Sentences with phrase «biggest coal facilities»

But to meet its energy needs, Germany has had to build new fossil - fuel plants, including one of the biggest coal facilities in the world.

Not exact matches

We zeroed in on the proposed Fraser Surrey Docks facility, part of the federal port authority's plan to turn Vancouver into the continent's biggest coal port.

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 2030.

Thousands of small generators, including rooftop solar panels and facilities that extract energy from garbage or sewage, could feed into the system, replacing or complementing big coal, nuclear or natural gas plants, they say.

The Power Technology website notes that «As gloomy portents go, they don't come much gloomier for «clean coal» than recent developments at the Kemper County energy facility in Mississippi», which is «widely regarded to be one of the world's biggest proofs - of - concept for clean coal» and which «has failed to deliver.»

Older coal - fired facilities — the biggest culprits — could be retrofitted so as to trap the carbon before it leaves the smokestack.

Cryptocurrency mining has become a big polluter very quickly - the biggest mining facilities still use coal to power their mining rigs.