Sentences with phrase «building coal plants»

That's not too difficult to figure out why they're building coal plants.

RICKY BATES: You know, we stopped building coal plants in 88 in Texas for a reason.

In some of these countries there is little or no coal - powered generation at present; building coal plants is likely to prevent the development of other, less polluting energy sources and lock in high emission power structures for years to come.

Dominion Virginia Power shows no further interest in building coal plants.

and Germany is building coal plants.

India is building coal plants because for them the marginal current premium for solar is huge in their economy.

Why have the governments of almost all the rest of the major industrialized democracies taken action, whereas China is rapaciously building coal plants as fast as possible?

China is building coal plants, but so are we and the Europeans.

This is worth emphasizing: For the past 20 years, nobody's been building coal plants.

«We're talking to Wall Street investors and telling them that if someone wants to borrow a billion dollars to build a coal plant and you don't ask them what their strategy is to control carbon dioxide, you're making a very bad investment,» Hawkins says.

In discussion with the potential developer — the largest in the UK — I was told that wind energy could not compete on a level playing field with energy from a newly built coal plant without CCS (despite what some have stated here).

The argument that «the 100 year accumulation of CO2 the developed world has pumped into the atmo means you can not build coal plants otherwise New York City floods» has not persuaded the Chinese to date.

I was told that wind energy could not compete on a level playing field with energy from a newly built coal plant without CCS,

Every 4 days china builds a coal plant, in america even with slower economic growth our energy demand is growing.

Vietnam now intends to build coal plants.

«The governor said, «I want the Department of Water Resources to build a coal plant,»» said Ron Robie, Director of the Department of Water Resources, a branch of the state Resources Agency.

With this financial matching approach, the investor has the same capital costs and the same fuel costs whether building a coal plant or a wind turbine, and because the wind turbine has been scaled up, the investor will sell the same amount of power.

Caldeira: «Basically, people are saying «If you don't build this natural gas plant, we'll build this coal plant.»

China building a coal plant a week, in hysterics at the self - loathing, politically correct, groupthink gullibility of the climate obsessed West.

They receive cut - rate electricity and won't have to pay their fair share of the cost of building the coal plant.

The greenies wanted to stop coal use so they planned all sorts of «global» regulations which inspired China to build coal plants like crazy and use imported coal.

He admires how China can build coal plants quickly.

«President Obama openly ran in 2008 on a platform of making electricity rates «skyrocket» and bankrupting anyone who dared to build a coal plant in the United States,» Travis Fisher, an economist at the Institute for Energy Research, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Vietnam recently cancelled plans to build nuclear plants and is now planning to build coal plants instead.

If we build the coal plants we just don't have a chance.

The utilities in this country have figured out that when they build a coal plant, they don't have a problem.

Energy companies should never get a social license to build another coal plant,» said Samantha Smith, head of the global climate and energy initiative at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

Not exact matches

At the signing ceremony in July that finalized plans for Dubai's 2,400 - megawatt Hassyan coal project, the Chinese group set to build the plant and the Saudis who will operate it were joined by a partner: an executive from General Electric ge, standing proudly near a backdrop boasting the familiar blue GE logo.

DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Michigan regulators on Friday cleared DTE Energy's request to build a near - $ 1 billion natural gas power plant, the first approval of such a large facility for a regulated utility in decades and a move that coincides with the retirement of coal - fired plants.

The giant mining operations of Asia stack thousands of computers in dimly lit factory buildings powered by cheap electricity from coal - fed generating plants.

Since virtually no developed country is building coal - fired plants any more, the promise not to finance such projects is no great sacrifice.

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.

Likewise Ontario, already committed to phase out coal power by 2014, cancelled a project to build a gas - fired power plant in Oakville last year in the face of fierce local opposition.

Meanwhile, Bechtel is doing a brisk business in the U.S. building the gas - fired power plants that are rapidly replacing costly coal - burning dinosaurs.

While India is building new coal - fired power plants, they are no guarantee that demand for U.S. coal will increase.

Old coal plants are increasingly lying dormant, yet new ones keep getting built, according to a new report.

«Further, while the current agreement effectively blocks the development of clean coal in America,» Trump said, «China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plants.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Think of it another way, in the last 7 year cycle FCA had an average FCF of $ 36 million a year, and now FCA is expanding into different rail cars types and the refurbishment / rebuilt market, more gigawatts of coal fired power plant capacity will begin construction in 09 then was build in the last 7 years and FCA has $ 162 million in cash from the 05 IPO.

He is strongly opposed to traditional coal plants and would use whatever means necessary to stop new plants from being built, including a ban on new traditional coal facilities.

In addition China is set to build its first clean coal plant in 09 and Germany has coal plants in the middle of major cities with zero emissions.

Alberta's electricity producers are planning to build new natural - gas - fired plants to replace a few aging coal plants — a move that will reduce carbon emissions and air pollution that comes with coal.

One forgets that the 19th - century worshipers came in from streets redolent of horse manure, to a building whose heating plant left coal dust on the higher reaches of the furniture.

In addition to the Oswego operation, NRG runs coal - fired plants in Dunkirk and Tonawanda that were built in the 1950s.

Climate Camp 2008 hopes «thousands» of protestors will pitch their tents close to Kingsnorth, which the government hopes will be one of the first coal - powered plant built in Britain for 30 years.

Energy giant E.ON has delayed plans to build the controversial new coal fire plant in Kingsnorth it was revealed today.

«We established the state's first carbon dioxide emissions standard when siting new power plants which will ensure that no new dirty, coal - burning plants will be built in the State of New York, period,» Cuomo said.

Decision not to allow any new coal - powered plants to be built in Britain without carbon capture represents a major victory for the new Department for Energy and Climate Change and green pressure groups

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.

Building them could displace new coal plants or relieve the pressure to extend the life of old reactors that should instead be retired.