Sentences with phrase «brown coal fired power station»

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.