Sentences with phrase «coal capacity roughly»

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

Not exact matches

That would require adding roughly 1,000 gigawatts of renewable and nuclear generation capacity — about equivalent to all of China's coal burning plants today.

«Outside the OECD, coal generation in China, the centre of global coal demand, decreased in 2015 due to a reduction in electricity demand, coupled with an increased generation from hydro and nuclear.1 Despite the decrease in generation in 2015, 52 GW of coal - fired generation capacity was added in China in 2015, and roughly 150 GW is currently under construction.

Stricter regulation of carbon dioxide emissions will lead to the shutdown of as much as 50 to 60 gigawatts of coal - fired generation capacity in the US - roughly 15 percent to 20 percent of the current fleet.

Many of the plants are in China, but by capacity, roughly a fifth of these new coal power stations are in other countries.