Sentences with phrase «coal units at»

CAVT is used in several Synapse analyses to identify and investigate coal units at risk for retirement, including two studies led by Mr. Knight for the Energy Foundation: Displacing Coal: An Analysis of Natural Gas Potential in the 2012 Electric System Dispatch (August 2013), and Forecasting Coal Unit Competitiveness: Coal Retirement Assessment Using Synapse's Coal Asset Valuation Tool (October 2013).

Synapse developed the Coal Asset Valuation Tool (CAVT), a spreadsheet - based database and model, to identify and investigate U.S. coal units at risk for retirement.

The Duisburg - Hochfeld plant has closed last week (1), and the last coal unit at the Werdohl - Elverlingsen plant will follow suit on 31 March (2).

Not exact matches

Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

Copper, one of four business units at Teck besides steelmaking coal, oil and zinc, is a priority for the company

This risk factor pushes the «levelized» or all - in price of nuclear power from new units to 8.4 cents per kilowatt - hour, the MIT study concludes, versus 6.2 cents for coal - fired plants and 6.5 cents for natural gas generation (if gas is priced at $ 7 per million British thermal units, or roughly 1,000 cubic feet of flowing gas).

When Unit 3 at the Boundary Dam Power Station in Saskatchewan, Canada, switches on later this year after a lengthy refit, it will mark a historic moment for dirty coal power.

A relatively small unit attached to the smokestack at the Mountaineer Power Plant in West Virginia is capturing some 1.5 percent of the carbon dioxide the coal - fired plant would otherwise belch into the sky.

It's why China has been retiring coal plants for decades — at first in favor of ultrahigh efficiency modern supercritical coal plants that delivered twice as much power per unit of pollution produced, and now increasingly solar and wind.

To approximate our current coal generation capacity would require increasing the global complement of nuclear plants from some 500 to at least 4,000 units.

At a plausible GHG emissions price of $ 50 / t CO2eq under a future US carbon mitigation policy, such co-production systems competing as power suppliers would be able to provide low - GHG - emitting synthetic fuels at the same unit cost as for coal synfuels characterized by ten times the GHG emission rate that are produced in plants having three times the synfuel output capacity and requiring twice the total capital investmenAt a plausible GHG emissions price of $ 50 / t CO2eq under a future US carbon mitigation policy, such co-production systems competing as power suppliers would be able to provide low - GHG - emitting synthetic fuels at the same unit cost as for coal synfuels characterized by ten times the GHG emission rate that are produced in plants having three times the synfuel output capacity and requiring twice the total capital investmenat the same unit cost as for coal synfuels characterized by ten times the GHG emission rate that are produced in plants having three times the synfuel output capacity and requiring twice the total capital investment.

The three power plants at issue in the litigation - the Armstrong, Hatfield's Ferry and Mitchell plants - are older, coal - fired generation units.

The smallest subsidies on a per unit basis were for coal, natural gas and petroleum liquids, and municipal solid waste, all at less than $ 0.45 per megawatthour of generation.»

In December, however, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) suggested in its 2017 Long - Term Reliability Assessment that power generation from natural gas — fired units and renewable sources such as solar and wind will provide enough electricity to offset closures of coal and nuclear plants over the next decade, at least.

Industry witnesses were lining up Sept. 11 to take shots at a proposal by the Ohio Power unit of American Electric Power to protect the futures of about 3,100 MW of coal - fired generation through a power purchase agreement it wants approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.

Kentucky Power on Aug. 28, in a twice - yearly fuel report filed at the Kentucky Public Service Commission, was essentially making the last such report where its 800 - MW, coal - fired Big Sandy Unit 2 ran for the full period before being retired.

However, as China continues to replace older, less efficient generators with more efficient units, China's power sector coal consumption is expected to peak as soon as 2018, at 4,800 million metric tons.

Newer vintage natural gas - fired units operate at higher efficiency than older, fossil - fired units, which increases the competitiveness of natural gas relative to coal.

«At 50 MW — 350 MW, modular units could provide efficiency and cost benefits, but probably wouldn't have significant impact on coal demand given the number of coal - fired unit retirements / closures being considered and the length of time this would take to get to the commercial stage (5 — 10 years).

Steve Winberg, assistant secretary for fossil energy at the DOE, in March told the news group Axios at an energy conference in Houston, Texas, that the agency was prepared to set up funding opportunities for small - scale coal units.

Does AGL have another plan other than to continue running all units at Loy Yang A as base load brown coal??

Plants can improve efficiency (heat rate) at fossil units as they have, and firms can engage in fuel switching / redispatch from coal and oil to gas and renewables, as they have.»

It is possible to capture CO2 emissions at these pulverized coal units, but the CO2 capture technology currently has performance and cost drawbacks.

Under the terms of the US$ 715m contract, the Chinese will build an additional 350 MW unit at Kostolac and expand operations at a nearby opencast mine producing lignite — the «dirtiest» coal.

In addition to units currently planning to retire in 2018 or later (about 6.9 GW; 67 % coal, 20 % nuclear), there are between 108 and 118 units representing 22.9 to 30.7 GW of capacity at risk of retirement.

