Sentences with phrase «as thermal coal»

Steam coal - also known as thermal coal - is mainly used in power generation.

«We've made incredible gains since acquiring the property,» Keith Longtin, general manager of Wind Products for GE Power & Water stated during a tour of the facility, pointing out that today's GE turbines are operating at close to 98 % availability, the same as a thermal coal plant.

Those price differences have widened in recent months due to supply disruptions that pushed the price of steelmaking coal up over $ 300 per ton even as thermal coal prices where Alliance produces have remained around $ 50 per ton.

Not exact matches

Williams - Derry said it will be difficult for Clark to use thermal coal as a bargaining chip in negotiations around softwood now that she is on the record saying coal is dirty.

But the struggle continues as U.S. thermal coal companies become increasingly desperate to send their product to power plants in Asia.

Admittedly we are a net importer of oil (increasingly so as Bass Strait reserves diminish), but Australian entities make large exports of natural gas and thermal coal, whose prices are highly correlated with oil prices over time.

The largest components — metal ores & minerals (such as iron ore and alumina) and coal, coke & briquettes (including coking and thermal coal)-- have continued to increase over the past four years at similar rates to those seen during the 1990s.

«It's really a tale of two markets,» he said, noting that as U.S. thermal coal prices soften, demand for high - grade metallurgical coal and some thermal coal has helped prop up U.S. coal mining activity in traditional high - volume regions like Appalachia and the Powder River Basin.

As domestic demand increases for both thermal and metallurgical coal, China is expected to curtail exports, possibly expanding markets for other regional players like India, Australia and Indonesia.

It sees coal as remaining dominant in the electricity generation sector: global consumption will rise by 1.3 percent a year — from 147 quadrillion British thermal units of energy in 2010 to 180 quadrillion Btu in 2020 to 220 quadrillion Btu in 2040.

Google will funnel some of its profits into a new effort, dubbed RE < C (for renewable energy cheaper than coal, as Google translates it) to make sources such as solar - thermal, high - altitude wind and geothermal cheaper than coal «within years, not decades,» according to Weihl.

One major issue with nuclear plants (as well as coal and all other thermal power plants) is the fresh water wasted in heat rejection.

Moreover, even if methane leakage were to remain modest in some areas, long - term climate models suggest that warming trends have less to do with the rate of methane leakage and more to do with other variables, such as the thermal efficiency of future coal plants and whether the switch to gas is permanent or a bridge to zero - carbon energy.

There's no reason you couldn't use the heat to drive a steam turbine or Stirling engine, just as the steam turbines in a nuclear plant are basically identical to the ones in a coal - fired plant, or for that matter a solar thermal one.

Coal use for power generation fell even more, by at least 4 %, as power plant efficiency improved and gas and biomass displaced coal in thermal power generatCoal use for power generation fell even more, by at least 4 %, as power plant efficiency improved and gas and biomass displaced coal in thermal power generatcoal in thermal power generation.

Steyer's environmental non-profit network is so extensive as to resemble an entire government, founded and supported by overseas tax havens and hypocritically, thermal coal production.

These investment interests promote the exploitation of one of the largest sources of thermal coal in the world, an energy source that Steyer has repeatedly condemned as an environmental hazard.

This, given the climate change requirements, and technology cost forecasts for wind and solar, the emergence of battery storage and home management systems, as well as solar thermal plus storage at utility scale, not to mention the fuel cost of coal and gas, and the financing risk attached to that, seems an extraordinary prediction.

Can I assume solar thermal has approximately the same spinning inertia as coal, combined cycle gas turbines and nuclear plants?

As a recent report by the Carbon Tracker Initiative highlights, grid costs become prohibitive for coal in rural areas when the investment needed to build a thermal power plant is combined with the cost of building electricity grid extensions and importing fuel.

That translates into $ 500 billion a year in lost revenues, if you take the IEA thermal coal price forecasts of $ 110 / tonne under its New Policies scenario as the benchmark.

These allow more electricity to be produced from less coal - known as improving the thermal efficiency of the power station.

Outside the power sector, growth in thermal coal demand is centred in the industrial sector thanks to robust economic growth, as well as in coking coal, thanks to rising steel consumption, housing, railways and steel - intensive industries such as shipbuilding, defense and vehicle manufacturing.

