• The complex consists of the world's two largest oil shale-fired thermal power plants, Eesti Power Plant (Eesti Elektrijaam) and Balti Power Plant (Balti Elektrijaam). (wikipedia.org)
  • We the undersigned people from around the world, request the Government of Bangladesh and the Government of India, to relocate this environmentally harmful coal-based power plant project from near the world's largest mangrove forest- the Sundarbans. (thepetitionsite.com)
  • Ukrainian officials have confirmed that Russian forces have seized control of the Chernobyl power plant, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, as troops advance on the capital, Kyiv. (theonion.com)
  • Nuclear power generates about 10 percent of the world's electricity (TWh = terawatt-hours). (popsci.com)
  • The giant coal power station at Drax in Yorkshire, with its 12 cooling towers, is one of the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters. (newscientist.com)
  • Load-following power plants can be hydroelectric power plants, diesel and gas engine power plants, combined cycle gas turbine power plants and steam turbine power plants that run on natural gas or heavy fuel oil , although heavy fuel oil plants make up a very small portion of the energy mix. (wikipedia.org)
  • hydroelectric power plants. (bvsalud.org)
  • Their Bel-Air filter, which combats indoor emissions from paint and plastics, sucks air into a humid Pyrex bulb containing a plant. (good.is)
  • Duke Energy has made significant improvements to reduce emissions from the company's coal-fired plants. (duke-energy.com)
  • Germany, having banned this method (nuclear power), has 10 times the global warming emissions of France. (latimes.com)
  • The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday it will reconsider a Bush administration rule to let new coal-fired power plants open without taking climate-warming carbon emissions into account. (ibtimes.com)
  • EPA's decision on coal-fired power plants follows more than a year of bureaucratic maneuvering at the end of the Bush administration over whether new plants must limit emissions of carbon dioxide, which contributes to climate change. (ibtimes.com)
  • Two and a half years since pollution control legislation under the Energy Community Treaty obliged Western Balkan governments to apply EU norms, a new Bankwatch analysis finds air pollution - primarily sulphur dioxide (SO2) and dust emissions - from coal-fired power plants remains stubbornly high, choking communities across the region and beyond. (bankwatch.org)
  • WASHINGTON - The Biden administration is preparing to propose limits on greenhouse gas emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants that are so stringent they could almost wipe out the U.S. electricity sector's planet-warming pollution by 2040. (pressherald.com)
  • The White House is in the final stages of reviewing a draft proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency, which would target new and existing power plants - the second-biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. today. (pressherald.com)
  • We are going to set standards for greenhouse gas emissions in the power sector that reinforce the market trajectory and that reinforce our desire to get pole position on the shift to clean energy," White House National Climate Adviser Ali Zaidi said in a recent interview. (pressherald.com)
  • The fact that there are to be more coal-fired power plants than ever before in Bangladesh, a country that contributes to only 0.3 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, is why it is necessary to take stock of the projects at hand. (thedailystar.net)
  • The company's goal here is to completely phase out coal-fired power generation in the central Neckar region by 2026 and significantly reduce carbon emissions. (enbw.com)
  • IT IS the dream scenario for fighting climate change: a power station that delivers negative emissions. (newscientist.com)
  • She said the power plant sector is already on target to meet its goal of a nearly 8 percent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions from 1990s levels by the year 2020. (bostonglobe.com)
  • The nationwide deployment of flue-gas denitration facilities was a critical measure to mitigate NOx emissions from coal -fired power plants , while this study externally assesses the implementation gap of their operation. (bvsalud.org)
  • Annually, the 250 KWp solar plant, providing 420 MWh of clean energy, is expected to save around 166,000 litres of fuel and reduce CO2 emissions by 185 tons. (who.int)
  • The country diverted its own resources to solar and wind power, pledging to produce an astronomical 130 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2020. (thedailystar.net)
  • Later this year, the UK government is expected to give the go-ahead for the £500-million White Rose project at Drax , which from 2020 could capture 2 million tonnes of CO 2 annually from a new power plant burning coal and biomass, sending it down a 165-kilometre pipeline for burial under the North Sea. (newscientist.com)
  • The state goal is a 25 percent decline by 2020, but the power plant sector is expected to account for one-fourth of that drop. (bostonglobe.com)
