Sentences with phrase «coal generators with»

As well, the legislation does not include mandates to replace retired coal generators with renewable energy technologies.

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.

Not exact matches

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.»

In response, several PPA holders terminated their agreements with coal - fired power generators, citing a provision in the terms of the original PPA legislation that allows buyers to end their contracts if a change of law makes the agreement «unprofitable or more unprofitable.»

The ACCC is proposing to allow Qld power generators to jointly renegotiate coal supply arrangements with Aglo Ccoal supply arrangements with Aglo CoalCoal.

The model produces different jobs and growth projections for a business - as - usual scenario with no technology breakthroughs or major new policies, and then generates different outcomes by factoring in new policies such as a national clean energy standards such as proposed by President Obama; increases in corporate average fuel economy standards; tougher environmental controls on coal - fired power generators; extended investment and production tax credits for clean energy sources and an expanded federal energy loan guarantee program.

PurGen would transform raw coal into cleaner - burning hydrogen and fire its generators with that instead, in a process that would also yield valuable by - products.

Yes, for the individual owner it maybe does, but that at the cost of the rest of the world, because electric energy still comes mostly from coal / oil / nuclear power generators for one, with correspondent pollution and infrastructure load.

Set in a Steampunk version of the 1800s with everything having gone to an iced - over hell due to a sudden ice age which somehow snuck up on humanity people have decided to leave the cities in order to found new homes using large generators, massive machines that burn coal to provide some warmth amidst conditions reaching -70 c.

When finally completed, it will stand as the world's largest generator of hydro - electric power, with a yearly output equal to that of fifty million tons of coal or fifteen nuclear power plants.

Everywhere you look, companies and power generators like the Tennessee Valley Authority are announcing plans to shutter coal - fired plants and replace them with wind, solar, and plants that use cleaner - burning natural gas.

And as the English have done and as the Chinese and the Indians and etc will still do, they will use coal, lots of coal plus gas and oil for power generation until some capitalist somewhere with a very good idea on how to reduce costs and still make a fortune comes along and devises / discovers or restructures an old technology or a new power generation technology that is more efficient, lower cost, more profitable, just as reliable as fossil fueled, those coal, oil and gas generators

Ripe for Retirement: The Case for Closing America's Costliest Coal Plants As many as 353 coal - fired power generators in 31 states — representing up to 59 GW of power capacity — are no longer economically viable compared with cleaner, more affordable energy sourCoal Plants As many as 353 coal - fired power generators in 31 states — representing up to 59 GW of power capacity — are no longer economically viable compared with cleaner, more affordable energy sourcoal - fired power generators in 31 states — representing up to 59 GW of power capacity — are no longer economically viable compared with cleaner, more affordable energy sources.

Of the country's 6,000 coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar electric - generating facilities, a small sub-group of mostly coal - fired power generators produces more than its share of the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions compared with the electricity it produces, the report found.

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 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 with their much lower fuel costs, have little trouble competing with with gas.

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.

Initially the mine will supply coal to two major Midwestern electricity generators under contracts with terms of up to 17 years.

New wind power is now cheaper per megawatt - hour than new coal - or gas - fired electricity generation, but renewable energy still needs subsidies to compete with existing generators.

With an estimated social cost of carbon — a damage estimate of global warming pollution — of $ 65 (far less than other estimates), the GED for coal - fired generators is 4.7 cents / kWh.

However, as China continues to replace older, less efficient generators with more efficient units, China's power sector coal consumption is expected to peak as soon as 2018, at 4,800 million metric tons.

Some older coal - fired generators were retrofitted with various environmental controls (see chart for data on installations of one type of control, the flue gas desulfurization unit, also called FGD or scrubber).

And in the past few weeks, investment banks such as UBS, along with Macquarie Group and Deutsche Bank have all noted how the solar industry is reframing energy markets in Europe, and beyond, and turning once profitable coal and gas fired generators into marginal businesses, and forcing many to close or to embrace a more rapid change to renewables and distributed generation.

When they replace our coal power with with junk wind and solar there is a really good chance our ACs won't work, unless we all put in fossil fuel powered generators.

Can you see the health of the trees around coal - powered generators 1000ppm CO2 and compare with the health of trees in the desert.

If we really want to cut emissions, we need to replace coal (a baseload generator) with a zero emissions baseload generator.

With warmer summer weather and increased electric demand for air conditioning, demand will increase, requiring increased output from both coal - and natural gas - fired generators.

The ESOO document notes that only four new plants have come on line in the past financial year — the 67MW Oaklands Hill wind farm in Victoria and the 53MW Hallett 5 wind farm in South Australia, along with the first 566MW stage of the Mortlake gas peaking plant in Victoria and a 60MW upgrade to the Eraring coal - fired generator in NSW.

This chart shows the course that coal and other electricity generators may take with and without the Clean Power Plan's implementation.

On the same day, German generator STEAG filed a legally binding notice with the German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) to permanently shutter both units at its 507 - MW Lünen hard coal — fired power plant by March 2019 (Figure 2).

**** Remember all that huff and puff put out over the last few months by the Clean Energy Council and near - bankrupt wind power outfit, Infigen about wind power becoming so cheap as to be competitive with coal and gas fired generators?

Over the next three years, utilities plan to build only eight new coal - fired generators compared with 91 new gas - fired generators, according to the EIA.

After analyzing the costs of retrofitting existing coal plants with stricter pollution controls, the coalition proposed replacing several aging coal plants with natural gas generators.

Faced with concerns over how quickly new nuclear will progress through the planning and licensing system, and the possibility that even coal plants that are compliant with existing EU environmental regulation may be forced to close early by the proposed Industrial Emissions Directive, generators have little choice but to prepare to build a second wave of gas - fired plants (ie in addition to the 8GW currently under construction) to keep the lights on before new nuclear and some CCS coal plants start to come onto the system in the 2020s.

The 99.33 % of wind power output that went AWOL for hours (at various times, 3 days straight) was, instead, all supplied by conventional generators; the vast bulk of which came from coal and gas plants, with the balance coming from hydro.

Costs also suddenly could get higher when suppliers dependent on electricity from coal - burning generators are hit with a government decision to tax carbon emissions.

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.

This has coincided with the unplanned withdrawal of older coal and gas - fired generators.»

Generator retirements are heavily composed of coal - fired generation, with nearly 13 GW expected to be retired in 2015.

If we're stuck with coal power plants, capture and storage technology makes the electricity generator a bit less harmful to the environment.

There is a very good reason why every aluminium smelter in mainland Australia has power contracts with coal fired generators and in Tasmania with hydro: Their power is reliable and despatchable, something which wind power is not and can not become in the forseeable future.

The region already has more than 4 times the amount of power capacity as is needed, with «one of the highest concentrations of coal - fired generators in the world.»

Impacts of so - called «coal bed methane» projects do not stop with roads across several Western US States, noisy generators and compressors near ranches, and toxic wastewater overflows into trout streams.

It also means there was never any danger of the lights going out, in contrast with the claims of coal - fired generators in 2008 - 2011 when clamoring for carbon price compensation and, after they secured it, for policy «certainty».

Areas of experience; HRSGs, coal fired boilers, combustion turbine / generators, wet and dry FGD systems, hot SCRs and auxiliary systems associated with power generation facilities.

Responsibilities have included; development of opportunities in the power generation field, estimating and management of projects; development and submittal of proposals; interaction with internal and external stakeholders, etc... Areas of experience; HRSGs, coal fired boilers, combustion turbine / generators, wet and dry FGD systems, hot SCRs and auxiliary systems associated with power generation facilities.