Sentences with phrase «forecasting coal unit»

The report, entitled Forecasting Coal Unit Competitiveness — 2015 Update, demonstrates how a variety of factors, including aging infrastructure, more stringent environmental regulations and lower natural gas prices, are converging to make the majority of coal plants uneconomic.

CAVT is used in several Synapse analyses to identify and investigate coal units at risk for retirement, including two studies led by Mr. Knight for the Energy Foundation: Displacing Coal: An Analysis of Natural Gas Potential in the 2012 Electric System Dispatch (August 2013), and Forecasting Coal Unit Competitiveness: Coal Retirement Assessment Using Synapse's Coal Asset Valuation Tool (October 2013).

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Bank of America Corp.'s Merrill Lynch & Co. unit increased its price forecast for Asian power - station coal.

They write that «In particular, the way researchers modeled the acid gas requirements under MATS had a large impact on the forecasted amount of coal - fired capacity and generation going forward, as well as the pollution controls that would be installed at these units and their emissions of acid gases.»

He also built Synapse's Coal Asset Valuation Tool (CAVT), a spreadsheet - based database and model that forecasts the costs for individual coal units to comply with environmental regulations and compares these forecasts to electricity market priCoal Asset Valuation Tool (CAVT), a spreadsheet - based database and model that forecasts the costs for individual coal units to comply with environmental regulations and compares these forecasts to electricity market pricoal units to comply with environmental regulations and compares these forecasts to electricity market prices.

CAVT forecasts the costs for individual coal units to comply with environmental regulations, adds them to other operating and management costs, and then compares these costs to electricity market prices.