Sentences with phrase «cheapest coal generators»

But some of the country's cheapest coal generators are also in Inner Mongolia, pricing the wind farms out of the power market.

Not exact matches

The payments would've bolstered the economics for coal and nuclear generators who've seen their profits and market share squeezed by cheap gas and renewables.

Cheap power often means dirty power, and in China, miners draw on low - cost coal and hydroelectric generators.

NuScale claims it will be able to produce power at about seven to nine cents per kilowatt - hour — roughly the same as big nuclear plants, only a few cents more than the cheapest modern natural gas — fired or coal - fired plants, and one - third the cost of a typical diesel generator.

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.

New wind power is now cheaper per megawatt - hour than new coal - or gas - fired electricity generation, but renewable energy still needs subsidies to compete with existing generators.

Fukushima presented an opportunity for AGL Energy because it meant that Tepco, the plant's operator, was no longer in a position to invest in Loy Yang A and was a distressed seller of its one third stake in Loy Yang A. AGL Energy, which already had a 32.5 per cent stake in the plant, says Loy Yang A will remain one of the lowest cost generators in the NEM because of cheap coal at the doorstep — it pays just $ 6 / t for brown coal, which would give it a massive advantage over black coal generators in NSW, which are facing costs of $ 45 / t and will go higher in future years.

**** Remember all that huff and puff put out over the last few months by the Clean Energy Council and near - bankrupt wind power outfit, Infigen about wind power becoming so cheap as to be competitive with coal and gas fired generators?