Many of those contracts promise to supply electricity below the cost of energy produced by natural-gas fired power plants.
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United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar suffered double vision as a result of the tear gas fired into the stand.
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Of course, new gas fired power plants will initially be built in regions with less excess capacity (post coal plant retirement).
Gas fired power plants need gas to run, but they often fly standby with respect to gas deliveries rather than reserving capacity on the pipelines.
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As they ran away from the smoke to one direction, they found themselves running into another cloud of tear gas fired by policemen blocking the road ahead.
Then again, his carbeque does have a custom swing out cooking station that emerges from the trunk (they call it the boot) with twin gas fired grills.
In the past 10 years natural gas fired generation has grown 61% while coal fired generation has shrunk by 17%, according to the US Energy Information Agency.
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There is technology in the works today that can economically clean coal before combustion and reduce emissions to levels rivaling the emissions of a natural gas fired plant.
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While the country does have at least some shale gas the idea of fracking for it and building new gas fired plant was put on the back burner (sorry).
He said the military's popularity "surged among most people" after Sunday's events, when troops were hit by tear gas fired by police and an army colonel was shot the leg.
Firstly, the utility companies are very likely to revert back to coal fired power generation from gas fired as soon as the gas prices get past coal prices on per BTU basis.
Choking from the tear gas fired into the crowd, some hoisted sledgehammers to smash up the pavement in order to hurl broken slabs over improvised barricades that now enclose a makeshift camp.
One of the utilities that buy power from Vermont Yankee says it will replace the power it now gets from the plant with a mix of other, likely costlier sources, including from natural-gas fired plants.
In the long run, if the projections of the US Energy Information Administration are correct and gas fired generation continues to grow rapidly, then there is little question the market rules need to be modified to assure reliability and spur more pipeline capacity and flexibility.
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The solar industry relies on Government subsidies to compete with conventional sources of power such as coal and natural gas fired plants and decline in support can significantly impact the business of module manufacturers such as First Solar so we will keep an eye on these areas as well.
Police fired tear gas and fired rubber bullets as thousands of activists marched on the prime minister's residence.
Other fossil fuels produce more carbon dioxide, so replacing Britain's coal-fired power stations with gas-fired ones would decrease the country's carbon emissions.
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According to the World Policy Institute, coal-and-oil-fired power plants consume roughly twice the water than that of gas-fired facilities while nuclear generation needs three times that of natural gas.
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West Burton has a coal-fired power station, but the campaigners occupied a new gas-fired facility on the site, which is due to become operational following testing.
It should stimulate a boom in construction of gas-fired plants, given the huge new supplies of shale gas unlocked by the combination of deep horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
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The Brits went over to gas-fired power stations about 10, 15 years ago in a big way, gas from the North Sea, natural gas.
In the UK, during 2012, electricity generation from coal-fired power stations actually increased to almost 40% of total production, as the price of gas soared, and gas-fired electricity generation was reduced.
Its existing coal capacity is fully used, and most of the gas-fired capacity is as well.
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It is also postponing further investment in gas-fired electricity generation until at least 2015.
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Over the longer term, coal generation will decrease and gas-fired plants will gain share.
He was cornered near Big Bear Lake and incendiary tear gas was fired in.
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Gas-fired power stations the bulk of new build in the 1980s and 1990s are the reverse.
Roosecote, near Barrow, is the oldest gas-fired power station in the UK and employs 22 staff.
But proponents say fuel cells require less of that fuel than gas-fired turbines and the like.
The utility bought a half-built, 1, 200-megawatt gas-fired plant in Las Vegas from Duke Energy and finished it.
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