Certain parts of the country use gas fired plants for various reasons - sometimes purely for emissions, other times for periods of high demand.
However, with today's current low and abundant natural gas, some power generators are replacing aging coal stations with natural gas. I don't think that trend is going to stop as long as natural gas is inexpensive and plentiful and doesn't require billions in emissions like coal plants do. On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Fmiser <fmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Brian Toscano wrote: > > > For the longest time coal was > > one of the cheapest ways to make power, but with emissions > > controls costing billions, and cheap natural gas - it can be > > economical for new plants to use natural gas. > > Electric generation from natural gas generally serves a > different purpose than coal. The coal is used for baseline > which can take a week to startup. The natural gas is used for > on-demand. Startup is less than an hour, as I recall. > > -- Philip > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