  • With the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) level 2 swath product of tropospheric NO2, this study explores the temporal-spatial patterns of NOx concentrations over China 's coal -fired power plants from 2005 to 2020 and investigates the evolution of its control strategy. (bvsalud.org)
  • Despite heroic efforts by plant workers, three reactors sustained severe damage to their radioactive cores and three reactor buildings were damaged by hydrogen explosions. (popsci.com)
  • The records describe the design, construction, operation, and decommission of one of the earliest power generating nuclear reactors in the United States. (thehenryford.org)
  • In a statement, the renewable energy specialist said the project is a large-scale solar photovoltaic power plant with a capacity of 50 megawatts, which has been approved by the Energy Commission. (thestar.com.my)
  • The power plant would have a capacity of 1,224 megawatts, nearly as much as that of the Rampal Power Station. (thedailystar.net)
  • In the second big solar power plant deal in a month, start-up eSolar signs deal to supply equipment to NRG Energy for up to 500 megawatts' worth of solar power. (cnet.com)
  • The agreement will lead to 500 megawatts' worth of solar energy production at peak capacity, enough to power 400,000 homes, according to the companies. (cnet.com)
  • The size of a traditional natural gas or coal power plant is roughly between 500 to 800 megawatts. (cnet.com)
  • An example: On Dec. 3, 2004, Cincinnati Gas and Electric (which goes by the new-age moniker Cinergy, in the Enron age of deregulated power-merchant companies), with 20% of Ohio's power capacity, announced that it wanted to add 800 megawatts by building a new coal-gas electric plant. (larouchepub.com)
  • The original design of the Fermi reactor allowed for power generating capabilities up to 430 megawatts although the plant never operated above 200 megawatts. (thehenryford.org)
  • The new plants, which will be built in California and Arizona, are expected to generate 160 megawatts (MW) of electricity, enough to power 17,000 typical U.S. homes. (computerworld.com)
  • In parabolic trough solar power plants, sunlight is concentrated onto a receiver tube located at the focus of the parabolic mirrors. (dlr.de)
  • Solar power plants such as Ivanpah incinerate birds flying into the mirror-array "light cone. (latimes.com)
  • Power plant operator NRG Energy on Monday announced a deal with start-up eSolar to build 11 solar power plants in the Southwest U.S. (cnet.com)
  • eSolar's heliostat and thermal receiver-based solar power plants. (cnet.com)
  • Because eSolar's technology is relatively efficient with space, solar power plants can be built by converting existing land, such as farms, Gross said. (cnet.com)
  • Google will build another six solar power plants in the U.S. (computerworld.com)
  • So far, Google has committed over $1 billion to wind and solar power plants that create clean energy and generate "attractive financial returns," it said in a blog post. (computerworld.com)
  • The Government of Bangladesh has decided to build a 1320 megawatt coal based power plant just 9 km away from the Sundarbans Reserved Forest, one of the earth's rarest ecosystems and a UNESCO world heritage site. (thepetitionsite.com)
  • The 1320-megawatt coal-power plant will be set up in Patuakhali, and 70 percent of the project financing will come as a loan from the the Export-Import Bank of China. (thedailystar.net)
  • The state has only one operating nuclear plant, the 1,200-megawatt Perry unit near Cleveland, and depends almost entirely on coal and natural gas-fueled electricity capacity. (larouchepub.com)
  • TLN ) announced that it reached an agreement late Thursday (10/22) to sell the 399-megawatt C.P. Crane coal-fired power plant in Baltimore to an affiliate of Avenue Capital Group. (prnewswire.com)
  • In June, a deal was signed between them and Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) for a 1,320-megawatt power plant, in Maheshkhali of Chittagong. (thedailystar.net)
  • Egat was planning to build an 800-megawatt plant in Krabi and a 2000MW plant in Songkhla, with completion set for 2024-2025. (bangkokpost.com)
  • The money will give NRG Energy an equity stake in eSolar and rights to develop three projects that eSolar has already negotiated, including a 245-megawatt power purchase agreement with Southern California Edison. (cnet.com)
  • eSolar's power plants uses prefabricated material to create 46 megawatt facilities, which can be placed on one quarter of a square mile. (cnet.com)
  • And the eSolar's plants use significantly less land per megawatt, Liebelson said. (cnet.com)
  • eSolar's breakthrough modular power plants use more software and less steel to allow solar energy to be competitive with fossil fuels for the first time ever," said eSolar CEO Bill Gross in a statement. (cnet.com)
  • Base load power plants are dispatchable plants that tend to operate at maximum output. (wikipedia.org)
  • The growth of variable renewable energy sources, coupled with the phase-out of nuclear power and coal, leaves a shortfall of dispatchable capacity - power generation sources that are available at the push of a button at any time of day or night. (enbw.com)
