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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.

According to the Agency's latest forecast, 730GW of these highly efficient plants will be built by 2040, and that more than half of the coal fleet in developing countries will increasingly consist of HELE plants by that same period.

Not exact matches

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.

«To coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dishwashing, clothes - washing, and window - washing, to road - building and tunnel - making, to foundries and stoke - holes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and more sober ideas.

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.

Fossil Blends The Air Force, meanwhile, plans to certify its entire fleet of aircraft on Fischer - Tropsch process synthetic fuels derived from methane or coal by 2011 and plans to purchase enough such fuel to power at least 50 percent of the fleet in the continental U.S. by 2016.

Yet, even if every planned reactor in China was to be built, the country would still rely on burning coal for more than 50 percent of its electric power — and the Chinese nuclear reactors would provide at best roughly the same amount of energy to the developing nation as does the existing U.S. fleet.

Exactly as tedious as Steamboy, then, and covering exactly the same ground, Howl's Moving Castle shares with Ôtomo's film, too, a giant steam - powered ball as its central image, encapsulating a vision of Victorian England in a Frankenstein's yin / yang clattering along inexorably like the Industrial Revolution while gorgeous impressionistic watercolour towns are polluted by coal smoke from a fleet of trains burning through the forests at night.

EPA Rules Controlling Greenhouse - gas Emissions — The big day for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy should come sometime in June, when her agency is scheduled to unveil historic standards controlling carbon emissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natural gas.

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.

He decried plans to build a fleet of new coal - burning power plants in his home state.

[Andy Revkin — Of course, moving some of the car fleet to electricity is simply transferring from oil to coal, which still provides half of the country's electricity, unless there is a dramatic shift in the generation mix, as well.

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.

While adding carbon capture to older U.S. coal plants may remain relatively uneconomic, countries like South Africa, China and Indonesia have a fleet of young, critical coal plants unlikely to retire in the near term.

«Of course, not only does China want to replace its old coal fleet with new nuclear reactors, it wants to become the leading exporter of nuclear technology as well, including heavy components in the supply chain where the real global bottleneck is.»

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.

Ray Long, vice president of National State and Federal Government Affairs at NRG noted his company, one of the largest independent power producers in the nation, owns a fleet that uses diverse fuel sources, including nuclear, coal, gas, wind, and solar.

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

Meanwhile, Germany, once Europe's climate tub - thumpers - in - chief, is in a messy transition on climate policy as it burns ever more coal, while shutting down its fleet of low - carbon nuclear power stations.

[1] That 76 MMT growth is the emissions equivalent of about 20 fleet average coal plants in the United States.

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

While some of this was due to the final phaseout of coal power in the province, other steps like decreased emissions from its vehicle fleet and facility retrofits also played a factor.

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

The evolution of the US energy sector is far from over, however, as retirements are forecast to rise to 60GW by 2020 and 92GW by 2030, which is equal to 27 % of the total US coal generation fleet in 2012.

In Poland new coal capacity is being added, a further 10 gigawatts is going through the planning system and EUETS funds that were set aside to help ease its low - carbon transition have instead been spent on upgrading its coal fleet.

He managed to find a note of optimism in the more efficient coal power fleet that will remain after 68,000 MW of old capacity retires by 2020, under pressure from various regulations and competition from natural gas.

Two - thirds of the coal fleet operates in RTO / ISO footprints.

In some states, utilities didn't dodge the truth — they conceded that their coal fleets were in trouble, and in many cases received favorable treatmenIn some states, utilities didn't dodge the truth — they conceded that their coal fleets were in trouble, and in many cases received favorable treatmenin trouble, and in many cases received favorable treatmenin many cases received favorable treatment.

Utilities have already shuttered about 12 percent of the nation's coal - fired generating fleet since 2010, according to M.J. Bradley & Associates, an environmental consulting firm in Concord, Mass..

In total, the power company has about 8.3 GW of coal, oil and gas - fired resources currently available, so this would mean a 44 % reduction in its fossil capacity, and a fleet where wind and solar represent a majority of capacity, if not necessarily generatioIn total, the power company has about 8.3 GW of coal, oil and gas - fired resources currently available, so this would mean a 44 % reduction in its fossil capacity, and a fleet where wind and solar represent a majority of capacity, if not necessarily generatioin its fossil capacity, and a fleet where wind and solar represent a majority of capacity, if not necessarily generation.

In states like Missouri and Illinois, where Walmart has no solar panels or other renewable energy projects, its stores draw power from a fleet of aging coal plants, which are poisoning the air and water.

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.

«What happens to the remainder of the coal fleet could have significant implications not only for the millions of people still living in communities near coal - fired power plants, but also for people living further away who will still feel the impacts of pollution from these plants,» said Julie McNamara, energy analyst at UCS and report co-author.

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.

The 50 dirtiest coal plants in the U.S. — just 1 percent of the nation's electricity - generating fleet — account for 12 percent of the country's carbon emissions.

In addition to calling on high income countries to stop building new, unabated coal - fired power plants immediately and accelerate the retirement of their existing plants, the report also calls on middle income countries to limit new coal - fired power plants and begin retiring their existing fleet by 2025.

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.

However, more interestingly, some of the reduction in demand for coal has been driven by much higher plant efficiencies in China's coal power fleet.

Stricter regulation of carbon dioxide emissions will lead to the shutdown of as much as 50 to 60 gigawatts of coal - fired generation capacity in the US - roughly 15 percent to 20 percent of the current fleet.

Considering that America has 22.1 percent of the world's proven coal reserves, the greatest of any country and enough to last for 381 years at current consumption rates, it is a tragedy that the U.S. can no longer build new, clean, coal - fired power stations to replace its aging fleet of coal plants.Supercritical power plants operate at very high temperatures and pressures, resulting in significantly greater efficiencies than older technologies.

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

Dismayingly, Eldrup said in times of low wind, electricity to recharge the Danish fleet would come from coal - fired plants (Denmark is about 20 percent wind and the rest coal and imports).

Then they say «Through a $ 50 Billion investment in new clean coal technologies, today's coal based generating fleet is already 70 % cleaner based on regulated emissions per unit of energy produced.»

All in all, these 120 companies aim to build over 550,000 MW of new coal power plants — this is about 2 1/2 times India's entire coal plant fleet.