Sentences with phrase «by coal retirements»

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Energy Secretary Rick Perry commissioned the study in April to evaluate whether «regulatory burdens» imposed by past administrations — including that of President Barack Obama — had forced the premature retirement of baseload power plants that provide nonstop power, like those fired by coal and nuclear fuel.

The natural gas plants are necessary partly because of expected load growth, partly because of the intermittent nature of solar power and partly because of the planned retirement of around 3,000 megawatts of generation powered by less efficient coal and oil plants, he said.

One - third of those plants, among the oldest and dirtiest in the United States, were to be shuttered by the end of 2012, making it the biggest year for coal plant retirements in the nation's history.

When environmental lawyer Samantha (Kelly Noonan) returns to her childhood home to celebrate her coal - mining father George's (Jeff Fahey) retirement, some gentle ribbing by his coworkers prods her into volunteering to work with him in the mine on his last day.

It's also unsupported, and in some cases contradicted, by the DOE study ordered by Perry in April that examined the link between coal and nuclear plant retirements, market forces and grid reliability and resiliency.

Committee Chair Lisa Murkowski (R - AK) asked his personal opinion of the risks posed to resilience by the impending nuclear and coal retirements on «a scale of 1 to 10.»

The already significant pace of coal plant retirements in PJM Interconnection is about to kick into high gear over the next couple of months, according to a new study by Genscape.

BERLIN, 23 March 2018 — Coal plant closure momentum is growing in Europe this month, with four German plants retiring or announcing retirement in March, and Ireland committing to a total coal phase out by 2Coal plant closure momentum is growing in Europe this month, with four German plants retiring or announcing retirement in March, and Ireland committing to a total coal phase out by 2coal phase out by 2025.

At this rate, by 2022 yearly retirements worldwide will exceed new capacity additions and the global coal fleet will begin to shrink.

In addition, regulations imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) aimed at improving air quality have contributed to the retirement of coal capacity (over 50 gigawatts (GW) of coal capacity has been retired since 2002 with retirements in recent years partially due to regulations).

By creating a demand for this supposedly dispatchable power, the policy discourages the retirement of the very coal units that AEMO has identified as ill - suited to our needs.

If global power sector emissions remain flat until 2025, before falling more steeply later on, then losses could reach $ 8.3 tn by 2060 and early retirements of coal and gas plants would climb to 2,350 GW.

The majority of the reductions in the RGGI region to date have occurred because of coal unit retirements and cutbacks in the use of residual oil which were driven by the economics of low natural gas fuel prices.

High - income countries should commit now to end the building of new unabated coal - fired power generation and accelerate early retirement of existing unabated capacity, while middle - income countries should aim to limit new construction now and halt new builds by 2025.»

The evolution of the US energy sector is far from over, however, as retirements are forecast to rise to 60GW by 2020 and 92GW by 2030, which is equal to 27 % of the total US coal generation fleet in 2012.

Similarly, emission reductions in the UK power sector were largely driven by the retirement of old, inefficient coal plant during the 1990s, through sulphur regulations which meant plant owners were faced with the choice of either retrofitting stock or retiring it (Eyre, 2001).

Coal, pushed to retirement by EPA rules and cheap natural gas, diminishes in influence while solar capacity steadily rises to replace it.

Indian utilities may also want to consider a coal retirement policy previously used to help utilities retire nuclear assets through private - sector bonds, now being considered by utilities in Western U.S. states like Colorado and New Mexico to transition from coal to clean.

But $ 20 million of that will go to workers discharged from coal mines, $ 25 million to the Appalachian communities effected, $ 6 million to economically distressed communities, and roughly $ 5 million for «brownfield» studies in communities affected by the retirement of coal - fired plants.

Environmental regulatory requirements may have been the straw that broke a baseload's camel's back — particularly for coal plants — but it appears that most baseload plants were already burdened by the effects of low natural gas prices, eroding customer demand, and lower capacity factors before the incremental burden of new regulations tipped the balance over to retirement.»