  • Peaking power plants operate only during times of peak demand. (wikipedia.org)
  • Gas turbine power plants are the most flexible in terms of adjusting power level, but are also among the most expensive to operate. (wikipedia.org)
  • We don't need yet more study on whether to operate nuclear plants on fault lines. (commondreams.org)
  • As long as commercial nuclear power plants operate anywhere in the world, we believe it is critical for all nations to learn from what happened at Fukushima and continue doubling down on nuclear safety. (popsci.com)
  • Later in 1955, the APDA chartered the Power Reactor Development Company (PRDC) to design, construct, and operate the Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant, Unit I after federal approval of the APDA's proposal. (thehenryford.org)
  • Many gas turbine power plants can be fueled with natural gas, fuel oil, and/or diesel , allowing greater flexibility in choice of operation- for example, while most gas turbine plants primarily burn natural gas, a supply of fuel oil and/or diesel is sometimes kept on hand in case the gas supply is interrupted. (wikipedia.org)
  • Recent exclusive reliance on new natural gas-fired turbine plants, most of which add only "part-time power," is lowering the efficiency and raising the cost of producing more electricity. (larouchepub.com)
  • UCS spokesman Robert D. Pollard said "Nuclear power plants are inherently hazardous. (projectcensored.org)
  • In addition to not identifying the plants, a DHS spokesman declined to say where they are located. (voanews.com)
  • It says the plant will not put residents at risk and that it will serve Arizona customers, though a spokesman concedes that surplus power could be sold to California. (csmonitor.com)
  • The 2005 energy legislation just passed by Congress, initially the work of Dick Cheney's oil dollar-hungry "energy task force," gives the power industry protection against long regulatory delays, for only six prospective new nuclear plants. (larouchepub.com)
  • Nuclear powerplant licensing delays and the impact of the Sholly versus NRC decision hearings before the Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, March 25 and 31, 1981. (upenn.edu)
  • Your article exposes many of the adverse environmental impacts of wind and solar power, in particular the widespread destruction of habitat and wildlife. (latimes.com)
  • GenOn Energy announced that it is closing eight plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey because the cost of complying with tougher new pollution rules will be too high. (motherjones.com)
  • In addition to choking the communities where coal power plants are located, SO2 pollution from the Western Balkans often reaches as far as Russia and the Black Sea Coast to the east and Germany to the West! (bankwatch.org)
  • Opponents argue the plants would cause massive pollution and other damage to the environment. (bangkokpost.com)
  • The only technology capable of large-scale additions to continuous baseload power generation, highly efficient and energy-dense, safe, and pollution-free, is nuclear power. (larouchepub.com)
  • The retrofitting of a 40-year-old coal-burning plant to meet anti-pollution standards, in many cases is as great an investment as building an entirely new plant. (larouchepub.com)
  • [1] Load-following plants are typically in between base load and peaking power plants in efficiency, speed of start-up and shut-down, construction cost, cost of electricity and capacity factor . (wikipedia.org)
  • The new draft is smaller in scope, with a foundation built on changes that can be employed directly at power plants, including through efficiency gains known as heat-rate improvements, carbon-capture systems and the substitution of cleaner hydrogen for natural gas as a combustion source. (pressherald.com)
  • Each nuclear power plant creates radioactive waste that will remain deadly for thousands of years. (commondreams.org)
  • It also destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and released radioactive materials over a large area. (popsci.com)
  • [2] Power plants operated mostly in this way include coal , fuel oil , nuclear , geothermal , run-of-the-river hydroelectric , biomass and combined cycle natural gas plants. (wikipedia.org)
  • One of the most important factors for a particular plant is how efficiently it can convert fuel into electricity. (wikipedia.org)
  • To meet the requirements at existing facilities, many plant owners would be compelled to add carbon-capture systems or substitute hydrogen for some of their fuel. (pressherald.com)
  • On the other hand, much less is known about the companies bankrolling all the other fossil-fuel power plants popping up around the country, whose total electricity production exceeds that of Rampal. (thedailystar.net)
  • These potentials were evaluated by introducing eight different scenarios, including power stations' fuel switching to natural gas, replacement of existing power plants with natural gas combined cycle, Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC), Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC), hybrid SOFC, and SOFC-IGCC hybrid power stations, and installation of CO2 capture systems. (environmental-expert.com)
