Sentences with phrase «brown coal»

The rise in sulfur content is indicative of the increasing use of brown coal of a particular low quality.

It values the low cost source of brown coal alone at $ 2.4 billion.

The second graph shows, among other things, how brown coal emissions in particular have increased since the removal of the carbon tax.

Until this renewable miracle actually occurs, the country will likely need to rely on burning coal and its very dirty cousin brown coal [of which it has considerable reserves].

This is like someone would say: «I am an ecofreak, and I am in favor of brown coal power stations without filter.»

Behind the millions of solar panels and wind turbines and electric cars, Germany has a dirty secret: its addiction to lignite, also known as brown coal.

Vattenfall, Sweden's state - owned power utility has embraced the technology and has opened a pilot plant in Germany, where it runs a number of coal - fired plants - 64 percent of its generation is from brown coal in Germany, just one percent from renewables (and it has zero coal - fired plants in Sweden).

Leigh Creek is a small village, which thanks its existance purely because of the large brown coal deposits nearby.

This results in huge amounts of CO2 being released; for example, in a pilot plant for using brown coal to produce hydrogen to be built in Australia, 160 tonnes of coal will be used to produce three tonnes of hydrogen, along the way releasing 450 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere; that is 150 tonnes of CO2 for every tonne of hydrogen.

Increasing dependence on brown coal has raised doubts about whether Berlin will hit its medium - term CO2 emission goals.

This really large brown coal mine works as an open cut mine and the commodity is transported daily to Port Augusta by rail twice a day and is solely used for producing electricity.

The state basically depended on a high tension line from another state (Victoria) as backup, which largely uses power generated using polluting brown coal.

Under the 2016 reforms, the government also agreed with utilities to keep 2.7 GW of inefficient brown coal capacity mothballed for four years as a «very last resort» emergency standby reserve.

Over the short - term, (2001 - 2020), Victoria's dirty brown coal power plants could be replaced by gas - fired power plants with the coal - fired power relegated to meeting excess demand occurring, for instance, during heat waves.

To heat that boiler, the damp, crumbly brown coal known as lignite — which is even more polluting than the harder black anthracite variety — burns in the presence of pure oxygen, releasing as waste both water vapor and that more notorious greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2).

Following an overseas tour in 1911, Herbert Reah Harper, engineer with the Melbourne City Council Electricity Supply Department, recognised the potential for Victorian brown coal, after seeing Germany's use, and recommended the establishment of a public utility on the lines of the Ontario Hydro Electricity.

To heat that boiler, the damp, crumbly brown coal known as lignite — which is even more polluting than the harder black anthracite variety — burns in the presence of pure oxygen, a process known as oxyfuel, releasing as waste both water vapor and that more notorious greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2).

The Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) project will convert brown coal from the AGL Loy Yang mine... Read more →

In July, 2007, the Australian Climate Justice Program, with the support of Greenpeace, lodged a complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over HRL Limited's use of the term «clean coal» in relation to its proposed new brown coal - fired power plant in Victoria.

Vattenfall estimates there are 250 million tons of brown coal under Atterwasch and two nearby villages.

Vattenfall spokesman Thoralf Schirmer says with energy demands across Europe rising each year, brown coal supplies may run out sooner — in ten to 15 years, at most.

Huge excavators extract brown coal - also called lignite - from the earth.

At the heart of the project is the conversion of Decin's Bynov heating plant from burning brown coal to natural gas.

Through appropriate building design, behavioural change and demand management (this does not mean living like a cave - man, just using resources efficiently) and appropriate matching of energy source with demand (i.e using solar radiation, not brown coal fired electricity for water heating), it is possible to eliminate these emissions completely.

By the mid 2020s, for example, Kawasaki Heavy Industries plans to begin importing brown coal fired, carbon - capture - and - storage produced hydrogen from Australia's state of Victoria to the southern Japanese port city of Kobe.

They chose the Monash name because WW1 General Sir John Monash was instrumental in opening up the Latrobe Valley brown coal as a fuel for electricity generation for Victoria; at the time it was innovative.

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AGL says brown coal can still spin off cash flow even with a carbon price of more than $ 50 / t, particularly as the cost of gas and black coal is expected to increase dramatically in coming years.

The purchase, which values the 2,200 MW Loy Yang A brown coal power generator at just over $ 3 billion, will almost treble the emissions intensity of AGL's portfolio, from 0.36 t of Co2 equivalent per megawatt hour, to 1tCo2 - e / MWh.

It says this means brown coal and nuclear generating capacity could fall quicker than most people would expect from the average increase in solar and wind.

The only thing that could change the «muted» outlook for baseload generation is the planned retirement of 2,000 MW of brown coal generation under the Contracts for Closure program — although some of this capacity may not be retired until 2020 — and the fact that the carbon price may «change the competitiveness» of some generators; i.e. put them out of business.

Natural gas would provide the second - level of load - balancing with Victoria's aging brown coal - fired power plants remaining on standby to handle high seasonal loads.

These two technologies displace brown coal from its primary position in the electricity markets merit order (or bidding stack) and reduces their revenues and profits.

Statistics for electricity, natural gas, hard coal and brown coal show supply and trade.

The country also still extracts soft brown coal called lignite from hundreds of open - pit mines across the country.