China is heavily reliant on coal burning thermal power plants, but reportedly has set a generating target of 20 million kilowatts from renewable energy sources such as hydropower, solar power and wind power by 2020.

These drivers have been the primary reasons behind the stranding of over 14GW of coal - fired power plants between 2010 and 2012 — US thermal coal prices have fallen drastically as a result.

«The approach that we've been working towards involves a cap - and - trade system relating to thermal coal, and the requirement of phasing out those facilities as they reach the end of their useful, fully - amortized life,» Prentice said as quoted by the Globe and Mail.

Besides strong demand for thermal coal, which is burned in power plants, use of metallurgical coal or coking coal, used in blast furnaces, is also expected to more than double in China, to about 1.7 billion metric tons by 2016, as the country's steel mills churn out more steel for automobiles, skyscrapers and export goods, the Peabody study says.

Other alternatives such as fuel from foodstocks, liquifaction of coal, nuclear, solar thermal, windmills, etc. are pretty far removed from the Moore's Law enabling factors so you're on target there but you didn't need to spray the guy with a mini-gun when far less would suffice to make your point.

Moreover, long - term climate models suggest that warming trends have less to do with the rate of methane leakage and more to do with other variables, such as the thermal efficiency of future coal plants and whether the switch to gas is permanent or a bridge to zero - carbon energy.

If coal and lignite (as well as more expensive natural gas) prevail as next - generation heating fuels, then co-generation will be included into the new plants to increase overall revenues from the same thermal energy.

The International Energy Agency forecasts that renewables will become the leading source of new energy supply from now to 2040, surpassing thermal coal as the largest source of electricity generation by around 2030.

Solar thermal power is showing signs of approaching viability as a large scale contributor to the power grid and there are hopes of replacing the coal - fired power stations at Port Augusta with solar thermal.

As well as the various coal technologies, the report has chapters on solar thermal, other renewables (wind, pv, biomass) and nucleaAs well as the various coal technologies, the report has chapters on solar thermal, other renewables (wind, pv, biomass) and nucleaas the various coal technologies, the report has chapters on solar thermal, other renewables (wind, pv, biomass) and nuclear.

Latest examples include solar water splitting using ferrites at 100 kWth power level [3] and subsequent scaling up to 750 kWth at the Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA); thermal dissociation of ZnO as part of the two - step ZnO / Zn cycle in a 140 kWth solar reactor at the MegaWatt Solar Furnace in Odeillo, France [4]; and steam gasification of low - grade coal and carbonaceous waste in a 150 kWth solar pilot plant at PSA [5].

Because a solar thermal power station operates like a conventional coal or gas power station, many of the jobs require the same skill sets as conventional energy jobs — from its construction phase through to operations.

Thank you for your efforts from myself & BC's http://www.ArterranRenewables.com We plan to have a significant impact on GHG emissions as producers of the world's 1st truly sustainable «drop in» replacement for thermal coal.

Yet even here, the corruption of language is highly context specific — baseload in the context of coal and nuclear is framed as unnecessary, inefficient and wasteful, yet becomes virtuous when applied to concentrated solar thermal power or hot - rock geothermal.

Thermal coal is of such low value that any reasonable coal pollution price will put it out of biz as a fuel source.

a 2,400 MW coal - based power plant proposed by Odisha Thermal Power Corporation Ltd stalled after its coal supply plan fell over as uncompetitive.

The clear direction of travel for coal consumption is underscored by the IEA's 2016 World Energy Outlook that brought forward the peak for thermal coal demand in China by 17 years in its New Policies Scenario - recognising demand peaked in 2013 as opposed to 2030.

They can also be integrated into existing thermal - fired power plants that use a power block like CSP; such as coal, natural gas, biofuel or geothermal plants.

First, that would mean that the thermal output of the IFR is exactly the same (flow, temperature, heat content, chemical composition including additives) as that from the coal burner for which the generators have been optimized.

Water is another big concern — like any thermal power generation (such as coal - or oil - fired, or even bio-mass-fired plants) nuclear uses water for cooling — and uses it in really massive quantities.

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