Sentences with phrase «coal fleet»

Meanwhile, the company also faces criticism about its near - term plan to build a $ 1 billion, 1,100 MW natural gas plant to replace a portion of its aging coal fleet.

The analysis evaluates the economic competitiveness of the coal generators in the 2016 operational coal fleet compared to current resource alternatives.

Most of the proposed projects were abandoned or cancelled, and rather than building new coal plants, utilities are rapidly retiring the aging coal fleet.

The fact remains, however, that even with the cancellation of some new plants, planned capacity additions in India are still more than three times greater than the existing coal fleet in Europe's coal behemoth, Germany.

According to the report, progress must be accelerated, including canceling coal power projects under development and hastening retirement of aging coal fleets in Europe and the US.

«Even from the report's own analysis, operational capacity of the global coal fleet continues to grow rising 2 % in the last twelve months.

That puts it more than halfway towards its goal of retiring 30 percent of the U.S. coal fleet by 2020.

Chief Executive of the World Coal Association, Benjamin Sporton says: «Even from the report's own analysis, operational capacity of the global coal fleet continues to grow rising 2 % in the last...

«That's 7,500 too many, but it's down from 13,000 just four years ago, when Bloomberg Philanthropies teamed up with the Sierra Club to set an ambitious goal: retiring one - third of the US coal fleet by 2020.»

Canada's largest wind farm entered service in 2009, one of many facilities that cropped up as the province looked to replace its dirty coal fleet.

The CHPE project on its face is absolutely unnecessary since the unveiling of the Governor's Energy Highway Blueprint which will upgrade the transmission system for all sources of power generation, not just the Western New York coal fleet but also for the renewable sources who are trying to come online and be competitive.

In Minnesota, a state with a sizable coal fleet and access to considerable wind resources, that means continued focus on the power sector.

The report also found that China is leading the way in the use of HELE technologies and that if India were to shift its planned coal profile (a mix of all three technologies) to total adoption of an ultra-supercritical coal fleet it could achieve savings of 509 million tonnes of CO2 annually.

The report also identifies that if the least efficient 500 TWh of power generation in China's national coal fleet were to be upgraded to the same technology used at Zhoushan Unit 4, this could reduce China's CO2 by about 850 million tonnes each year and it would achieve this reduction at a much lower cost than any other equivalent, scalable, emission reduction strategy currently available in China.

Even the Philippines» relatively modest coal fleet could achieve absolute savings of almost 30 per cent by adopting the most efficient USC units.

Raising the average efficiency of the global coal fleet from the current 33 % to 40 % — achievable with off - the - shelf technology — would save 2 gigatonnes of CO2 emissions.

Flat or declining Illinois electricity demand has resulted in an electricity oversupply thanks to Exelon's 11 - plant nuclear fleet, Dynegy and NRG coal fleets, existing, retrofitted, and new natural gas facilities, and a growing wind portfolio, according to Learner.

The PRGS is everything terrible about the U.S. coal fleet wrapped into one toxic whole: It's 60 years old, past its planned lifespan.

Utility companies with large coal fleets already are preparing to challenge the rule, if it is finalized, on the grounds that the agency is requiring pollution controls that have not yet been «adequately demonstrated» in the marketplace.

Nonetheless, the Chinese central government has canceled hundreds of coal plants recently, the existing coal fleet is running at historically low rates, the government is committed to phasing coal out as fast as possible, and the country currently expects to reach its NDC target early.

As David Roberts notes over at Grist, that's 20 - 25 % of the United States» entire coal fleet in just a few years.

A policy proposal was released in April to halt the construction of 372 GW of planned capacity — greater than the entire US coal fleet.

Most of the plants are over 40 years old or 400 megawatts or less, which makes up about 30 percent of PJM's current coal fleet.

The current global coal fleet is 1,965 GW.

U.S. coal - fired generators also face the need for substantial capital investments to upgrade aging coal fleets in order to comply with Best Available Control Technology («BACT») standards, mercury and air toxics standards and other emerging EPA emissions regulations, emissions limits and technology standards.

Michael Brune, Sierra Club Executive Director, said: «Even in the face of the climate - denying Trump administration, it is the unstoppable power of the people across the United States and the world that has continued to drive progress beyond coal — from retiring half of the U.S. coal fleet to pushing governments to form the new Powering Past Coal Alliance.

That means China's entire continuing coal fleet could be more efficient than any existing U.S. coal plant, according to a report released in May by the liberal Center for American Progress.

«You can't get to stabilization without having to deal with carbon capture and storage from both the coal fleet [of power plants] and the natural gas fleet,» says Scott Klara, NETL's director of the office of coal and power systems research and development.

Consider the Prairie State Energy Campus, with more than $ 1 billion in clean coal technologies and criteria emissions some 80 % below the existing coal fleet... along with a carbon dioxide emission rate some 40 % below existing plants.

While these developments are to be celebrated, there remains a sobering reality: they still leave a lot of headroom for China to expand its coal power plant capacity between now and 2030, even though its coal fleet is already more than twice the size of the US coal fleet.

Unfortunately for climate, these China 2014 coal additions — which in one year alone were double the size of the United Kingdom's entire legacy coal fleet — will be around and cranking away for many decades, along with the rest of China's coal fleet, most of which is less than 15 years old.

There is no doubt that the global coal fleet is changing as older inefficient subcritical stations built decades ago in Europe and the US are being replaced by new, highly efficient plants in emerging economies like China, South and South - east Asia.

At this rate, by 2022 yearly retirements worldwide will exceed new capacity additions and the global coal fleet will begin to shrink.

As coal loses favor to natural gas and other alternatives, utilities will retire a significant portion of their coal fleet and invest substantially in other energy resources around the...

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) is the only national trade organization whose sole mission is to advocate at the federal and state levels on behalf of coal - fueled electricity and the coal fleet.

The coal units retired in 2015 also tended to be smaller than the rest of the coal fleet.

The rest of the coal fleet that continues to operate is relatively younger, with an average age of 38 years.

Synapse's review focused on DP&L's proposed Distribution Modernization Rider (DRM) and the value and outlook of the Company's coal fleet.

With its coal fleet forecast to more than double by 2040, India will be looking for international partners to help drive down their emissions.

PacifiCorp wants to keep its coal fleet online, and some expenses would go towards that energy.

The conservation group cites two reports in arguing that 40 % of PacifiCorp's coal fleet is uneconomical.

On behalf of Sierra Club, Tyler Comings submitted testimony to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio demonstrating the coal fleet's low value and poor reliability and recommending that the Commission deny the DMR.

This makes the coal fleet one of the most resilient electricity sources we have.

On the other hand, the coal fleet does not face this problem.

Spain's energy regulator has rejected an attempt by the government to prop up the nation's oldest and most polluting coal power plants, stating that Spain's massive overcapacity means it can safely close a «significant part of the existing coal fleet» without undermining security of supply, write Gerard Wynn of IEEFA (Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis), Paolo Coghe of Paris - based indepdent consultancy Acousmatics, and Carlota... [Read more...]

Paul Bailey is the president and CEO of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, the only national trade organization whose sole mission is to advocate at the federal and state levels on behalf of coal - fueled electricity and the coal fleet.