Sentences with phrase «coal electricity says»

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.

«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.

Not exact matches

«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 ThursCoal - 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 Thurscoal 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»

«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.