«I think of Bloomberg's millions the same way I do the millions Steyer flushed down the toilet last year — flotsam,» Laura Sheehan of the American Coalition for Clean
Coal Electricity said, referring to the millions San Francisco billionaire and environmentalist crusader Tom Steyer spent last year in mostly unsuccessful efforts to elect candidates committed to government programs to combat alleged man - made climate change.
And action is going to take money: the IEA estimates at least $ 20 billion over the next decade, whereas the industry group American Coalition for Clean
Coal Electricity says it will cost $ 17 billion for CCS to be available by 2025.
Not exact matches
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Coal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thurs
Coal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global
electricity today, making carbon pollution from
coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thurs
coal a leading contributor to climate change,»
said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thursday.
In Monday's speech, the Liberals
said that the rising costs over the past decade have been related to removing
coal - fired generation from the
electricity system.
Critics
say the plan will make
electricity more expensive and will reduce jobs in industries like
coal.
Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major
coal - mining state — and plans to use them for
electricity production until 2035,
said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.
Edmonton Journal: «Alberta needs to kick its
coal habit,
says report:
Electricity generation from other sources would cut greenhouse gases»
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Electricity is produced, for the most part, by combustion of fuels, primary
coal,» the company
says.
Barnaby Joyce
says he would be» 100 %» behind the government constructing
coal - fired power stations if that would lower the price of
electricity.
A cynic might
say that the German industrial establishment has taken a look at the way the «wind is blowing» and told the government enough is enough (after all
coal - produced
electricity is about 30 % of the price of wind and solar).
New York should be able to easily comply with the regulations because it generates only about 3.5 percent of its
electricity from
coal,
said Judith Enck, the EPA's regional administrator.
More than 33 gigawatts of
coal - fired
electricity generation will be retired over the next couple decades, EIA
said, pushing up demand for natural gas.
But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or
coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects,
say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their
electricity from wind power.
«I think
coal is at a very low place right now,» Barnett
said in an interview, noting that
coal has lost about 10 percent of its market share for
electricity generation as more utilities convert their plants to burn natural gas.
At that price,
coal, natural gas, nuclear and renewable
electricity sources like wind become roughly cost - competitive, Moniz
says.
Eliminating this financial risk premium makes nuclear power levelized
electricity cost competitive with that of
coal, and it becomes lower than that of
coal when a modest price on carbon dioxide emissions is imposed,» the report
says.
The findings suggest that as the U.S. energy market continues to shift from
coal to natural gas, the overall «toxicity burden» of the
electricity sector will decrease,
said study corresponding author Shelie Miller, an environmental engineer and an associate professor at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability's Center for Sustainable Systems.
Stricter emissions requirements on
coal - fired power plants, together with low natural gas prices, have contributed to a recent decline in the use of
coal for
electricity generation in the United States, she
said.
Keeley
said the market «isn't delivering to us what we actually want,» but instead is providing a «flood of
electricity from super-cheap natural gas, which is cleaner than
coal but isn't really clean.»
Substantively, she
said, the covered sectors pull their weight in terms of contributions to climate change: Cement is responsible for fully half of the country's CO2 emissions, and 85 percent of China's
electricity generation is
coal - fired.
«The effects of alpha - synuclein on mitochondria are like making a perfectly good
coal - fueled power plant extremely inefficient, so it not only fails to make enough
electricity, but also creates too much toxic pollution,»
said Dr. Greenamyre.
The biggest reason is that China has fewer environmental and efficiency standards for its factories and plants and generates more
electricity from
coal and other non-renewable sources, the authors
said.
Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute,
says the world must replace the 40 percent of its
electricity that comes from
coal with a like amount from wind, with 1.5 million wind turbines rated at two megawatts each.
Still, advocates
said cleaner
coal is the only way to other forms of
electricity.
As
electricity use spikes across the country in the summertime when more people use air conditioning, electric power companies turn to more
coal and natural gas power plants to help meet the demand, reducing renewables» share of total U.S. power generation, Comstock
said.