  • As at all fuel switch sites, the new plant in Stuttgart is to run on green hydrogen by 2035 at the latest. (enbw.com)
  • The fuel switch from coal to gas is future-proof due to the possibility of subsequent conversion to hydrogen, which will make the plants part of a climate-neutral electricity generation infrastructure with a high level of security of supply. (enbw.com)
  • Funded by the Government of Japan, the solar plant as a source of alternative energy will reduce the reliance of the hospital on donated fuel for emergency generators and contribute to build resilience of critical departments providing life-saving interventions. (who.int)
  • [ citation needed ] They generally shut down or reduce power only to perform maintenance or repair or due to grid constraints. (wikipedia.org)
  • Such power plants can be started rapidly to meet the grid demands. (wikipedia.org)
  • They use nuclear energy to produce power for the grid. (answers.com)
  • In the power sector these fuels will prove essential to meet the seasonal and balancing requirements of the grid. (wartsila.com)
  • Very few coal-fired electric plants have been added to the U.S. grid, and the existing stock of plants is aging and badly polluting. (larouchepub.com)
  • Batteries are helping to optimize the power grid and opening up new applications and services for utilities and service providers. (greentechmedia.com)
  • The report criticized the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's failure to be a tough inspector of nuclear power plants. (projectcensored.org)
  • The directorship of the Power Plant has been regarded as "a very tough job," in the words of one Toronto art insider, ever since the gallery opened in mid-1987 in a converted generating station on the shore of Lake Ontario. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Higher yields of intact RNA from tough plant samples with the RNeasy PowerPlant Kit. (qiagen.com)
  • The influx of renewables entering power systems is creating the right conditions for excess clean electricity to be used as a raw material for new types of hydrogen-based, carbon neutral sustainable fuels . (wartsila.com)
  • The electricity sector can now take advantage of expanded tax credits for renewable and nuclear power, hydrogen and carbon-capture operations. (pressherald.com)
  • By building hydrogen-ready gas-fired power plants, we are taking responsibility. (enbw.com)
  • The plant is designed from the outset to switch from natural gas to hydrogen as quickly and completely as possible when hydrogen becomes available in sufficient quantities, which is expected to be in 10 to 12 years. (enbw.com)
  • In countries with widespread air conditioning , demand peaks around the middle of the afternoon, so a typical peaking power plant may start up a couple of hours before this point and shut down a couple of hours after. (wikipedia.org)
  • Local and national activists have been targeting those two plants for their impacts on poorer city neighborhoods, and new mayor Rahm Emanuel also recently threatened to shut them down . (motherjones.com)
  • After a groundbreaking ten-year grassroots campaign to shut down these archaic plants, Chicagoans have reclaimed their right to clean air. (motherjones.com)
  • The facts all point to this 'inconvenient truth' -- the time has come to shut down California's two nuclear power plants as part of a swift transition to an energy policy focused on clean and green renewable sources and conservation. (commondreams.org)
  • By turning to alternative energy sources, especially wind and nuclear, Ontario will soon be able to shut down all of its coal-fired power plants. (csmonitor.com)
  • The procedures manuals cover pre-operational processes, plant facilities, and emergency shut down steps. (thehenryford.org)
  • The project site is on the Bangladesh side of the vibrant mangrove delta but it is going to be run on Indian coal by National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), one of India's Navratna companies. (thepetitionsite.com)
  • The involvement of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), the Indian company financing it, has been discussed at length. (thedailystar.net)
  • Combined with an increasingly deregulated, "market-driven" power industry-which is interested in monopolizing existing nuclear power plants because they produce electricity so efficiently, but little interested in expending the capital and risk to build new ones-White House policy is aimed toward building a molehill, of perhaps two or three new nuclear plants by 2015 or so. (larouchepub.com)
  • The projects will be the first solar power-generating facilities for NRG Energy, which operates natural gas, oil, nuclear, and coal power plants, primarily in the U.S. (cnet.com)
  • In the wake of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown, we need a basic rethinking of the USA's nuclear energy use and oversight. (commondreams.org)
  • Past nuclear disasters can give us a clue about what may happen to the area around the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown in Japan. (unknowncountry.com)
  • A tower is glowing hot at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California's Mojave Desert. (latimes.com)
