Sentences with phrase «coal stations shutting»

In terms of cost, onshore wind is competitive with coal and gas, and with a quarter of the UK's coal stations shutting down over the next five years, we will need to replace that generation.

Not exact matches

Beijing originally aimed to bring coal consumption to below 10 million tonnes this year, down from around 22 million tonnes in 2013, and has already shut major coal - fired power stations.

Australian electricity and natural gas giant AGL Energy announced plans last week to shut down the two - gigawatt Liddell coal - fired generating station in New South...

Somerset's other plant, Brayton Point, is twice as large as Salem Station and is still burning coal, but the 1,500 - megawatt plant is scheduled to shut down in 2017.

The graph on the right shows how much wind power South Australia's wind farms were generating at the time the state's last coal - fired power station shut down; the green area represents wind power.

Meanwhile, Germany, once Europe's climate tub - thumpers - in - chief, is in a messy transition on climate policy as it burns ever more coal, while shutting down its fleet of low - carbon nuclear power stations.

Neilio, I'm with you on this.I just love the way you stand up to that guy's strange arguments.I too am extremely concerned at the way we are all being made to follow this crazy «science», to the detriment of most normal Humans» lives.I'm in England.We are living on a huge mass of fossil fuel, (coal, oil and now gas from Fracking), and we're being told that we must not use it to keep warm.Coal - fired power plants are being shut down.Useless windfarms are swamping our country.Nuclear stations are planned when Germany has banned them in favour of Coal.China and India are building and using more coal stations than we ever did.

It isn't much use bothering the government of NSW (who have enough problems currently keeping the lights on because they have shut down coal burning stations) to inform them that some anonymous blogger lacks comprehension skills.

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.

meanwhile, china builds coal - fired power stations by the week, while australia demonises coal & wants to shut down its own & give away more taxpayer money for expensive solar, wind & other unworkable, unnecessary CAGW «solutions»!

Belgium has become the latest country to shut down its last remaining coal - fired power station, Langerlo.

The government's attempts to buy out up to 2000MW of coal fired generation are being frustrated because the big power stations they targeted were offered so much in compensation that they don't want to shut down.

Yet that is exactly what the largest coal fired generator in South Australia, the 540MW Northern power station, is doing — shutting down for the winter months, when demand (and prices) are low.

There are plans by the EU to shut down UK coal powered power stations because they are not «clean» and produce too much CO2.

And, backed by science from James E. Hansen of «coal death train» fame, Al Gore will spearhead the new drive to save our planet by shutting down all coal - fired power stations in order to stop aerosol and particulate pollution that is hastening the man - made global winter.

It would take until 2057 for Australia's 16 remaining coal - fired power stations to reach the end of their working life, with four slated to shut in the next decade.

All we need to do is shut down the coal fired stations and build gas ones and it's problem solved!

Coal power stations must be shut permanently if we are to have any chance of stopping catastrophic climate change.»

Does that mean continue flying, don't worry about changing light bulbs, don't worry about trying to capture carbon or shutting down coal - fired power stations?

We are expected to believe this, with SA's two coal - fired power stations shut down!

Simon Holms a Court wrote a piece in Quora in December 2017, noting that 13 coal fired power stations had been shut down in Australia from 2012 to 2017.

How many Australian coal fired power stations have shut down since 2012?

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.

I'm a fan of nuclear, then, but I don't think there's an emergency about coal, and no need to suddenly shut down all coal - fired power stations.

«If all Canadians lowered their thermostats by just 2 degrees Celsius this winter, it would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about 4 megatons — that's equivalent to shutting down a 600 megawatt coal - fired power station or taking nearly 700,000 cars off the road!»

In Britain, the environmental group Greenpeace took more radical action by occupying and partly shutting down a coal - fired power station.

Includes shutting down of 3 older coal fired stations in a year, gas being exported at premium prices with no retention rule subsequently pushing up local prices and insufficient supply for power stations next year.

This fall, PSEG said it plans to shut two coal plants later this year, its 632 MW Mercer station in Hamilton Township, N.J., and its 620 MW Hudson plant in Jersey City, N.J.

«If you combine an ETS plus this very clear policy in terms of shutting down coal - fired power stations, plus you add in unofficial restrictions on new bank lending for coal fired power stations, plus you add renewables targets for power companies and local officials, together with tax incentives and high tariffs for renewables; all of this will have an impact back in Australia,» he says.

And to put a #VicVotes perspective on the health impacts of climate change, Dr Jo McCubbin argued that neither of the major parties had made any thoughtful environmental policy statements, and medical student Tim Martin wrote that «Running for election without a plan to shut down coal - fired power stations when there are viable clean alternatives isn't just negligent, it's madness.»

Citing the work of the late Professor Tony McMichael, he said there were similar benefits in driving down carbon emissions from cars (people walk more) and shutting down coal stations (good for air quality).

Meanwhile, we are busy shutting down coal - fired generating stations (on the whole a good idea as they pollute).