Sentences with phrase «coal power stations which»

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.

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It will continue to finance new coal - fired power stations in developing countries (which is where all the demand is).

Two electric generating cooperatives, Minnkota Power and Square Butte, which operate the Milton R. Young Generating Station, consume virtually all of the coal produced by BNI Energy under long - term agreements.

Coal from the mine — which will be the largest in Australia — will be shipped to power stations in India.

EUROPE»S plans for tackling global warming by driving down emissions of carbon dioxide may have backfired in Germany, where they have encouraged energy companies to build coal - fired power stations instead of gas - fired stations, which emit less CO2.

«China is building coal - fired power stations but it's also closing many of the older ones down, which is why its overall coal use is declining — the more significant point is it's now building the clean energy equivalent of one coal - fired power station every week, and will do for the next 15 years.»

Currently, the vast majority of electricity used to charge cars comes from coal - fired power stations, which inherently involves masses of carbon emissions.

In which way is passing the environmental impact of the ICE to the coal fired power station «cleaner methods of propulsion?»

In my case, I punched in my ZIP, 10524, and up came the Danskammer Generating Station, a coal - burning plant down the Hudson River, owned by Dynergy Power, which sells electricity to Central Hudson, my utility.

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.

From sheer thermal inertia of the oceans, but also because if you close down all coal power stations etc., aerosol pollution in the atmosphere, which has a sizeable cooling effect, will go way down, while CO2 stays high.

Michaels» firm does not disclose who its clients are, but leaked documents have revealed that several were power utilities which operate coal power stations.

Also see Greener coal, which discusses ways of reducing carbon dioxide emissions from the coal industries and increasing the efficiency of coal - fired power stations, etc..

One analyst from the Bloomberg New Energy Finance research group projected that floating wind projects by 2020 could cost more than twice per megawatt than conventional offshore wind, which itself has been estimated, on average, to cost about three times more per megawatt than many new natural gas and coal power stations.

These include more efficient coal plants and converting coal to gas, which can be burned more cleanly in power stations but actually has a higher lifecycle carbon footprint than directly burning coal.

A special feature of the GCEL is the fact that it also identifies which companies are planning to expand coal mining or build new coal power stations.

Still, coal power accounts for 39 percent of carbon emissions within the European Union's emissions trading scheme, which includes factories and power stations from all 28 member states.

The EIB is now in line with other multilateral financial institutions such as the World Bank, which very recently announced it would fund coal - fired power stations only in «rare circumstances».

For example, if a massive global nuclear expansion was one way of savagely reducing the amount of coal and natural gas burned in power stations (which it is) and the cost disadvantage of nuclear wasn't completely silly (which it isn't) then that could work.

A $ 30 - a-tonne carbon tax would make gas — which is about half as polluting as coal when burnt — the preferred fuel for new power stations.

Finally, the refrigerator uses electricity which is probably either generated in a coal fired power station (and coal mining uses huge amounts of diesel powered machinery) or from an oil or gas fired power station.

NCIG, which includes Peabody Energy, won a 2005 tender to build a third terminal at the world's biggest export harbor for power - station coal, beating a bid by Port Waratah Coal Services Ltd., owner of the existing two termincoal, beating a bid by Port Waratah Coal Services Ltd., owner of the existing two terminCoal Services Ltd., owner of the existing two terminals.

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This is a particularly crucial need over the short - term given that South Australia's brown - coal fired Northern Power Station in Port Augusta, which provides 40 % of South Australia's electricity, may be retired as early as 2015.

This process can remove 5 pounds of carbon dioxide per kWh of electricity, the company estimated, as opposed to U.S. coal - fired power stations which emit 2 pounds of carbon dioxide for every kWh of electricity created.

The main reason why very few new nuclear power stations opened around the world after the mid-1980s was cheap natural gas (plus double - digit interest rates, which favoured quick - to - build gas - fired power stations against slower - to - build nuclear and coal), not Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

There, we could find dirty energy power stations (nuclear, coal, oil, gas, hydraulic megacentrals...) according to world productions, which would be removed and replaced by renewable energy (solar, wind, biomass, geothermal...), according to some questions we were asking to people.

CCS, which is currently deployed at a coal - fired power station at Boundary Dam in Canada, captures 90 % of the plants CO2 emissions.

Heavy pollution from coal power stations is forcing officials to consider alternative forms of energy — and raising the stakes for the country's seven pilot emission trading schemes, the first of which launched in Shenzhen on June 18.

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.

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Not only do coal - fired power station produce climate changing CO2, they also produce particulate matter, sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen; all of which cause serious and undisputed health problems in a great many people.

According to long - range planning documents filed in mid-April 2011 with the Public Service Commission, LG&E Energy and Kentucky Utilities Company are making initial plans to retire coal - burning units at three aging power plants by 2016, including the Cane Run Station in western Louisville, KU's Green River Generating Station in Central City in Western Kentucky, and KU's Tyrone Generating Station in Versailles, which has already been mothballed temporarily.

Yet in that time, the net capacity of wind energy has not increased by the output of just one coal - fired power station, many of which are now closed thanks to... yes, you've guessed it... Legislation.

Much of this reduction is due to far less use of the state's only remaining coal - fired power station, the Northern, which, as of 2013, was being run for only the warmer half of each year.

Poland claimed 60 % of the concessions available to 2019, which it will be able to sell to other EU countries, on the condition that it spends the proceeds on diversifying its energy mix and modernising its coal fired power stations.

The energy to compress, transport / pump, and inject the liquid CO2 all has to come from the power station's energy output, which by most accounts of coal - to - airconditioner are around 30 % overall efficiency.

For the UK to be on track to achieve the emission reductions required by the Climate Change Act, it would have to become as carbon efficient as France by about 2015; which magnitudinous challenge would require the equivalent of the UK constructing and putting into service about 30 new nuclear power stations in the next five years, while retiring an equal amount of coal - fired generation!

Re the mindset of the «anti-energy crowd», here's an example of this from 2009 — a BBC interview with spokesman Bob Andrews of climate activist group Eastside Climate Action, in which he actually proposes shutting down coal - fired power stations even when there is nothing yet to replace them with.

«The proposal by German energy company E.ON to build a new coal - fired power station on this site which will emit up to 10m tonnes of C02 a year for the next 50 years are totally at odds with government targets for cutting CO2 emissions,» said Oakley.»

You claim chinas temperatures have continued to increase recently despite their coal burning and sulphate aerosols, with no basic knowledge that 1) they have filters on the power stations to remove most particulate matter like this since the 1980's, and 2) CO2 accumulates in the atmosphere overwhelming particulates, which are short lived in the atmosphere.

The Boundary Dam in Saskatchewan captures carbon dioxide from a coal power station and sells the gas to Canadian oil company Cenovus, which uses it for an EOR project.

As for the problem of acid rain being «avoided» - it was being caused by coal - fired power stations which then cleaned up their act - but has anyone told the Chinese and Indians that?

By way of comparison, the Port Augusta power stations, the closing of which Mr Frydenberg has strongly criticised, burnt 67 tonnes of brown coal every hour.

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Some environmental policies are as a result of UK initiatives, Driven by concerns on carbon price, the UK unilaterally enacted the carbon floor price which is contributing to the closure of coal - fired power stations.