Sentences with phrase «coal power plants generate»

And that manufacturing contributes to a global greenhouse gas hit of more than 200 million tons of carbon dioxide each year — the same amount about 150 coal power plants generate annually.

Not exact matches

The coal destined for Fraser Surrey Docks, however, will be thermal coal, to be burned in power plants to generate electricity.

The giant mining operations of Asia stack thousands of computers in dimly lit factory buildings powered by cheap electricity from coal - fed generating plants.

It then sells the coal at a loss to power plants to generate the real benefit for the drug company: credits that allow Mylan to lower its own tax bill.

The idea is that utilities generate large amounts of clean power in remote, large power plants in much the same way that natural gas, coal, and nuclear power are generated today.

Base load power, the residual power that has to be generated day - in, day - out, came primarily from burning coal, typically in a plant located right at a mine site owned by the power company.

37.5 megawatts is about the size of a small solar farm; a large natural gas or coal plant can generate several hundred megawatts of power.

In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.

In his summary of findings, Dr. Stopford stated, «Mercury is ubiquitous in the environment being generated both by man - made activities (such as coal - fired power plants) and by natural phenomenon (such as volcanoes).

The spread of urban centers increases the demand for electricity, more than 75 percent of which in China is generated from coal - fired power plants.

Even the oil sands ultimate consumption in a gasoline, diesel or jet engine only results in 500 kilograms of CO2 - equivalent per barrel of refined petroleum products, meaning total oil sands emissions from well to wheel are considerably lower than those of this nation's more than 500 power plants burning coal to generate electricity.

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.

A company in Poland is manufacturing coal - based pellets that it says could significantly reduce carbon emissions from the country's power - generating plants.

China opens one large coal - fired power plant a week on average to generate enough electricity to service its 1.3 billion population and fuel industries that manufacture cheap goods for the U.S. and Europe.

But there's a catch: The electricity that comes out of the socket is typically generated in power plants that burn coal or natural gas and emit plenty of CO2.

The analysis by Yang and Jackson finds that if the gas produced by the new plants is used to generate electricity, the total lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would be 36 percent to 82 percent higher than pulverized coal - fired power.

Thermal power plants — those that consume coal, oil, natural gas or uranium — generate more than 90 percent of U.S. electricity, and they are water hogs.

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.

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates at least 500 gigawatts of electricity - generating capacity could be harvested this way — or 1.5 times more than the entire U.S. fleet of coal - fired power plants.

The «well - to - wire» research showed new natural - gas power plants are responsible for less than half as much greenhouse gas per kilowatt hour of electricity generated as existing coal power plants.

Their work shows that geothermal energy can generate three million megawatts of renewable electricity — approximately 10 times the capacity of U.S. coal power plants.

If the price on carbon is high enough to penalize coal consumption, the theory is it creates economic incentives to retrofit coal plants or use gas or wind power to generate electricity.

LONDON — Power - generating stations worldwide release 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year as they burn coal, oil or natural gas; home and commercial heating plants release another 11 billion tons.

The amount of electricity generated from natural gas in the U.S. is expected to surpass power generated from coal for the first time in 2016, and no new coal - fired power plants are on the drawing board in the U.S.

For instance, the bank's private - sector lending arm is financing a coal - fired power plant in Gujarat, India, that will generate 25.7 million tons of carbon dioxide a year.

Consider, for example, that the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) generates about 60 % of its energy via coal - fired power plants and combustion turbines.

For example, if we stop building new coal - fired power plants without CCS, and if we quickly develop CCS technology, we can help the entire world avoid generating huge amounts of emissions from coal.

The article notes that the shift to gas, so far, is restricted to the city, and some of the pollution from coal combustion will simply be generated elsewhere as plants outside the city pollute to supply electricity to the center of power.

I think that in a sustainable energy economy of the future, most electricity will be generated, stored and used locally, and large centralized generating stations (which by then will be predominantly wind turbine farms and concentrating solar thermal power plants, coal and nuclear having been phased out) will play a much smaller role.

(By comparison, the average coal - burning power plant has a capacity of about 800 megawatts, but generates electricity day or night.)

So if the world moves toward a system for tracking emissions, who is responsible for a particular batch of carbon dioxide — the company that mined and sold the coal, the power plant that burned it, the consumer who buys the exported widget made with the electricity generated by that combustion, or...?

Kansas is rated as the state with the 3rd best wind power potential in the U.S. Kansas currently has 364 megawatts (MW) of utility - connected power, equivalent to about 1/2 of the generating capacity of one of the proposed coal - fired plants.

Warming caused by burning coal in a power plant can be felt in the atmosphere within 95 days — the time it takes for the emissions released from the plant to trap enough heat to exceed the amount generated from the plant itself, according to the study.

The biggest drop was in emissions from coal — which is primarily used to generate electricity — as power plants switched to cheaper natural gas and as the use of carbon - free wind energy more than quadrupled.

The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissPower Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emisspower plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emisspower plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissiCoal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

A coal power plant equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology could meet the standard, but the EPA acknowledges that CCS is prohibitive, raising the cost of generating electricity by as much as 80 %.

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Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

The EPA would then set emissions standards — the rate of carbon emissions — for power plants by first tallying the share of electricity generated by coal and gas - fired plants in each state during a set of baseline years — in the NRDC example, 2008 - 10.

When all of these wind farms are completed, Texas will have 53,000 megawatts of wind generating capacity — the equivalent of 53 coal - fired power plants.

For electricity, it is assumed that the electricity was generated at a coal fired power plant — about 50 % and increasing of electricity in the US is produced in coal fired power plants.

Power producers say that the timetable is too stringent and that such a change would disproportionately hurt the Midwest, where most of the power is generated by older coal - fired plants that are targets of the legislaPower producers say that the timetable is too stringent and that such a change would disproportionately hurt the Midwest, where most of the power is generated by older coal - fired plants that are targets of the legislapower is generated by older coal - fired plants that are targets of the legislation.

Consequently, wood - fired power plants generate more CO2 per kWh than coal.

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.

It also emits more CO2 than coal plants and to this writer it seems strange that the UK will look to North and South America to supply them with biomass fuel that requires processing and shipment thousands of miles, when they (Drax) could use locally mined coal to generate power.

This solution replaces conventional electricity - generating technologies such as coal, oil, and natural gas power plants, and is considered a «bridge solution» to a 100 % clean, renewable energy system.

Using electricity generated by coal - fired plants to power the cars defeats the purpose to some extent, but what if the energy comes from the ultimate clean and renewable source — the sun itself?

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In its 2010 annual report Peabody notes that the New York Office of the Attorney General Subpoena wrote to Peabody on June 14, 2007 and referred to the company's «plans to build new coal - fired electric generating units,» and stated that the «increase in CO2 emissions from the operation of these units, in combination with Peabody Energy's other coal - fired power plants, will subject Peabody Energy to increased financial, regulatory, and litigation risks.»

In short, their findings, based on a survey of 85 power plants consisting of 299 separate generating units across 14 provinces, accounting for some 5 % of China's coal - fired generating capacity, challenges certain long - held assumptions that outside observers have harbored about China's coal power industry.