Sentences with phrase «as coal declines»

The 21st century has seen renewable energy generation boom as coal declines.

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Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellCoal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellcoal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

Little can slow or reverse the coal industry's decline as consumers seek cheaper energy options such as natural gas.

Coal cars will need to continue to travel longer distances to eastern ports as the mining of coal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increaCoal cars will need to continue to travel longer distances to eastern ports as the mining of coal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increacoal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increases.

Coal cars will need to travel longer distances to eastern ports as the mining of coal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increaCoal cars will need to travel longer distances to eastern ports as the mining of coal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increacoal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increases.

Despite the modestly slowing rate of cost declines for utility - scale alternative energy generation, the gap between the costs of certain alternative energy technologies (e.g., utility - scale solar and onshore wind) and conventional generation technologies continues to widen as the cost profiles of such conventional generation remain flat (e.g., coal) and, in certain instances, increase (e.g., nuclear).

The local sharemarket was led down by metals and mining stocks as exports of iron ore and coal to China declined.

In an area which was dominated by coal mining and which fell into economic decline following the closure of the mines, investment in infrastructure was a necessity to bring a new age of economic activity such as the regeneration of Seaham Town Centre and the new East - West A19 link road.

The coal industry is seeing huge declines as cheaper renewables, cheaper natural gas, and greater air pollution controls make it less attractive as a fuel, this is a long term trend that has recently accelerated and reached crisis proportions.

Places that had relied on industries such as coal - mining went from relative affluence and high employment into serious decline very quickly.

The revision comes as official preliminary data indicate that a decline in Chinese coal demand occurred in 2014, and is set to accelerate in 2015.

Even as the US market for coal appears to be declining (first due to market pressure from cheaper natural gas and now EPA GHG rules), US exports of its coal abroad has been a sore spot.

At the same time, however, production from all other sources — such as conventional gas fields on land and offshore as well as so - called tight gas and coal - bed methane — has been declining at a rate of about 5 percent per year.

Trump's energy plan calls for an end to the moratorium as one of the ways he will reignite the declining coal industry.

I criticized this statement, noting that the actual emissions from U.S. coal - burning power plants declined only from 16.1 million tons to 12.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of sulfur dioxide and from 6.1 million tons to 5.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of nitrogen oxides (mostly emitted as NO, not NO2, but by convention measured as tons of NO2 - equivalent).

Many utilities have in recent years turned away from coal toward cheaper natural gas - as well as solar and wind - contributing to a steep decline in carbon emissions.

Coal was a major talking point in the last US election, as for years American coal mines had been in declCoal was a major talking point in the last US election, as for years American coal mines had been in declcoal mines had been in decline.

Peabody also agreed to disclose a range of scenarios from the International Energy Agency suggesting declining future demand for coal, changing course from earlier financial statements where the company only disclosed IEA's business - as - usual scenario.

Meanwhile, coal production fell by a record 231Mtoe (5.9 %), as massive output declines continued in the US and China worked to reduce overcapacity and combat air pollution.

I consider sex drive as the canary in the coal mine of overall physical and mental health, and sadly, the state of women's health, longevity, and happiness is declining.1 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14969; http://nwlc.org/declining-life-expectancies-show-why-womens-health-should-be-priority/;... continue

This slow decline in brain glucose usage can be seen as a kind of «canary in the coal mine» — preclinical evidence that something has gone awry long before damage has progressed to the point of overt signs and symptoms.

The US is expected to see slower decline in its carbon emissions, from an annual 1.2 % drop over the past 10 years to a decrease of 0.4 % this year, with a return to growth in coal use, as president Donald Trump promised to rescue the coal industry.

The most recent Annual Energy Outlook (table A-18) sees total annual CO2 emissions from electricity declining another 260 million tonnes as coal keeps sliding off a cliff.

Coal and oil will continue their long decline as a percentage of world energy.

Following a tumultuous year for the coal industry, including the disastrous coal - chemical spill that left 300,000 without access to clean water in West Virginia, and increasing layoffs as coal mining continues to decline, a coalition of Appalachian citizen groups are demanding increased action from the Obama Administration.

Living in Germany, Mr Teske has witnessed first hand the decline in employment in the German coal sector in the 1990s and, as a result of some of the most progressive renewable energy industry development policies in the world, seen the German renewable energy workforce grow to 250,000 employees.

The decline in coal - related emissions is due mainly to utilities using less coal for electricity generation as they burned more low - priced natural gas.

Efforts to shore up ailing coal plants could «slow down the rate of decline, but it won't stop it as long as the cost of wind and solar power continues to come down,» Hynes said.

Coal stockpiles are up as a result of declines in coal consumption by electric power plaCoal stockpiles are up as a result of declines in coal consumption by electric power placoal consumption by electric power plants.

While those emissions have continued to decline in the West, returns, from a brightening standpoint, have diminished, just as coal combustion ramped up in Asia.

Last year the Energy Information Administration noted that the «decline in coal - related emissions is due mainly to utilities using less coal for electricity generation as they burned more low - priced natural gas.»

In fact, some analysts predict that Chinese coal burning could begin to decline as early as next year.

This news comes as research suggests coal burn in the US declined 2 % (y - o - y) in 2017.

Power generation now accounts for 93 % of US coal consumption, as non-power commercial and industrial demand has declined.

The industry has shed jobs as coal power has declined as a share of U.S. electricity generation: from more than 50 percent in 2000 to 37 percent in 2010.

Gasoline, coal, and natural gas usage will inevitably decline as carbon's cost advantage over alternatives lessens or disappears.

As a result, UK windfarms generated more power than coal in 2016, even though wind output declined slightly compared to the very windy year in 2015.

I have seen many attempts to spin declining UK coal production as something other than classic Hubbertian resource depletion, but it's just revisionist history.

If it can be made cheaper than coal, the argument for coal use is diminished (not completely done away with, as coal prices will decline in response to reduced demand).

Without a proper bottom up analysis of what is left in the ground, this decline means very little IMO - but as I said above I don't know the answer to UK coal reserves.

While declining strongly in the industrialized regions as a result of sulfur control policies in Europe and North America, and because of economic reforms in Russia and Eastern Europe, emissions increase rapidly in Asia with an increase in the energy demand and coal use.

As a result, US coal production is forecast to be around 510 Mtce in 2022, equivalent to current levels, while demand declines to 470 Mtce, a drop of 1 % per year on average over the period.

In Germany, coal demand declines even as nuclear power is progressively phased out, with coal use remaining highly sensitive to the relative prices of coal, natural gas and carbon dioxide (CO2).

In China, emissions declined by 1.5 %, as coal use dropped for the second year in a row.

Chinese coal demand declined in 2016 — as it did in 2014 and 2015 — despite an increase in coal - power generation.

As Brigham sat silently, Murray largely blamed policies by the Obama administration for the decline of coal, rather than the natural gas boom associated with fracking.

In practice, the subsidies meant some coal companies paid no state taxes, and actually received significant cash handouts, even as coal jobs declined.

Even as employment in the coal industry has declined, the blasting has continued.

For example, the IEA see coal demand as flat over the next five years, which will likely be followed by a steady decline as CO2 emissions continue to decouple from economic growth.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects that removing the Clean Power Plan would halt but not reverse coal's decline as a source of electricity in the U.S. during the next two decades.