Sentences with phrase «additional coal capacity»

Additional coal capacity was unavailable due to frozen coal piles.

That said, of course, my sense is that the coal industry is trying to change the subject, because reason is against it (in terms of its desire to build additional coal capacity before technologies are available that can take carbon dioxide out of coal emissions).

A decision now to invest in additional coal capacity might see a new plant coming online in a decade or so — and still with us into the 2050's or beyond.

Not exact matches

According to GBI, China's increase in coal production will come with additional government consolidation of the mining industry into large production bases that can achieve greater efficiencies and production capacities of 90 percent by mid-decade.

China plans to limit its annual coal consumption to 4.2 billion tons at the end of the decade, but its current production capacity has already surpassed 4 billion tons, with an additional 1 billion tons in the pipeline.

Now, would you prefer that additional capacity come from nuclear or from coal?

This year alone, China is expected to increase its coal - fueled power capacity by 50 gigawatts, representing several hundred million tons of additional annual coal use.

The efforts to reduce air pollution in China range from the seemingly minor — asking residents to refrain from using coal stoves and furnaces in their homes — to the massive — scaling back steel production capacity by an additional 50 million tons.

On July 17, 2012, Peabody Energy announced that, under new agreements with Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, it would gain additional coal export capacity from Kinder Morgan's Deepwater Terminal and Houston Bulk Terminal in Texas, as well as increased access to the International Marine Terminal at Myrtle Grove, Louisiana, south of New Orleans.

In emerging ASEAN, additional capacity of coal - fired generation is likely to be built using both high efficiency and low efficiency of coal - fired power plants depending on countries» environmental regulations and economic conditions.

So far, more than 45,000 MW of coal - fired generating capacity in ISO / RTO regions have retired, and owners have announced intentions to retire an additional 17,000 MW over the next three years.

Reflecting India's coal frenzy in recent years, additional projects approved or in the pipeline would add capacity several times larger than projected demands through 2032, according to the Prayas Energy Group, an Indian think tank that focuses on the issues of the poor.

For example, additional capacity beyond existing plants is only required by 2020 if power generation growth exceeds 4 % year and coal plants are run at utilisation rate of 45 % or less.

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If tomorrow we suddenly replaced 30GW of existing coal fired power -LRB-(20GWav) with 60GW wind (20GWav) but retained the present 15GW NG and 8GW hydro (1,5 GW av) how much additional pumped storage capacity and how large total storage would be required?

The Unions argue that Eskom now has sufficient generation capacity and that additional renewables would only force coal plants offline, with the loss of jobs.