The end result is that
aging power plants like Fisk and Crawford will either have to install costly new retrofits or shut down altogether.
Not exact matches
On that basis, environmentalists
like Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group observed that, «These charges are essentially a tax to keep
aging nuclear
power plants online.»
In the Internet
age, in which the Chinese public is becoming increasingly vocal about their rights and mobilizing on social networks, popular protests
like the demonstrations in the city of Jiangmen against the processing
plant suggest a wider backlash against nuclear
power.
What will need to be replaced in the next 30 years are
aging fossil fuel infrastructures
like outdated coal - fired
power plants.
The Serbian government says
aging and highly polluting
power plants like Kostolac have to be upgraded or replaced.
In states
like Missouri and Illinois, where Walmart has no solar panels or other renewable energy projects, its stores draw
power from a fleet of
aging coal
plants, which are poisoning the air and water.
Much
like with the debate over decommissioning the
aging Indian Point nuclear
power plant, much of the added
power that could be created because of the increased pipeline capacity, could just as easily (and probably far more cheaply) be offset with energy efficiency improvements in the region.