Sentences with phrase «coal stockpile on»

Coal - fueled power plants maintain an average coal stockpile on site that can last two months or longer.

The nation's coal fleet is fuel secure because the average coal - fired power plant has a 70 to 80 day supply of coal stockpiled on site.

Not exact matches

One measure of the disposition of coal stocks, called days of burn, is an estimate of how many days a stockpile of coal would last at a plant based on past consumption patterns.

The DOE proposal suggests that now - retired coal plants were crucial to the grid's operation during the polar vortex, a false accounting which elides the fact that coal stockpiles froze during the vortex, and wind energy, efficiency and demand response were instrumental to keeping the lights on then, as

The DOE proposal suggests that now - retired coal plants were crucial to the grid's operation during the polar vortex, a false accounting which elides the fact that coal stockpiles froze during the vortex, and wind energy, efficiency and demand response were instrumental to keeping the lights on then, as noted by the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Denis Horgan, Vice President of Westshore Terminal at Roberts Bank in Delta — the largest coal export facility on the Pacific coast — said the $ 230 million project is more about «staying efficient,» and carefully used the words «stockpile expansion.»