  • Solar plants located in California's deserts are industrial-scale installations and complexes, not farms. (latimes.com)
  • It remains to be seen whether my one declared opponent, Assemblyman Jared Huffman, will join me in urging a rapid timetable for the closure of California's nuclear power plants. (commondreams.org)
  • Huffman has ties to California's nuclear-invested utility PG&E. Between 2007 and 2009, according to campaign finance data compiled by nonpartisan Maplight.org, he received $11,100 from PG&E, which owns and operates the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant. (commondreams.org)
  • The White House is fundamentally mistaken in its efforts to triple the budgeting of federal loan guarantees for the domestic nuclear power industry, from $18 billion to $54 billion. (commondreams.org)
  • Our tax dollars should not be used to subsidize the nuclear power industry. (commondreams.org)
  • The data obtained in the project will be of great importance for correct dose assessment of 14C from the nuclear power industry and SSM. (lu.se)
  • On 14 January 2011, Narva Elektrijaamad signed a contract with the French power engineering company Alstom for construction of the new Auvere Power Plant next to the existing Eesti Power Plant. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the next three or four months we will announce a tender for the construction of a nuclear power plant with a capacity of 2,000 MW," Mohammad Saeedi, Iran's deputy nuclear chief, said Tuesday. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Early in 2005, Iran's parliament ratified a bill on the construction of nuclear power plants with an aggregate capacity of over 20,000 MW, and in December 2005 the government took a decision to build the first NPP with a capacity of 360 MW in Khuzestan within seven years. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The Bushehr project was in jeopardy after Atomstroyexport, the Russian contractor for the nuclear power plant construction, said Tehran had not made any payments for the NPP construction since mid-January, and that by the fourth quarter of 2006 the project had only received 60% of the required funding. (globalsecurity.org)
  • As a result, Nevada has 10 power plants on the drawing boards, and Arizona has 20 either in planning or construction. (csmonitor.com)
  • In the letter, Jackson also cautioned companies aiming to start construction on power plants not to rely on the Bush administration rule in seeking permission to build. (ibtimes.com)
  • About 50 new plants are under construction, but many operating plants are aging. (popsci.com)
  • Early last year, China pulled the plug on over a hundred coal power projects within its own borders, some of which were still under construction. (thedailystar.net)
  • Approved in February 2016, the project is worth USD 2.5 billion, and is a joint venture among S Alam group, Shandong Electric Power Construction Corporation (SEPCO3) and STG Development Group. (thedailystar.net)
  • Power Construction Group also signed two other deals the same year. (thedailystar.net)
  • The official start of construction at the power plant site on the River Neckar was attended among others by Baden-Württemberg Minister of the Environment Thekla Walker, Lord Mayor of Stuttgart Frank Nopper and EnBW's COO for Sustainable Generation Infrastructure Georg Stamatelopoulos. (enbw.com)
  • The vague vaporings of the George W. Bush Administration about "getting back to designing some nuclear power plants by 2010" (the President on Aug. 8 in New Mexico), are worse than inadequate to the United States' immediate need to have a sizable nuclear power construction program under way-tomorrow. (larouchepub.com)
  • And it needs to swiftly re-regulate the electric power industry, as well as to take other steps to forcefully revive national capabilities to produce power components, or else such a necessary nuclear construction drive simply cannot occur. (larouchepub.com)
  • As one of the earliest nuclear powered generating facilities in United States, the Fermi I plant construction and design process laid the ground work for subsequent nuclear power technology development through the 1970s. (thehenryford.org)
  • In Arizona and Nevada, new electric plants are aimed partly at California users. (csmonitor.com)
  • In addition, land tends to be cheaper than in California, encouraging power companies to site their plants there. (csmonitor.com)
  • The Diablo Canyon plant near San Luis Obispo and the San Onofre plant on the southern California coast are vulnerable to meltdowns from earthquakes and threaten both residents and the environment. (commondreams.org)
  • As of the end of 2005, Balti Power Plant had an installed capacity of 765 MW. (wikipedia.org)
  • As of the end of 2005, Eesti Power Plant had installed capacity of 1,615 MW. (wikipedia.org)
  • A region that has large variations in demand will require a large load following or peaking power plant capacity because base load power plants can only cover the capacity equal to that needed during times of lowest demand. (wikipedia.org)
  • CG&E hasn't brought any new capacity on line since the coal-fired Zimmer power plant-14 years ago. (larouchepub.com)
