Sentences with phrase «coal plants closed»

Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

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Without forward - looking policies, coal plant closings could result in some states becoming overly reliant on natural gas.

He doesn't want coal plants closing.

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At least one fifth of the coal plants in the U.S. have been closed, or are in the process of closing, over the past several years due to their inability to economically meet emissions standards from the EPA.

The 90 - Mt saving «is like taking every car off the road in Canada or closing 20 to 23 coal plants in a year,» said Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna.

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Alberta is boosting its use of renewable energy, closing power plants that burn coal and in January increased its tax on carbon emissions by 50 percent.

When both rules are fully enforced, Bernstein Research estimates that 15 % of coal - fired power plants will be forced to close — unable to meet new safety standards — or will require substantial new investment to remain viable.

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.

But soon after, the multinational closed its plant in Brockville, Ontario, to relocate operations in West Virginia where coal - powered energy is much cheaper.

Surrounded by coal industry workers, donned in khaki pants and polo shirts, President Trump signed an executive order in March pulling the plug on his predecessor's plan to close hundreds of coal - fired power plants to reduce carbon emissions.

With the Dec. 31 mothballing of NRG Energy's Dunkirk plant and the 380 - MW Huntley Power Station in Tonawanda expected to close at the end of March, Cayuga and Somerset will be the last two coal - fired plants in New York.

Bowline and Damskammer both closed as coal plants.

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.

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.

FERC approved the sale of two upstate New York power plants the same day Cuomo vowed the generators would «transition» away from coal or be closed by 2020.

The Cayuga coal - burning plant outside Ithaca may close and the R.E. Ginna facility in Western New York is being subsidized by ratepayers for another few years because it is needed to maintain the state's electrical grid reliability.

Tough new federal rules on power plant emissions would also place significant pressure on coal plants to close.

Environmental groups are concerned the new operators want to keep burning coal, when New York is so close to phasing out all of its coal plants.

«We are also repowering and converting or closing the existing coal plants.»

Coal only provides about 4 percent of the state's power, but closing down the dirtiest power plant is a symbolic victory for environmentalists.

Hartz said that in addition to new jobs, the town's economy is cleaner now because of the closing of Huntley, a coal - fired power plant that had been one of Erie County's biggest polluters.

The future of the Cayuga coal - fired power plant in Tompkins County remains up - in - the - air, almost three years after plans to close the plant were announced.

The coal mines are now long gone and in 2002 the Corus steel plant here closed, causing further economic hardship.

But blue states in the Northeast and along the West Coast have few coal plants left to close, meaning emission reductions will increasingly need to be wrung from other sectors of the economy.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

He also wants to close 10 older coal plants and ban new ones, and eliminate the use of oil.

Meanwhile, existing coal - fired power plants, many of which date to the 1970s or earlier, will continue to face pressure to close as other environmental regulations target conventional coal pollutants like nitrogen oxides, mercury and particulate matter.

The shortfall may grow critical as electricity producers close down old oil and coal plants in favor of cleaner natural gas.

Around the country, about 600 power plants must be closed or retooled in the next two years, the result of EPA rules issued in 2011 that clamped down on coal - fired pollution.

China, she said, invested millions of dollars in closing down inefficient coal - fired power plants, a move for which the country was highly lauded.

She swooped in a few years before an enormous Fort Mohave coal power plant closed and struck a deal to transfer the facility's long - term water rights to Las Vegas.

Factories have been shifted to industrial parks on the outskirts of town and small, inefficient coal power plants closed in favor of larger, higher heat facilities in an effort to clear the air for visiting athletes and tourists.

Instead, they argue that Australia should base its climate policy on a carbon budget that sets an upper limit on the country's total emissions between now and 2050, institute a cap - and - trade scheme, consider closing selected coal - fired power plants, and ramp up renewable energy.

Beijing has closed the first of four large coal - fired power plants set to be de-commissioned as part of the city's efforts to cut air pollution, official news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday, citing the local planning agency.

What in effect, we would be doing is displacing 300 oil - fired power plants and another 300 coal - fired power plants; so the land required for 600 fossil fuel power plants — if you are going to think that way, if you consider the whole system, which includes mining coal, which includes drilling for oil, the refining of all that, it's not just the power plant — that the land tradeoff actually gets to be fairly close, you know, the solar power plant is the footprint of the solar power and that's it.

When coal - fired power plants close communities can face painful transitions, and the debate over one Massachusetts facility shows the local impacts of a national shift to cleaner power

To verify emissions from the San Juan and Four Corners coal - fired power plants, the Los Alamos team deployed ground - based solar spectrometers and point sensors to measure atmospheric concentrations of gases at a site close to these power plants.

The numbers held when they examined potential CO2 storage sites close to the nation's largest greenhouse gas emitters, such as coal plants.

Representative Rob Bishop (R — UT), chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, earlier this spring floated the idea that EPA should be required to engage in formal consultations with FWS over the impact of the power plant regulations, which could force some of these coal plants to close.

«The new study adds to the evidence that closing this coal - burning power plant was beneficial to the health and future well - being of newborns there,» says Perera, director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health and professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health.

Ontario will be closing its last coal plant in 2014.

If the world were to cut 45 percent of methane emissions by 2025, as studies suggest, it would have the same short - term climate benefit as closing one - third of the world's coal plants.

«We expect that more coal plants will be closing and that no new ones will be built.

Some utilities may even choose to close coal - fired plants for economic reasons.

Environmentalists differ on bill to speed closing of coal plants.

If that electricity savings were used to close coal power plants, that would have saved 1.6 giga tonnes of CO2 emissions (out of 7.1 giga tonnes total greenhouse gas emissions).