Sentences with phrase «brown coal power stations»

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

Tactfully ignoring the fact that the Kemper project has turned out to be a disaster, I thought I would scale this against an option that we can all comprehend, shutting down the brown coal power station at Hazelwood.

Not exact matches

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

A forensic examination of publicly available power - supply data shows Victoria's carbon - intensive brown - coal power stations do not reduce the amount of coal they burn when wind power is available to the grid.

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.

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.

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.

It recommended the establishment of an Electricity Commission to develop the brown coal reserves, construct a power station and transmission lines.

By way of comparison, the Port Augusta power stations, the closing of which Mr Frydenberg has strongly criticised, burnt 67 tonnes of brown coal every hour.

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.