Sentences with phrase «big coal fired power plants»

It's a blatant attempt to justify the need for big coal fired power plants, since in his memo Perry writes: «Baseload power is necessary to a well - functioning electric grid.»

Not exact matches

Unlike China and the US, in Canada coal - fired power plants aren't the biggest worry when it comes to increasing emissions.

Hartz said that in addition to new jobs, the town's economy is cleaner now because of the closing of Huntley, a coal - fired power plant that had been one of Erie County's biggest polluters.

The power sector contributes 40 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions of the United States, and coal - fired power plants are the sector's biggest emitters.

Yet, putting CO2 capture on coal - fired power plants and other big industrial polluters seems less a question of whether and more a question of when.

The biggest driver of lower carbon dioxide emissions has been declining natural gas prices, which has allowed the industry to replace coal - fired power plants economically with cleaner natural gas power plants — and without a costly regulatory mandate,» said Jeffrey J. Anderson, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy.

In terms of infrastructure, such big solar fits as comfortably as a coal - fired power plant in the traditional electricity business model, which involves large plants transmitting electricity over a grid of conducting lines through transformers and into individual homes and businesses.

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.

In the past, a few trading systems have auctioned some of their permits, but «big carbon» — including coal mining firms and owners of coal - fired power plants — is organizing to resist such attempts.

But coal provides more than half of the electricity used by the U.S., and China builds the equivalent of two 500 - megawatt coal - fired power plants each week, helping keep these nations at the top of the list of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters.

As the second - biggest coal - fired facility west of the Mississippi, Colstrip's power plant could be affected by the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, which would require Montana to reduce carbon emissions 47 percent by power plant could be affected by the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, which would require Montana to reduce carbon emissions 47 percent by Power Plan, which would require Montana to reduce carbon emissions 47 percent by 2030.

Like all big coal - fired power plants, the 1,600 - megawatt - capacity Schwarze Pumpe plant in Spremberg, Germany, is undeniably dirty.

Jacobson has also said that soot from diesel engines, coal - fired power plants and burning wood is a «bigger cause of global warming than previously thought, and is the major cause of the rapid melting of the Arctic's sea ice».

EPA Rules Controlling Greenhouse - gas Emissions — The big day for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy should come sometime in June, when her agency is scheduled to unveil historic standards controlling carbon emissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natural gas.

The Plan puts the first - ever limits on the nation's biggest source of carbon pollution — some 1,500 coal - and gas - fired power plants that together emit nearly two billion tons per year of carbon dioxide.

Bookbinder estimates that there could be regulation of at least the two biggest sources of greenhouse - gas emissions — coal - fired power plants and automobiles, which together account for more than half of all emissions — by early 2010.

Chris V. attempted to refute it @ 22:40, but his answer was much too provincial, limiting the discussion to only the U.S.. It's a big world out there, and he may be unaware that China is currently building an average of two new coal fired power plants every week, and plans to continue building at this pace until at least 2024 [source: the Economist].

At stake are limits on the nation's biggest single source of dangerous carbon pollution — some 1500 coal and gas fired power plants that together emit nearly two billion tons per year of carbon dioxide.

Solar panels, touted by many to be a renewable energy panacea that will rid the planet of all those nasty coal - fired power plants, may be a bigger boondoggle than we already thought.

Expansion of grid supply by construction of big new coal fired power plants such as in the Hunter Valley and near Lithgow are going ahead and look to me to be intended to prevent the issue of decarbonising our energy supply getting mixed up with the issue of maintaining growth and reliability of supply; we'll have enough fossil fuel generating capacity that building low emissions capacity will remain «optional» and can be deferred another decade or two.

The controversial plans show heavy reliance on fossil fuels, and would allow Slovenia's biggest energy provider, Termoelektrarna Šoštanj, to continue running coal - fired power plants until 2054.

A bigger concern might be the presence of airborne particulates from coal - fired power plants, which are the U.S.'s biggest emitters of carbon dioxide.

«To do this on a big scale, for every coal - fired power plant, is going to be very, very difficult,» says Ted Venners of Evergreen Energy.

The Center for American Progress recently released a report showing that the country's biggest coal companies have spent only a fraction of their multibillion - dollar profits developing technologies to curb carbon emissions from coal - fired power plants.

All rich countries would have to commit now to build no more coal - fired power plants and phase out existing ones in the next 2 - 3 decades (carbon capture and storage simply will not be ready in time), and the same commitment would need to be made within a few years by China, India, Brazil and other big developing countries.

After plans moved forward to retire the coal - fired generators at the Big Sandy Power Plant outside Louisa, Kentucky, the question remained, what does it mean for the energy future of eastern Kentucky?

«Every week to 10 days, another coal - fired power plant opens somewhere in China that is big enough to serve all the households in Dallas or San Diego... India is right behind China in stepping up its construction of coal - fired power plants — and has a population expected to outstrip China's by 2030....»

As both the House and the Senate grapple with proposed carbon - cutting measures — carbon taxes and «cap - and - trade» schemes for big CO2 emitters such as coal - fired power plants; increased Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for cars, SUVs, and trucks; and mandatory set - asides for clean renewable energy in the mix of energy generation options — emissions from aircraft seem, at least for the time being, to have gone over the heads of most policymakers engaged in the rush to cut carbon emissions.

Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a far - reaching rule that would, for the first time ever, regulate carbon dioxide emissions from America's existing coal - and gas - fired power plants — one of the biggest sources of climate pollution around.

The plant is the first new hard - coal - fired generator in Europe's biggest power market since 2005.

Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute, repeated the widely - held opinion that there is no way China will stop building coal - fired power plants, so the technology «had better work or we're in such a big mess we're not going to get out of it.»

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.

When we think about the culprits behind the climate crisis, we tend to think about Big Oil or dirty coal - fired powered plants.

Coal - fired power plants are the biggest sources of global warming pollution in the United States.

AL: In India, where you go to places where communities that are resisting, especially near coal - fired power plants that have had a big wave of resistance in the last five years, people are so excited to talk about their struggles.