Sentences with phrase «closing coal units»

Not exact matches

It's a close allegiance, but there are cracks over the president's vocal praise for fossil - fuel development — particularly natural gas, which yields fewer emissions per power unit than oil and coal.

The Duisburg - Hochfeld plant has closed last week (1), and the last coal unit at the Werdohl - Elverlingsen plant will follow suit on 31 March (2).

Xcel Energy, the dominant utility in Colorado, announced it was closing seven coal units.

On March 2, for example, German coal generator Enervie said it would close the 310 - MW Werdohl - Elverlingsen unit — a 1982 - built plant in North Rhine - Westphalia that ran only 780 hours last year — by month's end.

My Clean Break column today takes a closer look at efforts by Ontario Power Generation to convert some of its coal - fired generating assets into biomass - burning power plants, including potentially several units at its Nanticoke Generating Station — North America's largest coal plant.

For example, the number of people living close to an operating coal plant — which is made up of individual coal units — plummeted in the last decade.

Based on company reports and including member state phase - out policies, only 27 % of operating coal units in the EU are planning to close before 2030.

Two of the coal plants that planned to close — Eggborough and one unit at Fiddlers Ferry — have secured SBR contracts for winter 2016/17, offering stays of execution on their eventual closure.

After the merger of Duke Energy and Progress Energy, Progress Energy Carolinas announced in July 2012 that it would be accelerating the closing of the Robinson Unit 1 coal plant by October 2012, but it would remain online through the summer season to help meet heightened electricity demand.

Last summer, FirstEnergy said it planned to sell or close its 136 MW Bay Shore coal plant in Oregon, Ohio, and units 1 - 4, representing 720 MW, of its seven unit W.H. Sammis coal plant in Stratton, Ohio, by 2020.