Sentences with phrase «brown coal fired power»

You have negligible economies of scale, just a bigger, linearly costed version of my own systemic problem, a problem I dump on my neighbours and our brown coal fired power stations.

Assuming that this electricity is from a brown coal fired power station 23g of unnecessary CO2 is released to the atmosphere.

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Despite his criticisms of China's reliance on coal - fired power plants, Brown is upbeat about the country's alternative energy development.

As carbon pricing renders Victoria's dirty brown coal - fired power uneconomic, the state's legacy coal industry could develop expertise in shifting from coal to gas to renewables.

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.

This is a particularly crucial need over the short - term given that South Australia's brown - coal fired Northern Power Station in Port Augusta, which provides 40 % of South Australia's electricity, may be retired as early as 2015.

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.

A year ago, I wrote to Gordon Brown asking him to place a moratorium on new coal - fired power plants in Britain.

My guess is that the actual outcome would involve keeping some brown coal stations, with drying technology that reduces emissions to a level comparable with black coal, and some expansion of gas - fired power stations, offset by a combination of domestic offset measures and purchases of international offsets.

Lloyd and Cumming may be right about one thing, Victoria's brown coal - fired power stations may not be polluting any less.

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).

We used to import a lot of power from Victoria that was generated in some of the dirtiest brown coal - fired power stations in Australia.

While it may remain profitable to build renewable energy installations, incentives against cutting carbon emissions were not strong enough: Prices for allowances to emit carbon dioxide have dropped and cheap gas in the United States is pushing an additional supply of hard coal on the market, reducing coal prices to their lowest in four years and incentivising utilities to sell more power from brown - and hard coal - fired power stations.