Sentences with phrase «coal power grid»

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National Mining Association President Hal Quinn said the commission's «disappointing lack of action» comes on the heels of a cold snap that demonstrated the value that coal provides to power grids.

By his estimates, renewables make up perhaps 7 % of the power grid, with natural gas and coal making up the remaining majority.

The low natural gas prices caused coal's share of the power grid to fall from 42 % in 2011 to 37 % in 2012.

Installing enough batteries to make most electrical grids fully reliant on wind power or even to take older natural - gas or coal plants off - line isn't cost effective yet in many regions.

Closures of a significant number of coal - fired power plants (for which compliance is too costly) will undermine reliability of the electrical grid and increase the risk of brownouts and blackouts.

Solar power might be an undeniable part of our future — the industry created double the amount of jobs as coal did last year and accounts for nearly 40 % of new electric capacity added to the grid, more than wind or even natural gas — but SolarCity itself isn't.

Chinese miners gained an edge thanks to cheap coal - fired power and a system that allowed them to skirt taxes and grid fees, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

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.

Some analysts expect that existing grid capacity may be enough to power U.S. electric cars in the near future, yet they do not rule out the possibility of new coal or nuclear plants coming on line if renewable energy sources are not developed

In terms of infrastructure, such big solar fits as comfortably as a coal - fired power plant in the traditional electricity business model, which involves large plants transmitting electricity over a grid of conducting lines through transformers and into individual homes and businesses.

After all, the 10 RGGI states are connected to a national grid for power that can allow, for example, cheaper, dirtier power from coal - fired power plants in Ohio to substitute for reduced electricity production at a coal plant in New York State.

Priority areas of focus for this Initiative may include: energy efficiency, smart grid, second - generation biofuels, and clean coal technologies including carbon capture and storage; solar energy and energy efficient building and advanced battery technologies; and sustainable transportation, wind energy, and micro-hydro power.

And if a home generating its own electricity with solar panels and batteries isn't connected to the grid, the home isn't culpable for any of the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that spew from natural gas power plants or coal - fired power plants — the globe's largest contributor to climate change.

And on unusually sunny and windy days — such as on 8 May, when for about 4 hours wind and solar power generated more than 90 % of the electricity that Germany consumed — they must swiftly order coal and gas - fired power stations to reduce their output lest an influx of power «congests» the grid and increases the risk of failures.

However, Kavanagh pointed out that electrolysis is only as clean as the grid that feeds it, so if the energy comes from a coal - fired power plant, there may not be any carbon emissions savings.

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.

$ 150 billion over ten years, including workforce training, plug - in hybrids, renewable electricity, advanced biofuels, advanced coal technology, nuclear power, and smart grid

BEIJING (Reuters)- Automakers» latest projections for rapid growth of China's green car market have added to concerns of worsening smog as the uptake of electric vehicles powered by coal - fired grids races ahead of a switch to cleaner energy.

He also says governments in Africa and Latin America are getting in the way of off - grid solutions to their people's energy difficulties through corruption, policies that discourage entrepreneurism like tariffs on solar lamps, and a general prejudice in favor of the large coal - and gas - fired power plants they see as drivers of developed - country wealth.

A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

Using the power grid to charge automobiles strikes many as bad public policy, since coal, the dirtiest fuel, generates about 60 % of America's electricity.

Mazda isn't hedging its bets on electric power just yet, believing that until the worldwide electrical grid is predominantly powered by renewable energy, an electric vehicle's tailpipe emissions are too far offset by the dirtiness and high CO2 values of the fossil - fuelled coal, oil, and gas power plants that supply their electricity.

A study of greenhouse gas - emissions by the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of California at Irvine shows fuel - cell vehicles running on hydrogen derived from natural gas ultimately create far less GHG emissions than BEVs running off the U.S. grid, which is powered mostly by coal and natural gas.

I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.

«While Central Hudson may not technically buy power from specific power plants, they are buying it from a grid that is fed by coal plants using mountaintop removal coal,» she said.

