Sentences with phrase «as cheap natural gas»

The result of all this is that renewables compete with conventional sources of power, but they do not displace nearly as much coal as cheap natural gas.

Calpine's deal comes at a time when the U.S. wholesale power generation industry is struggling with margin pressure as cheap natural gas from shale fields in recent years has been driving down electricity prices.

As cheap natural gas squeezes the margins of nuclear generators, there's only one company currently building reactors in the country — Southern Co., at its Vogtle plant in Georgia.

Not exact matches

Little can slow or reverse the coal industry's decline as consumers seek cheaper energy options such as natural gas.

Coal's slump is largely the result of cheap natural gas, which now rivals coal as a fuel for generating electricity.

Coal's importance as an energy source has diminished amid cheap natural gas prices and slowing demand abroad.

But even a small price increase could slow the industry's growth in states where solar already faces fierce competition from cheap natural gas, such as Florida, Georgia, South Carolina or Texas.

CCS really amounts to a combined GHG and natural gas hedge which, in a world of really expensive gas, allows you to maintain lower electricity prices than you perhaps otherwise would be able to as you can continue to use relatively cheap and plentiful coal while capturing and storing the emissions.

He went on, «You are 75 percent cheaper than the rest of the world on natural gas, you are 10 percent cheaper on oil and you are half the price of gasoline as the rest of the world.

The proposal comes as nuclear facilities across the country feel the financial pressure of cheap natural gas produced by the fracking boom and after Entergy has already decided to close its Vermont Yankee facility for economic reasons.

The coal industry is seeing huge declines as cheaper renewables, cheaper natural gas, and greater air pollution controls make it less attractive as a fuel, this is a long term trend that has recently accelerated and reached crisis proportions.

Nuclear facilities are struggling to compete as the market is glutted with cheap natural gas.

«As we read today's Quinnipiac poll, more upstate New Yorkers support hydraulic fracturing; others will point to the overall numbers that are heavily skewed by New York City voters who enjoy the benefits of cheap natural gas but have bought into the fear tactics by so - called activists,» said the trade group's executive director, Karen Moreau.

One example is the use of natural gas, which has benefited the United States but is not as cheap or as abundant in China.

Even as the US market for coal appears to be declining (first due to market pressure from cheaper natural gas and now EPA GHG rules), US exports of its coal abroad has been a sore spot.

The power sector has nearly outpaced the regulation that EPA finalized in 2015, as natural gas has stayed inexpensive and renewable power has gotten cheaper.

Regardless of how cheap such small modular reactors may allow nuclear to be in future, it is unlikely to be as cheap as natural - gas - fired turbines in the present.

NuScale claims it will be able to produce power at about seven to nine cents per kilowatt - hour — roughly the same as big nuclear plants, only a few cents more than the cheapest modern natural gas — fired or coal - fired plants, and one - third the cost of a typical diesel generator.

That viability will come down to cost, as projects in previous decades foundered in the face of cheap natural gas.

Many utilities have in recent years turned away from coal toward cheaper natural gas - as well as solar and wind - contributing to a steep decline in carbon emissions.

Natural gas from oil wells is one of the cheapest and cleanest fossil fuels today, used widely to heat homes as well as in manufacturing and to produce electricity.

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I definitely don't see it as overvalued... and now the CEO is pretty darn excited about investing in natural gas assets now that everything is really cheap.

A meaningful carbon price can do this, but so can cheap natural gas — as recent U.S. experience suggests.

The biggest drop was in emissions from coal — which is primarily used to generate electricity — as power plants switched to cheaper natural gas and as the use of carbon - free wind energy more than quadrupled.

Enbridge's strategic realignment underscores the sweeping changes taking place across the energy industry, as incumbent giants adapt to persistently cheap natural gas, increasingly competitive renewables, and growing pressure to decarbonise.

The cost of production of electricity through utilization of solar energy is outpacing other alternatives as the cost accrued in investing in the installation of solar panels is turning out to be comparatively cheaper than a comparable investment in coal, natural gas or other options, according to a new World Economic Forum (WEF) report.

Coal production would ramp up as coal - fired plants are being phased out in favor of cheaper natural gas and carbon - free renewable energy.

Few new coal plants are being built in the United States anyway, as utilities increasingly favor cheaper, cleaner, and newly abundant natural gas.

