Sentences with phrase «build than coal»

Natural gas - fired combined cycle units are more efficient at over 50 % now, less expensive and quicker to build than coal - based systems.

cCGT takes less time to build than coal, costs less to build, and since runs at higher efficiency costs less to operate.

Not exact matches

RICHMOND, Va. (AP)-- Dominion Energy Virginia said Tuesday that it plans to build at least eight new natural gas - fired plants during the next 15 years, cementing its shift away from coal, while depending on renewables for less than 10 percent of its energy capacity.

Last year China built 10 times more renewable power capacity than natural gas - fired power, and three times more than coal - fired power.

Staff reductions in Erie County government, fewer coal - fired power generation, energy conservation projects in county office buildings and other measures allowed the county to meet the Paris accord's 26 percent reduction goal in greenhouse gases more than a decade ahead of schedule, according to an inventory County Executive Marc Poloncarz unveiled.

Staff reductions in Erie County government, fewer coal - fired power generation, energy conservation projects in county office buildings and other measures allowed the county to meet the Paris accord's 26 percent reduction goal in greenhouse gases more than a decade ahead of schedule, according to an inventory Poloncarz unveiled Thursday.

Maxwell Ball, manager for clean coal technologies at SaskPower in Regina, which owns the plant, says that the company was surprised to learn that it would be cheaper in the long term to keep burning coal at Boundary Dam and sell the carbon dioxide to oil companies to boost production in the oil field than to build a new natural - gas plant.

For many Africans and Africa observers, the massive Medupi and Kusile coal plants being built by South Africa's Eskom at a cost of more than $ 20 billion, or the 6,000 - MW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam under construction on the Blue Nile River for an estimated $ 4 billion, are hallmarks of the continent's progress toward electrification.

After the public soured on nuclear power following Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster, a previous administration even decided to build new coal - fired power plants rather than turn to renewable energy, Yun says.

Even all the oil reservoirs in the world could not handle the more than 13 billion metric tons of CO2 that come from burning coal each year, even if pipelines and the rest could be built.

Yang, who focuses on emerging economies, said her research also has shown that many other fast - growing developing countries have lower coal plant standards than India and China, and few incentives to build cleaner plants.

The shift would reduce economic output by between 2 - 6 percent by 2050, because of the costs of building a cleaner energy system based on low - carbon energies that are more expensive than abundant coal, the IPCC said.

Yet, even if every planned reactor in China was to be built, the country would still rely on burning coal for more than 50 percent of its electric power — and the Chinese nuclear reactors would provide at best roughly the same amount of energy to the developing nation as does the existing U.S. fleet.

With more than 70 percent of China's energy coming from coal, a power source that contributes heavily to air pollution and global warming, the nation's bad or good energy practices in buildings will be reflected in the color of the sky and the temperature of the Earth.

As gas becomes dear, utilities across the world are opting to build coal - fired, rather than gas - fired, power plants.

«If there is substantial natural gas leakage, then building new natural gas plants would lead to more near term climate damage than using the old dirty coal plants,» explained Caldeira.

Cornell University researchers factored in the carbon emissions over the course of natural gas's life cycle when it is extracted using hydraulic fracturing — which includes drilling the wells, erecting the construction sites, building pipelines to transport the gas, fueling the pumps that force the water underground, and transporting the wastewater — and concluded that natural gas is dirtier than coal.

But coal provides more than half of the electricity used by the U.S., and China builds the equivalent of two 500 - megawatt coal - fired power plants each week, helping keep these nations at the top of the list of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters.

In addition, recent air quality rules will make building and operating a coal plant much more expensive than in the past.

China is building more nuclear plants (zero - emissions) and ultrasupercritical coal plants, which are much more efficient than conventional plants and thus less polluting, than the rest of the world combined.

December 8, 2017 India's steel industry, like America's, is dominated by electric - based processes November 20, 2017 Link between growth in economic activity and electricity use is changing around the world November 16, 2017 Growth in global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions expected to slow November 8, 2017 EIA forecasts growth in world nuclear electricity capacity, led by non-OECD countries October 25, 2017 China leads the growth in projected global natural gas consumption October 10, 2017 Buildings energy consumption in India is expected to increase faster than in other regions October 4, 2017 Global gas - to - liquids growth is dominated by two projects in South Africa and Uzbekistan September 27, 2017 Chinese coal - fired electricity generation expected to flatten as mix shifts to renewables September 19, 2017 Beyond China and India, energy consumption in non-OECD Asia continues to grow September 14, 2017 EIA projects 28 % increase in world energy use by 2040

The early Schult models, built in the 1930s, were more practical than plush, containing such necessities as coal heating stoves, portable water tanks, sofa beds and dinette chairs.

