Sentences with phrase «coal use declined»

Coal use declined from 16 % to 2.5 % and natural gas increased from 28 % to 45 %.

In 2014, China's coal use declined by 2.9 %.

China's coal use declined 3.7 % in 2015, according to official statistics released by the Chinese government today.

Coal use declined, while solar energy production doubled.

In both scenarios, use of fossil fuels remains significant in 2050, although global coal use declines rapidly.

From China's coal use declining to massive corporations aiming for 100 % renewables.

Given that many nations are already seeing overall energy consumption and coal use decline (over and above any impact of an economic slowdown), this latest announcement is a very welcome confirmation that China is also benefitting from this rapid transition.

Not exact matches

We referenced their numbers when we looked at the changing anatomy of U.S. oil imports, or when showing the decline in coal use over recent years.

New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder finds that steep declines in the use of coal for power generation over the past decade were caused largely by less expensive natural...

First, some background on the coal industry: Profitability for U.S. coal - fired power plants has been declining and coal use has dropped radically since 2007 — a trend that is expected to continue.

China remains a towering presence in coal markets, but our projections suggest that coal use peaked in 2013 and is set to decline by almost 15 % over the period to 2040.

The agency attributed the decline to a warm winter, slumping use of coal - fired electricity, and strong growth in renewable and hydroelectric power.

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.

Power plants burned coal that released sulfur into the atmosphere, but coal use has declined.

The International Energy Agency estimated last year that both the decline in China's coal use and falling electricity demand reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5 percent in 2014, leading to a 0.2 percent reduction in global emissions.

Coal consumption, in particular, saw steep declines by dropping 18 percent, while natural gas use dipped just 1 percent, versus 2015 rates.

And the impact of China's decline in coal use may go beyond the border.

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.

«China is building coal - fired power stations but it's also closing many of the older ones down, which is why its overall coal use is declining — the more significant point is it's now building the clean energy equivalent of one coal - fired power station every week, and will do for the next 15 years.»

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.

Whether the discussion turns to replacing coal - fired power plants with wind turbines and using electric cars instead of gas - driven SUVs, converting industrial agricultural practices to organic permaculture, or reversing the decline of ocean life though international regulations, it is an article of faith in the reform movement that we know what we need to do and all that's lacking is a sufficiently visionary leader to put more planet - friendly solutions in place.

Alongside declining coal use and (arguably) declining Chinese emissions, 2014 was also a landmark year for global emissions.

(Arkansas recently acknowledged that due to its recent decline in coal use, it is already meeting its 2030 Clean Power Plan emission target.)

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.

The CO2 Scorecard report, by contrast, examined changes in electricity at the regional level using data from grid operators, which showed researchers greater detail about where natural gas had replaced coal or renewables; where renewables replaced coal; and where electricity consumption simply declined because of reduced demand.

And the carbon footprint per mile of driving an electric car declines every time the grid gets cleaner, whether from adding renewable energy sources or replacing a coal - fired generation plant with one using natural gas.

The United States clearly is using less coal: Domestic consumption fell by about 114 million tons, or 11 percent, largely due to a decline in the use of coal for electricity.

It turns out that coal use peaked around 1945, then declined until the 70's, when it started increasing again:

He suggests that a decline in use of «baseload» coal - fired plants could lead to electric grid instability.

Power sector CO2 emissions declined by 363 million metric tons between 2005 and 2013, due to a decline in coal's generation share and growing use of natural gas and renewables, but the CO2 emissions are projected to change only modestly from 2013 through 2040 in the 3 baseline cases used in this report.

«With coal quickly disappearing in the UK and other fossil fuel use mostly flat, emissions have continued their steady decline.

U.S. carbon emissions dropped 1.7 percent due to a rise in natural gas over coal energy, a decline in oil use, and a warm winter, which reduced heating demands.

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.»

Despite coal industry claims that coal mining creates lots of jobs, the truth is that coal mining employment has been declining for decades, due to increased use of machinery instead of manpower.

It comes after emissions declined four out of the six years since their 2007 peak, due to efficiency gains and a shift from using coal to cleaner - burning natural gas.

Environmentalists applauded the announcement, which comes on the heels of years of declining coal use in Europe.

Use of coal for power generation will decline, he said.

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).

This trend is expected to continue in all the markers, except A2 in which an increased use of coal «counters» a decline in specific emissions in OECD90 (Figure 5 - 20).

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.

Since coal consumption has actually declined by 6 percent since its peak in 1996, however, there is reason to believe its use will either continue to drop or will increase less than projected.

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).

I believe that the use of coal in the United States is going to decline steadily.

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

Whether or not that decline in coal use will be speedy or ambitious enough to head off serious national and international climate change is not clear.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its first look at expected power generation in 2019, and its conclusions are much the same as those it expects in 2018 — the use of natural gas to produce electricity will continue to rise, and the use of coal will continue to decline.

But that is more than counterbalanced by a combination of declining use of coal and reductions in energy demand from structural changes in the Chinese economy, with energy - guzzling heavy industries such as cement and steel production both declining.

After decades of increases, U.S. CO2 emissions from energy use (which account for 97 % of total U.S. emissions) declined by around 9 % between 2008 and 2012, largely due to a shift from coal to less CO2 - intensive natural gas for electricity production.

The decline in the use of coal is largely attributable to higher domestic carbon prices and the surge in renewables — in 2015, the carbon tax doubled to # 18 per tonne of CO2.

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