Sentences with phrase «coal capacity»

There were no additions of coal capacity in the first six months of 2014.

This represents about 15 percent of total coal capacity in existence today.

A decision now to invest in additional coal capacity might see a new plant coming online in a decade or so — and still with us into the 2050's or beyond.

Developing nations are not going to find the capital to build coal capacity.

However, you might notice that in 2011 and 2012 there is a significant amount of coal capacity being built.

Additional coal capacity was unavailable due to frozen coal piles.

Seven regions and provinces of China each completed more new coal capacity between 2010 and 2015 than the entire US.

For the second year running, there was more coal capacity installed (2,147 megawatts) than decommissioned (840 megawatts).

Much of the existing coal capacity in the United States was built from 1950 to 1990 during a time when electricity sales were growing much faster than population and gross domestic product.

Most of this retiring coal capacity is found in the Appalachian region: slightly more than 8 GW combined in Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, and Indiana.

A build that, taking into account China's past economic over-achievements could accelerate to replace coal capacity at a faster than expected pace.

What we could do is simply have the state (starting in the south east of the country where the oldest plants are plus Muja in WA) acquire installed coal capacity at market cost and progressively replace this capacity with gas - fired CCGT Brayton Cycle plants.

Based on our modelling, the median bid for wind plus storage is lower than the operating cost of all coal plants currently in Colorado, while the median solar plus storage bid is lower than 74 % of operating coal capacity.

at the link below the histogram (third chart) shows China having built something like 600GW of coal capacity between 2000 and 2011.

China's move to halt or eliminate 170 gigawatts of coal burning follows a larger plan to keep total coal capacity below 1,100 gigawatts by 2020.

The 50 GW of planned coal could push national coal capacity factors as low as 50 %, just as gigawatts of cheap renewables come online, meaning unless new plants replace retiring capacity they could come online as stranded assets.

For comparison, the combined fleets of China and the US today, the world's top two countries for coal capacity, total 1,208 GW.

Under the 2016 reforms, the government also agreed with utilities to keep 2.7 GW of inefficient brown coal capacity mothballed for four years as a «very last resort» emergency standby reserve.

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

The onslaught of coal capacity retirements in May and June could likely exert upward pressure on power prices in PJM, which have so far been running below 2014 levels, according to Genscape.

That said, of course, my sense is that the coal industry is trying to change the subject, because reason is against it (in terms of its desire to build additional coal capacity before technologies are available that can take carbon dioxide out of coal emissions).

Gigawatts of new coal capacity coming online, compared to gigawatts of retired coal.

Shifting the region's forecast coal capacity in 2035 from the current mix to ultra-supercritical would reduce cumulative emissions by 1.3 billion tonnes.

In fact, APS» 2012 purchase of Southern California Edison's share of the Four Corners coal plant — adding 179 megawatts (MW) to APS» owned coal capacity — was a step in the opposite direction from clean energy and for protecting ratepayers, since APS has had to spend over $ 400 million for emissions control of these units.

In 2012, the same year when the U.S. lost about 9 GW of coal capacity according to the EIA, Germany added 2.9 GW, and should add another 5.3 GW this year, out of about 8 GW of coal projects in the pipeline through 2015.

Some of these new plants are replacing old ones, but overall, the German Energy Agency projects coal capacity will climb.

You see, China entered 2017 aggressively trying to reduce coal capacity.

The average steam coal capacity factor was 46 %, combined cycle gas was 58 %, and nuclear was 93.3 %.

Coal capacity tripled between 2007 and 2017, from 71,121 MW to 211,562 MW.

In the end, they ended up retiring an amount of coal capacity roughly proportional to the lost demand from California.

CEA expects 317 GW peak national power demand in 2026 - 2027, 20.7 % lower than its previous estimate, thus requiring no new coal capacity beyond the 50 GW of coal currently under construction.

If policymakers and the plant's investors restart construction, the plant would likely reduce the share of electricity the state receives from coal from 21 percent in 2016 to 3 percent, allowing the retirement of most or all of the remaining coal capacity.

To some commentators this increase in coal capacity suggests last year's fall in Chinese coal use is only a blip and that carbon capture and storage technology will be critical to tame Chinese coal emissions.

Nuclear is not competing with point of use PV — it is competing with baseload coal capacity.

The chart shows needed & unneeded coal capacity (GW) in 2020 based on existing plants as of 2016 and under construction under different coal plant capacity factors and power generation growth rates.

全球规划燃煤项目不断削减 中国削减产能最多 (Global planned coal capacity shows drop) First Financial Daily September 7, 2016

The basic maths of continued growth in China's coal capacity does not add up, and the 13 FYP marks the point where this can not be ignored any longer.

With coal generation set to peak, there is no need for further coal capacity, whilst on the supply side, there is the potential for China to become a net exporter of coal again.

Fluvanna pushed total wind power capacity in the state to more than 20,000 megawatts, while coal capacity stands at 19,800 megawatts and is slated to fall to 14,700 megawatts by the end of 2018 thanks to planned coal powerplant closures.

The incentive to remove these barriers has never been greater: Coal capacity decreased to below 300 GW for the first time since 1988 in March of this year, and an additional 40 GW of retirements are expected by 2017.

Several details remain unknown, but the median bid for wind plus storage appears to be lower than the operating cost of all coal plants currently in Colorado, while the median solar plus storage bid could be lower than 74 % of operating coal capacity.

As in past years, utilities all across the nation indicate they expect to continue retiring coal - fired generation, and virtually no one expects to add more coal capacity to their systems in the next decade.

Increasingly strict controls on total coal capacity and power plant emissions are expected to prompt the retirement of up to 20 GW of older plants and spur technological upgrades to China's remaining 1,000 GW of coal power.

Victoria normally has the lowest average wholesale spot prices due to their brown coal capacity, but that's not the case at the moment.