Sentences with phrase «coal plant closures by»

The rule is designed to speed up the retirement of the nation's fleet of coal - fired power plants — the most carbon - intensive way of creating electricity — and could more than double the rate of coal plant closures by 2040.

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The glut of cheap gas and tightening regulations on air pollutants have prompted the planned closure of 175 coal - fired power plants by 2016, representing 8.5 percent of all coal - fueled electricity capacity in the country.

Germany is home to the largest number of unprofitable coal plants, with potential losses avoided by early closure totalling $ 12 billion.

The hole left by the failure of contracts - for - closure should be replaced with a new policy to close coal - fired power plants and replace them with renewable energy.

BERLIN, 23 March 2018 — Coal plant closure momentum is growing in Europe this month, with four German plants retiring or announcing retirement in March, and Ireland committing to a total coal phase out by 2Coal plant closure momentum is growing in Europe this month, with four German plants retiring or announcing retirement in March, and Ireland committing to a total coal phase out by 2coal phase out by 2025.

In a new report from Moody's, and reported on by SNL, the ratings agency predicts that cheap natural gas could lead to another massive wave of coal - fired power plant closures over the next year and a half.

5 Aug: Australian: Sid Maher: Land for carbon reforestation to take big cut But if the carbon price started at $ 47 a tonne, under a more ambitious scenario, the report estimates more than 60 million tonnes of carbon could be shed through plantation forests and carbon plantings by 2021... The modelling was released as Resources Minister Martin Ferguson named three leading corporate advisory firms to help the Gillard government negotiate a billion - dollar closure of a brown - coal electricity generator as it seeks to cut carbon emissions.

In the UK alone coal's share of generation fell to just 9 % in 2016 (a historic low), due to the closure of three plants last year mainly caused by the introduction of a carbon price floor.

The announced closure in early March of the Navajo coal plant, the largest in the US West, by 2019, demonstrates that coal - fired generation will still struggle going forward.

Americans must understand that the closure of 411 coal - fired power plants, over 100,000 megawatts, by the Obama Administration jeopardizes the reliability of our electric power grid and the low cost of electricity.

This week, the Central Java Coal Power Project added to its list of failures, as continued refusal by villagers to sell their land for the proposed coal plant has forced the Indonesian government to yet again extend the deadline for financial closure of the projCoal Power Project added to its list of failures, as continued refusal by villagers to sell their land for the proposed coal plant has forced the Indonesian government to yet again extend the deadline for financial closure of the projcoal plant has forced the Indonesian government to yet again extend the deadline for financial closure of the project.

Coal - fired generation in the UK is in freefall, and more plant closures — as expected by the government — will see this continue.

Nationwide, more than 230 coal - fired plants have been closed or are slated for closure — or 44 percent of the 523 U.S. coal plants that were in operation just six years ago, by the environmental group Sierra Club's count.

European power companies could save billions of dollars by stepping up closure of coal - fired power plants as nearly all of them will be loss - making in Europe by 2030, think - tank Carbon Tracker Initiative says.

Coal plants that have not adopted a form of carbon capture and storage by 2023 will begin to see their usage restricted, followed by complete closure in 2025.

And while the President lectures us about our sins against the planet, his EPA and other agencies embark on the project to impose penance on us by forcing the closure of coal and other fossil fuel power plants, blocking pipelines, bankrupting the coal mining industry, subsidizing intermittent power sources that can't possibly run a fully operational electrical grid at reasonable cost, and multiplying our cost of electricity by an order of magnitude or so.

Meanwhile, the ongoing American shale gas boom — powered in part by decades of federal investments in shale drilling technologies — is accelerating the closure of US coal - fired power plants.

By Chris Chopik Ontario's proposed Green Energy Act is touting 50,000 jobs, the closure of coal fired plants and a prosperous future for Ontarians and Ontario industry.