Sentences with phrase «coal power plants over»

If over the course of 40 years the world switched all the coal power plants over to natural gas, generating half as much greenhouse gas per watt - hour of electricity, then the warming would slow — but only by a small fraction.

The new study finds that as much as 37 % of global investment in coal power plants over the next 40 years could be stranded if action is delayed, with China and India bearing most of these costs.

Not exact matches

Cleaner burning natural gas has been replacing aging coal power plants in droves over the past several years thanks to both economics and environmental reasons.

They report that in 2011, Alberta coal power plants produced over 40 megatonnes of CO2: «the same amount produced by roughly half of all cars on the road in Canada today.»

The shale oil boom has driven natural gas prices lower and coal - fired power plants are switching over to natural gas.

In fact, gas prices would have to increase fivefold, to an average $ 10 per million Btu over the life of a power plant, for coal to become competitive again, the report notes.

The extraordinary growth in fracking — the hydraulic fracturing of deeply buried shale rock to extract natural gas — has transformed the United States over the past 15 years, boosting energy stocks, cutting pollution from conventional coal - power plants, and creating new jobs.

By their estimations, coal - fired power plants coming online since the turn of the millennium will emit more CO2 than all other human coal burning has since the dawn of the industrial age: 660 billion metric tons over their 50 - year lifetime versus 524 billion metric tons between 1751 and 2000.

When coal - fired power plants close communities can face painful transitions, and the debate over one Massachusetts facility shows the local impacts of a national shift to cleaner power

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.

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

The findings, reported today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, add to a burgeoning debate over the climate impact of replacing oil - and coal - fired power plants with those fuelled by natural gas.

And in Mitch Epstein's photograph of the Amos Coal Power Plant in Raymond, West Virginia, cooling towers loom over houses and neat backyards filled with flowers and shrubs.

Pollution from China's coal - burning power plants has increased the strength of storms in the Pacific Northwest by 10 percent over the last three decades

Replacing old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas plants could cause climate damage to increase over the next decades, unless their methane leakage rates are very low and the new power plants are very efficient.

Methane lawsuit threat hangs over EPA's head Research by the Environmental Defense Fund has found that leakage rates must remain below 3.2 percent for natural gas power plants to carry a climate advantage over coal plants.

«If all the coal - burning power plants that are scheduled to be built over the next 25 years are built, the lifetime carbon dioxide emissions from those power plants will equal all the emissions from coal burning in all of human history to date,» says John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

IGCC technology also gives engineers unprecedented control over what happens to the different components of coal after they go into the power plant.

Pruitt has repeatedly sued EPA over its efforts to regulate mercury pollution from coal fired power 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.

Representative Rob Bishop (R — UT), chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, earlier this spring floated the idea that EPA should be required to engage in formal consultations with FWS over the impact of the power plant regulations, which could force some of these coal plants to close.

Moreover, the Senate bill that would fund DOE — the so - called energy and water bill — hangs in limbo, thanks to the political battle over the Obama administration's plan to use Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations to set new limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, especially those that burn coal.

Though burning natural gas produces much less greenhouse gas emissions than burning coal, a new study indicates switching over coal - fired power plants to natural gas would have a negligible effect on the changing climate.

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You should work to remove the anticompetitive advantages that poorly - controlled, inefficient, incumbent coal - fired power plants presently enjoy over newer, cleaner, and more efficient coal - fired plants.

I also note that if Asia (particularly China) converts its many existing coal - fired power plants to methane (from hydrofracking) over the next few decades, then the air pollution in this part of the world will likely be reduced, which would further increase radiative forcing on the Earth.

122 Jon Kirwan: Coal fired power plants are killing over a million people each year.

Imagine a man or woman being so arrogant, and selfish, that they'd take a job driving a CO2 belching truck, or dig for coal in a mine, or fish for salmon in the ocean, or fly a CO2 belching airliner, or flip beef patties that came from CH4 exhausting cows, or teaching a classroom of students all of whom belch CO2 and exhaust CH4 and whom will have offspring that produces even more of those evil gases, or working as a climate scientist in an office heated by CO2 belching FFs and occasionally traveling around the world by CO2 belching airliner — all the while using computers made from FFs and powered by CO2 belching FF power plants, or working as a Senator from Tennessee who was President of the USA for a few hours and who travels all over the world in CO2 belching airliners, or one of the millions of people who mine, process, manufacture and transport every product you have ever seen in your life and all the ones you haven't seen as well.

