Sentences with phrase «coal plant project»

A protest against a coal plant project two years ago in Sompeta in the eastern coastal state of Andhra Pradesh turned violent, with two farmers killed by police and several others wounded.

The Platform went to court with numerous cases against the coal plant project's license, environmental regulation report, environmental impact assessment report.

We will plant 180 and another 100 olive trees in the villages around the coal plant project area.

The event caused national outcry, prompting the Council of State to suspend the coal plant project.

The announcement follows other news, including that the Chinese government has recently scrapped a massive 2,000 megawatt coal plant project near the cities of Hong Kong and Shenzhen.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today rejected a Department of Energy proposal to change electricity market rules that would have bailed out failing nuclear and coal plants projects.

China continues to lead the world in the amount of coal power capacity under development, despite tightening restrictions on new coal plant projects by the Chinese authorities.

Not exact matches

At the signing ceremony in July that finalized plans for Dubai's 2,400 - megawatt Hassyan coal project, the Chinese group set to build the plant and the Saudis who will operate it were joined by a partner: an executive from General Electric ge, standing proudly near a backdrop boasting the familiar blue GE logo.

And then there's GE, for which the Dubai Hassyan coal plant is among a dozen projects to which it has committed.

And 2.9 gigawatts of new renewable energy projects were initiated last year, while 12.5 gigawatts worth of coal plants are set to shut down in 2018 — also part of an accelerating trend.

Beijing, however, has reaffirmed its commitment to meeting its targets under the Paris accord, recently canceling construction of about 100 coal - fired power plants and investing billions in massive wind and solar projects.

Since virtually no developed country is building coal - fired plants any more, the promise not to finance such projects is no great sacrifice.

At the same time, subsidies and other support for renewable energy projects have boosted competition from wind and solar power and piled pressure on coal - fired and nuclear power plants.

Likewise Ontario, already committed to phase out coal power by 2014, cancelled a project to build a gas - fired power plant in Oakville last year in the face of fierce local opposition.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

Cuomo has pushed in recent years to adopt new efforts aimed at reducing emissions and shifting the state toward the majority use of clean and renewable power in the coming years, including an effort to close coal - burning power plants by 2020, promoting offshore wind projects and developing a clean energy standard to have the state on 50 percent renewable energy by 2030.

The project would have retrofitted a coal power plant with new technology that sequestered 1.1 million metric tons of carbon pollution underground each year.

Yet John Thompson, director of the fossil transition project at the Clean Air Task Force, said Kemper still could open the door for CO2 capture with countries like Poland and India with low - rank coals, by lowering costs for the second generation of plants.

The cost of one project can run at the $ 1 billion level or higher, causing critics to say that full use of CCS on most of the world's coal plants would bankrupt the energy industry and possibly spur earthquakes (ClimateWire, June 19).

A new report from a non-profit advocacy organization called the Environmental Integrity Project shows that the groundwater near TVA coal - fired power plants is contaminated with a toxic stew of elements.

Yet, the government has launched a pilot project to address the problem by capturing and storing the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by using coal as a fuel for electricity generation at a power plant dubbed GreenGen.

The project — meant to launch in April but pushed back by renovation delays — looks set to start just ahead of a larger, newly built advanced coal plant in Kemper County, Mississippi, run by Mississippi Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company in Atlanta, Georgia.

With the Calvert Cliff's project at a critical juncture this summer, Constellation signaled that it might compel EDF to purchase some coal - fired power plants, an option EDF's purchase agreement provided — a provision EDF hadn't expected to have to meet, industry officials said.

At the heart of the project is the conversion of Decin's Bynov heating plant from burning brown coal to natural gas.

The University of Kentucky, another coal state university, will partner with Shanxi Coal International Energy Group and Air Products and Chemicals Inc on a project feasibility study for a 350MW supercritical coal - fired power plant that can capture 2 million tonnes of CO2 a ycoal state university, will partner with Shanxi Coal International Energy Group and Air Products and Chemicals Inc on a project feasibility study for a 350MW supercritical coal - fired power plant that can capture 2 million tonnes of CO2 a yCoal International Energy Group and Air Products and Chemicals Inc on a project feasibility study for a 350MW supercritical coal - fired power plant that can capture 2 million tonnes of CO2 a ycoal - fired power plant that can capture 2 million tonnes of CO2 a year.

