Sentences with phrase «displacing coal emissions»
Displacing coal emissions with gas emissions is beneficial from a climate standpoint.
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«With increasing shale gas fracking and many countries» interest in displacing coal generation with natural gas due to the lower greenhouse gas emissions, natural gas use seems well poised to grow,» the report states.
For instance, falling US emissions are being driven mostly by cheap natural gas displacing coal — something that may happen elsewhere.
In coal - dependent regions that have the highest CO2 emissions, existing wind and gas technology work very well together to displace lots of emissions.
States could allow generation from new, not - under - construction plants to displace generation (and emissions) from existing coal or natural gas plants that were accounted for in the emission rate computation.
These additional supplies have helped displace a significant amount of coal for power generation, leading to a reduction in U.S. energy - related greenhouse gas emissions to levels last seen in the 1990s.
Its use as fuel in an electrical power plant is most attractive since it can displace the use of coal and provide cost effective B.T.U.'s while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The commitments to increase renewables and reduce emissions in the EU leave little room for gas growth, with cheaper renewables continuing to displace coal.
A new solar plant avoids fewer emissions per MW of capacity than any other kind of new plant displacing an old coal plant.
However, most of the coal facilities have retired and residual oil emissions are about as low as they can go so future reductions will have to displace more economic natural gas.
The climate benefit is twofold: prevent landfill emissions and displace coal, oil, or natural gas that might otherwise be used.
«Natural gas displaces coal and to a lesser extent oil, driving down emissions, but it also displaces some nuclear power, pushing up emissions.
The main reason that effectiveness is less than 100 % is that wind generation displaces the lower rather than the higher emissions intensity generators; e.g. wind displaces gas in preference to coal.
«The drop in CO2 emissions is largely the result of low natural gas prices, which have contributed to natural gas displacing a large amount of coal used for electricity generation.»
While the start of the Great Recession had something to do with it, new analysis from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences shows that, when it comes to reductions in emissions from electricity production, which dropped 8.76 % from 2008, cheaper natural gas prices were behind the decline, with natural gas displacing coal.
It is staying ahead mostly by building hydro, and in the tropics that releases a lot of methane (and displaces people and destroys habitats), in some cases so much that it's «dirtier» than coal, so being renewable isn't much of a plus if you're worried about GHG emissions.