Sentences with phrase «coal capacity coming»

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

Not exact matches

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.

Some analysts expect that existing grid capacity may be enough to power U.S. electric cars in the near future, yet they do not rule out the possibility of new coal or nuclear plants coming on line if renewable energy sources are not developed

According to GBI, China's increase in coal production will come with additional government consolidation of the mining industry into large production bases that can achieve greater efficiencies and production capacities of 90 percent by mid-decade.

Now, would you prefer that additional capacity come from nuclear or from coal?

By comparison, a net of about 73 GW of fossil fuel generation came online in 2017 — 121 GW of new coal and gas - fired power capacity, less 48 GW of gas and coal that were retired.

The report said a net 35 GW of coal - fired generation capacity came online in 2017, as 67 GW of new capacity was commissioned but 32 GW was retired.

This graph from ACIL Allen shows that should the RET be repealed or diluted, there will be a lot more coal generation, and much of the mothballed capacity will come back into service.

Extraordinarily, the modellers also anticipate new fossil fuel capacity to be built from 2025 on — even under the current RET target — with coal coming online in following years.

The government plans to re-commission several retired coal power stations, and build more in the coming decade, with the remaining increase in capacity expected to come from new nuclear power plants.

China has expressed a strong interest in cleaner coal - based technologies like coal liquefaction and gasification, but the government appears to put official hope in renewable energy, setting a target of 12 % of its power generation capacity coming from renewables by 2020 — up from a mere 3 % in 2003.

BNEF expects the nation's coal - power capacity in 2040 will be about half of what it is now after older plants come offline and are replaced by cheaper and less - polluting sources such as gas and renewables.

Just over 50 % of all new U.S. capacity in 2013 came from natural gas (no surprise), while solar accounted for 22 %, coal added 11 %, and wind accounted for 8 %; other renewables made up the balance.

That would bring total closures of coal and gas plants over the coming four years to 49GW (around a third of total thermal capacity)-- which just happens to match the amount of wind and solar capacity that UBS anticipates will be added over the same period.

According to the WRI analysis, more than 34,000 MW of coal capacity is slated to come online in Vietnam, 30,000 MW in Turkey, and 22,000 MW in South Africa.

About 12 GW of coal - fired generating capacity — or about half of the region's coal - fired generating fleet — has come online since 2006.

Contrary to its own proposal to curb power subsidies with an emissions limit, the European Commission has approved the Polish capacity mechanism that will allow the country to subsidise coal - fired power plants for decades to come.

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.

The report's authors point out that recent increases in emissions from the EU's coal - fired power sector are not due to more coal - fuelled facilities coming on stream, but rather because existing plants are running at full capacity.

Most of the new GTL capacity will come from the conversion of Sasol's coal - to - liquids plant in Secunda, South Africa, to a GTL facility.

In addition, the activities include a total generation capacity of four gigawatt that come from coal, gas, and renewable sources in Spain and Portugal.

And when we do need to add new capacity, it will likely come from far cleaner coal technologies, nuclear power and renewables like wind and solar, the two men asserted.

Currently, 1,600 new coal plants in 62 countries are planned or in the process of being constructed across the world, expanding the world's coal - fired energy capacity by 43 % in the coming years (New York Times, 2017).

As power demand growth is slowing from a historical average of 10 % to 3 % or less per year, China has come to realise it needs to take its foot off the pedal when it comes to coal capacity.

The increase in demand comes as New Delhi continues to expand its coal - fired power generation capacity.

«It is clear that China is coming to terms with the fact it does not need any more coal capacity in a market where existing plants are not even running half the time.

Wind power capacity edged out coal for the first time in the Texas history last week after a new 155 - megawatt wind farm in Scurry County came online.

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States with low existing renewable energy capacities, respectively, with low potentials for adding more renewable energy capacity, and which have a high projected coal power dependency, are going to be in a world of economic hurt, come a carbon «Cap & Trade» law.

They draw on 1,100 gigawatts of power - generating capacity, about 50 percent of which comes from coal - fired plants.