Sentences with phrase «by coal utilities»

GES was set up by the coal utility cooperative Western Fuels Association (WFA) «as a vehicle for advocacy on climate change, the environmental impact of CO2, and fossil fuel use.»

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Last year, two events caused North American thermal coal — the coal used by utilities to generate electricity — to fall by about 30 %.

Berkshire has pledged to reduce coal - power generation by 76 % in its Nevada utility company.

By: Victor Moolman 21st October 2016 Mining equipment supplier Tenova Takraf Africa is offering junior miners in the surface mining industry a tailor - made package that will help new mining operations produce State - owned power utility Eskom - grade coal.

By: Marleny Arnoldi 25th April 2018 State - owned power utility Eskom on Wednesday said it had put measures in place to deal with the coal shortages at seven of its power stations, in Mpumalanga, and has assured the public that this would not result in load - shedding.

By: Simone Liedtke 30th April 2018 State - owned power utility Eskom says it is considering a proposal by Optimum coal mine business rescue practitioners (BRPs) to reduce the monthly coal supply tonnage from the mine from 400 000 t to 200 000 t for the remainder of the contract perioBy: Simone Liedtke 30th April 2018 State - owned power utility Eskom says it is considering a proposal by Optimum coal mine business rescue practitioners (BRPs) to reduce the monthly coal supply tonnage from the mine from 400 000 t to 200 000 t for the remainder of the contract perioby Optimum coal mine business rescue practitioners (BRPs) to reduce the monthly coal supply tonnage from the mine from 400 000 t to 200 000 t for the remainder of the contract period.

Cuomo personally traveled to Western New York to announce a repowering agreement for a coal - burning facility in Dunkirk that would switch it to natural gas and keep the town's revenue base intact, largely by forcing utility ratepayers o pay a little extra on their monthly bills.

Natural gas combined - cycle power plants are already heavily favored by utilities to the near exclusion of coal, said Joost de Gouw, an atmospheric scientist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

For the last decade, coal - burning utilities have been fighting a rearguard action, resisting costly antipollution measures required by environmental legislation.

But, he added, EPA's rule will disrupt utility hedging by eliminating coal from the fuel mix and «depriving the market of its flexibility.»

All told, utilities have canceled 14,000 megawatts of planned coal - fired generation and delayed an additional 32,000 megawatts, according to the latest survey by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in Pittsburgh.

MATS will help level the competitive landscape in energy by forcing coal - fired utilities to absorb the costs of cleaning up their emissions.

But the agency could get stronger cuts by setting a combined and more ambitious target for coal and gas - fired plants, and leave it to utilities and states to decide how to get there.

Dozens of utilities surveyed by Reuters earlier this year said they would continue to move away from coal despite efforts by the Trump administration to revive the coal industry.

For example, a study by Vasilis Fthenakis and Hung Chul Kim of Columbia University (2009) found that, on a life - cycle electricity - output basis — including direct and indirect land transformation — utility - scale PV in the U.S. Southwest requires less land than the average U.S. power plant using surface - mined coal.

study paid for by the the coal and utility pressure group American Coalition for Clean Coal Electriccoal and utility pressure group American Coalition for Clean Coal ElectricCoal Electricity.

Holmstead was dismissed by a federal judge as an expert witness in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency against Ameren Missouri, a coal burning utility.

Dr. Willie Soon is a Smithsonian Institution astrophysicist paid by Charles Koch, ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute and coal utility Southern Company to write papers dismissing climate change, publish op - eds saying coal pollution won't affect our health, refute the seriousness of ocean acidification, and apparently anything else he can be paid to deny.

But negotiations between the two groups resulted in a legislative compromise — dubbed the Clean Electricity and Coal Transition Plan — that will wean the state off coal - fired electricity no later than 2030 except for one out - of - state power plant that is partly owned by an Oregon - based utilCoal Transition Plan — that will wean the state off coal - fired electricity no later than 2030 except for one out - of - state power plant that is partly owned by an Oregon - based utilcoal - fired electricity no later than 2030 except for one out - of - state power plant that is partly owned by an Oregon - based utility.

In my case, I punched in my ZIP, 10524, and up came the Danskammer Generating Station, a coal - burning plant down the Hudson River, owned by Dynergy Power, which sells electricity to Central Hudson, my utility.

