Sentences with phrase «clean coal facility»

It was extremely discouraging to me when an official from the City of Niagara Falls seemed to promote the closing specific power generators, like this clean coal facility in Somerset, putting hundreds of hard working men and women out of work.

Not exact matches

As for the Kemper Clean Coal project the company decided to scrap the project and instead decided to turn it into a natural gas powered facility.

Southern signed a memorandum of understanding with state - owned Chinese company Shenhua Group earlier this year to collaborate on clean coal technologies, but the one licensing of TRIG on a Chinese facility so far is for the gasification technology only, minus the capture component, according to Southern officials.

When coal - fired power plants close communities can face painful transitions, and the debate over one Massachusetts facility shows the local impacts of a national shift to cleaner power

As the second - biggest coal - fired facility west of the Mississippi, Colstrip's power plant could be affected by the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, which would require Montana to reduce carbon emissions 47 percent by 2030.

«It looks like a Dutch landscape painting from the 16th century, and then to the left there's this crazy, destructive - looking coal plant,» says Hayes, who is focusing on bioremedial plantings to try to cleanse the earth of heavy metals, while Camporeale, an animator and composer, is working on a sound installation in a nonfunctioning wastewater management facility.

• Leads global sector public financing towards cleaner energy by calling for the end of U.S. government support for public financing of new coal - fired powers plants overseas, except for the most efficient coal technology available in the world's poorest countries, or facilities deploying carbon capture and sequestration technologies; and

Although Gov. Jerry Brown isn't involved in decisions on the five proposed coal facilities, he could lend his influence to the debate as governor of the most economically powerful state in the country and the national leader on clean energy and climate policy.

Together those facilities will generate 600 MW of clean electricity, reducing the province's reliance on coal power.

Rainforest Action Network along with Peaceful Uprising, Utah Moms for Clean Air and the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers organized a 60 person rally in from of the office of coal exporter Ambre Energy asking them to stop their development of coal export facilities in Longview, Washington.

Weiss said that, while natural gas burns cleaner, the NETL study concluded that the end - to - end emissions involved in moving U.S. natural gas to an LNG export facility, then liquefying it, then shipping it across the ocean, then de-liquefying it, and shipping it to users in other countries, would be as energy and emissions intensive, or more, than using regionally produced coal — i.e., because of the LNG export supply chain, it has no advantage over coal.

[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.&rClean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.&rclean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»

«If the government creates standards that are not practical, they risk not just shutting down existing plants but also halting the development of additional clean coal technology facilities.

The Power Technology website notes that «As gloomy portents go, they don't come much gloomier for «clean coal» than recent developments at the Kemper County energy facility in Mississippi», which is «widely regarded to be one of the world's biggest proofs - of - concept for clean coal» and which «has failed to deliver.»

In June 2014, under authority from the Clean Air Act (CAA) section 111 (d), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published their draft Clean Power Plan, a proposed rule to limit carbon emissions from existing large coal facilities across the country.

In addition to regulating fuel economy, EPA is applying Clean Air Act permitting requirements to large stationary sources of greenhouse gases: power plants, refineries, steel mills, pulp and paper factories, and cement production facilities.63 EPA will soon establish greenhouse gas New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for coal - fired power plants and petroleum refineries.64 If these go unchallenged, it is likely that EPA will develop greenhouse gas performance standards for numerous other industrial source categories.

(Sec. 1402) Authorizes a state to provide a tax or fee incentive to entities engaged in production of electricity from coal mined in the state and used in a facility that uses scrubbers or other forms of clean coal technology.

«Clean Coal» can't happen without CCS, and no coal CCS facility has ever been built in AmerCoal» can't happen without CCS, and no coal CCS facility has ever been built in Amercoal CCS facility has ever been built in America.

Because there is no commercial scale tidal, wave, or clean coal, Exelon's financially challenged nuclear facilities would likely earn an estimated $ 300 million per year from low carbon credits while renewables would get virtually no support.

In a country where 244 million have no electricity and 819 no access to clean cooking facilities, it is impossible to find a solution without coal being part of the energy mix — Coal is essential to global efforts to achieving universal energy access.&racoal being part of the energy mix — Coal is essential to global efforts to achieving universal energy access.&raCoal is essential to global efforts to achieving universal energy access.»

I merely note it here to make the point that clean coal technologies can never be a complete, worldwide replacement for existing coal facilities.

In a historic vote this morning, Mississippi state regulators slammed the brakes on the Kemper coal power plant, saying they will refuse to ask utility customers to pay anything for Kemper's non-functional multi-billion dollar «clean coal» gasification technology and will re-designate the plant as a natural gas facility.

In cooperation with AEP, the French company Alstom unveiled the world's largest carbon capture facility at a coal plant, so called «clean coal,» which will store around 100,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide a year 2,1 kilometers (7,200 feet) underground.

Via:: Journal - Sentinel Online, «Doyle backs clean coal plant in Illinois, Facility would showcase new technology.»

It's goal is to supply a reliable, cost - effective supply of electricity through a variety of sources including clean coal, natural gas, solar, wind and hydroelectric facilities.