Sentences with phrase «coal generation»

"Coal generation" refers to the process of producing electricity by burning coal. Full definition
For coal generation most of the fatalities are latent fatalities and these occur in the general public, not in the workers.
Most states are well positioned to meet their assigned emissions - reductions targets, given their ongoing transitions away from coal generation and their commitments to invest in renewable energy and energy efficiency.
To me it makes more sense to replace coal generation with nuclear for base load capacity.
This balance changed during the last two months of 2017, with coal generation falling faster than gas, but both ended the year down relative to 2016 levels.
During seven months of 2015, electricity generated from natural gas exceeded coal generation.
In 2017, annual hard coal generation output fell 16 % compared to 2016, squeezed by rising renewables (Figure 1).
Coal generation across 2015 was the lowest since the early 1950s and 2016 is even lower.
Black coal generation is more expensive than brown, although slightly less polluting.
However, coal generation margins under current market conditions have fallen to record lows, and the outlook doesn't look promising.
While fuel cells still have some substantive CO2 emissions, they are only 45 % that of coal generation and 47 % the amount emitted from the production of energy using fossil fuels.
So, the frequency of severe accidents that causes 30 or more early fatalities is 15 times greater for coal generation than for nuclear generation.
Over the 2013 - 16 period generation from hard coal fell by 29 %, while generation from lignite fell by 10 %, leading to a fall of 22 % overall (an in - depth analysis of this most recent trend in coal generation in Europe is found in a recently released EIU Special Report).
This is helping the UK meet its commitment to be the world's first country to transition completely from coal generation by 2025, and to keep its coal resources unburnt in the ground.
If I understand the above calculation correctly, it would seem that, in the electricity sector, we could mostly concentrate on meeting additional demand with efficiency and carbon neutral generation (and avoid some of the fights associated with replacing existing coal generation plants); but if we need to reduce emissions by 80 % by 2050, then I am not sure whether this makes sense.
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.
An analysis by Michael Shellenberger, president of an independent group called Environmental Progress, says that V.C. Summer reactors would reduce coal generation in South Carolina by 86 percent, an amount of coal that produces pollution equivalent to 3.8 million cars.
On June 9, 2011, AEP announced that, based on impending EPA regulations as proposed, AEP's compliance plan would retire nearly 6,000 megawatts (MW) of coal - fueled power generation; upgrade or install new advanced emissions reduction equipment on another 10,100 MW; refuel 1,070 MW of coal generation as 932 MW of natural gas capacity; and build 1,220 MW of natural gas - fueled generation.
In the Reference case, coal generation at existing coal plants is supported by a steady rise in natural gas prices beyond 2020, with annual average spot prices exceeding $ 7.50 per million Btu by 2040.
Similar to the United States, it's increasingly difficult for Indian coal generation to compete economically with fast - falling renewable energy costs, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).
To combat retiring coal generation, PJM recently announced $ 2 billion in transmission upgrades.
«With increasing shale gas fracking and many countries» interest in displacing coal generation with natural gas due to the lower greenhouse gas emissions, natural gas use seems well poised to grow,» the report states.
This approach helps utilities refinance the costs of stranded coal generation assets and redirect savings toward cheaper renewable energy to replace generation capacity, while directing funds to communities or workers affected by coal closures.
Greenpeace reports replacing the 94 GW of uneconomic coal generation with solar or wind energy would save Indian industrial and residential consumers $ 8 billion per year, but even replacing the 30 GW of older uneconomic coal would reduce annual power costs by $ 3 billion.
Tallies released by German environmental group Urgewald in July 2017 indicated China's energy firms would account for nearly half of the new coal generation expected to go online in the next decade around the world.
Natural gas generation first surpassed coal generation on a monthly basis in April 2015, and the generation shares for coal and natural gas were nearly identical in 2015, each providing about one - third of all electricity generation.
Coal generation decreased 29 billion kilowatthours from March 2011 to March 2012, while natural gas generation increased 27 billion kilowatthours during the same time period.
According to analysis by non-profit research group Sandbag, EU coal generation fell to just over 21 % of total generation in 2016, a little more than one - half the share in 1990.
In 2015 and 2016, total coal generation retired amounted to 64 gigawatts.
Many of the three billion people who do not have electricity would now have had it, saving many additional fatalities per year (not included in the number I gave previously which was only for replacing coal generation with nuclear generation).
«In light of recent rhetoric, observers could have expected a stronger move from the government, that would utilise the market to remove coal generation as soon as possible rather than handing it another lifeline,» he said.
CSE also recommends enacting CEA's plan to retire 48 GW of India's oldest coal generation by 2027, allowing cleaner distributed electricity sources to meet India's power demand while raising capacity factors for newer «cleaner» coal plants, simultaneously reducing financial risks for utilities and consumers.
According to a summer 2015 report from Greenpeace, Chinese coal generation output was down 7 per cent in April compared to just a year earlier.
«Coal generation dropped from 49 percent of U.S. electricity in 2007 to 37 percent in 2012, but has since ticked up to 39 percent in 2013 and 2014.
«The problem is that if Big Dirty Coal Generation can sell a MWH for even $ 0.01 less than Clean Solar Producers, the utility MUST buy from BDCG...»
Wholesale electric power prices in the US are starting 2017 by ticking upward, lifted by firmer natural gas prices, which overall has caused coal generation to take some of gas generation's share in the overall fuel mix.
As ever - cheaper renewable energy comes online, increasingly expensive coal generation will fall further from profitability
The U.S. generates over 1.7 million megawatt hours from coal - fired power, compared to less than 100,000 megawatt hours in Canada, and U.S. coal generation is expected to remain roughly constant through 2040 absent any new regulations.
Most closures will be in the mid-Atlantic, Southeast, and Midwest, where coal generation is concentrated.
(With additional increases due to additional coal generation.)
Even a wedge of natural gas has some value in this view, since it displaces a huge volume of long - lived coal generation assets, which increases the odds that zero carbon sources will be able to muscle in later.
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