Massachusetts has offered $ 6 million to Somerset, Salem and Holyoke, site of a third aging coal plant, to pursue renewable energy projects, but state officials say decisions about the future are up to communities.

Analysts say ADM's project is significant for studying how a large amount of human - generated CO2 will behave underground in the Illinois Basin, a rock formation stretching across three states and sitting near some of the nation's highest - polluting coal plants and industrial factories.

In comparison, American Electric Power's project would have cost $ 668 million to integrate saline injection with capture from a large coal plant.

The methodology panel says the coal - fired plant projects should be suspended to allow time «to revise the procedure to identify the most likely baseline scenario.»

Perhaps that's why Southern Co., has announced it will no longer fund a proposed project to use such amines to capture CO2 at a coal - fired power plant in Alabama, despite securing $ 295 million from the federal government to do so (or roughly 100 times what UTC received).

One such facility does exist at the Shady Point coal power plant in Oklahoma, but it is not a government project.

Although injection into deep rock formations has proceeded without difficulty at a pilot project at the Mountaineer coal - fired power plant in West Virginia — 3,000 metric tons have been stored so far, says Gary Spitznogle of American Electric Power, which owns the facility — public opposition halted a similar government - funded project in Ohio.

Currently, there are five coal - fired power plants registered as emission reduction projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), an international offsetting program run by an arm of the United Nations.

The panel argues that the current rules as written let supercritical coal plant developers claim avoided emissions by comparing their projects to power plant technology that's now a decade old.

According to a 2014 study from Greenpeace, China currently operates two coal - to - natural - gas demonstration projects, but there are 48 other plants under construction or in the planning stage.

China Energy News, a state - run newspaper, cited a policymaker Monday as saying that China will complete the construction of approved coal - to - natural - gas plants but will not approve new projects until 2020, aiming to keep its coal - based synthetic natural gas production capacity to 15 billion cubic meters at the end of the decade.

If it is not, coal at power plants could be replaced by natural gas, nuclear power and large - scale renewable energy projects.

ZeroGen and the Callide Oxyfuel Project, which is a $ 200 million project to convert an existing 30 - megawatt unit into a carbon capture plant, are in the heart of Australia's coal cProject, which is a $ 200 million project to convert an existing 30 - megawatt unit into a carbon capture plant, are in the heart of Australia's coal cproject to convert an existing 30 - megawatt unit into a carbon capture plant, are in the heart of Australia's coal country.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has invested more than $ 3 billion since 2001 to fund multiple CCS projects being conducted by seven regional partnerships, including demonstrations of ammonia capture technology at the massive coal - fired Pleasant Prairie power plant in Kenosha County, Wisc., and the R. E. Burger plant in Shadyside, Ohio.

Extending a relationship of more than a decade, the US Department of Energy (DOE) and Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International will collaborate on a project designed to advance the development of coal power plants with near - zero emissions by reducing the cost... Read more →

She also has held senior project managerial positions on an oil refinery project in Thailand, a coal seam gas to liquid natural gas plant in Queensland, Australia, and roles in construction field engineering on a variety of nuclear power projects.

We will seek to avoid the following: • Bonds that finance projects with substantial sustainability concerns such as first - generation biofuels, waste - to - energy plants using toxic substances, or projects that prolong fossil fuel dependence such as refurbishment of coal power plants.

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Still, a pilot project burning Montana coal in IGCC plants and sequestering the CO2 in Montana geological formations would be a very informative and important step, even if only because it would help create more market for IGCC plants and help develop the technology.

New coal plants are costing more than double what they were projected to cost just a few years ago and even more and that does not include CCS.

But as Congress considers billions of dollars in aid for projects to make gasoline and diesel substitutes from coal, and to build coal - fired plants that would capture their own carbon emissions, the study said that estimates of coal reserves were unreliable.

The Chinese project, called GreenGen, has gained a new partner, Peabody Energy, the world's largest private coal company (the one battling the governor of Kansas over stalled permits for coal - burning plants).

Will such initiatives include quick agreement, for instance, on new large - scale demonstration projects for capturing carbon dioxide from coal - burning power plants and stashing it in the earth?

Clinton is right — we desperately need to begin the less - than - sexy work of revamping our infrastructure and doing the cost - benefit analysis that will pave the way for well - thought out projects in solar and wind, conservation, and even nuclear and improved efficiency at coal plants needs to be on the table.