one million BTUs
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mmbtu
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Exelon considered building two new reactors in Texas in 2005, he says, when gas prices were $8/MMBtu and were projected to rise to $13/MMBtu.
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one million BTUs
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Definitions
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noun
one million BTUs
Example sentences
Exelon considered building two new reactors in Texas in 2005, he says, when gas prices were $8/MMBtu and were projected to rise to $13/MMBtu.
Coal consumption for electricity generation produces 209 pounds of CO2 per million British thermal units (MMBtu), compared with 117 pounds of CO2/MMBtu for natural gas.
For comparison natural gas costs a couple dollars per MMBtu and wholesale electricity costs $40-$60 per MWh.
Japan is importing LNG at 16.49 USD/MMBtu [3] - that's nearly five times the American price.
That's a marginal cost of 1 cent to 3 cents per MMBtu or 3.5 cents to 11 cents per MWh.
The only state with a lower per capita consumption is Rohde Island at 176 million Btu (MMBtu) or 51.6 MWh.
Localisation is an un-solved problem - natural gas trades at 3.48 USD/MMBtu in the U.
Exelon stated in 2005 that nuclear could be competitive if natural gas (with a $25/ton CO2 tax) were around $14/MMBtu (note that natural gas at the Henry Hub is a bit over $2/MMBtu right now).
The price differential relative to selling that gas in the US @ ~$4 per mmBTU (pre-inflation 2021) vs in Europe @ $34 per mmBTU (post-inflation 2022), where 1 bcm = ~36 million mmBTU is what?
Much cheaper than electric heat, but the local gas utility is still charging me about $12/MMbtu, which is about 3x the Henry Hub spot price.
In those moments, the price of methane actually drops below zero--I've seen it at -$1.20 per MMBtu as recently as this year!
About 117 pounds of CO2 are produced per million British thermal units (MMBtu) equivalent of natural gas compared with more than 200 pounds of CO2 per MMBtu of coal and more than 160 pounds per MMBtu of distillate fuel oil.
Quote examples
If exports to Europe continue at the same pace through the second half of 2022, the total increase over 2021 would be around 45 bcm [billion cubic meters]." > "Benchmark gas prices in Europe have averaged $34.06 per million British thermal units (mmBtu) so far in 2022 compared with $29.99 in Asia and $6.12 in the United States.
“We’re sitting here trading 2019 gas at $2.90 per MMBtu,” he says; for new nuclear power to be competitive at that price, a CO2 tax “would be $300–$400.” Exelon currently is placing its bets instead on advances in energy storage and carbon sequestration technologies.
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How do you use mmbtu in a sentence?
Exelon considered building two new reactors in Texas in 2005, he says, when gas prices were $8/MMBtu and were projected to rise to $13/MMBtu.
What does mmbtu mean?
one million BTUs
What part of speech is mmbtu?
mmbtu is commonly used as noun.