Sentences with phrase «year large power plants»

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Operated by a team of fewer than 30 employees, the Kapolei, Hawaii - based company has fueled growth through major deals inked within the last year alone: the building of a $ 260 million plant in Idaho, a $ 370 million contract with Sanyo Electric Co. and a $ 678 million contract with Suntech Power to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in HaPower to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in Hapower system in Hawaii.

In the six months last year when Macquarie was cobbling together funding for the largest private power plant in Europe, margins moved 25 points.

In addition to the increasing use of coal internationally, there is a large number of coal - fired power plants coming online in the next few years.

Sisters Food Group, one of the UK's largest food manufacturers, has started up a potato - powered energy plant as a first step in a new sustainability plan which aims to generate 35,000 tonnes of carbon savings a year and slash the group's carbon footprint by 20 % by 2018.

But if a state proposal to shutter Indian Point for three months a year is part of larger plot to close the nuclear power plant permanently, as the owner contends, the governor isn't saying so.

But even if the EU picked up the entire bill, says the Ökoinstitut, «it would cost every citizen of the EU an insurance premium of at most $ 2.80 per year» to shut down the largest concentration of nuclear power plants in Eastern Europe.

Seven years after one of the largest earthquakes on record unleashed a massive tsunami and triggered a meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, officials say they are at last getting a handle on the mammoth task of cleaning the site before it is ultimately dismantled.

But those smokestacks, many attached to coal - fired power plants, are the single - largest source of greenhouse gas pollution in the U.S., at two billion metric tons of CO2 per year.

Just since last year, nearly 700 MW of new solar thermal capacity came online with the completion of three large power plants in the Southwest.

«10 years ago, most of the energy generated in the UK came from around 50 large power plants,» Setchell says.

At least 50,000 homes in SA will be given solar panels and batteries in a scheme (over 4 Years) by Elon Musk's Tesla and the SA Government to build the world's largest virtual power plant.

But even more daunting than this large amount of committed emissions, we found that total committed emissions grew by an average of 4 % between 2000 and 2012 as we built more coal - fired power plants over that period than in any previous 12 - year period.

Another seven are under construction (including two very large power plants) and, when operating in the next 2 — 3 years, these will increase capture and storage to 40 million tonnes per annum.

OPIC is rapidly increasing its focus on renewable energy in Africa: Its 2014 agreement to provide financing and insurance to support construction of the310 - megawatt Lake Turkana wind power plant in northern Kenya, is the largest renewable power plant it has committed to date in Africa, and has a projected capacity of almost triple the total capacity of renewable energy projects OPIC committed in the prior three years.

Fifteen years after it got into the biopower business, the city, with help from Energy Trust, replaced its old co-generation engine with a larger, 395 - kW engine, making it possible for existing biogas to meet 50 percent of the plant's power needs.

Prairie State is one of the largest power plant construction projects in the United States and the second - largest capital project in Illinois during the past 10 years.

Photovoltaic panels have plummeted in price over the last few years while companies such as First Solar and SunPower have devised strategies for building large - scale power plants with technology that in the past might have ended up on roofs or in small, ground - mounted projects.

Last year, Tesla built what is essentially the world's biggest battery in Australia, and now the company is again partnering with the South Australian government to build the world's largest «virtual power plant.»

The groundbreaking for the largest solar thermal power plant to be built in 15 years takes place this weekend in Boulder City, Nevada.

Schott unveils new solar receiver tubes at groundbreaking for the largest US solar thermal power plant to be built in 15 years

The new rule aims to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants — the nation's largest source of carbon pollution — 32 percent from 2005 levels over the next 15 years.

Ultimately, some combination of distributed solar power, local microgrids, and large renewable - power plants will be needed to address India's energy needs over the next 50 years.

Two years ago, Duke Energy said it would move away from organized competitive markets, with 11 of the company's 13 generating plants selling power in the PJM market, the largest independent wholesale market.

Emissions from coal - fired power plants and other industrial concerns in China have made it the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, putting more climate - changing gases into the atmosphere each year than the US and the European Union combined.

To fully realize this potential, the MIT team estimated that the government would have to invest up to $ 1 billion in geothermal research and development in the years immediately ahead, roughly the cost of one large coal - fired power plant.

As a result, Mongolia's first large - scale solar power plant, located in Darkhan City, approximately 230 km from the capital Ulaanbaatar, began commercial operations on January 1 this year, and the completion ceremony was held on January 19.

In the coming years, there are plans to retire the two largest coal - fired power plants in the region, as well as one of the region's nuclear units.

WASHINGTON — The amount of carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas, released by the nation's power plants grew by nearly 3 percent last year, the largest annual increase in nearly a decade, an environmental group said yesterday.

It reckons that, overall, converting its power plant from coal to wood saves 12 million tons of CO2 emissions a year, making Drax «the largest carbon - saving project in Europe,» according to its CEO Andy Koss.

It is worth pointing out that the Gates may well be no more dramatic than a single large gas - fired (or perhaps a moderate coal - fired) power plant, of which there are a great many in operation for 40 years or more around the world.

This is happening to thousands of Americans right now — and the toxic waste is coal ash, the by - product of burning coal for energy.Coal - fired power plants produce approximately 131 million tons of waste per year, making coal combustion waste the second largest industrial waste stream in the U.S. Coal ash contains numerous hazardous chemicals, including arsenic, selenium, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, boron, thallium, and aluminum.

Just down the road from us is Didcot A power station, a large coal - burning plant with poor pollution control and therefore with substantial effects on local air quality, as well as more substantial emissions of radiation than from any UK nuclear power station and a Co2 output of about 8 million tonnes a year.

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.

Along with the bigger display, the S7 Edge features a significantly larger 3,600 mAh battery, almost 40 percent larger than the 2,600 mAh power plant in last year's S6 Edge.

Working at the Calista energy plant for 5 + years in capacity of a plant mechanic, I now seek to expand my experience to large scale power supply plants combining mechanical and electrical technology such as yours.

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