Sentences with phrase «coal retirements continue»

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, a sector trade group, reinforced the call for swift action, filing a study it commissionedy that claims the PJM market will «lose its resilience to gas outages if coal retirements continue.»

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As the rule's new effective date approaches, will he protect the retirement savings of working people — carpenters and coal miners, teachers and technicians, firefighters and farmers — or allow a portion of the financial sector to continue to keep their clients in the dark about whose interests come first?

«Our analysis makes it clear the transition away from coal continues, making additional waves of coal retirements inevitable,» said Richardson.

Utilities with exposure to coal power in the EU are at a strategic crossroads: continue to invest in coal and hope governments will allow rent - seeking in the form of capacity and retirement payments, or divest and prepare for a low carbon future.

Now it faces new challenges: retirement of coal, oil, and nuclear baseload generation; the rise of renewables and how to fit them into the region - wide generating system while continuing to provide reliable service; and the potentially game - changing role of energy storage, if it actually becomes economically competitive.

The Allen retirement announcement comes on top of significant TVA coal retirements over the past year, marking a continued move away from coal - fired power in the Tennessee Valley.

In a Friday memo, Perry asked his chief of staff to undertake a 60 day inquiry into «the extent to which continued regulatory burdens, as well as mandates and tax and subsidy policies, are responsible for forcing the premature retirement of baseload power plants,» such as those fueled by coal or nuclear energy, among other grid related questions.