It's a blatant attempt to justify the need for big coal fired power plants, since in his memo Perry writes: «Baseload power is necessary to a well - functioning electric grid.»

If we should have luck here in Germany, and the EEG does not fail, it would mean that in 20 years we'd have a grid mostly powered by renewable energy, paid by the private households alone, that will produce cheap electricity for the industry at a time when oil, gas and coal will be much more expansive than today.

If that person took subsidies or relies on the grid for the storage of daytime power for night time use, it is certain that person's use of an electric motor ultimately connects to coal use.

Environmentalists will rejoice at this, but the trend is so swift that owners and operators of electric power systems are legitimately worrying about whether the decline of coal will undermine reliability of the electric grid and also make the nation too dependent on natural gas.

Since we will continue to derive grid power from coal, we should make every effort to produce it as cleanly and efficiently as possible, to minimize its impact as we transition to other technologies and fuels.

Once the nation is committed to action, the government and private sector could concentrate their thinking on whether very large - scale infrastructure investments would need to be supported with public funds ---- projects such as solarization of the grid, new coal power plants with carbon capture and sequestration, etc..

She explains that in all but three grid regions in China, electric vehicles produce more CO2 per mile because of the coal source for the power than the equivalent gasoline - powered car:

Reason number one why we have to keep burning coal: you can't base a power grid off of efficiency and renewables alone and natural gas is expensive.

If we choose to use our own abundant coal resources to provide the energy for electricity, heating, and motive power; remove CO2 from the coal - fired electrical generationg plant smokestacks, and add better safety systems to the mines, we will have done all that we need to do other than greatly improve and enlarge our public transportation systems, and the reliability of our power grid system.

Here's a portion that's highly relevant, in which Hande explains that urgent calls now to fix the grid or speed the building of more coal - burning power plants are unlikely to ameliorate the energy challenges confronting hundreds of millions of citizens there:

The E.C.P. will include collaborative projects on renewable energy, smart grid, clean transportation, green building, clean coal, combined heat and power and energy efficiency.

I stress this one deal because here is a chance to help a developing country just building a free market economy build a power grid not based on coal, but in cleaner energy.

No matter what type of power generation there may be on a power grid, there must always be a fall - back available; all generators, including coal - fired and nuclear, fail from time to time.

Using the power grid to charge automobiles strikes many as bad public policy, since coal, the dirtiest fuel, generates about 60 % of America's electricity.

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.

Of the 1.2 billion people who have gained access since 2000, nearly all have gained access via connection to the main grid, with 70 % of people getting access with power generated from fossil fuels (45 % coal, 19 % natural gas and 7 % oil).

Like other analysts, BCG hasn't understood that within a decade, the choices for these nations with soaring vehicle populations will not be electricity from coal vs. imported gasoline but rather electricity from a evolving power grid vs. fuel made by liquefying domestic coal, with 2 - 3x the CO2 of coal - fueled plug - ins.)

... 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....

Because German law requires renewable energy to be used first on the German grid, when Germany exports excess electricity to its European neighbors it primarily comes from coal plants... «If you want to use fluctuating renewable power, you have to upgrade the grids across Europe,» says Daniel Genz, a policy adviser with Vattenfall.

We are blessed as a nation to have an abundance of domestic energy resources, such as coal, natural gas, nuclear, and hydroelectric, all of which provide affordable base load power and contribute to a stable, reliable, and resilient grid.

The new grid study opened the door for the Trump administration to bail out uncompetitive coal and nuclear power plants.

Ok, how about assuming the battery car is fueled upon coal power and poor efficient grid?

As a quick recap, last fall, Perry asked FERC — the independent federal agency that regulates the interstate high - power grid — to greenlight profit guarantees to coal and nuclear power plants.

Many other countries also have requirements that grid operators priorities the dispatch of power from renewable sources, even if it is more expensive than coal - fired baseload plants.

Meaning the grid's power is just an accumulation of all generators such as coal, nuclear, hydro, etc..