Sentences with phrase «coal fuels many»

But building retrofits can go only so far in a country where coal fuels 70 percent of the energy consumption.

Slower power demand growth means slower coal demand growth as coal fuels just under 80 % of Chinese electricity generation.

Coal - fired power plants currently fuel 37 % of global electricity and, in some countries, coal fuels a higher percentage of electricity.

The company's coal fuels approximately 10 % of the electricity generated in the United States and 3 % of electricity generated throughout the world.

The rapid increase in domestic natural gas production from shale reserves has significantly impacted the economics of coal fuels used for power and heat in recent years.

For example, coal fuels many power plants and factories.

But in the Midwest and South, where coal fuels the bulk of electricity generation, a hybrid produces less CO2 than an electric car.

Two more coal fuelled CCS plants are due to come online in the United States in the coming months.

China is now generating electricity using coal fuel at record high levels and in addition is engaging in efforts with other countries such as Pakistan to build large numbers of coal plants in that country.

The idea that many other world countries that desire high energy growth using coal fuel regardless of the greenhouse gas emission levels are going to abandon their enormous existing use and future growth of coal fuel because of California's ridiculous climate alarmist driven schemes is totally absurd.

Action is being taken on this now with the government recently announcing plans to close old, inefficient coal fuelled power plants and replace them with modern high efficiency technology.

He has seen the data and knows how important coal fuelled power will be to support India's growing economy for decades.

Energy efficiency and reducing reliance on coal for electricity generation not only reduces emissions of greenhouse gases, but also reduces emissions of fine particles which cause many premature deaths worldwide as well as reducing other health impacts from the coal fuel cycle.

Technologies need not be limited to 100 % coal fuel; however, coal must be the predominant fuel (i.e., > 50 % by heating value) for the economic analysis of the plant.

According to the IEA, coal fuelled China's economic growth in the first decade of this century.

The coal fueled Fiddlers Ferry power station emits vapour into the night sky on November 16, 2009 in Warrington, United Kingdom.

Not exact matches

Fossil fuel usage, meanwhile, is expected to hit its ceiling in 2030 at 2.93 billion tons of oil equivalent with coal expected to continue as the top energy source for China by 2050.

But come winter, when the rivers run low, we'll be buying coal - fuelled power from east of the Rockies.

A National Grid spokesman said the record low was a sign of things to come, with coal - free days becoming increasingly common as the polluting fuel is phased out.

It is often difficult to calculate the precise proportion of fossil fuel investments in complex funds, but about $ 400bn of the $ 5.2 tn total is likely to be in coal, oil and gas.

Britain's last coal power station will be forced to close in 2025, as part of a government plan to phase out the fossil fuel to meet its climate change commitments.

Perry has repeatedly said that storing fuel on site makes coal and nuclear plants less prone to shutdowns than other power generators in the event of disasters and attacks.

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

The federal emissions standard is estimated to reduce carbon pollution equivalent to 134 coal power plants burning annually and save drivers $ 1,650 per vehicle through fuel savings according to the coalition that includes Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington.

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

Swaths of virgin desert in the U.S. West in recent years have transformed into solar farms, a trend green energy supporters predict will persist even with the election of a president who is making fossil fuel - friendly Cabinet appointments and promises to bring back coal.

Consider this: One tablespoon of liquid hydrogen fuel — a mix of deuterium and tritium — would produce the same energy as 28 tons of coal.

Scientists studying the aftermath of a massive coal - ash spill in North Carolina have discovered a byproduct of the fossil fuel that may pose human health risks.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry commissioned the study in April to evaluate whether «regulatory burdens» imposed by past administrations — including that of President Barack Obama — had forced the premature retirement of baseload power plants that provide nonstop power, like those fired by coal and nuclear fuel.

As the Washington Post reported, natural gas is overtaking coal as the fossil fuel of choice for electricity generation — the report forecasts that by 2019, coal will provide 28 % of US electricity, whereas natural gas will make up 34 %.

«It is a great coal - replacement fuel.»

Cold weather drove up the price of natural gas — making coal look like a more attractive fuel option.

Solar power still amounts to less than 1 % of the nation's electrical - generating capacity — coal produces about 40 % — and its proportion will stay in the low single digits until it becomes cheaper than fossil fuels.

Mylan has 99 percent stakes in 5 LLCs that own refined coal plants: Canton Fuels Company in Illinois, Chouteau Fuels Company in Oklahoma, Deogun Manufacturing Company in Utah, Marquis Industrial Company in Indiana and Powder Street LLC in West Virginia.

«Even if it doesn't get that much cleaner, coal will still be a primary fuel source for power generation.»

Instead of a world dominated by renewable sources of power like wind and solar — as people concerned about the dangers of climate change would hope — PE execs see gas, oil and even coal as a substantial component of electricity and fuel sources in 2039, according to recent interviews conducted by CNBC.com on the future of energy as part of CNBC's 25th anniversary.

While Peabody was only down about 10 % at the end of May 2014, the stock got crushed as the government proposed to reduce carbon emissions (stemming from fossil fuels like coal), which would burn up even more of Peabody's bottom line.

In addition to tax changes (more on that below), Trump's plan to grow the economy focuses largely on generating more jobs in the fossil fuel economy (in coal and onshore and offshore drilling for oil and gas) and as a result of new infrastructure projects.

Chinese engineering companies, banks and shipyards are all muscling into LNG, typically the preserve of Western, Japanese and South Korean players, as government coal - to - gas switching policies make LNG an increasingly strategic fuel.

Still, coal's solid run faces headwinds beyond winter as China attempts to move to cleaner fuel sources.

BOSTON — President Donald Trump has courted coal miners and cast doubt on whether fossils fuel contribute to climate change, but that hasn't translated into hostility for renewable energy — particularly offshore wind.

And it could mean a future viable source of energy that emits no pollution or radioactivity, burns no fossil fuels, and could be no more expensive to run than conventional coal or electric power plants.

· The oil - conservation adjustment (OCA), sometimes called the power - conservation adjustment, reflects the utility's need to burn coal, a more expensive fuel, during certain months.

Industry advocates often blame the Obama administration's «war on coal,» specifically two signature policies to reduce fossil fuels» carbon emissions — the Clean Power Plan, which never went into effect before the Trump administration moved to eliminate it altogether, and the Paris Climate Agreement, from which the United States has withdrawn.

Literally the fuel of America's Industrial Revolution and growth, coal has fallen from providing more than half of the nation's electricity as recently as 2000 to 30 percent in 2017.

It described a scenario whereby gas begins to replace coal and oil as a transportation and electricity - generating fuel and satisfies a dominant share of new demand.

Producers would have to develop new products and uses for the resource — gasoline, diesel, heating oil, asphalt, lubricants, petrochemicals and aviation fuel — before oil supplanted coal, wood and whale oil, the dominant energy sources of the day.

China has already hit peak coal, but the fossil fuel does still account for 65 % of the country's power generated by source.

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Notably absent from the list are oil and coal companies that have built their businesses on fossil fuels.