Sentences with phrase «old coal plants get»

Old coal plants get second life Alex Katzman, meanwhile, said he uses it to help consumers make more informed purchasing decisions.

The reasons are familiar by now: cheap natural gas, cheap renewables, stagnant electricity demand, and old coal plants getting outcompeted on the market.

Not exact matches

Old coal plants are increasingly lying dormant, yet new ones keep getting built, according to a new report.

In Illinois, our Governor (who is otherwise awful) got an agreement to shut down several old coal plants as part of an overall air quality arrangement.

While the United States is shutting down old coal - fired power plants and not building new ones, Europe — also because of the commitment in Germany to get out of nuclear power — is moving back to coal.

Old coal plants are increasingly lying dormant, yet new ones keep getting built, according to a new report.

Older, dirtier coal plants need to get replaced with cleaner wind or solar or nuclear plants, say.

Okay, it's ridiculous to compare a 40 - megawatt solar PV park to a coal - fired power plant that could crank out 4,000 megawatts at peak capacity, but the fact Ontario Power Generation (OPG) got a contract today to build such a solar project at the old Nanticoke Generating Station is, at the very least, symbolically significant.

(Editor's Note: Another repost at a time when we need to remind people of how McGuinty has destroyed rural Ontario) Whenever I get into a debate with someone over wind turbines, they always haul out that old dated nugget about coal plants.

The UK has lots of coal, gas and nuclear plants that are getting old.

But this time, instead of blocking construction of new plants, the strategy will be to figure out which are the nations oldest and worst - pollution coal power plants, get them shut down, and replace them with renewable energy.