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Campaigners against global warming have drawn on an arsenal of visually startling tactics over the years, from posing nude on a Swiss glacier to scaling smokestacks at coal - fired power plants.

But even more daunting than this large amount of committed emissions, we found that total committed emissions grew by an average of 4 % between 2000 and 2012 as we built more coal - fired power plants over that period than in any previous 12 - year period.

For years, Alcoa had been mired in a dispute with environmentalists and the federal Department of Justice over emissions from its coal - fired power plant operations on the site.»

It recently announced that it will restrict new coal - fired power plants, refuse to approve any new coal mines for three years, and will aim to close more than 1,000 mines over the course of 2016.

«An unknown amount of wood will be required for co-firing in coal plants, with estimates for Ohio alone, where the State's Public Utilities Commission has approved over 2,100 MW of biomass power, of about 20 million tons of wood required for fuel annually»

First, utilities used to build power plants right next to coal mines, so some of the oldest plants can have an advantage over newer models.

«There's a new sheriff in town,» agrees Salon's Andrew Leonard, pointing out that last week the Obama EPA started its own lawsuit over a coal power plant upgrade in Kansas that allegedly failed to add in required pollution controls.

The fracking boom has transformed the electric power industry too; coal - fired plants all over the country have been switching to natural gas.

Because decisions made about the power sector are long - lived — power purchase agreements can last over a decade and power plants for decades more — it's a matter of making the right decisions today, as the country pivots away from coal, to secure water and power for the long - term.

The Clean Power Plan in the U.S. has that as one of its most likely outcomes and there have been explicit commitments to retire coal - fired generation plants by governments all over the world.

In December, however, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) suggested in its 2017 Long - Term Reliability Assessment that power generation from natural gas — fired units and renewable sources such as solar and wind will provide enough electricity to offset closures of coal and nuclear plants over the next decade, at least.

Despite rapid growth of wind and solar, it says, two - thirds of power generation will come from gas, coal and nuclear plants over the next decade.

That's why concern is mounting over the construction of a new coal - fired power plant just upstream in Bangladesh, near the town of Rampal.

Since the mid-1980s, the US Department of Energy has invested over $ 3 billion in power plant «clean coal technologies,» but mine fires burn on, venting carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and methane in a wind poisonous to humans and the environment.

The industrial site that has and continues to produce countless iconic Kodak products over the past century enjoyed another historical milestone when it officially said farewell to using coal to fuel its onsite power plant.

Utah environmental regulators on Wednesday unveiled a revised plan for clearing the skies over the state's national parks, but to environmentalists» dismay it would do nothing to further cut emissions from aging coal - fired power plants.

We've been combing through lists and reading reports from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and configured this map of coal - fired power plants that have been nixed over the last two years.

Coal - fired power plants would be required to curb their greenhouse gas emissions and over the long term, and utility companies that operate them would have to transition away from coal to wind, solar and other renewable energy sourCoal - fired power plants would be required to curb their greenhouse gas emissions and over the long term, and utility companies that operate them would have to transition away from coal to wind, solar and other renewable energy sourcoal to wind, solar and other renewable energy sources.

In a new report from Moody's, and reported on by SNL, the ratings agency predicts that cheap natural gas could lead to another massive wave of coal - fired power plant closures over the next year and a half.

This quick - start capability confers wind farms a decided advantage over thermal coal and natural gas — fired power plants when it comes to balancing electricity supply and demand.

While most coal databases used by the finance industry only cover around 100 companies, the GCEL provides key statistics on over 770 companies whose activities range from coal exploration and mining, coal trading and transport, to coal power generation and manufacturing of coal plants.