Not exact matches
Some researchers
suggest the aquifers have enough
capacity to store a century's worth of emissions from America's
coal - fired plants, but others worry the gas can leak back into the air through fractures too small to detect.
And, are you (personally)
suggesting that Kansas should have permitted the new plant in question instead of renewing upcoming permits for plants of equivalent
capacity, OR, in your view, should
coal capacity in Kansas be increasing, i.e., in additive fashion, i.e., by approving the new and old plants?
Very few would venture to
suggest that there would be enough of that in the USA to change the fact that
coal based power is the available power
capacity.
A back - of - the - envelope calculation
suggests that, if current
capacity utilisation factors are maintained, this combined 170GW could replace about 70GW of
coal capacity.
What's more, the report
suggests that the total installed
capacity of renewables now exceeds that of
coal globally.
Their primary concern is that a great deal of new gas
capacity will be built: 8GW are already under way and their modelling
suggests another 17GW will be built as existing plants age and
coal plants look more likely to be shut down early.
Chinese
coal plants have been running fewer hours, however,
suggesting capacity is being added but not used.