Sentences with phrase «coal plants under»

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, star of the upcoming An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, has come out against the hugely controversial coal plants under construction in Bangladesh's Sundarbans,...

Having long bemoaned of a «war on coal,» facing massive losses in share value, and the likely closure of many coal plants under the Clean Power Plan, the coal industry must be looking to Jeb Bush as a potential ally.

The parliamentary library paper showed that 321 gigawatts of new generation would come from coal plants under construction globally.

Most of the new coal plants under construction or recently commissioned were given their construction permits before 2008.

Trump again pointed to China and India, saying that each country is allowed to add massive numbers of coal plants under the Paris Agreement.

Once the nation commits to a rapid timetable for requiring CCS systems at all new coal plants under an emission performance standard, then all of our regulatory and research and development efforts should be focused on implementing CCS technology as effectively as possible.

Indian coal plants under the CDM received financial backing from the World Bank, sparking an outcry against that organization by groups that argue that the bank's support for the coal industry is inconsistent with its other efforts to tackle climate change.

Not exact matches

Beijing, however, has reaffirmed its commitment to meeting its targets under the Paris accord, recently canceling construction of about 100 coal - fired power plants and investing billions in massive wind and solar projects.

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

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

Under Cuomo, coal - burning power plants have been converted to natural gas, and the administration's plan to replace the potential loss of Indian Point's 2,000 megawatts of power involves new or repowered plants with natural gas.

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.

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.

At least three coal - fired power plants are under construction in the U.S. that are designed to have their CO2 emissions captured and sent to an oil field for enhanced oil recovery, including the Kemper County Energy Facility up the road from here.

It's a process that may well accelerate under the Obama administration's new proposed carbon pollution regulations for existing coal power plants, to be unveiled June 2.

Salem Station became a target in the late 1990s, when environmental, health and civic groups launched a campaign to force Massachusetts to clean up what they called the «Filthy Five» — a group of coal - and oil - fired power plants built before 1977 and grandfathered under the Clean Air Act from meeting new air pollution standards.

According to Obama's Web site, the U.S. Department of Energy under his control would work with private companies to design five clean - coal plants that take advantage of carbon capture and sequestration.

Economist Dallas Burtraw, a colleague of Aldy's at Resources for the Future in Washington, D.C., calls this aspect «refreshing... under this system a coal plant is rewarded for efficiency.»

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.

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.

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.

It astounds me that the Sasan coal plant has qualified as a Clean Development Mechanism, or CDM, under the Kyoto Protocol.

Many of the «old coal» plants that are under the Clean Air Act grandfather clause crank out electricity for under $ 10 / MWh.

The country is increasing steel production and has 78 gigawatts of new coal - based plants currently under construction.

Under capacity markets, utilities can bid for payments to keep their gas and coal - fired power plants available, instead of decommissioning them.

... «The EPA pointed to four coal - fired power plants under development — in Texas, Mississippi, California and Saskatchewan, Canada — to show that the rule is possible to meet.

In October 2017, for instance, China moved to stop or delay work on over 150 planned and under - construction coal plants.)

At a plausible GHG emissions price of $ 50 / t CO2eq under a future US carbon mitigation policy, such co-production systems competing as power suppliers would be able to provide low - GHG - emitting synthetic fuels at the same unit cost as for coal synfuels characterized by ten times the GHG emission rate that are produced in plants having three times the synfuel output capacity and requiring twice the total capital investment.

Under this EPA regulation, no new coal - fired power plants can be built in the United States, because not even the most advanced coal - fired power plants can meet this requirement without CCS... and CCS is not a viable technology.

Since 2000, coal - fired power generation capacity has grown by nearly 900 gigawatts (GW), but net additions from today to 2040 are only 400 GW and many of these are plants already under construction.

The Department of Energy's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on ways to compensate baseload generation, now under consideration at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, may provide some relief to existing coal plants, but the report notes that the PJM Interconnection compensates plants for reliability through its capacity market and that «has not yet translated into significant revenues for coal - fired generation.»

States could allow generation from new, not - under - construction plants to displace generation (and emissions) from existing coal or natural gas plants that were accounted for in the emission rate computation.

Coal plants likely will be under pressure to upgrade equipment or close in the wake of anticipated emissions standards from the Obama administration.

Under Canadian regulations that will take effect in July 2015, any new coal - fired plant, and any existing one that's at least 50 years old, can emit no more than about 925 pounds of CO2 per megawatt - hour.

As such, under this rule, nuclear plants would likely be favored ahead of both coal and natural gas plants.

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

Aircraft fuels, including those used in agriculture, would also get a pass, as would the state's lone coal plant in Centralia, which is set to retire under a previous state agreement in 2025.

Under a Paris - compliant EU - ETS cap the shock to coal would be even greater, forcing all coal and lignite plants — even the most efficient — either off the grid or to the margin.»

The report finds that under a Paris - compliant cap for the EU - ETS, carbon prices would need to average $ 45 - $ 55 / tonne for a sustained period to drive coal and lignite power plants out of the market and keep emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, which seeks to limit temperature rise well below 2 ˚C of warming versus pre-industrial times.

The analysis separates out coal power into a separate step, concluding that no new coal - fired power plants can be built under a 1.5 °C pathway, and that emissions from coal must come down by 30 % by 2025 — and 65 % by 2030.

Speeding up Carbon Capture and Storage needed to meet climate goals CCS today is the only technology able to significantly reduce emissions from coal - fired power plants operating or under construction around the world 15 November 2016

Antiquated so - called subcritical coal - fired power plants have an emissions intensity of just under 1,000 kg of CO2 per megawatt - hour.

Concerning coal, it says under «Key observations» in the summary, «With current technology, coal - fired power plants using carbon capture equipment are an expensive source of electricity in a carbon control case.

Under the heading «Renew the plant and fuel portfolio for the future», it talks of how to exploit the Kunioon coal resource

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.

Belchatow, the largest coal plant in Europe, would shut down in 2027 under Climate Analytics» scenarios (Flickr / Kamil Porembiński)

Whether smaller - scale coal plants make economic sense is another matter, particularly as the cost of producing renewable energy comes down, and natural gas prices remain at near - historic lows, well under $ 3 / MMBtu.

5 Aug: Australian: Sid Maher: Land for carbon reforestation to take big cut But if the carbon price started at $ 47 a tonne, under a more ambitious scenario, the report estimates more than 60 million tonnes of carbon could be shed through plantation forests and carbon plantings by 2021... The modelling was released as Resources Minister Martin Ferguson named three leading corporate advisory firms to help the Gillard government negotiate a billion - dollar closure of a brown - coal electricity generator as it seeks to cut carbon emissions.

Another carbon capture project under the aegis of state and industry actors was launched in North Dakota, where a pilot coal plant fitted with a CCS system will be tested next spring.