Sentences with phrase «coal fired power demand»

Waiting for a resurgence of coal fired power demand is like beating a dead horse.

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It will continue to finance new coal - fired power stations in developing countries (which is where all the demand is).

Alberta prides itself on being the only jurisdiction in North America that demands coal - fired power plants, oilsands upgraders and other large industrial facilities reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

While India is building new coal - fired power plants, they are no guarantee that demand for U.S. coal will increase.

Also, if newer greener energy technologies can reasonably replace our baseline power needs from coal - fired power plants then coal demand will decline further.

However, coal demand can continue to decline if natural gas prices stay low for a very long time allowing further replacement of coal - fired power plants with gas - fired ones.

The coal industry is booming driven by growth in export demand for coal world wide and the large number of coal - fired power plants currently scheduled to come online.

The spread of urban centers increases the demand for electricity, more than 75 percent of which in China is generated from coal - fired power plants.

Beijing's plans to tackle pollution largely target coal - fired power, which will hit already slowing demand in the world's top importer of the fuel.

Even without the environmental drive, new railways from mines to ports, falling investment in coal - fired generation and slowing power demand growth could see China's miners export some of their surplus output at competitive prices, hitting regional miners and the viability of new projects.

«The increase in domestic coal consumption is driven by huge demand from existing and upcoming coal - fired power plants,» the report said.

Texas experienced blackouts in February 2011, as colder - than - average winter weather simultaneously increased demand for electricity and damaged coal - fired power plants and wind turbines.

The policy resulted in the building of coal - fired power stations with a combined capacity of almost 12 gigawatts — about one - third of peak German demand in 2008.

That coal gas fired power plants must be shut down by 2050 and replaced with whatever works, from nuclear, hydro, renewable, energy efficiency, and massive demand reductions across the board.

In May 2010, American Electric Power announced it planned to run 10 small coal - fired power units on a part - time basis starting in June as «the weak economy reduced demand and low natural gas prices have made the use of some coal units less profitable,» according to the comPower announced it planned to run 10 small coal - fired power units on a part - time basis starting in June as «the weak economy reduced demand and low natural gas prices have made the use of some coal units less profitable,» according to the compower units on a part - time basis starting in June as «the weak economy reduced demand and low natural gas prices have made the use of some coal units less profitable,» according to the company.

[iii] The coal - fired power plants were replaced by natural gas, nuclear power, wind power, and electricity demand reductions.

EPA - mandated emission limits on conventional sources of electricity, especially coal - fired power plants, are so restrictive that current technology can not meet their demands.

By rebranding coal as «dispatchable», the government's National Energy Guarantee looks set to preserve demand for coal - fired power by giving it a new role — one it's not well equipped to fulfil.

This is why oil giants like ExxonMobil are investing more these days in natural gas, demand for which is expected to grow as electric utilities in Canada, the United States and Europe switch from coal to gas - fired power generation.

At the time, rising demand and plans to retire its coal - fired power plants dominated provincial energy policy.

There is a huge surge in coal mining and the number of coal fired power plants in the guise of meeting electricity demands and development for the country.

According to Reuters, in the report Greenpeace concludes that «the last thing we need is for more cloud infrastructure to be built in places where it increases demand for dirty coal - fired power.»

In India, the third - largest coal consumer in the world, coal - fired power generation increased by 3.3 % in 2015, which is considerably lower than the 11 % growth of 2014, mostly due to lower demand growth.»

The remainder of the CO2 demand (18 billion metric tons) would need to be provided by anthropogenic CO2 captured from coal - fired power plants and other industrial sources.

Coal - fired power plants supplementing bunker fuel - based power generating systems feed on a seemingly endless permanently peaking power demands of billions of consumers in all countries, sustaining the carbon emissions.

This quick - start capability confers wind farms a decided advantage over thermal coal and natural gas — fired power plants when it comes to balancing electricity supply and demand.

Where are the marching skeptics demanding a new coal fired power plant?

The government's central problem is that, as well as being polluting, coal - fired power is not well suited to the problem of increasingly high peaks in power demand, combined with slow growth in total demand.

As my colleague Gordon pointed out in a post last week, India is currently learning the most important lesson about its over-dependence on outdated, centralized coal - fired power: It is simply not flexible enough to accommodate India's real problem - peak demand (the kind that happens when 20 million Delhi inhabitants turn on their air conditioners or fans all at once).

Nearly $ 1 trillion (# 700bn) is being invested in new coal - fired power plants worldwide despite the fact that the demand for electricity generated from coal has declined for two years in a row, shows a new report released today.

With a growing fleet of coal power plants running at less than 60 % of capacity and robust power demand growth, coal - fired generation is forecast to increase at nearly 4 % per year through 2022.

Those political objectives are: to provide a point of policy difference with the Labor Party; to meet the demands of the government's backbench to provide support for coal - fired electricity; and to be seen to be acting to hold power prices down.

Coal - fired power plants are expensive to start up and shut down, and are therefore best suited to meeting «baseload demand» — that is, the base level of electricity demand that never goes away.

Yet that is exactly what the largest coal fired generator in South Australia, the 540MW Northern power station, is doing — shutting down for the winter months, when demand (and prices) are low.

Since pretty much the start of the National Electricity Market more than a decade ago, the Australian power industry has regarded the annual Electricity Statement of Opportunities (ESOO) as their bible to help pinpoint where a new coal or gas - fired generator might be needed to meet rising demand.

As electricity demand grows and federal regulation shuts down coal - fired power plants, SaskPower has concluded that wind energy is a low - cost source of new supply that can be reliably integrated into the grid.

If coal fired power plants are phased out (at a time when energy demand is increasing) Appalachia will see a phase in of unemployment and poverty.

However, existing pipelines do not have enough capacity to meet growing demand, particularly when coal - fired and nuclear power plants are being prematurely retired.

Dutch coal - fired power then powers both countries at night when demand is low.

Last March, a group of Indonesian residents and activists were in Japan to demand that the Japanese Government and banks do not finance the Indramayu coal power plant expansion project (1000MW) and Cirebon 2 coal - fired power plant project (1000MW), located in West Java.

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The NSW Treasurer favours building a new coal - fired power plant to meet the state's energy needs, in contrast to other proposals for more gas - fired generation or energy efficiency and demand management.

More than 75 % of the extra demand was covered by coal - fired power, which increased by more than 10 % relative to the same period in 2015.

The electricity from the coal - fired power plant will be utilized during the high peak demand periods of the summer season to ensure security of supply at a reasonable cost.

[3] Each state has interim targets it must meet beginning in 2020, and the EPA proposed that states use a combination of four «building blocks» to achieve the emissions reductions: (1) improving the efficiency (heat rate) of existing coal - fired power plants; (2) switching from coal - fired power by increasing the use and capacity factor, or efficiency, of natural - gas combined - cycle power plants; (3) using less carbon - intensive generating power, such as renewable energy or nuclear power; and (4) increasing demand - side energy - efficiency measures.

The installation will have ten hours of heat storage, so that it will be able to provide power to suit the high demand periods and it is said to compete with new coal - fired power stations on cost.

And it is because of these regulatory issues that we believe the future of coal - fired power plant development will continue to taper off - despite increases in energy demand.

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

This has all led to a decline in demand for electricity from the grid and this, in turn, has impacted heavily on the profitability of coal - fired power stations in particular.

But many states and regional transmission organizations and grid operators are already planning for a future with less coal, and are turning to increased transmission for wind and gas - fired power plants to demand response to meet future demand.