Electricity from coal figures reflect only generation by electric utilities and independent power producers in 2014, not commercial and industrial sources.
Not exact matches
From what I've heard from people who convert them & read in books, even if the source of electricity is coal or oil, EVs are still 1/4 to 1/3 more efficient (even figuring in batteries & their manufacture) than ICE vehic
From what I've heard
from people who convert them & read in books, even if the source of electricity is coal or oil, EVs are still 1/4 to 1/3 more efficient (even figuring in batteries & their manufacture) than ICE vehic
from people who convert them & read in books, even if the source of
electricity is
coal or oil, EVs are still 1/4 to 1/3 more efficient (even
figuring in batteries & their manufacture) than ICE vehicles.
The
figures illustrate how renewable sources replace
coal in
electricity production, which shrinks
from 30 to 16 percent across the scenarios, while gas remains relatively constant.
That's consistent with the EIA's most recent Short - Term Energy Outlook, released the same day as President Obama gave his speech, which forecasts 40 % of
electricity will come
from coal in 2013 and 2014, with natural gas's share falling back down to an annual average of 26 % (
Figure 5).
The largest drop in emissions in 2012 came
from coal, which is used almost exclusively for
electricity generation (see
figure below).
Reading
from Figure 2 above we can see that the total health effects of generating
electricity from coal is 25 deaths / TWh and
from nuclear is about 0.5 deaths / TWh.
Coal's share of electricity generation increased from 33 % in April to 42 % in November, the most recent month for which public data is available (Figure 5), and industry consultancy GenScape estimates that coal's share stabilized at these levels through Janu
Coal's share of
electricity generation increased
from 33 % in April to 42 % in November, the most recent month for which public data is available (
Figure 5), and industry consultancy GenScape estimates that
coal's share stabilized at these levels through Janu
coal's share stabilized at these levels through January.
The latest government
figures show that Poland generates more than 80 percent of its
electricity from coal, a growing share of which is in the form of lignite, a low - grade mineral with high carbon content that is in ample supply in Poland's mines.
The
figure below shows a 25 - month history of
electricity generated
from coal and natural gas.
For example, EIA's annualized cost
figure for generating
electricity from new
coal includes a penalty of three percentage points on the cost of capital to represent the difficulty of obtaining financing for new
coal units.