Sentences with phrase «coal electricity»
"Coal electricity" refers to the electricity that is generated by burning coal as a source of fuel. Full definition
In sum, I am confused by how to think of the contribution of current global coal electricity generation to global warming.
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Industry gets the cheapest rates for electricity, but still more than the cost of producing coal electricity.
Eternal thanks to The Clean Coal Carolers from The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity for creating this grand Christmas tradition that will warm hearts across the country.
«Coal can generate electricity 24/7 regardless of weather conditions,» said Laura Sheehan, a spokeswoman for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity in Washington.
Strategies considered by the team encompassed efficiency improvements in light - and heavy - duty vehicles, buildings and coal power plants; reducing light - duty vehicle - miles traveled; and substitution of coal electricity with lower - carbon energy sources.
And action is going to take money: the IEA estimates at least $ 20 billion over the next decade, whereas the industry group American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity says it will cost $ 17 billion for CCS to be available by 2025.
Digiconomist says that with much of the network powered by cheap coal electricity in China, each transaction has a footprint of about 122 kilograms of carbon.
After many years of falling coal electricity production and rising natural gas production in South Carolina, in 2016 the trend stopped and coal and gas both maintained their shares.
As U.S. regulations on carbon - intensive coal electricity have gotten tougher, Hawesville's rationale for aluminum began to fade.
The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity accused Obama of «climate change fear mongering,» when the real threat to families is climbing energy costs, it said.
When the The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity introduced their Clean Coal Carolers in 2008, we called it a» jaw - dropping train wreck of a marketing campaign.»
And American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity CEO Paul Bailey said that he's hoping FERC will do more.
The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity reports that by the end of 2015, about 49,000 megawatts of coal capacity «will have retired or converted,» and that «[b] etween 2016 and 2018, an additional 16,000 MW are expected to retire or convert.»
In addition, the CPI analysis excluded industry front groups like ACCCE — the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity who fell outside the 501 c 6 category of trade associations.
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The bill provides tax credits for advanced coal electricity projects with highest priority given to projects with the greatest separation and sequestration percentage of total carbon dioxide emissions at a cost of $ 1.4 billion over 10 years.
Assume for each person, the carbon tax component of the new coal electricity price would be exactly covered by the rebate.
'' So far in 2008, the major industry players, Southern Company, Duke Energy, American Electric Power, the Edison Electric Institute, and American Coalition For Clean Coal Electricity spent $ 4.0 million on broadcast and cable television advertising; $ 0.4 million on radio advertising; $ 2.4 million on print advertising in magazines and newspapers; $ 0.1 million on internet advertising; and $ 0.3 million on other types of advertising.
For example, it won't suprise anyone that an investigation of the internet's energy use by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity sees much higher electricity consumption than a report written by the information and communication technology industry itself.
In 2008 ABEC was merged with the Center for Energy and Economic Development to form the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity which represents the interests of coal producers, transporters and utilities.
Amid the Bonner & Associates, Hawthorn Group, American Coalition for Clean - Coal Electricity shenanigans of falsified (fraudulent) letters, with all implicated in LetterGate pointing fingers away from themselves, we have to ask: Do these excuses and explanations pass a basic laugh test?
The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity recently posted this blog attacking natural gas as a fuel for electricity generation during winter cold snaps.
Then: Gehri was a research specialist at Southern Company, a major US coal electricity utility company.
Among the most impactful policies, the study finds — those with reductions in excess of 20 MtCO2e each in some years — are the AB 1493 vehicle efficiency standards, the 33 percent RPS target, building efficiency targets, phasing out imported coal electricity and phasing out hydrofluorocarbon gases.
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Rudd is hoping to replace Britain's current coal electricity output with a mix of new nuclear and natural gas - fired power plants, with less emphasis placed on renewable energy.
On the other side, the CEO of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity praised the report.
«I think of Bloomberg's millions the same way I do the millions Steyer flushed down the toilet last year — flotsam,» Laura Sheehan of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity said, referring to the millions San Francisco billionaire and environmentalist crusader Tom Steyer spent last year in mostly unsuccessful efforts to elect candidates committed to government programs to combat alleged man - made climate change.
Even in the United States, different interests help shape different attitudes: Poorer Americans in states more dependent upon cheap coal electricity are far less likely to support policies that would cost jobs or significantly increase energy prices than are wealthier Americans on the coasts, whose energy supply is already much cleaner.
In a statement, Evan Tracey, senior vice president for communications for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity in Washington characterized the new standard as «another example of how the agency is ignoring the harm its aggressive regulatory agenda is causing to the US economy.»
«We're the only country in the world that's committed to getting out of the dirty coal electricity generation business.»
If my memory serves me right, in the early 1980s the Central Electricity Generating Board told MPs that FGD should be retro - fitted to 12 gigawatts of coal electricity - generating capacity.
The stark reality is that there is literally no such thing as clean coal electricity in the United States today — not one American home today is powered by a coal - burning plant that captures and stores its carbon pollution.
Paul Bailey, chief executive officer of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, said waiting for input from grid operators may prove costly.
Even in a seemingly implausible accidental - release scenario in which all of a well's hydraulic fracturing fluid and untreated wastewater were discharged directly into surface waters for the lifetime of the well, shale - gas electricity had a lower lifetime human toxicity impact, or HTI, than coal electricity, according to the study.
«EPA's overreaching and overzealous rulemaking is crippling the nation's coal - fueled electric sector and is a threat to our nation's economy,» said Laura Sheehan, a spokeswoman for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.
These ads were sponsored by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, an industry group comprised of 48 coal and utility companies.
study paid for by the the coal and utility pressure group American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.
A group that pushed the clean - coal theme at the Democratic convention, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, will be heading to the Republican convention next week.
I don't even know what you call the latest marketing ploy by the coal industry lobby group the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE).