Sentences with phrase «u.s. coal generation»

The U.S. generates over 1.7 million megawatt hours from coal - fired power, compared to less than 100,000 megawatt hours in Canada, and U.S. coal generation is expected to remain roughly constant through 2040 absent any new regulations.

Not exact matches

Coal - fired power makes up the largest share of electricity generation in the U.S., although that share is expected to decline thanks mostly to the rise of natural gas (see the chart below).

Electric power generation from coal and natural gas plants is responsible for 40 % of U.S. carbon emissions.

All told, utilities have canceled 14,000 megawatts of planned coal - fired generation and delayed an additional 32,000 megawatts, according to the latest survey by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in Pittsburgh.

More than 100 gigawatts of geothermal power (one tenth of the current U.S. electrical generation) could be developed for $ 1 billion during the next 40 years — at the full cost of one carbon - capturing coal - fired power plant or one - third the cost of a new nuclear generator.

With coal prices falling and natural gas prices rising, the EIA says coal's share of U.S. power generation in the first four months of 2013 averaged 39.5 percent, compared with 35.4 percent in the same period last year.

As long as countries like China or the U.S. employ big grids to deliver electricity, there will be a need for generation from nuclear, coal or gas, the kinds of electricity generation that can be available at all times.

As electricity use spikes across the country in the summertime when more people use air conditioning, electric power companies turn to more coal and natural gas power plants to help meet the demand, reducing renewables» share of total U.S. power generation, Comstock said.

Air conditioning will push more use National Mining Association President Hal Quinn told the U.S. Energy Association's annual State of the Energy Industry Forum recently that India's coal - fired portfolio alone will grow from 65 percent of total generation to as much as 80 percent by 2025.

«Cheap natural gas, the rapid decline in the cost of solar and wind generation, and continued flat electricity demand make it next to impossible that U.S. coal production will significantly increase in coming years.»

It is very clean that coal will remain the primary fuel used for electricity generation here in the U.S. and around the world for decades to come.

«The study seems an outlier in saying that when «all known costs» are considered, the average U.S. cost of producing electricity from established coal - fired plants is far less than new wind - power generation,»

According to the recent UCS report, Ripe for Retirement: An Economic Analysis of the U.S. Coal Fleet, Michigan has one of the nation's most economically vulnerable fleets of coal - fired power plants with nearly 7,000 megawatts of at - risk coal generatCoal Fleet, Michigan has one of the nation's most economically vulnerable fleets of coal - fired power plants with nearly 7,000 megawatts of at - risk coal generatcoal - fired power plants with nearly 7,000 megawatts of at - risk coal generatcoal generation.

«The study seems an outlier in saying that when «all known costs» are considered, the average U.S. cost of producing electricity from established coal - fired plants is far less than new wind - power generation,» PolitiFact found.

The group earlier this year in a similar analysis said about half of all U.S. coal - fired generation capacity also is at financial risk.

Annual natural gas generation surpassed coal generation for the last six months of 2015, and came within 1 percent of annual coal generation for the first time in U.S. history.

In 2011, coal dropped to its lowest level of power generation in more than a decade, according to the U.S. government's independent Energy Information Administration (EIA).

A December report from the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) said U.S. power generation from renewable sources, along with natural gas, would produce enough electricity to offset retirements of U.S. coal and nuclear units over the next 10 years.

At an industry roundtable hosted by the U.S. - India Business Council (USIBC) in New York, Piyush Goyal, Minister of State with Independent Charge for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy discussed India's ambitious target of achieving 175 GW of renewable generation capacity and innovative ways of mainstreaming energy efficiency.

The Clean Power Plan in the U.S. has that as one of its most likely outcomes and there have been explicit commitments to retire coal - fired generation plants by governments all over the world.

In fact, the EIA recently reported that coal's share of U.S. electric power generation fell below 40 % for the last two months of 2011, the lowest level since 1978.

