Sentences with phrase «coal power stations»

When carbon constraints go they still have every advantage since already built coal power stations make the cheapest electricity.

They have signed up to global reduction targets for carbon emissions, and are starting to close coal power stations which provide the majority of electricity.

Effective emissions limits could save thousands of lives every year, yet more than half of coal power stations in Europe are operating with «permission to pollute» -LSB-...]

Effective emissions limits could save thousands of lives every year, yet more than half of coal power stations in Europe are operating with «permission to pollute» above limits set in EU law.

The health costs of sulphur emissions from coal power stations in NSW are 45 times greater than current pollution fees charged to electricity generators, according to Australian research.

The United States should replace coal power stations with natural gas facilities and encourage this elsewhere.

Continue reading «Tony Lodge: Why the Conservatives should back Kingsnorth and new cleaner coal power stations»»

Tactfully ignoring the fact that the Kemper project has turned out to be a disaster, I thought I would scale this against an option that we can all comprehend, shutting down the brown coal power station at Hazelwood.

This is like someone would say: «I am an ecofreak, and I am in favor of brown coal power stations without filter.»

«If we intend to preach to others, we can not do so while building dirty coal power stations and new runways.

One focus was on 27 biomass burning power plants in the EU, ten of which were former coal power stations converted to run on biomass or to be co-fired with a mixture of biomass and coal.

Alinta Energy owns 14 gas and coal power stations around Australia and provides electricity and gas to some 700,000 households and businesses in South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria.

However, even the most efficient coal power stations are major carbon polluters.

«It includes companies whose major business is coal exploration, processing coal, producing specialized equipment for coal mining, transporting or trading coal, converting coal to oil or gas, manufacturing equipment for coal power stations and many other activities along the thermal coal value chain.

India is also the world's fifth largest greenhouse gas emitter, according to the latest reliable information (CAIT 2007), with a heavy reliance on coal power stations, though India's strong economic growth has meant that demand for electricity often outstrips supply, which has reinforced the need for alternative energy sources.

Britain's last coal power station will be forced to close in 2025, as part of a government plan to phase out the fossil fuel to meet its climate change commitments.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

The blockchain center for the production of cheap electricity will be launched in Australia on the basis of the Redbank coal power station closed in the Hunter Valley.

I gather that these may include existing obsolescent coal power station sites so that the steam turbines thereon can continue to be used.

Delhi's environmental authorities say petcoke, cut into coal power station feeds around the capital, is now one of the major sources of smog in the city.

Air pollution from Europe's 300 largest coal power stations causes 22,300 premature deaths a year and costs companies and governments billions of pounds in disease treatment and lost working days, says a major study of the health impacts of burning coal to generate electricity.

The Australian reports that Victorian wind farms, for all their hype and subsidies, have eliminated virtually zero GHGs, thanks to the need for backup coal power stations to keep running at full speed to cope with the fluctuations in wind generation:

We had hoped to have a clean coal power station up and running by 2015 but the fact is that the early research has shown us that this is not viable at this time on a commercial scale.

The government plans to re-commission several retired coal power stations, and build more in the coming decade, with the remaining increase in capacity expected to come from new nuclear power plants.

The story told was that Royal Dutch Shell (oil & gas) teamed up with their traditional enemy, Greenpeace to push for a mutual goal — closure of the last 3 x coal power stations in in Holland (5 x old coal stations are gone already but the last three are spanking new and closing will cost 2,800 jobs, plus lawsuits from the owners etc).

«There's a dynamic between the renewable certificate market and the wholesale market because wind can bid zero or low when there's a lot of wind, forcing wholesale prices down, driving coal power stations out of the market.

«Instead, the coal lobby has sought an urgent interdict to delay the conclusion of power purchase agreements, citing already - debunked arguments relating to job losses, coal power station closures and rising electricity prices.»

For sure the extreme whackos want to return us to the stone age, but Barak Obama over taxing coal power stations?

Shale gas, of course, could do much, much more than «renewables» to boost the economy, create new business and jobs, and slash our emissions — if that is important — by replacing our ageing coal power stations.

PROMOTE SAFE COAL POWER STATIONS.

Just after 5 am yesterday 50 Greenpeace volunteers entered the Kingsnorth coal power station and chained themselves to machinery, effectively shutting down the plant because new coal can not be brought in.

BP, Conoco Philips, Shell, E.ON AG (coal power stations owner, EDF (one of the largest participants in the global coal market), Gazprom (Russian oil and gas), Goldman Sachs, Barclays, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley..

By retrofitting carbon capture to existing polluting facilities like coal power stations, they have the option of continuing operation with lower emissions, potentially overcoming political and economic obstacles to system transformation.

A huge amount comes from coal power stations — and a new report argues our pollution guidelines are hopelessly lax.

Even if companies could be certain they'd never have to pay for their carbon emissions, we'd still never see a new coal power station built in Australia given the current cost of renewable energy here and overseas.

Problem is, China's ability to keep building coal power stations is what is making it the world's superpower so they're against any binding treaties to stop them from doing so.

In publicising the plan to cut emissions from old coal power stations, Obama put the emphasis on health.

This process has already begun with the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) classifying carbon dioxide as a pollutant enabling it the enforce efficiency standards on the dirtiest coal power stations.

Drax, the UK's biggest coal power station, has converted to partly run on biomass (Flickr / Jonathan Brennan)