Just recently, Duke was given authority by Bush's former OMB Director, Mitch Daniels to force their customers to assume the risk for the plant even though the utility commission did not require Duke to file anything near a current construction cost estimate for the 630 Megawatt plant they are seeking to build in what is already the largest concentration of coal fired capacity in the world, SW Indiana.

Peabody says the coal is exported for use by utilities and steelmakers in North America and Europe.

Any carbon tax paid by a utility, oil company, coal company etc. comes right back as a higher price on the consumer.

The ads were sponsored by a local group but paid for with contributions from Peabody Energy, the world's biggest private coal company, and a Kansas utility, Sunflower Electric Power.

The utilities and coal companies who created the outrageous ad are motivated purely by financial interest.

asked the advertisement, which was paid for by Kansans for Affordable Energy, a group that has received financial backing from a local utility, Sunflower Electric Power, and the world's largest private coal company, Peabody Energy.

Without a clear signal that carbon has a price, European power utilities will be charmed by the cheapness of coal, increasingly available thanks to America's embrace of shale gas.

The plan calls for tapping a financial model that utilities have long used to build nuclear, coal - and natural gas - fired plants: by tacking costs — plus a profit — onto customers» bills.

CPP is loathed by most Republicans, some Democrats, industry associations and business groups, utilities, coal companies, and mining interests.

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

The European Commission has given limited backing for gas and coal power subsidies, which will boost conventional utilities caught out by a surge in renewable power, but may undermine carbon cuts.

«Coincidentally, by phasing out coal the UK is not only acting in the best interests of their citizens through improved air quality, but also the financial interests of utility shareholders,» the report states.

It warns investors that utilities currently only plan to close 27 % of capacity by then and that a complete phase - out of coal by 2030 could stem utility losses by $ 22 billion ($ 26bn).

Other programs that provide economic support for coal include federal and state tax breaks, the Rural Utilities Service loan guarantee program, research on new combustion technologies by the Department of Energy, and the Department of the Interior's coal leasing program.

WASHINGTON — Officials weighing federal applications by utilities to build new coal - fired power plants can not consider their greenhouse gas output, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency ruled late Thursday.

[4] In it, Hileman described «a systematic campaign of disinformation» being conducted by a small group of scientists calling themselves the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) whose work is funded by coal, oil, utility, automobile, and chemical companies — the corporations whose profits might decline if Congress took global warming seriously.

Paul Loeffelman, director of Corporate External Affairs for utility giant American Electric Power, states that the EPA's regulations will force more than 50 gigawatts of coal generation — about 300 power plants — to be retired by 2016.

The utility will be prepared by 2032 to power the city without energy from its coal - fired plants.

The Greening Earth Society (GES) was a group that was funded and controlled by the Western Fuels Association (WFA), an association of coal - burning utility companies.

study paid for by the the coal and utility pressure group American Coalition for Clean Coal Electriccoal and utility pressure group American Coalition for Clean Coal ElectricCoal Electricity.

Industry witnesses were lining up Sept. 11 to take shots at a proposal by the Ohio Power unit of American Electric Power to protect the futures of about 3,100 MW of coal - fired generation through a power purchase agreement it wants approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.

However, that small increase is far outweighed by the emissions reductions that come when utilities switch from coal to gas to generate electricity.

The study (PDF) singles out a Facebook facility that relies on a coal - powered utility, along with Apple's North Carolina data center, also powered by coal.

Utilities and energy companies are realizing that coal is an increasingly bad investment — that was definitely the case with Brayton Point, which had just been purchased by new owners who quickly determined that keeping the plant running didn't make economic sense.

Imagine a utility that generates 100 % of the electricity it sells by burning coal.

On Dec. 15, Epcor Inc., a utility owned by the City of Edmonton announced it would expand its coal - fired Genesee plant by adding another 400 - megawatt unit.

«I'd let them stand on their own and compete against coal and natural gas and other sources, and let utilities make real - time market decisions on those types of things as opposed to being propped up by tax incentives and other types of credits that occur, both in the federal level and state level.»

As an example, recent long term contracts signed by several utilities in New England demonstrate that wind power can be cheaper than coal or nuclear.

BHI's reports mirror ALEC's model legislation attacking the Clean Power Plan, which was discussed at fossil fuel - funded events attended by Berman's partners and representatives from coal, oil, gas, and utility companies with a financial interest in blocking the EPA's new regulations.

Advocates for the coal and utilities industries criticised new proposals by the Environmental Protection Agency to curb ca...