, and as the turbines spread, mortality will increase.

Look historically to see how long it has taken for us to get from the first engines (petrol, diesel, steam turbine, jet engine, solar thermal engine) and nuclear power plants to where we are at now.

«The 80m - high turbines will be installed at the company's plant at Whittlesey, in Cambridgeshire, as part of a drive to lower the company's carbon footprint and move its operations towards sustainability.

Building that four megawatts at a time — the capacity of the largest wind turbines currently made — would mean building 125,000 of these giant windmills across the country, along with hundreds of gigawatts of additional conventional plants to serve as a backup reserve for the wind farms.

Where wind turbines crowd, say, the Tehachapi Pass in California or the Nantucket Sound in Cape Cod, some observers think they might as well be looking at big, unattractive power plants.

A contractor said the dangers of big turbines are associated with huge underground vaults at the towers» bases (though, in fact, turbine towers are planted in solid concrete foundations).

(Editor's Note: Another repost at a time when we need to remind people of how McGuinty has destroyed rural Ontario) Whenever I get into a debate with someone over wind turbines, they always haul out that old dated nugget about coal plants.

Keeping combustion turbines spinning at power plants across Xcel Energy's service territory is critical to maintaining reliability and minimizing costs.

These developments have been made at both individual turbine and wind plant scales.

«It's a shift from thinking about individual wind turbines to thinking about power plants,» says Fort Felker, director of the National Wind Technology Center at NREL.

Since the vast wind turbine arrays produce a scant amount of power, at times when it is not in demand, or too much of it so that the existing grid can not accommodate it causing some of the wind plants to shut down and dump the electricity produced, there must be some other overriding reason for the increasing proliferation of «wind farms» both on - shore and off - shore.

He worked previously at Zond Corporation, where he was responsible for assessing and reporting production for 2,500 wind turbines, heading plant operations and maintenance, and commissioning new facilities.

When additional generating capacity is needed, the water can be released from the reservoir through a conduit to turbine generators located in a power plant at a lower level.

A «rumbling» effect was found using diary records to focus the analysis, which could only be heard with amplification of audio records; however, in many cases, the EPA was unable to determine that described events could be attributed to the turbines; and at times reported events coincided with shutdowns of the plant.

«A comparison of the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) revealed that the LCOE of $ 148 per MWh for the first CSP plants installed in 2009 is competitive with the simple cycle combustion turbine at an LCOE of $ 168 per MWh, assuming that the temporary 30 percent Investment Tax Credit is extended.

BPL: Solar thermal plants store excess daytime energy in molten salts, then use that heat to run the turbines at night and in cloudy weather.

Mystery Man Silences 500MW Turbine On 10PM, Friday 28th of November, in full view of CCTV cameras, a lone man climbed two electrified, razor - wired security fences at one of the UK's major coal fired power plants, walked up to an unlocked door, and proceeded to shut down a 500MW turbine — apparently cutting off enough electricity from the grid to power a city of about half a million Turbine On 10PM, Friday 28th of November, in full view of CCTV cameras, a lone man climbed two electrified, razor - wired security fences at one of the UK's major coal fired power plants, walked up to an unlocked door, and proceeded to shut down a 500MW turbine — apparently cutting off enough electricity from the grid to power a city of about half a million turbine — apparently cutting off enough electricity from the grid to power a city of about half a million people.