Sentences with phrase «coal generators»

However, it feels that is the strongest of all brown coal generators because of its lower emissions intensity and the recent refinancing of debt.
There is impact on some power plants in terms of cycling and capacity factors, particularly for coal generators.
As well, the legislation does not include mandates to replace retired coal generators with renewable energy technologies.
Stanwell said it is looking forward to the removal of the carbon tax, which it said cost $ 355 million in its first year (state owned black coal generators did not get compensation).
Between all of your research into new resource buildings and other things, then, you have to consider increasing the range of your generator and the amount of heat it can output, but for each new increase the amount of coal the generator consumes is vastly increased, straining your ability to get the black fuel out of the ground fast enough.
Privately owned coal generators such as Homer City Generation in Pennsylvania have already gone bankrupt, and large generators such as FirstEnergy's merchant generation subsidiary are now facing bankruptcy.
With 1,100 MW of rooftop panels on 350,000 buildings across Queensland, solar «is producing electricity just at the time that coal generators used to make hay.»
The impact «has been so profound, and wholesale prices pushed down so low, that few coal generators in Australia made a profit last year.»
Recently, with natural gas prices declining and coal prices rising, dispatching natural gas generators in some parts of the country has become increasingly competitive with running coal generators.
But some of the country's cheapest coal generators are also in Inner Mongolia, pricing the wind farms out of the power market.
Mark Lewis said: «Life is set to get much tougher for EU coal generators.
Most coal - fired generation was added in the 1960s - 1970s, while the vast majority of its natural gas - fired generation was built since 2001, with new natural gas generators achieving greater operational efficiencies than the older coal generators.
On March 2, for example, German coal generator Enervie said it would close the 310 - MW Werdohl - Elverlingsen unit — a 1982 - built plant in North Rhine - Westphalia that ran only 780 hours last year — by month's end.
Our working paper includes several variations of the proposal, including a 10 - year lifespan for the policy instead of 25, policies that support only coal generators or only nuclear, and policies that only guarantee recovery of the costs of continued operation («going - forward» costs) rather than guaranteeing profits.
Falling gas prices and higher carbon taxes have combined to leave coal generators facing increasing losses.
States like Alabama, Maryland, Michigan, and Wisconsin could each save more than 250 billion gallons of water withdrawals a year by replacing uncompetitive coal generators with renewable energy.
ELPC's founder - president, Howard Learner, joined forces with the coal industry coalition, the «BEST Coalition» — a front group for NRG, a big coal generator — to attack the legislation as a «bail - out» for nuclear, something much of the Illinois media dutifully repeated.
While the particulars of Homer City's financial troubles are unique, they reflect a challenging economic situation for coal generators around the United States.
It is amusing that the feature of wind and solar that opponents decry, their intermittency, is the one that is lethal to incumbent coal generators.
However, AGL also recently bought Australia's largest brown coal generator Loy Yang A and intends to run it for decades.
In raw numbers, here's what the electric power industry's abandonment of coal looks like: This year, 24 coal - fired electricity generators at 14 power plants in 11 states are expected to shut down, followed by another 22 coal generators in 2018, according to an analysis by the global energy nonprofit Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, or IEEFA, released in April.
Already, the impact of reduced demand, growing renewables, and rooftop solar, is causing a decline in output in coal generation, bringing capacity factors down sharply, particularly for black coal generators.
Emissions trading will only be viable in China's electricity if its helps to solve some of the sector's existing challenges — inefficiency in overall generation, running deficits of coal generators, system reliability — while contributing to balanced economic development objectives.
Changes to the new source pollution rules for power plants are probable, particularly for coal generators, as are changes to the Waters of the U.S. rule.
Natural gas retirements are expected to happen later in the compliance period, as gas will be needed initially to replace coal generators that go offline.
In raw numbers, here's what the electric power industry's abandonment of coal looks like: This year, 24 coal - fired electricity generators at 14 power plants in 11 states are expected to shut down, followed by another 22 coal generators in 2018, according to
We can't tell Americans, «you have to buy electric cars, you can't live on the Outer Banks in NC, shut down all these coal generators, and leave Britney Spears alone».
With the benchmark price having fallen 86 % from its peak in 2006, coal generators, with their much lower fuel costs, have little trouble competing with gas.
Coal generators will receive more than # 650 million ($ 880m) over the next five years to stay online, the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit estimates.
Nuclear companies reiterated the call for federal action, but with less urgency than some coal generators.
note that this is not the coal generators, but demand from coal miners — the Gina Rineharts, Clive Palmers, Nathan Tinklers, and BHP Billitons and Rio Tintos of the world.
Natural gas and coal generators are currently suing New York over the ZEC program and its benefits to New York's nuclear program, which are estimated to cost ratepayers 3.2 cents / kWh.
The analysis evaluates the economic competitiveness of the coal generators in the 2016 operational coal fleet compared to current resource alternatives.
** Excluding those that are already announced to retire, as well as Gainesville Regional Utilities» Deerhaven plant, which is not listed as a coal generator in the database used by UCS.
The energy policy document makes no mention at all of the major themes that are and will impact most on the energy industry (particularly the coal generators).
Black coal generators, which have found it difficult to compete because brown coal generators received compensation while they didn't, may enjoy a reprieve — probably at the expense of gas.
Once the gas or coal generators are built the operators have to continually pay for fuel; in the case of a wind farm, there are no fuel costs at all.
Lawrence Berkeley and Argonne National Laboratories examine the growth of solar, wind and natural gas power plant operations on wholesale power markets and the impact on nuclear and coal generators.
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