  • The new plant, if built and running by, say, 2008, would complete an addition of only about 4% to Southwest Ohio's power capacity over a 17-year period 1991-2008. (larouchepub.com)
  • That 2011 jump brought the cumulative wind power capacity for the U.S. to 47 gigawatts, according to a study published by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. (computerworld.com)
  • The latest data from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) shows that the U.S. now has more than 6.4 gigawatts of installed solar electric capacity, enough power for more than a million households. (computerworld.com)
  • The Narva Power Plants (Estonian: Narva Elektrijaamad) are a power generation complex in and near Narva in Estonia, near the border with Leningrad Oblast, Russia. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some applications are: base load power generation, wind-diesel, load following, cogeneration and trigeneration. (wikipedia.org)
  • Midwest Generation announced that it will close Chicago's Fisk Power Plant in 2012 and the Crawford Plant in 2014. (motherjones.com)
  • The report from ICS-CERT described a second incident in which it said it had recently sent technicians to clean up computers infected by common as well as ``sophisticated'' viruses on workstations that were critical to the operations of a power generation facility. (voanews.com)
  • Earthjustice, on behalf of local conservation groups, challenged state and federal authorizations for the Highwood Generating Station, a 250-MW coal-fired power plant proposed by a small group of eastern Montana electricity cooperatives known as the Southern Montana Electric Generation and Transmission Cooperative. (earthjustice.org)
  • Join us in shaping the future with sustainable fuels for carbon neutral power generation. (wartsila.com)
  • Wärtsilä's continuous research on future fuels and engine technology will ensure reliable power generation with a wide range of sustainable fuels. (wartsila.com)
  • Another deal was struck with Meghna Group for two coal-fired power plantsat Daudkandi in Comilla at a cost of USD 1.75 billion, Mostafa Kamal, chairman of Meghna Electricity Generation Co Ltd told The Daily Star. (thedailystar.net)
  • Just a few days ago, we announced EnBW's intention to phase out coal-fired power generation as early as 2028 as part of our carbon reduction path. (enbw.com)
  • Coal-fired additions to power generation in America have essentially ceased. (larouchepub.com)
  • Digitalization of power plants results in generation of operational, enterprise, and other data types, adding an edge to business operation optimization and asset performance management. (tcs.com)
  • As early as 1973, the Wall Street Journal , in a well documented article, pointed out the economic liabilities of nuclear power plants and termed them "atomic lemons," another story which did not receive widespread coverage. (projectcensored.org)
  • The company says it will continue converting parts of its existing power plant to burning biomass. (newscientist.com)
  • At the moment sustainable biomass with CCS is the leading technology to achieve this," says Peter Emery , a Drax director and chairman of Capture Power, the consortium behind White Rose. (newscientist.com)
  • Therefore, they are generally used as "peaking" units at times of maximum power demand or Combined cycle or cogeneration power plants where turbine exhaust waste heat can be economically used to generate additional power and thermal energy for process or space heating. (wikipedia.org)
  • In early March, Gholamreza Aghazadeh, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said Iran would build nuclear power plants on its own. (globalsecurity.org)
  • For the currently operating nuclear fleet, DTs are reducing the operational risks, increasing plant availability, increasing energy capability, and reducing electricity production costs. (ornl.gov)
  • How do oil fueled power plants produce energy? (answers.com)
  • What mehod use to produce buclear energy in power plants? (answers.com)
  • Assuming you mean 'nuclear energy': power plants don't produce it, they use it. (answers.com)
  • What do nuclear power plants have to do with nuclear energy? (answers.com)
  • What energy do nuclear power plants create? (answers.com)
  • What process do nuclear power plants use produce energy? (answers.com)
  • All current nuclear power plants use nuclear fission to produce energy. (answers.com)
  • What kind of power plants produce electrical energy from moving water? (answers.com)
  • Secretaries to the planning, environment, energy and land ministries, director general of Department of Environment, chairman of Power Development Board, deputy commissioner of Bagerhat and project director of the proposed plant have been made respondents to the rule. (thepetitionsite.com)
  • Named for George Garland Allen, a former president and first chairman of the board for Duke Power, the Allen facility is the only Duke Energy station with five units under one roof. (duke-energy.com)
  • In this talk, Anil Raj proposes an alternative: micropower plants, small-scale renewable energy sources connected to a minigrid. (ted.com)
