Sentences with phrase «buy more coal»

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Not exact matches

Here's what that could entail: calling off talks to buy more B.C. hydro supply to offset the shuttering of Alberta's coal plants.

In complying with restrictions on use of coal, California buys more natural gas.

In the Maryland suburbs of Washington DC, I buy 100 % wind - generated electricity through PEPCO Energy Services, and it is only slightly more expensive than PEPCO's «standard service» which is about 57 % coal, 35 % nuclear, 5 % natural gas, and 1 % oil.

Now what we can do is 1) develop a sustainable energy economy 2) a) burn all the coal and other fossil fuels, buying us, if we make optimistic assumptions, perhaps a century of ever more elaborate schemes to meet energy needs with less and less suitable sources b) THEN in a severely degraded environment

People do not buy your dirty coal power's today will come, at that time, you will loss more money.

Buying up US coal just helps the other countries at the top, China, Russia, India and Australia to export more.

The owners get a lump sum to go away and buy something more profitable than coal, and the governments get an investment that pays for itself.

On the 4 Corners programme the other night, John Howard said that Australia would be silly to impose a domestic carbon tax as that would just allow China to buy our coal more cheaply.

From a purely pragmatic perspective, one could argue that the Republicans are simply looking out for taxpayer interests until you realize that their «don't buy it if it's more expensive» directive doesn't apply to synthetic fuels derived from coal and natural gas.

In buying Chinese goods, you are encouraging them to burn more coal.

I say this based on my experience as the former head of the TVA, which bought and burned more than 30 million tons of coal a year.

Electricity is bought and sold in a «free» market, as far as any are in fact totally «free» — the price of electricity is linked to that of gas and oil and coal and carbon, and it is also driven by supply and demand — it gets dearer in the cold weather when we use more (generally speaking).

The refundable tax credits were intended to make Virginia coal cheaper for utilities to buy, and thus more competitive with coal mined in other states.

The utility had a long - term power purchase agreement from 1988 with the Cedar Bay coal plant in Jacksonville, but now has bought the plant to shut it down, which it says will save its customers more than $ 70 million, as well as preventing nearly 1 million tons of carbon emissions annually.

It doesn't make a difference that a coal - burning powerplant has to reduce its emissions if they have to do it by reducing their own coal, that could be more costly than just buying an offset and we still get the same environmental result.

It will force Oregon ratepayers to pay more for alternative sources rather than buy cheap, fully amortized coal power that's going to be used anyway.

With a scrubber in place, a plant using high - sulfur coal can reduce its need to buy and surrender SO2 emissions permits by 90 % or more compared to a plant using the same fuel without a scrubber, making Illinois Basin coal much more competitive, especially against Central Appalachia which previously could rely on its low sulfur content as a competitive advantage.

Arch Coal had a sizable debt payment due in December, but opted to defer payment to mid-January in a desperate attempt to buy itself more time with debt - holders.

Buying new nuclear power instead of implementing efficiency measures, Lovins says, results in «more carbon release than if the same money were spent buying a new coal - fired power plant.&Buying new nuclear power instead of implementing efficiency measures, Lovins says, results in «more carbon release than if the same money were spent buying a new coal - fired power plant.&buying a new coal - fired power plant.»

We know a grid can buy coal at 5 cents per kWhr and nat gas for a little more, maybe 8 cents per kWhr.

But the nation's new law, which will mandate utility companies to buy all available renewable power — even if it's more expensive than coal — should be a clear sign that the US is falling even further behind in the clean energy race.

Having access to a western regional energy market is going to make it much easier for California to buy and build more renewables and help drive dirty coal off the market.

It's very cost - effective compared to buying primte - time commercials saying «use more oil and coal».

Progress Energy Florida lost a similar case before the PSC in 2007, when the commission ordered the company to refund $ 13.8 million for buying more expensive coal from 2003 to 2005.