Sentences with phrase «built coal power»

When carbon constraints go they still have every advantage since already built coal power stations make the cheapest electricity.
The economic incentive to shut down a newly built coal power plant once it is up and running would have to be huge and to my knowledge the replacement «green» technology either does not exist or does not offer the Chinese a large enough incentive to switch.
I appeased them as soon as possible, and was greeted with my first challenge... I built the coal power plant upwind.
If Peabody energy's bosses think about this problem, in the future people will not buy their duty energy, will they stop build coal power plant?
Thank you Andy Revkin, today's post pull me out of disappointment yestoday when I read Tenney's link about Germany are building coal power plants around world.
Your argument may be persusive on this blog but the Chinese «people» or the Chinese «government» have not been persuaded and are continuing to build coal power plants.
China are ignoring coal emitting greenhouse gas, not only build coal power plants but also useing coal in transportation area, coal to liquid.
If the Liberals and Left say this needs to be done they will design and build coal powered cars an trucks to piss them off and other nonsense.
«If somebody wants to build a coal power plant, they can.
With China, India, and the rest of the developing world building coal power plants as fast as they can get them on line at the rate of about 4 to 5 per week.
If we could, then the cheapest way to build a coal power station would be to build a nuclear power first and then convert it to burn coal.
SOCAR had informed its financiers, seven export credit agencies, that the company had shelved its plan to build a coal power plant of 672 MW in Aliaga.

Not exact matches

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.
Consequently, plans to build new coal - fired power stations will meet a mountain of resistance everywhere.
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.
Last year China built 10 times more renewable power capacity than natural gas - fired power, and three times more than coal - fired power.
«Building on Ottawa's earlier commitments to set a national carbon price, establish a clean fuel standard and to phase out traditional coal power, these measures will help Canada make the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.
While India is building new coal - fired power plants, they are no guarantee that demand for U.S. coal will increase.
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.
Barnaby Joyce said the government building a coal - fired power station would be consistent with its existing policies.
«If we intend to preach to others, we can not do so while building dirty coal power stations and new runways.
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.
- The establishment of an emissions performance standard that will prevent coal - fired power stations being built unless they are equipped with sufficient CCS to meet the emissions performance standard.
Environmentalists will challenge the government's plans to build new coal - fired power stations in Britain near the Kingsnorth site in Kent from today.
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.
Such a proposal had as much chance of being approved by Lib Dem MPs as a plan to build 1,000 coal - fired power stations in South - West England.
12) Coal fired power stations should be encouraged to be built to reduce our reliance on gas imports from dubious sources.
«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.
The establishment of an emissions performance standard that will prevent coal - fired power stations being built unless they are equipped with sufficient CCS to meet the emissions performance standard.
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.
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
Investors have rejected coal - fired generation as well; Texas - based utility TXU found itself under new ownership after announcing plans to build as many as 11 new coal - fired power plants.
For example, one 500 - megawatt coal - fired power plant (there are the equivalent of 500 of these in the U.S. and China is building the equivalent of two of them each week) produces three million tons of CO2 annually.
A «clean coal» power plant is set to be built in Illinois in 2009; if it works, it could help avoid catastrophic global warming
Until that happens, it may remain difficult to build coal - fired power plants.
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.
We can't afford to build a coal - fired power plant with CO2 coming out — so can we develop carbon capture and storage technologies, or should we be looking at solar - thermal?
Other mitigating factors for coal - fired electricity would be if thermal coal prices dropped off steeply or the cost of building a coal - fired power plant came down.
The electric power industry can achieve deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 by building new nuclear plants, sequestering coal - plant emissions, boosting wind energy and improving efficiency, the industry's top research group said yesterday.
Instead of building a new zero - emission coal - fired power plant in Illinois, the Obama administration will retrofit an old plant instead
If new plants can be built on time and on budget, the risk premium could fall, bringing the price of power from new plants down to 6.6 cents per kilowatt - hour — competitive with gas and coal — the report says.
If I recycle a bit more, if I make some energy efficiency, if I travel less, if I try to generate less carbon — what is the use of that when China is building another coal - fired power station next week?»
The project — meant to launch in April but pushed back by renovation delays — looks set to start just ahead of a larger, newly built advanced coal plant in Kemper County, Mississippi, run by Mississippi Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company in Atlanta, Georgia.
Australia and China are both building what will become zero - emissions coal - fired power plants using IGCC technology, dubbed ZeroGen and GreenGen, respectively.
As a result, the NRDC, the EDF, the Clean Air Task Force and other groups support both a cap - and - trade scheme to limit CO2 emissions as well as subsidies for the first CCS coal - fired power plants to be built.
According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.
The nation is building coal - fired power plants — one of the dirtiest forms of energy production — at a clip of two to three a week.
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