  • In February, 2009, the backers of the plant announced that they are reversing course and will instead build natural gas and wind energy facilities, and in August, 2009, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality revoked the air quality permit for the plant. (earthjustice.org)
  • Learn about what we do in the energy market where Wärtsilä is a global leader in complete lifecycle power solutions. (wartsila.com)
  • Power-to-X can accelerate decarbonisation in industries, transportation and the energy sector. (wartsila.com)
  • An International Atomic Energy Agency investigator examines Reactor Unit 3 at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant, May 27, 2011. (popsci.com)
  • The measure would accelerate a power-sector shift toward renewable sources that's already propelled by hundreds of billions of dollars in clean-energy incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act. (pressherald.com)
  • The energy sector has a long history of financial backing by China, but 2016 really stood out for the high number of power plant deals signed-at least seven in number. (thedailystar.net)
  • Energy Minister Siri Jirapongphan (centre, wearing tie) reaches an agreement with representatives of demonstrators against planned coal-fired power plants in Krabi and Songkhla, on Ratchadamnoen Avenue, Bangkok, on Tuesday. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Protesters against a coal-fired power plant in Krabi and Songkhla called off their rally in front of the United Nations office in Bangkok on Tuesday after the Energy Ministry agreed to conduct a fresh impact assessment. (bangkokpost.com)
  • The Energy Ministry will conduct a new strategic environmental assessment to determine whether the plants should be built. (bangkokpost.com)
  • eSolar is one of several energy technology start-ups pursuing concentrating solar power , where lenses and mirrors concentrate sunlight to make heat. (cnet.com)
  • Google has announced plans to continue its rollout of solar energy plants in the U.S. with its second largest investment to date: $80 million for six new facilities. (computerworld.com)
  • All together, Google's 14 renewable power facilities will be able to generate 2 billion watts (gigawatts) of energy, enough to power 500,000 homes or all of the public elementary schools in New York, Oregon, and Wyoming for one year, the company said. (computerworld.com)
  • The latest solar power investment is similar to one Google made in 2011 , when it partnered with global investment firm KKR and invested $94 million in four solar facilities built by Recurrent Energy. (computerworld.com)
  • Solar power panels built by Recurrent Energy, Google's contractor. (computerworld.com)
  • Recurrent Energy will again build the plants. (computerworld.com)
  • Google now gets about 20% of its power from solar facilities, but the company has committed to achieving 100% renewable energy. (computerworld.com)
  • Apple now uses a massive 100-acre solar energy farm to power its Maiden, N.C. data center. (computerworld.com)
  • Nuclear powerplant siting and licensing : hearings before the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Congress of the United States, Ninety-third Congress, second session on H.R. 11957, H.R. 12823, H.R. 13484, and S. 3179. (upenn.edu)
  • Mayoral front-runner Andrew Yang proposed a green-energy plant on the Long Island City coastline that would use geothermal and river power to provide heating and cooling to local buildings, including NYCHA's Queensbridge Houses, the largest public-housing development in North America. (citylimits.org)
  • The court came up with the rule following a writ petition filed challenging the government's move to construct the coal-fired power plant near Sundarbans. (thepetitionsite.com)
  • The 2011 disaster delivered a devastating one-two punch to the Fukushima plant. (popsci.com)
  • Events at the Onagawa Nuclear Power Station, located 39 miles (64 kilometers) from Fukushima, told a contrasting story . (popsci.com)
  • After the disaster at Fukushima , and the discovery that some nuclear power plants right here in the US (such as Indian Point, which is close to one of the most populated cities in the world: New York City) may be just as vulnerable, scientists are rethinking nuclear power. (unknowncountry.com)
  • First, the magnitude 9.0 earthquake knocked out off-site electric power. (popsci.com)
  • Saito T, Kunimitsu A. Public health response to the combined Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power plant accident: perspective from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal , 2011, 2(4):7-9. (who.int)
  • It's unlikely to be a good deal for Massachusetts consumers in the long run, with that amount of surplus power. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Experts widely agreed that the root causes were lax regulatory oversight in Japan and an ineffective safety culture at the utility that operated the plant. (popsci.com)
  • Federal/State regulatory permitting actions in selected nuclear power station licensing cases : improving regulatory effectiveness in Federal/State siting actions. (upenn.edu)
  • This study aims to carry out a systematic review of the articles that have been produced in Brazil in the last ten years about large hydroelectric power plant projects and their impacts on populations directly or indirectly affected. (bvsalud.org)
