Sentences with phrase «coal plants running»

Given unfavourable market conditions, the decision over whether to keep coal plants running at a loss is complicated by two separate policies designed to keep the lights on.

Utilities nationwide have set retirements for 266 coal power plants since 2010 as residents reject paying the personal health costs and the expensive electricity rates needed to keep old coal plants running.

Lignite of the Living Dead notes that utilities may keep coal plants running at a loss for many reasons, including: hopes that governments will make capacity payments for guaranteed power supply or payments to retire plants; expectations that competitors will close plants, pushing power prices up; the clean - up costs associated with retiring plants; and opposition to closures from governments for political reasons.

But opponents, including Morrisey and members of West Virginia's Legislature who crafted H.B. 2004, argue that EPA legally can only require specific changes to make coal plants run more efficiently.

Not exact matches

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.

Given that a new coal plant can't meet either of those standards without adding carbon capture and storage technology, the limit will only determine how intensively a new plant would have to run its carbon capture unit.

And it could mean a future viable source of energy that emits no pollution or radioactivity, burns no fossil fuels, and could be no more expensive to run than conventional coal or electric power plants.

Coal used to be up close to 80, but it is less and less economic to run coal plants at aCoal used to be up close to 80, but it is less and less economic to run coal plants at acoal plants at all.)

A pound of dioxin from chlorine bleaching in a pulp mill is far more dangerous than a pound of sulfur dioxide from a coal - burning power plant that runs a washing machine.

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

Cuomo announced in December 2013 that NRG Energy, owner of the failing Dunkirk coal - fired power plant, would negotiate a deal with National Grid to renovate Dunkirk to run on natural gas.

Power plants are next let's see no coal they want to run them on gas and your heat bill will go sky high but the democrat voters don't care they get their heat free for their vote.

«If you want a cheap and reliable source of energy, you just run your coal plant all day long.

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).

The letter aimed to standardize the latter in the Rosenfeld: It specified what kind of coal plant and at what efficiency it runs.

Most electricity in the United States is generated at power plants that run on coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.

And if you didn't do that with the refrigerator you would have do that with the coal plant or combustion turbine running up and down, and doing that makes that unit run much more inefficiently.

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.

So one interesting factoid in the article is that although that huge land mass that we are talking about seems just, you know, mind boggling, according to the article, it's actually less land [than] that's [what's] required to run 300 equivalent energy output coal plants.

That sulfur dioxide market, run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has reduced sulfur dioxide levels by 40 percent since 1992 by allowing companies to buy and sell the right to emit the acid - rain forming pollution from coal - burning plants, which has increased the acidity of lake waters throughout the region.

The cost of retrofitting an old coal plant with capture equipment, for example, could in theory run to more than $ 100 per ton.

Will tomorrow's power plants run on a few ounces of hydrogen and boron instead of several hundred tons of coal?

Over the years, consumers have learned to expect electricity on demand from power plants that run on coal, natural gas or oil.

They are working in cooperation with the Sand County Foundation, a nonprofit based in Madison, and We Energies, an energy company that runs a coal - fired power plant just 160 kilometers away in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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.

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.

Built to demonstrate the feasibility of a new way to wring economical power from coal without belching assorted toxins into the air, the $ 600 million plant has been running steadily since 1996.

If the cells run on hydrogen — which could be derived from a clean - coal plant, for instance — the only direct by - product is water.

Nighttime is often when the wind blows but it is also when utilities like to run only their coal - fired power plants.

During the first half of 2009, the Linc Energy Limited Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) to Liquids demonstration plant at Chinchilla (earlier post) ran four major production campaigns each of which has seen further improvements in plant performance, according... Read more →

In other words, the more coal - fired power plants that can be replaced by those running on natural gas, the better it may be for the climate.

In SimCity, a fetish for coal burning plants in one city can spread smog and sickness in adjacent cities run by other players, for example.

And note that some solar thermal plants are now achieving availability on a par with coal - fired plants, due to storing excess heat from the day in molten salts and using it to run the turbines at night and in bad weather.

The economic incentive to shut down a newly built coal power plant once it is up and running would have to be huge and to my knowledge the replacement «green» technology either does not exist or does not offer the Chinese a large enough incentive to switch.

Plenty of coal to run high tech civilization at least another hundred years even with substantial economic growth by burning it in conventional coal - fired electric plants and making liquid hydrocarbon automotive fuels from it.

Even while they are running adds criticizing governor Sebelius's decision, Peabody Energy is already incorporating a shadow price of carbon into their financial calculations when deciding if investments in new coal - fired power plants are viable.

Some Murdoch papers are running an ad that seeks to guarantee > 1.5, by claiming the world needs 1,200 more coal burning power plants to stave off the existential threat of the next Ice Age

My point is this: In my view, the Times should find out, and convey to the public (in one place and in organized fashion), the views of each and every Congressperson, and person running for Congress, regarding a moratorium on coal - fired power plants (until their carbon dioxide emissions can be eliminated), a carbon «cap - and - auction» or «cap - and - trade» system, or carbon tax, and related matters having to do with global warming.

No electricity for trains - > no coal for the power plant - > no electricity... food running short - etc..

China is never more than a couple of weeks away from running short of electricity, which is why the are building (as Biden said) 2 - 3 coal fired power plants per week.

But until we get to those stages, improved energy storage schemes such as hydrogen, could be used to run other sources of electricity, such as nuclear and clean coal plants, as base - load (24 hours a day) rather than cyce to respond to demand requirements.

I think really this debate, there are coal plants that didn't run much and those needs to retire.

54 % of Europe's coal plants are already running at a loss, and by 2030 virtually all of them will be.»

Last week, Arizona Corporation Commissioner Andy Tobin proposed a Settlement Agreement to keep one of the oldest, most polluting coal plants in the Western U.S., Navajo Generating Station (NGS), running for

Open up some land for drilling, hand out a few Nuclear permits and allow coal plants to run.

Since renewable power from wind and solar power is fed into the grid at the expense of gas and coal, conventional gas plants only run a faction of the time needed to make money with them.

When it is cheaper to run a coal plant the gas plant gets the power reduction demand from the dispatcher.]

... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....

In the long run, according to the report, the steady demand for electricity is likely to result in investments in much cleaner power plants, even if coal remains the dominant fuel for our electricity production.

If implemented properly, the rule could result in a system of «cold standby» for coal plants — ready to run in case of an emergency, but otherwise not producing power (or pollution).