Sentences with phrase «coal plants operate»

Designating natural gas plants as the best available technology — essentially requiring utilities to generate less electricity from coal and more from gas instead of being limited solely to requiring that coal plants operate more efficiently — has allowed the administration to establish much more ambitious emissions reduction requirements and is one of the central provisions that legal opponents have challenged.

In contrast, coal plants operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

A methane combined cycle plant is about 60 percent efficient, whereas the best coal plants operate at 44 percent.

Today, one - third of the coal plants operating in the United States came online before the 1970 law was passed.

In other words — by slowing, delaying, and stopping pipelines, concerned citizens are poised to keep an incredible amount of carbon in the ground (equivalent to shutting down 227 coal plants operating for 40 years).

Jeff Holmstead has used his credentials as a former EPA Air and Radiation assistant administrator to cast doubt over the legality and efficacy of new rules to reduce carbon emissions at US power plants, including coal plants operated by Holmstead's clients.

Coal plants operating between their peak and minimum values can provide load following capability to the system.

I had no idea the Chinese already have 30 GW of ultra-super-critical coal plants operating already.

An important lodestar for estimating the cost and completion date for the Kemper plant has been the Edwardsport coal plant operated by Duke Energy in Indiana.

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.

Electric utilities have been replacing coal plants with gas - fired facilities because they are more efficient and less expensive to operate.

Critics of the proposal said it could have let some coal and nuclear plants continue to operate even if they're not economic to run.

The purchase would help Vistra expand into the Midwest and Northeast, where Dynegy operates a number of natural gas and coal - fired plants.

While the requirements have raised the cost of operating coal - fired plants, experts say a bigger factor in coal's decline has been cheaper natural gas.

That will help to stave off further power plant changeovers, and will enable more coal mines to operate profitably.

Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

Under recent federal regulations, Alberta's coal plants must retire after 50 years of operation, which means coal plants will operate until 2062.

Big Rivers Electric Tuesday notified Kentucky regulators and the Henderson municipal utility that owns a 312 - MW coal - fired plant that it was terminating a long - term operating agreement at end - May 2019.

Bacon: One size does not fit all September 21, 2015: In the unassuming city of Frontenac, a rural town in southeastern Kansas that's situated in a region flanked by railroad tracks and perhaps better - known in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 1982.

It will be nearly impossible for the state to reach its goal of reducing emissions 40 percent by 2030 if there are still coal - burning power plants operating, she said.

Dix said Cuomo should work to take all of the state's coal plants offline, instead of offering them bailouts to continue operating.

At noon, leaders from four municipalities will join Ratepayer and Community Intervenors at a press conference to cal on Cuomo to reject a proposal by Cayuga Operating Co. to continue burning coal at the Cayuga plant and to add gas - fired capacity, Town of Ithaca Town Hall, 215 North Tioga St., Ithaca.

«If the [Clean Power Plan] is implemented in West Virginia, credits or allowances will be required for coal plants to continue to operate,» said Longview Power LLC, which boasts it owns the cleanest coal plant in the state, during a December presentation.

To get as many renewables as possible operating on the grid, these renewables are much different again in characteristic than the current generation mix in that we have primarily base - load plants that are operating over long periods of time that don't vary much, like a coal plant, for example.

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.

Once the construction costs of a nuclear plant are amortized, its operating costs are less than those of any fossil fuel — fired plant, including coal.

According to the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan, utilities operate 16 power plants that rely either fully or partly on coal - fired boilers.

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.

The Northwestern development could lead to new thermoelectric devices with potential applications in the automobile industry, glass - and brick - making factories, refineries, coal - and gas - fired power plants, and places where large combustion engines operate continuously (such as in large ships and tankers).

Comments from the state's Energy and Environment Cabinet note that ratepayers in the state would be stuck with a $ 4.5 billion bill for coal plants that were retrofitted to comply with EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards if they are not allowed to operate.

In addition, recent air quality rules will make building and operating a coal plant much more expensive than in the past.

Europe's pollution laws will stop most old - style coal - fired power plants operating at full power next century.

Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits.

Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits or the introduction of taxes or other restrictions on fossil fuel usage or emissions of GHGs and other pollutants.

It is home to a large coal - fired electric power plant that consumed up to 3,500 tons of coal per day since it began operating in the early 1950s.

These plants, by in large, compete favorably with fossil - fueled (coal and natural gas) plants in terms of their respective forward costs (operating and maintenance and fuel costs).

As for reducing carbon emissions, it is possible that some out - of - state coal - fired generating plants that currently supply electricity to Oregon may continue to operate after 2035 by rerouting their electricity elsewhere.

Alabama Power, the state's largest utility, has been operating some of its coal plants at significantly reduced levels to avoid raising water temperatures in the Coosa, Black Warrior and Mobile rivers.

He spent a week in an underground mine in Pennsylvania, hiked through West Virginia with anti-mountaintop removal activists, rode a coal train through the Black Hills of South Dakota, toured coal plants in China, and spent a month in the North Atlantic with climate scientists aboard the R / V Knorr, a research vessel operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Raypierre makes the case very clear in the current Chicago Int» l Law J. that closed system combustion with oxygen can avoid much of the externalization of costs built into current plants; I imagine it can even contain the uranium and thorium fallout from coal (which is worse than that from a properly operated fission plant).

American nuclear power reactors operated that year around the clock at about 90 percent capacity, whereas coal - fired plants operated at about 73 percent, hydroelectric plants at 29 percent, natural gas from 16 to 38 percent, wind at 27 percent, solar at 19 percent, and geothermal at 75 percent.»

Yesterday, I spent the day covering Greenpeace's anti-coal efforts in Chicago, where two of the nation's oldest coal plants still operate within city limits.

I think a comprehensive (and honest) assessment of alternatives to coal generation will include not only the hypothetical scaling issues of wind and direct solar generation but also will address what we know of the operating record of nuclear plants and what we can expect as we attempt to further scale nuclear power.

Coal fired power plants will become more costly to operate, and the market spur innovation.

They can build more coal plants, driving up their prices by competing with themselves; or they can flood their electricity markets with the maximum possible volume of non-coal power, enabling their existing fleet to operate at much lower costs and weakening the price power of coal exporters.

Fully contracted renewable energy projects have the least transition risk while older, inefficient merchant coal plants are likely to suffer disproportionately from the financial effects of carbon transition such as lower wholesale prices, the cost of carbon credits, lower capacity factors and increased operating or capital costs, according to the report.

The report finds that building new onshore wind and solar PV projects will be cheaper than operating existing coal plants by 2024 and 2027 respectively.

The average operating heat rate for gas - fired power plants is about 21 % lower than coal - fired electric generation facilities, creating less CO2 emissions.

In addition, closer to New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie and Commissioner Martin have called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to expedite action to reduce pollutants emitted by the Portland Generating Station, a coal - fired power plant operated by RRI Energy in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, directly across the Delaware River from Knowlton, New Jersey.

The plan would also allow biomass power plants to continue to burn some coal so long as they operate under the emissions limit.