  • Interestingly, the coal required to fire this power plant will be coming from Indonesia, a country where China invests in coal mining. (thedailystar.net)
  • The plant is likely to burn around 4.75 million tonnes of coal annually when some 3 lakh tonnes ashes and around 5 lakh tonnes sludge or liquid waste would be produced. (thepetitionsite.com)
  • It sends some 23 million tonnes of carbon dioxide up its stacks each year, while supplying up to a tenth of the UK's power. (newscientist.com)
  • It supplements Safety Standards Series No. NS-R-2, Safety of Nuclear Power Plants: Operation and is related to Safety Standards Series No. NS-G-2.4, The Operating Organization for Nuclear Power Plants. (iaea.org)
  • Credit: WHO 17 June 2019, Gaza - The World Health Organization (WHO) and implementing partners inaugurated the newly installed solar power plant at Nasser hospital in the Gaza Strip. (who.int)
  • Earthjustice also challenged a $600 million federal subsidy of this power plant-a power plant that would produce pollutants and greenhouse gases for decades to come. (earthjustice.org)
  • The accident triggered widespread evacuations, large economic losses and the eventual shutdown of all nuclear power plants in Japan. (popsci.com)
  • She adds that more power supply means more "incentives for companies to sell power as cheaply as they can. (csmonitor.com)
  • In 1955, an association of twenty regional power and industrial companies led by the Detroit Edison Company created a non-profit research-and-development company, the Atomic Power Development Association (APDA), to develop the initial proposal for a fast-breeder. (thehenryford.org)
  • Plant staffing included executives, managers, and technicians drawn from member companies with the bulk of employees transferred from Detroit Edison operations. (thehenryford.org)
  • Along with Microsoft and Apple, Google is among a fleet of technology companies that are moving to tap solar, wind and hydroelectric power sources. (computerworld.com)
  • The need to build transmission lines and the likelihood that Canadian power companies would charge the market rate for electricity -- despite the cheap cost of generating hydropower -- would add about $777 million in extra annual costs for Massachusetts residents, Tierney said. (bostonglobe.com)
  • They have invested billions in their plants, and advocates for hydropower say imports could bring down the market price for electricity and hurt those companies' bottom line. (bostonglobe.com)
  • But the power plant owners have said changing the market rules to sign hydroelectricity contracts would send an unsettling signal to domestic electricity companies, discouraging future investment. (bostonglobe.com)
  • The Fisk and Crawford coal plants have loomed over the City of Chicago for a hundred years, fueling climate change and exposing families to dangerous levels of soot, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide," said Kelly Mitchell, a Chicago-based Greenpeace organizer. (motherjones.com)
  • The heat and power supplies are the main factors in achieving climate neutrality. (enbw.com)
  • So we will continue our combined efforts to replace today's heat and power supplies with more climate-neutral technologies. (enbw.com)
  • Viable Non-Polluting Power Source Discovered, But Is It Too Late to Stop Climate Change? (unknowncountry.com)
  • The developed method utilizes results obtained from Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) for the assessment of the plant safety and optimization function. (hindawi.com)
  • Under the agreement, Egat will withdraw its environmental health impact assessment (EHIA) for coal-fired power plant projects in the southern provinces of Krabi and Songkhla. (bangkokpost.com)
  • emission control strategy during 2005â ¼2020 over coal-fired power plants: A satellite-based assessment. (bvsalud.org)
  • Evolution of China's NO x emission control strategy during 2005â ¼2020 over coal-fired power plants: A satellite-based assessment. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Eesti Power Plant initially had sixteen TP-101 boilers and eight 200 MWe steam turbines. (wikipedia.org)
  • 03/04/2007 13:23 TEHRAN, April 3 (RIA Novosti) -- Iran plans to build new nuclear power stations, Iran's First Vice President Parviz Davudi said Tuesday. (globalsecurity.org)
  • We have serious intentions to build and develop nuclear power plants," Davudi said, adding that no UN Security Council resolution would prevent Iran from developing its nuclear program. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The nation needs, by contrast-in the hard and minimal estimations of engineers and experts on the power industry-to build 30 times that many nuclear power units by the middle of the next decade, if it hopes to revive manufacturing, industry, and infrastructure. (larouchepub.com)
  • Shortly after the power plant was approved, demonstrations swelled in Banshkhali, with four protesters dying in clashes with armed law enforcers. (thedailystar.net)
  • The Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant records consists of two series. (thehenryford.org)