Drummond is now a major long term competitor in the international coal market, with over 2 billion tons of reserves that are strategically positioned relative to key power generation markets in the U.S. and Europe.

As a result, natural gas has increased its share of electric utility generation over the past decade from 22 percent to 32 percent, overtaking coal as the major source of U.S. electricity generation.

Nearly half of U.S. electric power generation comes from coal.

The industry has shed jobs as coal power has declined as a share of U.S. electricity generation: from more than 50 percent in 2000 to 37 percent in 2010.

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.

A U.S. Energy Department study found that liquefied natural gas from the U.S., used for power generation in Asia and Europe, will emit fewer greenhouse gas emissions from a lifecycle perspective than electricity generated by regional coal.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, natural gas power generation exceeded power generation from coal in April.

Natural gas is projected to account for 33 % or U.S. electrical generation in 2016, exceeding coal (at 32 %) for the first time.

Between 2000 and 2008, coal was significantly less expensive than natural gas, and coal supplied about 50 % of total U.S. generation.

The current downward trend in coal - fired generation began in 2007, when increased U.S. production of natural gas (particularly from shale) led to a sustained downward shift in natural gas spot prices and increased generation from natural gas - fired generators.

In November and December 2011, coal's share of total U.S. electricity generation fell to its lowest monthly level since 1978.

In many parts of the U.S., wind energy is now the cheapest form of electricity generation — cheaper than natural gas and even coal, NextEra chief financial office Moray P. Dewhurst recently stated on an earnings call.

Natural gas, which burns cleaner than coal and emits about half as many greenhouse gases, was responsible for less than 19 percent of U.S. power generation.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, for 2013, the main sources of U.S. generation were: coal, 39 %; natural gas, 27 %; nuclear, 19 %; hydropower, 7 %; and other renewables (biomass, geothermal, solar, and wind), 6 %.

Low - cost gas and wind generation is clobbering coal in the Midwest as elsewhere in the U.S. Regardless of new federal government policy pronouncements aimed at rescuing coal, low - emissions sources are likely to prevail in MISO's view.

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.

Coal plants, which account for more than a third of U.S. electricity generation, stand to face retrofits or shutdowns in the wake of emission rules to be proposed by the Obama Administration Monday.

While most of the news about the speech will be about how Obama is planning to accelerate renewable energy, I believe the biggest area of near - term action on reducing emissions will come from some underreported sections that will encourage the replacement of coal with natural gas for energy generation, both in the U.S. and globally.

For the past century, coal has been king, providing the majority of U.S. energy for electricity generation.

That's because U.S. coal companies including Peabody Energy Corp. won't be looking to secure new reserves of the fossil fuel on federal land for years, especially as mining slows amid the sector's worst downturn in generations.

BP expects renewables to surpass coal as the second - largest U.S. source of power generation by around 2030.

It is used in electricity generation and comprises 7 % of U.S. coal production by weight and 5 % by energy intensity.

He has used this expertise to promote the development of green jobs and enhanced energy efficiency, focusing on moving the U.S. away from environmentally destructive means of energy production like coal and oil, in favor of sustainable power generation.

The market implications for this are significant, in that conventional generation is now fighting to maintain its share of a shrinking pie, and the U.S. Department of Energy's clumsy moves to find a rationale to bail out the coal and nuclear industries can be seen in this light.

Coal - fired power plants will account for just 36 percent of total U.S. electricity generation this year, down from 49 percent in 2007, the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimated.

Conventional steam coal comprised more than 80 percent of the electricity generation capacity retired in the U.S. last year.

Proposed U.S. standards for reducing carbon emissions from existing coal - fired power plants rely heavily upon generation - side efficiency improvements.

Coal's share of total U.S. electricity generation is expected to fall to 27 percent by 2030, down from 39 percent in 2014 and more than 50 percent in 2000 — the result of the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan to limit carbon emissions from power plants.

While the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expected 2013 emissions to inch up — mostly due to increased coal use in electrical generation — the projected level still would be more than 10 percent below where emissions were in 2005.