Sentences with phrase «coal plants still»

It could be a big challenge in Colorado, where Xcel still has an estimated $ 1.9 billion in coal plants still operating.

This is currently technically impossible as existing CCS - equipped coal plants still emit around 100 grams of carbon per kWh.

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.

Yet the analysis shows that even with higher gas prices, coal plants still fail to be economically competitive under the new greenhouse gas rule, which requires that fossil plants not exceed emission rates of 1,000 pounds of CO2 per megawatt - hour.

Not exact matches

with carbon pricing and other measures, including eliminating coal - fired power plants, cutting methane emissions from the oil industry, and making cleaner fuels, Canada will still be 90 million tonnes shy of its international emissions targets set in 2015 under the Paris agreement

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.

A decision now to invest in additional coal capacity might see a new plant coming online in a decade or so — and still with us into the 2050's or beyond.

He says the pension fund is also shifting away from investments like coal and he's not enthused about nuclear because as a resident of Long Island, electric customers are still paying for a nuclear plant which never opened.

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.

A slew of new coal - fired generators are coming online, he noted, and while those plants are sleeker and more efficient, they're still not nearly as clean as gas - fired turbines or renewable power sources.

Yet John Thompson, director of the fossil transition project at the Clean Air Task Force, said Kemper still could open the door for CO2 capture with countries like Poland and India with low - rank coals, by lowering costs for the second generation of plants.

But that is still small potatoes compared with the 45 percent generated by coal - fired plants.

Another measure, the federal Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, will require still more expensive controls on coal plants in the Midwest and South to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions that travel across state lines, creating ozone and fine particle pollution downwind.

Somerset's other plant, Brayton Point, is twice as large as Salem Station and is still burning coal, but the 1,500 - megawatt plant is scheduled to shut down in 2017.

While investment in China's power grid has risen substantially, the country still has some of the world's highest curtailment rates for renewable energy, meaning thousands of turbines are taken offline, even under optimum wind conditions, because grid operators lack the knowledge and skills to integrate the clean energy with other sources, including baseload power from coal plants.

Though coal still accounts for about a third of US electricity generation, utility companies are pivoting to cleaner natural gas to replace decommissioned coal plants.

Natural gas might still have an advantage over coal when burned to create electricity, because gas - fired power plants tend to be newer and far more efficient than older facilities that provide the bulk of the country's coal - fired generation.

Blue jeans used to get their blue from indigo, a flowering plant (and you can still find high - end, indigo - dyed selvedge denim), but that natural process is pricy, and now 90 percent of denim produced in China uses cheap, synthetic dyes made from coal tar, sulfur, and other toxic chemicals.

He said it was particularly important, if that goal is to be reached, for the federal government to work with utilities to curb emissions from power plants (half the country's electricity still comes from coal burning.).

Still, a pilot project burning Montana coal in IGCC plants and sequestering the CO2 in Montana geological formations would be a very informative and important step, even if only because it would help create more market for IGCC plants and help develop the technology.

China is still turning on a new coal - burning plant almost once a week.

Worse than that, in related «horse trading» that the industry insisted on before it would allow the regulations to happen, they managed to grandfather old coal plants — so today we are still stuck with emissions from old coal plants — most of the electricity form coal is from plants that were built before 1970, indeed, most built before 1950, I believe....

A single, large coal plant, if built with the best - available technology, can reduce emissions by the annual equivalent of taking a million cars off the road compared to the subcritical coal - plant technology still prevalent in most countries.

We still see natural gas as an important bridge fuel and encourage converting coal plants to natural gas, but we also support full disclosure of fracking chemicals and strong environmental safeguards during production.

-- The government reaffirmed its commitment to domestic climate goals — It promised # 730m of annual support for renewable electricity generation over the course of this parliament — It appears the government is still committed to phasing out all remaining coal plants by 2025 at the latest

More efficient power plants and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology could boost prospects for coal, but the latter still faces significant regulatory, policy and technical barriers that make its deployment uncertain.

If the U.S. keeps building new coal - fired power plants without CCS (a technology still in development that is intended to take carbon dioxide out of emissions), we can't very well ask or expect other countries (e.g., China) to care much about the issue, unless they decide to care for their own reasons.

Sometimes seeing some turbines off in the distance (and in many cases they will be over the horizon, so they won't even be visibile) is still a smaller price to pay than to have coal plants spewing out CO2, particulate matter, mercury, etc in the air that we and our kids breathe.

China might have recently passed us up when it comes to annual emissions, but take heart: Our coal - fired power plants and industrial factories are still churning out pollution with the best of them.

We still haven't found an answer for disposal of nuclear waste, which is unconscionable; our attempts at CO2 sequestration in coal power plants are stumbling at best; we've expanded solar and wind generation far too slowly.

While these developments are to be celebrated, there remains a sobering reality: they still leave a lot of headroom for China to expand its coal power plant capacity between now and 2030, even though its coal fleet is already more than twice the size of the US coal fleet.

Australia, still uses some traditional coal - fired plants yet to retire.

FRANKFURT, Aug 6 (Reuters)- Germany utilities are heaping pressure on the government before September polls to soften green policies that are hurting their profits, with one company hinting it could even move gas or coal plants to countries where it can still make money.

As pointed out by The Australian, the yawning gaps in SA's wind power output weren't back - filled by wind power lovingly stored in Musk's Marvel, but by the trusty and reliable coal - fired plants still merrily chugging away in Victoria's Latrobe Valley.

A new report assesses the credit risks that power plants face from the global transition to an economy with lower carbon dioxide emissions and finds that some U.S. coal plants are still exposed to those risks, despite Trump administration efforts to roll back CO2 reduction rules.

In the US and Europe there are still coal plants.

The burden of any plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions would have fallen most heavily on coal - burning power plants, which still account for more than 50 percent of the electricity generated in the United States.

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.

To put in some context, even with the cancellation of some proposed plants, planned capacity additions in India are still more than three times greater than Germany, a major coal user.

But even when you account for that, the IPCC figured that staying below 2 °C would depend on a series of long - shot maneuvers: all nations would need to act right this second, ramp up wind and solar and nuclear power massively, and figure out still - nascent technologies to capture and bury emissions from coal plants.

«In fact, closing just a single plant can prevent 146 asthma attacks, 47 heart attacks, and 29 premature deaths a year, according to the Clean Air Task Force... Coal is still killing 7,500 people annually,» he wrote.

Now Germany is burning more coal and building new coal - fired power plants, in an attempt to reverse the economic disaster its «green» and «climate protection» policies unleashed, but its actions are still sending shock waves at investors around the world.

Due to the unreliability of wind power and solar your electricity will still come from coal and gas power plants when those don't work on windless and cloudy days.

However, we still have lots to do locally to clean up our air and reduce our carbon pollution from area coal plants.

There will still be the slag problem, so ultra-supercritical plants are not as good as natural gas combined cycle, but, as, mentioned earlier, coal will be needed for base load, something wind and solar can't provide.

But the 645MW North Omaha coal plant was still pumping out dangerous air pollution.

While there are still new coal plants planned or under construction — mostly in Poland, the Western Balkans, and Turkey — with Europe as a whole on a clear path beyond coal, these projects face an uphill battle.

«The commitments by TXU's new owners should be binding, not voluntary, and the three Texas coal plants TXU still intends to build are three plants too many,» he said.

As the battle over Montana's energy future wages on, the plant still needs coal.

They will still need to get power from non-renewable sources like coal and natural gas power plants when the renewable energy isn't working or is working at greatly reduced levels.