Sentences with phrase «108mw coal facility»

Devlin added that the health company recognizes that the production at the refined coal facilities will no longer be eligible for a tax credit beginning in 2022.
After experiencing 189 severe smog days last year and serious health effects as a result, Beijing announced that is closing coal facilities in six...
He added that «many of the jobs in coal facilities and mines are high - paying jobs.
He is strongly opposed to traditional coal plants and would use whatever means necessary to stop new plants from being built, including a ban on new traditional coal facilities.
It was extremely discouraging to me when an official from the City of Niagara Falls seemed to promote the closing specific power generators, like this clean coal facility in Somerset, putting hundreds of hard working men and women out of work.
I would urge him to consider ways to work collaboratively within our region by advocating for opportunities to include the coal facilities along with the good jobs they provide... which benefits our entire region and is critical for business growth and expansion.»
«Standards that ban new traditional coal facilities» if necessary, and «cap on carbon will make it uneconomic to site traditional coal facilities and discourage the use of existing inefficient coal facilities»
«Frankly, the challenge is that we need to provide certainty for how we construct a coal facility in the future that will allow investment in that technology.»
Today, underground maps are produced for coal facilities throughout the country.
Angels arrested photo courtesy of fossilfreemu.org — at a Blockade of the coal facility at Newcastle Harbour, Australia May 8, 2016.
Rio Tinto has decided to sell off some of its assets, including its thermal coal facilities.
Recently Hansen testified in defense of students who defaced a coal facility in England.
A quick SWAG puts the land area of wind farms to replace the current coal facilities at something like 50,000 square miles.
Jim Norvell wrote: «A quick SWAG puts the land area of wind farms to replace the current coal facilities at something like 50,000 square miles.»
But to meet its energy needs, Germany has had to build new fossil - fuel plants, including one of the biggest coal facilities in the world.
The bill extends through 2011 the placed - in - service deadline for qualifying refined coal facilities.
Although Gov. Jerry Brown isn't involved in decisions on the five proposed coal facilities, he could lend his influence to the debate as governor of the most economically powerful state in the country and the national leader on clean energy and climate policy.
Part of Xcel Energy's plan out to 2018 include the closure of a 108MW coal facility and the switching of another to natural gas.
At the other end of the spectrum for New York coal facilities is Huntley.
However, most of the coal facilities have retired and residual oil emissions are about as low as they can go so future reductions will have to displace more economic natural gas.
In June 2014, under authority from the Clean Air Act (CAA) section 111 (d), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published their draft Clean Power Plan, a proposed rule to limit carbon emissions from existing large coal facilities across the country.
«Frankly, the challenge is that we need to provide certainty for how we construct a coal facility in the future that will allow investment in that technology.»
In Manila, coal - affected communities trooped to the corporate headquarters of San Miguel Corporation (SMC) last March 13 to demand the shutdown of its coal facilities in Limay, Bataan.
I merely note it here to make the point that clean coal technologies can never be a complete, worldwide replacement for existing coal facilities.
The electricity they produce is used by consumers, and if that electricity was instead produced by coal facilities, the emissions would be many times higher than anything coming out of WTE plants.
«Obama will consider whatever policy tools are necessary, including standards that ban new traditional coal facilities, to ensure that we move quickly to commercialize and deploy low carbon coal technology.»

Not exact matches

DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Michigan regulators on Friday cleared DTE Energy's request to build a near - $ 1 billion natural gas power plant, the first approval of such a large facility for a regulated utility in decades and a move that coincides with the retirement of coal - fired plants.
Electric utilities have been replacing coal plants with gas - fired facilities because they are more efficient and less expensive to operate.
Canada's largest wind farm entered service in 2009, one of many facilities that cropped up as the province looked to replace its dirty coal fleet.
The company is conducting a widespread cleanup of its coal - ash facilities.
The Prosper - Haniel coal mining facility in Germany's western state of North - Rhine Westphalia is slated to close in 2018.
But the coal has to get there, which means increased rail traffic, expanded port facilities and more ships plying the Salish Sea.
Alberta prides itself on being the only jurisdiction in North America that demands coal - fired power plants, oilsands upgraders and other large industrial facilities reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
Air Products and Chemicals signed an agreement with Yankuang Group for a $ 3.5 bln coal - to - syngas production facility in China.
We zeroed in on the proposed Fraser Surrey Docks facility, part of the federal port authority's plan to turn Vancouver into the continent's biggest coal port.
As for the Kemper Clean Coal project the company decided to scrap the project and instead decided to turn it into a natural gas powered facility.
The Alberta - based company's facilities run on a number of different sources, such as natural gas, wind, and coal.
In its magazine the Lamp, Exxon reports that «at least 15 million tons a year will be produced for 23 years» at the El Cerrejon coal mine, «after which the mine and all its facilities will revert to the Colombian government.»
Does anyone doubt» even for a moment» how the liberal Justices would have resolved the case if, instead of abortion clinics, coal mines, for example, or gun dealerships, or, heaven help us, tobacco shops would have been the «facilities» singled out for unique immunity?
Unlike with natural gas, coal - export facilities are already up and running.
«There will be relatively high costs in developing this new nuclear facility but broadly comparable with other low carbon technologies such as offshore wind, and, potentially, carbon capture and storage applied to gas and coal fired power stations.
Cuomo has said the nuclear power produced at those facilities is preferable to coal or natural gas as the state transitions to renewable energy.
Governor Andrew Cuomo was at Fort Drum yesterday, touring a former coal plant that's being converted to a biomass facility.
Cuomo personally traveled to Western New York to announce a repowering agreement for a coal - burning facility in Dunkirk that would switch it to natural gas and keep the town's revenue base intact, largely by forcing utility ratepayers o pay a little extra on their monthly bills.
The Cayuga coal - burning plant outside Ithaca may close and the R.E. Ginna facility in Western New York is being subsidized by ratepayers for another few years because it is needed to maintain the state's electrical grid reliability.
Southern signed a memorandum of understanding with state - owned Chinese company Shenhua Group earlier this year to collaborate on clean coal technologies, but the one licensing of TRIG on a Chinese facility so far is for the gasification technology only, minus the capture component, according to Southern officials.
«People tend to feel uncomfortable with all large generating facilities, whether they be coal or nuclear,» he says.
Yet U.S. coal - fired power plants produce more than 30 times more CO2 than Albertan oil sands facilities — 45 million metric tons of greenhouse gases versus nearly two billion metric tons.
«The model is capturing the fact that you have a lot of low - cost opportunities to reduce coal, from heavy - industry direct use as well as the electric power sector, from facilities using less energy - efficient technology or processes.»
The Bush administration originally touted these right - of - ways in 2005 as a means to link solar, wind and other renewable energy sources, but proposals officials approved before leaving office in January have them connecting existing coal - fired power plants and natural gas facilities.
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