Sentences with phrase «coal plant retirements»

Work with environmental organizations focused on coal plant retirement to reach an understanding of how coal fired generation can transition to geothermal power without loss of jobs or taxes.

The already significant pace of coal plant retirements in PJM Interconnection is about to kick into high gear over the next couple of months, according to a new study by Genscape.

One - third of those plants, among the oldest and dirtiest in the United States, were to be shuttered by the end of 2012, making it the biggest year for coal plant retirements in the nation's history.

However, one thing we can do, which has been the most important driver for coal plant retirements across this country, is expose that generation to more market competition from cheaper resources, like renewables.

As a result of coal plant retirements since 2010, there will be 7,500 fewer heart attacks and 80,000 fewer asthma attacks this year, Bloomberg said, while acknowledging the speculative nature of those numbers.

Just last week, we announced coal plant retirement # 165, when we won our campaign to retire the Reid Gardner plant in Nevada.

Doing so provides important context for recent coal plant retirement announcements, particularly given that some companies have attributed retirements to EPA rules that are still years away from going into force.

In addition to the 40 GW of coal plant retirements EIA expects in its AEO reference case (without the Clean Power Plan), the agency estimates in its baseline CPP case that 50 GW of additional coal capacity will retire, most of it going offline before 2020.

In 2008, approximately 8.5 million people lived within a 3 - mile radius of an operational coal plant, but by 2016, following widespread coal plant retirements, that number fell to about 3.3 million.

Given that deeper CO2 reductions would likely beget more coal plant retirements, necessitating more buildout of new infrastructure, the NERC report seems to show that more ambitious carbon cuts could be unworkable for the grid.

We anticipate additional coal plant retirements, beyond those contemplated in the 2011 Consent Decree, as part of the 2015 TVA IRP process.

The stampede of new coal plant retirements speaks for itself.

The 2007 agreement had required AEP to install flue gas desulfurization (FGD) technology at the plant — a more expensive technology that results in greater pollution reductions — but Sierra Club and the other parties agreed to the DSI technology in return for an earlier installation date, the other coal plant retirements, and clean energy investments.

In an analysis for the Energy Information Administration, Laura Martin and Jeffrey Jones project that coal plant retirements during 2015 — 20 as a result of CPP actions may reach 61.6 GW (of a total of 326 GW in operation in 2014), with 30.4 GW in the 2020s and 7.5 GW in the 2030s.

In addition, CoalSwarm provides sortable tracking tables for proposed coal plants in the United States, coal plant retirements in the United States, and proposed coal plants in India.

While there are 282 plants across Europe left to go, coal plant retirements since January 2016 have already resulted in significant health and economic benefits.

These commitments include carbon caps, mandatory renewable electricity and energy efficiency standards, announced coal plant retirements, and bringing on line nuclear power plants currently under construction.

But a large number of coal plant retirements are scheduled for 2015, it added, when the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard takes effect.

Just a day after federal regulators nixed a major Trump administration proposal to shore up the struggling coal industry, the nation's top energy forecaster predicted continuing, slow declines in U.S. coal production and in the burning of coal for electricity in 2018 and 2019, thanks to cheap natural gas and coal plant retirements.

In the longer term, coal - fired generation could decline in part because of environmental regulations such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) implementation of Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS), which is resulting in some coal plant retirements.

Market forces explain much of the US electricity sector NOx emissions reductions and nearly all coal plant retirements.

Nevertheless, the CPP will cause states, taxpayers, and energy consumers to get stiffed with huge cost burdens, including capital - intensive, decades - long transitions needed for adding expensive and unreliable wind and solar infrastructures, coal plant retirements and upgrades, restructured transmission lines, and new natural gas pipelines.

This could trigger up to 20 gigawatts of coal plant retirements this year, compared to 4 gigawatts of coal plant retirements in 2014 and 5 gigawatts in 2013.