Sentences with phrase «coal fired station»

Cape Fear Plant is a two - unit coal fired station that generates 317 megawatts and is located near Moncure, North Carolina.

Meanwhile the PM flew her entourage to look at a solar boost for a coal fired station, link in sidebar.

They involve billions of dollars of subsidies of fossil fuel industries, of airport expansion and of road building, regulations which favour dirty technologies over clearn ones, granting planning permission for coal fire stations but refusing it for wind turbines, etc..

All we need to do is shut down the coal fired stations and build gas ones and it's problem solved!

And China has cut its build out of coal fired stations by 2/3 in one year (reducing it by 110GW, as of March this year) and plans to slow it further.

Includes shutting down of 3 older coal fired stations in a year, gas being exported at premium prices with no retention rule subsequently pushing up local prices and insufficient supply for power stations next year.

Not exact matches

Consequently, plans to build new coal - fired power stations will meet a mountain of resistance everywhere.

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

Both Canadian and U.S. regulations would impact new builds of coal - fired electricity generating stations.

Beijing originally aimed to bring coal consumption to below 10 million tonnes this year, down from around 22 million tonnes in 2013, and has already shut major coal - fired power stations.

Indeed, notwithstanding Ontario's emphasis on green initiatives — fuel - efficient car production, wind power, the closing of coal - fired generating stations — climate change is the great battle of the present and future, one that neither Ontario nor any other jurisdiction is doing enough to fight.

MOSCOW, Jan 17 Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska is interested in buying Russia's largest coal - fired power station from Enel Russia, three sources familiar with the plans told Reuters on Wednesday.

Australian electricity and natural gas giant AGL Energy announced plans last week to shut down the two - gigawatt Liddell coal - fired generating station in New South...

Now multiply this by every coal - fired power station on earth running night and day and the staggering volume of CO2 produced starts to be something you can understand can impact the earth on a planetary scale.

Barnaby Joyce said the government building a coal - fired power station would be consistent with its existing policies.

Barnaby Joyce says he would be» 100 %» behind the government constructing coal - fired power stations if that would lower the price of electricity.

[33] A month later, Miliband announced to the House of Commons a change to the government's policy on coal - fired power stations, saying that any potential new coal - fired power stations would be unable to receive government consent unless they could demonstrate that they would be able to effectively capture and bury 25 % of the emissions they produce immediately, with a view to seeing that rise to 100 % of emissions by 2025.

In March 2009, while Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Miliband attended the UK premiere of climate change film The Age of Stupid, where he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaite, who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal - fired power station were to be given the go - ahead by the government.

With the Dec. 31 mothballing of NRG Energy's Dunkirk plant and the 380 - MW Huntley Power Station in Tonawanda expected to close at the end of March, Cayuga and Somerset will be the last two coal - fired plants in New York.

It currently has 620 coal - fired power stations but also invested $ 67.7 bn in renewable energy last year.

Really, we need all those campaigners relocated to outside coal - fired power stations, not stopping test rigs in Balcombe.

«There will be relatively high costs in developing this new nuclear facility but broadly comparable with other low carbon technologies such as offshore wind, and, potentially, carbon capture and storage applied to gas and coal fired power stations.

A decision on Kingsnorth will follow the consultation on CCS and an additional consultation on a new framework for coal - fired power stations, energy minister Mike O'Brien told parliament last month.

- The establishment of an emissions performance standard that will prevent coal - fired power stations being built unless they are equipped with sufficient CCS to meet the emissions performance standard.

Environmentalists will challenge the government's plans to build new coal - fired power stations in Britain near the Kingsnorth site in Kent from today.

New coal - fired power stations form part of Britain's «low - carbon future», Ed Miliband told the Commons this lunchtime.

Coal - fired power stations must face a deadline to adopt carbon capture and storage (CCS), MPs believe.

The agreement followed serious health and environmental violations by two of Niagara Mohawk's coal - fired power plants in the western part of the state - the Huntley Station near Tonawanda, and the Dunkirk Station in Dunkirk.

Such a proposal had as much chance of being approved by Lib Dem MPs as a plan to build 1,000 coal - fired power stations in South - West England.

12) Coal fired power stations should be encouraged to be built to reduce our reliance on gas imports from dubious sources.

The establishment of an emissions performance standard that will prevent coal - fired power stations being built unless they are equipped with sufficient CCS to meet the emissions performance standard.

Earlier this year, Cameron and his then rival party leaders, Labour's Ed Miliband and Lib Dem Nick Clegg, also signed a pledge to end the use of coal - fired power stations to produce electricity.

The scientists estimate that cold technology could cut the energy consumption and cost of CO2 capture by as much as 30 per cent in one of the «green» coal - fired power stations that the world is currently sniffing at.

This 11,000 kilowatt power station in Bluestone, West Virginia, ran on coal - fired steam turning Westinghouse - Parsons turbines.

The world could cut greenhouse emissions by fracking for gas and replacing coal - fired power stations, but using gas to produce power could then lock us into a high - carbon future.

In the short term, new gas - fired power stations can help cut emissions, but only if they replace existing coal - fired power stations rather than nuclear plants or renewable energy sources.

If I recycle a bit more, if I make some energy efficiency, if I travel less, if I try to generate less carbon — what is the use of that when China is building another coal - fired power station next week?»

These findings, published today in the journal Nature Communications, demonstrate the viability of a process called carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a solution to reducing carbon emissions from coal and gas - fired power stations, say researchers.

The European Investment Bank's new criteria on coal lending — tied to specified limits on fossil fuel power plant emissions — have been criticized as being too generous to polluters, while the U.S. Ex-Im Bank continues to back coal - fired power stations in many parts of the world.

Salem Station became a target in the late 1990s, when environmental, health and civic groups launched a campaign to force Massachusetts to clean up what they called the «Filthy Five» — a group of coal - and oil - fired power plants built before 1977 and grandfathered under the Clean Air Act from meeting new air pollution standards.

Their main complaints are that the turbines are so inefficient that they actually increase carbon dioxide emissions, and so unreliable that they require constant backup from conventional coal and gas - fired stations.

And on unusually sunny and windy days — such as on 8 May, when for about 4 hours wind and solar power generated more than 90 % of the electricity that Germany consumed — they must swiftly order coal and gas - fired power stations to reduce their output lest an influx of power «congests» the grid and increases the risk of failures.

But the air quality has improved dramatically in the last 25 years (as it did in many other cities in the industrialized world), largely because of well - enforced government regulations, reduced industrial output, closure of coal - fired power stations, and the switch to central heating from coal stoves.

It's a start, but pales in comparison with the impact of three planned coal - fired power stations with a combined generation of 1650 megawatts.

The world could cut greenhouse emissions by fracking for gas and replacing coal - fired power stations, but use of gas could then lock us into a high - carbon future.

EUROPE»S plans for tackling global warming by driving down emissions of carbon dioxide may have backfired in Germany, where they have encouraged energy companies to build coal - fired power stations instead of gas - fired stations, which emit less CO2.

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.

The topping cycle reduces the amount of pollution produced when coal is burnt and also narrows the gap in efficiency between coal and gas - fired stations (Technology, 1 February 1992).

A new study in Canada has found that some hydroelectric reservoirs give off as much carbon dioxide and methane — the two most important causes of the man - made greenhouse effect — as coal - fired power stations producing a similar amount of electricity.

The policy document also set new targets for the closure of coal - fired heating systems as well as the installation of equipment to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions at power stations, steel mills and cement plants.