Sentences with phrase «carbon capacity targets»

Low carbon capacity targets in the 13 FYP coupled with a low power demand environment will likely strand coal capacity.

No new coal plants are needed in China's 13th Five Year Plan as slower power demand growth and low carbon capacity targets squeeze coal generation out of power mix

As power demand growth slows from a historical average of 10 % to 3 % or less per year, the coal capacity in the pipeline, as well as some existing coal capacity, risks becoming stranded due to low carbon capacity targets, ongoing reforms in the power sector and carbon pricing.

Not exact matches

«This growth leads to more clean electricity capacity, which will help India meet its targets for the Paris Agreement, reduce carbon emissions and provide clean electricity to its growing population.»

Here's Shindell's argument, which notes, among other things, that action on «easier» targets like ozone and soot can build confidence and institutional capacity that could be applied to carbon dioxide down the line: Read more...

Here's Shindell's argument, which notes, among other things, that action on «easier» targets like ozone and soot can build confidence and institutional capacity that could be applied to carbon dioxide down the line:

I've been criticized in the past for seeing work that builds the human capacity for connectedness and empathy as more valuable than demanding targets for the concentration of carbon dioxide.

RWE AG, Vattenfall AB and Mitteldeutsche Braunkohlegesellschaft mbH agreed to close plants corresponding to 12 percent of the nation's total lignite generation capacity in a 1.6 billion euro ($ 1.8 billion) accord as Germany is falling behind its target to cut carbon emissions.

Many millions of people can't cope with the very high prices for fuel, (another 7 percent increase this month) with the certainty that if we have more cold winters the energy grid eventually won't be able to cope as we've closed too much of our capacity in order to meet our carbon targets and instead hope that useless windmills will take their place.

The explanation offered by Jonathan Pershing, a leader of the American delegation, was that the administration was waiting to measure the American technological and political capacity to address climate change and was looking to Congress to set specific targets for reducing carbon pollution.

[3] Each state has interim targets it must meet beginning in 2020, and the EPA proposed that states use a combination of four «building blocks» to achieve the emissions reductions: (1) improving the efficiency (heat rate) of existing coal - fired power plants; (2) switching from coal - fired power by increasing the use and capacity factor, or efficiency, of natural - gas combined - cycle power plants; (3) using less carbon - intensive generating power, such as renewable energy or nuclear power; and (4) increasing demand - side energy - efficiency measures.

LONDON, November 28, 2016 — China risks wasting $ 490 billion on new coal plants that will be unneeded as structural changes to its economy, increased non-coal capacity targets, power sector reforms and carbon pricing slashes coal - fired generation, analysis by the Carbon Tracker Initiative finds on Monday.

The Climate Change Scoping Plan has a target of adding 4,000 megawatts of combined heat and power capacity to displace 30,000 gigawatt hours of demand, thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 6.7 million metric tons of carbon by 2020.