Sentences with phrase «coal plants built»

What's more, the report notes, nearly half of the new coal plants built in 2010 aren't even up to the latest efficiency standards.

Nick Akins, president and CEO of the coal - heavy utility American Electric Power, has said flat out that «there will not be any new coal plants built, with the current price of gas and the forecast for the future for gas.»

With coal plants built in civilisation heritage sites, even our past is at stake.

and if I were one, I'd be trying to get a lot of coal plants built * now *.

On Wednesday, a coalition of European energy companies announced that there would be no new coal plants built throughout the European Union after 2020, in an effort to meet goals set forth by the Paris climate agreement.

But a new coal plant built to meet the standard would cost between $ 3,274 and $ 3,301 per kilowatt.»

The devastating health effects of coal pollution have been well documented — and in an era where cleaner alternatives are readily available, there's absolutely no reason that a coal plant built in 1902 (like this one was) should continue to operate in modern day Chicago.

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.

DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Michigan regulators on Friday cleared DTE Energy's request to build a near - $ 1 billion natural gas power plant, the first approval of such a large facility for a regulated utility in decades and a move that coincides with the retirement of coal - fired plants.

The giant mining operations of Asia stack thousands of computers in dimly lit factory buildings powered by cheap electricity from coal - fed generating plants.

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

RICHMOND, Va. (AP)-- Dominion Energy Virginia said Tuesday that it plans to build at least eight new natural gas - fired plants during the next 15 years, cementing its shift away from coal, while depending on renewables for less than 10 percent of its energy capacity.

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.

Meanwhile, Bechtel is doing a brisk business in the U.S. building the gas - fired power plants that are rapidly replacing costly coal - burning dinosaurs.

While India is building new coal - fired power plants, they are no guarantee that demand for U.S. coal will increase.

Old coal plants are increasingly lying dormant, yet new ones keep getting built, according to a new report.

«Further, while the current agreement effectively blocks the development of clean coal in America,» Trump said, «China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plants.

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

Think of it another way, in the last 7 year cycle FCA had an average FCF of $ 36 million a year, and now FCA is expanding into different rail cars types and the refurbishment / rebuilt market, more gigawatts of coal fired power plant capacity will begin construction in 09 then was build in the last 7 years and FCA has $ 162 million in cash from the 05 IPO.

He is strongly opposed to traditional coal plants and would use whatever means necessary to stop new plants from being built, including a ban on new traditional coal facilities.

In addition China is set to build its first clean coal plant in 09 and Germany has coal plants in the middle of major cities with zero emissions.

Alberta's electricity producers are planning to build new natural - gas - fired plants to replace a few aging coal plants — a move that will reduce carbon emissions and air pollution that comes with coal.

One forgets that the 19th - century worshipers came in from streets redolent of horse manure, to a building whose heating plant left coal dust on the higher reaches of the furniture.

In addition to the Oswego operation, NRG runs coal - fired plants in Dunkirk and Tonawanda that were built in the 1950s.

Climate Camp 2008 hopes «thousands» of protestors will pitch their tents close to Kingsnorth, which the government hopes will be one of the first coal - powered plant built in Britain for 30 years.

Energy giant E.ON has delayed plans to build the controversial new coal fire plant in Kingsnorth it was revealed today.

«We established the state's first carbon dioxide emissions standard when siting new power plants which will ensure that no new dirty, coal - burning plants will be built in the State of New York, period,» Cuomo said.

Decision not to allow any new coal - powered plants to be built in Britain without carbon capture represents a major victory for the new Department for Energy and Climate Change and green pressure groups

Maxwell Ball, manager for clean coal technologies at SaskPower in Regina, which owns the plant, says that the company was surprised to learn that it would be cheaper in the long term to keep burning coal at Boundary Dam and sell the carbon dioxide to oil companies to boost production in the oil field than to build a new natural - gas plant.

Building them could displace new coal plants or relieve the pressure to extend the life of old reactors that should instead be retired.

Investors have rejected coal - fired generation as well; Texas - based utility TXU found itself under new ownership after announcing plans to build as many as 11 new coal - fired power plants.

For many Africans and Africa observers, the massive Medupi and Kusile coal plants being built by South Africa's Eskom at a cost of more than $ 20 billion, or the 6,000 - MW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam under construction on the Blue Nile River for an estimated $ 4 billion, are hallmarks of the continent's progress toward electrification.

For example, one 500 - megawatt coal - fired power plant (there are the equivalent of 500 of these in the U.S. and China is building the equivalent of two of them each week) produces three million tons of CO2 annually.

A «clean coal» power plant is set to be built in Illinois in 2009; if it works, it could help avoid catastrophic global warming

«Essentially, a natural gas plant can comply with the EPA's proposed standard at a much lower cost, which begs the question of why investors would choose to build coal with CCS,» the report states.

Until that happens, it may remain difficult to build coal - fired power plants.

After the public soured on nuclear power following Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster, a previous administration even decided to build new coal - fired power plants rather than turn to renewable energy, Yun says.

We can't afford to build a coal - fired power plant with CO2 coming out — so can we develop carbon capture and storage technologies, or should we be looking at solar - thermal?

Other mitigating factors for coal - fired electricity would be if thermal coal prices dropped off steeply or the cost of building a coal - fired power plant came down.

Dubbed carbon capture and storage (or carbon sequestration), such technology will be fully demonstrated for the first time near Mattoon in southeastern Illinois, the FutureGen Alliance (a public — private partnership to build a prototype clean - coal plant) announced.

The electric power industry can achieve deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 by building new nuclear plants, sequestering coal - plant emissions, boosting wind energy and improving efficiency, the industry's top research group said yesterday.

Instead of building a new zero - emission coal - fired power plant in Illinois, the Obama administration will retrofit an old plant instead

If new plants can be built on time and on budget, the risk premium could fall, bringing the price of power from new plants down to 6.6 cents per kilowatt - hour — competitive with gas and coal — the report says.

Yang, who focuses on emerging economies, said her research also has shown that many other fast - growing developing countries have lower coal plant standards than India and China, and few incentives to build cleaner plants.

Finding a plug for «leakage» Harstad's theory builds upon the concept of «carbon leakage,» which holds that countries opting out of climate agreements will produce more greenhouse gases as their neighbors take steps to ratchet down greenhouse gas emissions and regulate the sources of such emissions, like coal - burning industrial plants or motor vehicle fleets.

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.

Australia and China are both building what will become zero - emissions coal - fired power plants using IGCC technology, dubbed ZeroGen and GreenGen, respectively.

As a result, the NRDC, the EDF, the Clean Air Task Force and other groups support both a cap - and - trade scheme to limit CO2 emissions as well as subsidies for the first CCS coal - fired power plants to be built.

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

But no operating coal - to - liquid plants exist in the U.S., and researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology estimate it will cost $ 70 billion to build enough plants to replace 10 percent of American gasoline consumption.