For unsubsidized solar power to be competitive with
coal - or natural gas — powered
electricity, it needs to cost $ 1 per watt — today, solar is three to five times more expensive than fossil fuels, Atwater
said.
The industry has faltered because of declining global demand and low natural gas prices, which have encouraged electric power companies to use gas instead of
coal to generate
electricity,
said Ray Rasker, executive director of Headwaters Economics, an independent research group focusing on the economic implications of land management decisions in the West.
Residents there do not know what is owed them by the government, as it takes away land and awards it to India's biggest energy companies to generate
coal - fired
electricity and power distant megacities, advocates
say.
«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable
electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid
coal,»
said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.
The warmest winter on record — driven by climate change — is also driving down the need for wintertime
electricity required for home heating, which drives down the need for more
coal, IEEFA analyst Seth Feaster
said in the report.
Countries such as these generate much of their
electricity using
coal, which he
says produces about 1,000 tons of CO2 equivalent per GWh — nearly double the suggested threshold.
They
say it will cripple the nation's
coal industry and raise
electricity costs for businesses and homeowners.
The
coal industry will have to innovate in order to stage a return to its former status as America's primary source of
electricity,
said
Robert (NOT Robert Rapier) also
said «I don't see why baseload power like
coal and nuclear get credit for producing
electricity all night long that nobody wants.»
The
coal industry will have to innovate in order to stage a return to its former status as America's primary source of
electricity,
said James Van Nostrand, a law professor and director of the Center for Energy and Sustainable Development at West Virginia University in Morgantown, W.Va.
What I'd like to know is, taking all of these factors into account, how much extra we, the consumers, will have to pay for a kilowatt - hour of
coal - fired
electricity 5, 10, 20 and 30 years from now (a point in time which even WV's own Nick Rahall
says will be when the most productive
coal seams have been mined out) because our leaders today decided to facilitate an increase in the consumption of
coal through the laughably mis - named «climate bill.»
«Since 2008,
coal use has decreased, in part due to the recession but also in part due to replacement of
coal with shale gas to produce
electricity,» Howarth
said.
Digiconomist
says that with much of the network powered by cheap
coal electricity in China, each transaction has a footprint of about 122 kilograms of carbon.
He
said it was particularly important, if that goal is to be reached, for the federal government to work with utilities to curb emissions from power plants (half the country's
electricity still comes from
coal burning.).
I guess in a vague sense we can
say that we want energy that costs,
say, a quarter of what
coal or
electricity does and emits zero CO2.
In the United States, where much
electricity is produced from
coal, it is even better than a battery - electric car, Honda
says.»
Presently a electric car plugged into the grid is only around 40 % efficient overall due to the generation of grid
electricity from
coal, nuclear and gas mainly (here in the UK) and that makes them a lot less efficient than you
say.
«It was wrong - headed thinking,»
said Michael Morris, chief executive officer of American Electric Power Co., the biggest U.S.
electricity producer from
coal.
Present day reality
says that we have to burn
coal if we want
electricity.
China is never more than a couple of weeks away from running short of
electricity, which is why the are building (as Biden
said) 2 - 3
coal fired power plants per week.
«The study seems an outlier in
saying that when «all known costs» are considered, the average U.S. cost of producing
electricity from established
coal - fired plants is far less than new wind - power generation,»
Stern
said that
electricity from
coal - fired power stations only appeared cheaper because the costs of air pollution and climate change were not included.
Air pollution from Europe's 300 largest
coal power stations causes 22,300 premature deaths a year and costs companies and governments billions of pounds in disease treatment and lost working days,
says a major study of the health impacts of burning
coal to generate
electricity.
«The study seems an outlier in
saying that when «all known costs» are considered, the average U.S. cost of producing
electricity from established
coal - fired plants is far less than new wind - power generation,» PolitiFact found.
Decarbonizing the world's
electricity supply,... would deliver a little less than half the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions necessary by 2035 to limit the eventual increase in global temperatures to two degrees Celsius,... The carbon intensity of
electricity has increased by 6 % since 1990, largely due to growing use of
coal for power generation in emerging economies, it
said.