As an economy reduces its emissions it will start with the cheapest abatement measures (energy savings) and then move to the more expensive measures by replacing energy - using equipment and switching from high - emission sources such as coal to low emission sources such as natural gas and nuclear poweAs an economy reduces its emissions it will start with the cheapest abatement measures (energy savings) and then move to the more expensive measures by replacing energy - using equipment and switching from high - emission sources such as coal to low emission sources such as natural gas and nuclear poweas coal to low emission sources such as natural gas and nuclear poweas natural gas and nuclear power.

California's Energy Imbalancing Market is a strategy to buy cheap out - of - state hydropower from federal dams to replace the government - induced high price for natural gas peaker power as a result of shifting to green power.

So as California was doubling its share of electricity from costly renewables, its retail electricity prices rose in line with the rest of the nation as the cheaper natural - gas - generated electricity covered for the more expensive green energy.

These findings align with PJM's broader assessment of its future grid reliability as more and more coal and nuclear plants find themselves economically uncompetitive in the face of flat demand, cheap and plentiful natural gas, and a rising share of zero marginal - cost clean energy.

According to an article in today's New York Times, even without subsidies, wind power is often cheaper (as low as 3.7 cents per kWh) than coal (low of 6.6 cents per kWh) or natural gas (low of 6.1 cents per kWh).

It's been because natural gas got really cheap as a consequence of fracking.

Apparently, with the latest discovery of huge deposits of natural gas, the US has the potential to have a large additional supply of cheap energy that emits only half as much greenhouse gasses as traditional fuels.

In an op - ed for the New York Times, Michael E. Webber, deputy director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, blames coal's struggles on cheap and plentiful natural gas, cheap renewables and air - quality regulations launched under the George W. Bush administration, as well as weaker - than - expected demand for coal in Asia.

Cheap natural gas makes one efficiency measure so cheap that it is being deployed as rapidly as engineers can write the project specs and bid document: cogen installatCheap natural gas makes one efficiency measure so cheap that it is being deployed as rapidly as engineers can write the project specs and bid document: cogen installatcheap that it is being deployed as rapidly as engineers can write the project specs and bid document: cogen installations.

Steven Hamburg, chief scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund, a nonprofit organization that cautiously supports natural gas development, said that the new research is «asking the right questions,» but questioned some of the paper's assumptions, including the idea that people would use so much more energy as a result of cheap natural gas that it would cancel out the benefits.

Coal generation has slipped to No. 2 as utilities slowly switch to natural gas as a cleaner and cheaper fuel source.

Natural gas has seen unprecedented growth in the U.S. as a result of technological innovation that led to its cheap and abundant production.

Cheap natural gas has led to the widespread displacement of coal in the U.S., contributing to historic declines in the nation's CO2 emissions, and many see it as a promising bridge to renewables.

Compressed natural gas began to gain attention as a cheap, eco-friendly fuel source in the 1960s and 1970s.

«The annual - only requirement prefers baseload fuel - burning resources, including coal and nuclear as well as gas, over cheaper resources like renewables and demand response,» said Jennifer Chen of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Carbon combustion generated 80 % of someone's energy, but it sure as heck doesn't constitute much of the energy of people who can take advantage of cheaper geothermal, hydro or natural gas (which is largely hydrogen combustion); and as the price of solar and wind plummet and the practicality of extracting fossil other than gas drops like a stone in lock step with the advances of competing technologies, what sort of backwards knuckle - dragger actually wants the choking and fumes and leaks and inconvenience and dust and soot and sulfates?

Thanks to a rise in cheap, renewable energy, as well as natural gas production, utilities are experiencing an unprecedented decline in demand for electricity.

Fracking allows for the cheap extraction of natural gas from shale deposits that were previously inaccessible, and it is responsible for both the boom in natural gas production as well as the correlate controversy.

The nation's largest privately held coal company is expected to lay off 1,800 workers Friday as waning demand and cheap natural gas prices pummel the U.S. coal industry.

As I wrote last year when the rule was initially announced, many states are already well on their way to achieving the required reductions, thanks in part to a recent boom in cheap natural gas and the Obama administration's choice of 2005 as the basis year for cuts, which was close to America's all - time peak in carbon emissionAs I wrote last year when the rule was initially announced, many states are already well on their way to achieving the required reductions, thanks in part to a recent boom in cheap natural gas and the Obama administration's choice of 2005 as the basis year for cuts, which was close to America's all - time peak in carbon emissionas the basis year for cuts, which was close to America's all - time peak in carbon emissions.

Goals like these are especially notable to the extent that they would supplant even natural gas, which is abundant, cheap, flexible and widely used to replace old coal plants as they become uneconomic and shut down.