«If we can not stop the building of more coal - fired power plants, those coal trains will be death trains — no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species.»

I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.

As for the criticism for McCain wanting to build non-carbon capturing coal plants, since we're going to be burning coal for decades by any estimate, if we implement a carbon restrictive regime, wouldn't we want to allow industry to build new plants that are more efficient than the current fleet?

In Indiana, Duke has already acquired $ 133 million in IRS credits and more than $ 350 million from Indiana and local governments to build the most expensive power plant ever build in a state that burns more coal than any, except Texas.

Raypierre makes the case very clear in the current Chicago Int» l Law J. that closed system combustion with oxygen can avoid much of the externalization of costs built into current plants; I imagine it can even contain the uranium and thorium fallout from coal (which is worse than that from a properly operated fission plant).

Worse than that, in related «horse trading» that the industry insisted on before it would allow the regulations to happen, they managed to grandfather old coal plants — so today we are still stuck with emissions from old coal plants — most of the electricity form coal is from plants that were built before 1970, indeed, most built before 1950, I believe....

so how do you plan on getting China to shut down their coal plants, not to mention building more capacity than the US has?

We want energy production technologies that make coal power plants and coal mining look ever more archaic and unfashionable so that no developed or developing nation can build another one with any pride, and so even energy companies will shut down existing plants with a sense of relief, rather than regret.

And, if anything, these countries are more insistent than ever (see China's stance discussed here) that the heavy lifting, not marginal Obama - style cuts, needs to be done (or somehow paid for) by the world's established powers, which built their prosperity on decades of unrestrained coal and oil combustion.

But even more daunting than this large amount of committed emissions, we found that total committed emissions grew by an average of 4 % between 2000 and 2012 as we built more coal - fired power plants over that period than in any previous 12 - year period.

China is never more than a couple of weeks away from running short of electricity, which is why the are building (as Biden said) 2 - 3 coal fired power plants per week.

If carbon free energy is so great, why isn't China adopting it rather than building coal fired plants?

The report finds that building new onshore wind and solar PV projects will be cheaper than operating existing coal plants by 2024 and 2027 respectively.

Bullish forecasts for global thermal coal demand erroneously assume most of more than a dozen other proposed Indian Ultra Mega Power Projects will be built.

But it's obvious that China's new regulations are less stringent than the EPA's, and will allow China to continue to build Ultra-supercritical coal - fired power plants.

If all the coal plants in the pipeline were to be built, then by 2030 emissions would be five times higher than the level associated with a 2C pathway, according to

But despite the fact that they are using less coal overall, the pace at which countries built new coal plants in 2015 was faster than it has been since 2011.

«But worldwide we've built more coal - burning power plants in the past decade than in any previous decade, and closures of old plants aren't keeping pace with this expansion.

If they're all built, U.S. coal exports would more than double from today's levels, according to developers» projections and federal data.

In the 1970s and 1980s, anti-nuclear groups forced the cancellation of 150 percent more nuclear plants than were ever built, which led to the building, and continued operation, of coal and natural gas plants.

Harvey, in many cases when you compare the costs of new build power stations gas comes out cheaper than coal even without a carbon price.

The second passed which called for a programmatic environmental impact statement to be conducted to study the potential impacts of building coal - exporting terminals throughout the Pacific Northwest, rather than one project - specific study looking at the Gateway Pacific Terminal project.

An early turning point in the coal war came in June 2007, when Florida's Public Service Commission refused to license a huge $ 5.7 - billion, 1,960 - megawatt coal plant because the utility proposing it could not prove that building the plant would be cheaper than investing in conservation, efficiency, or renewable energy.

While testifying in front of the Iowa Utilities Board, Hansen said, «If we can not stop the building of more coal - fired power plants, those coal trains will be death trains — no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species.»

Neilio, I'm with you on this.I just love the way you stand up to that guy's strange arguments.I too am extremely concerned at the way we are all being made to follow this crazy «science», to the detriment of most normal Humans» lives.I'm in England.We are living on a huge mass of fossil fuel, (coal, oil and now gas from Fracking), and we're being told that we must not use it to keep warm.Coal - fired power plants are being shut down.Useless windfarms are swamping our country.Nuclear stations are planned when Germany has banned them in favour of Coal.China and India are building and using more coal stations than we ever did.

My (admittedly rather dim) understanding is that coal fired plants are cheaper to build than NPPs.

Indian energy minister Piyush Goyal recently stated that solar farms are cheaper than building new coal - fired power plants.

China builds more than one new coal - fired power plant each week.