«DR could impact coal and nuclear plant retirement decisions by keeping down wholesale prices,» Feldman said.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is expected to act by January 10, 2018, on the Department of Energy's notice of proposed rulemaking on «grid resiliency pricing,» which directs the commission to impose rules that would prevent early retirement of coal and nuclear - fired power plants in the Eastern United States.

The rule is designed to speed up the retirement of the nation's fleet of coal - fired power plants — the most carbon - intensive way of creating electricity — and could more than double the rate of coal plant closures by 2040.

In 2008, approximately 8.5 million people lived within a 3 - mile radius of an operational coal plant, but by 2016, following widespread coal plant retirements, that number fell to about 3.3 million.

By August, DOE released the study, which pinned coal and nuclear retirements on cheap natural gas, debunked reliability concerns, and identified opportunities to improve grid resilience.

Stranded value is defined as the difference between the NPV of cashflow in the B2DS (which phases - out all coal power by 2030) and the NPV of cashflow in the BAU scenario (which is based on retirements announced in company reports).

In addition to calling on high income countries to stop building new, unabated coal - fired power plants immediately and accelerate the retirement of their existing plants, the report also calls on middle income countries to limit new coal - fired power plants and begin retiring their existing fleet by 2025.

CAVT is used in several Synapse analyses to identify and investigate coal units at risk for retirement, including two studies led by Mr. Knight for the Energy Foundation: Displacing Coal: An Analysis of Natural Gas Potential in the 2012 Electric System Dispatch (August 2013), and Forecasting Coal Unit Competitiveness: Coal Retirement Assessment Using Synapse's Coal Asset Valuation Tool (October 20coal units at risk for retirement, including two studies led by Mr. Knight for the Energy Foundation: Displacing Coal: An Analysis of Natural Gas Potential in the 2012 Electric System Dispatch (August 2013), and Forecasting Coal Unit Competitiveness: Coal Retirement Assessment Using Synapse's Coal Asset Valuation Tool (October 20Coal: An Analysis of Natural Gas Potential in the 2012 Electric System Dispatch (August 2013), and Forecasting Coal Unit Competitiveness: Coal Retirement Assessment Using Synapse's Coal Asset Valuation Tool (October 20Coal Unit Competitiveness: Coal Retirement Assessment Using Synapse's Coal Asset Valuation Tool (October 20Coal Retirement Assessment Using Synapse's Coal Asset Valuation Tool (October 20Coal Asset Valuation Tool (October 2013).

The costs of the equipment needed to control acid and toxic metal emissions, such as flue gas desulfurization (FGD) and dry sorbent injection (DSI), play a significant role in retrofitting and retirement decisions faced by coal plant operators.

In these projections, 90 % of the coal - fired capacity retirements occur by 2016, coinciding with the first year of enforcement for the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.

Projected retirements of coal - fired generating capacity in the AEO2014 include retirements above and beyond those reported to EIA as planned by power plant owners and operators.

At today's meeting, the TVA Board voted to delegate authority to TVA CEO Bill Johnson to determine the exact retirement date of the Allen coal units, which must retire by December 31, 2018 under the terms of a 2011 Consent Decree with EPA and environmental groups.

«This is confirmed by data from electricity market monitors, SEC disclosures by coal and nuclear plant owners, and the simple fact that the vast majority of coal and nuclear retirements are occurring in regions with the least wind generation.»

In a Friday memo, Perry asked his chief of staff to undertake a 60 day inquiry into «the extent to which continued regulatory burdens, as well as mandates and tax and subsidy policies, are responsible for forcing the premature retirement of baseload power plants,» such as those fueled by coal or nuclear energy, among other grid related questions.

In this webinar from June 9, 2016, Synapse's Senior Associate Patrick Luckow and Senior Associate Pat Knight discuss scenarios in which United States electric sector CO2 emissions could decline by 30 percent by 2030 driven largely by these new realities, combined with economic retirements of older coal plants.

The closure plan was filed in response to a request by the N.C. Utilities Commission, which ordered Progress to provide its retirement schedule for «unscrubbed» coal - fired units in North Carolina.