Coal units they say are no longer in customers» best interest include: Unit 4 at Cholla Power Plant in Arizona; Units 1 and 2 at Craig Station in Colorado; Units 1 and 2 at Hayden Generating Station in Colorado; Units 3 and 4 at the Bridger Power Plant in Wyoming, and Units 1 and 2 at the Naughton Plant, also in Wyounits they say are no longer in customers» best interest include: Unit 4 at Cholla Power Plant in Arizona; Units 1 and 2 at Craig Station in Colorado; Units 1 and 2 at Hayden Generating Station in Colorado; Units 3 and 4 at the Bridger Power Plant in Wyoming, and Units 1 and 2 at the Naughton Plant, also in WyoUnits 1 and 2 at Craig Station in Colorado; Units 1 and 2 at Hayden Generating Station in Colorado; Units 3 and 4 at the Bridger Power Plant in Wyoming, and Units 1 and 2 at the Naughton Plant, also in WyoUnits 1 and 2 at Hayden Generating Station in Colorado; Units 3 and 4 at the Bridger Power Plant in Wyoming, and Units 1 and 2 at the Naughton Plant, also in WyoUnits 3 and 4 at the Bridger Power Plant in Wyoming, and Units 1 and 2 at the Naughton Plant, also in WyoUnits 1 and 2 at the Naughton Plant, also in Wyoming.

These are mostly coal (38 to 46 units at 17.3 to 21 GW) and nuclear (3 to 5 plants at 2.9 to 7 GW) resources.

To bring a coal fired thermal unit to at least mid load or better operating level can take up to twelve hours or more from a cold start.

* For the comparison to existing or new NGCC, UCS assumes that the NGCC unit would run at the same capacity factor as the coal unit under consideration.

Natural gas - fired combined cycle units are more efficient at over 50 % now, less expensive and quicker to build than coal - based systems.

The newest coal - fired generator in the state, the enormous Unit 6 at the Rogers Energy Complex in Cliffside, is being converted to run flexibly on either coal or gas, while coal - fired Unit 5 was excluded by the UCS analysis because it is being converted to run partially on natural gas, but would also fail the economic stress test compared to natural gas and wind.

Many coal - fired units all over the world currently operate at efficiencies well below 30 %.

Assuming new wind or solar power resources at $ 40 / MWh, we calculate that the total capacity of uneconomic coal units in the Southeast rises from 8.1 GW (according to UCS) to 15.2 GW, and the savings from replacing all these units with wind or solar would rise to over $ 230 million annually.

The economic stress test essentially asks one question: Does a given coal unit produce power at a cost that is competitive with current alternatives?

The coal - fired units at the Big Bend Power Station on Tampa Bay (Tampa Electric), C.D. McIntosh Jr..

UCS conducted a three - part analysis on the transition away from coal - fired electricity: (1) a look at what happened to the nation's coal - fired generating units between 2008 and 2016; (2) an evaluation of the economic viability of the current coal fleet using an updated «economic stress test»; and (3) an assessment of the demographics of communities living near coal plants.

TXU also promised to cut emissions of pollutants including sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide and mercury by 20 percent, saying it would spend $ 500 million on equipment to control pollution at three of its existing coal - fired units in Texas.

If you subtract emissions from two units to be mothballed at Dynegy's coal - fueled Baldwin plant (9.7 million tons) and a unit at the Newton coal plant (2.1 million tons), that represents about 40 percent of the CO2 reductions required.

Construction Underway on New Unit at Serbian Coal Plant.

On the same day, German generator STEAG filed a legally binding notice with the German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) to permanently shutter both units at its 507 - MW Lünen hard coal — fired power plant by March 2019 (Figure 2).

For example, a 525 megawatt cogeneration unit at a refinery might require 6 million gallons per day (MGD) of water intake, while a similar 525 megawatt coal - fired boiler could use more than 14 MGD.

My Clean Break column today takes a closer look at efforts by Ontario Power Generation to convert some of its coal - fired generating assets into biomass - burning power plants, including potentially several units at its Nanticoke Generating Station — North America's largest coal plant.

They write that «In particular, the way researchers modeled the acid gas requirements under MATS had a large impact on the forecasted amount of coal - fired capacity and generation going forward, as well as the pollution controls that would be installed at these units and their emissions of acid gases.»

In December 2011 Kentucky Power, owned by American Electric Power (AEP), one of the country's largest electric holding companies, requested approval for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) and associated cost recovery to invest approximately $ 950 million on environmental compliance measures at its Big Sandy Unit 2, an 800 MW coal unit approximately 40 years Unit 2, an 800 MW coal unit approximately 40 years unit approximately 40 years old.

Natural gas combined - cycle units operate at higher efficiency than do older, coal - fired units, which increases the competitiveness of natural gas relative to coal.

This is particularly true in the Southeast where most coal units operate at a higher cost than cleaner energy options, causing them to fail our economic stress test.»

While a total of 20 states have coal units that are no longer economic, the five states that are facing the greatest amount of uneconomic coal generation relative to their overall electricity mix are, in order, West Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, each with at least one - fifth of their in - state electricity generation coming from units that our analysis shows to be struggling economically.

The report also identifies that if the least efficient 500 TWh of power generation in China's national coal fleet were to be upgraded to the same technology used at Zhoushan Unit 4, this could reduce China's CO2 by about 850 million tonnes each year and it would achieve this reduction at a much lower cost than any other equivalent, scalable, emission reduction strategy currently available in China.

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.

All units at this location are of Supercritical Technology, driving efficiency in coal based power generation.