"plant" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- TXU would take all the energy the wind farm generated at any given time, reducing the output from its natural-gas-fired plants and cutting emissions.
- Consolidated Edison announced today that it had reached an agreement to buy electricity from a natural-gas-fired plant in upstate New York at lower rates than it had negotiated previously, saving ratepayers $300 million over five years.
- The cost of wind power varies widely with the quality of the windmill site, but prime locations in the United States generate electricity at well under 5 cents a kilowatt-hour, making them cheaper than natural-gas-fired plants at current gas prices.
- Expectations of stable or lower gas prices set off a building boom of natural-gas-fired plants, with some 200,000 megawatts of capacity built from 1997 to 2003 - far more than what was needed to cover expected growth over 10 years.
- Mexico has sidelined construction of 10 reactors in favor of developing natural-gas-fired plants.
- The Mint Farm Generating Station in Cowlitz County is a combined-cycle natural-gas-fired plant capable of generating 310 MW of electricity.
- The Long Island Power Authority received bids today from three consortiums to convert the Shoreham nuclear power plant to a natural-gas-fired plant by the mid-1990's.
- The result is that wind can be used to save fuel in fossil-fired plants, but the coal- or natural-gas-fired plants have to be built anyway, according to system planners.
- The $500 million natural-gas-fired plant was proposed by Pacific Gas & Electric.
- Britain learned this lesson recently, putting a halt to issuing new permits for natural-gas-fired plants, whose construction was surging, while it determines the impact on its battered coal industry.
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