Sentences with phrase «coal units in»

Based on company reports and including member state phase - out policies, only 27 % of operating coal units in the EU are planning to close before 2030.

[ii] As detailed in Figure 5, the anticipated cost of operating coal units in the US increases significantly from the current operating costs in Figure 3.

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 figure below shows the operating cost of coal units in Colorado.

Carbon Tracker analysed the gross profitability of 619 coal units in the 28 EU countries.

That means an ERC produced by a wind turbine in northern Maine could be sold to a coal unit in Wyoming to reduce its emission performance rate.

Figure 1 details the fuel cost of every operating coal unit in the US.

Not exact matches

First, states must approve the construction of new electricity generation units and strong majorities in many states remain opposed to coal - fired power, irrespective of what the preferences of a Trump Administration might be.

A number of coal - and oil - fired power plants will likely be retired, and while Virginia's four existing nuclear units will remain in use, plans for a fifth reactor remain shelved, for now.

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.

South32 has unveiled plans to reduce its interest in its South African Energy Coal unit, potentially through a spin - off onto the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

In their comments, activists said that while H.B. 2004 requires «unit - specific» standards for coal plants, that does not prohibit carbon emissions trading.

Opponents call Clean Power Plan «illegal» Power company Dominion, which operates three coal - fired units subject to the Clean Power Plan in West Virginia, recommended that the state develop a carbon - cutting plan that uses interstate trading.

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.

«It's now competitive in terms of power per unit of investment, but you get a lot more power per unit coal,» Chu noted.

Other major TVA facilities that have announced plans in recent years to shut down include the Colbert Fossil Plant, also in Alabama, and the Paradise Fossil Plant in Kentucky, where two of three coal units were slated for closure while a third unit was to be converted to burn natural gas (ClimateWire, Nov. 15, 2013).

It sees coal as remaining dominant in the electricity generation sector: global consumption will rise by 1.3 percent a year — from 147 quadrillion British thermal units of energy in 2010 to 180 quadrillion Btu in 2020 to 220 quadrillion Btu in 2040.

They found that because natural gas plants are overall more efficient than coal plants, producing more energy per unit of carbon, they could cause less warming in the long term.

ZeroGen and the Callide Oxyfuel Project, which is a $ 200 million project to convert an existing 30 - megawatt unit into a carbon capture plant, are in the heart of Australia's coal country.

Burney is examining a similar trade - off between sulfur and black carbon in the United States, as coal - fired electricity plants shift to cleaner natural gas, which emits half as much CO2 as coal per unit of electricity.

Although fracking in the U.S. produces more than 100 billion gallons of wastewater per year, the process requires significantly less water per unit of energy than extraction and processing for coal and nuclear power, according to past research by Jackson and his colleagues.

«Coal plants and gas plants are the marginal units that we considered for charging the plug - in hybrid batteries,» says PNNL staff scientist Michael Kintner - Meyer, lead author of the forthcoming report.

He produced a document showing two of the plant's four coal - fired units provide about $ 14.2 million in tax revenue to state and local governments in Montana — dollars that help fund Colstrip's history museum, recreation center, golf course, schools and 32 colorful playgrounds.

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.

Perhaps someone with a better background on geology could explain why there's so much more methane extracted per unit of coal resource in coalbed methane than is vented in regular coal mining.

Response: Ideally, SMRs should be readily able to slot into brownfield sites in place of decommissioned coal - fired plants, the units of which are seldom very large.

«It used to be that in each coal - loading unit, there was about 15 men,» McReynolds says.

In the USA coal - fired units retired over 2010 - 12 averaged 97 MWe, and those expected to retire over 2015 - 25 average 145 MWe.

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.

Perhaps someone with a better background on geology could explain why there's so much more methane extracted per unit of coal resource in coalbed methane than is vented in regular coal mining.

The bill aims to thread various needles, for instance including measures to encourage a shift from coal and oil to natural gas (which produces roughly half the emissions per unit of energy) but in ways that won't alarm environmentalists worried about impacts of expanded gas drilling.

The Big Cajun 2 plant consists of three coal - fired steam units with a total capacity of 1700 MW and has been in operation since 1981.

... In the U.S. electricity supply sector, the cost benchmark for reducing carbon dioxide emissions lies with substitution of natural gas for coal, especially older, less efficient units.

In May 2010, American Electric Power announced it planned to run 10 small coal - fired power units on a part - time basis starting in June as «the weak economy reduced demand and low natural gas prices have made the use of some coal units less profitable,» according to the companIn May 2010, American Electric Power announced it planned to run 10 small coal - fired power units on a part - time basis starting in June as «the weak economy reduced demand and low natural gas prices have made the use of some coal units less profitable,» according to the companin June as «the weak economy reduced demand and low natural gas prices have made the use of some coal units less profitable,» according to the company.

That project would include the closure of DEP's existing 379 MW Asheville 1 and 2 coal units and construction of about 752 MW of natural gas - fired generation (two 280 MW combined cycle units proposed to commence operations in 2019 and an optional 192 MW combustion turbine unit proposed to commence operations in 2023).

Some generators use mark - to - market valuations — assessments of the current price for CAPP coal versus the current price for electric power — in making decisions regarding which generating units to dispatch.

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 investment.

In October 2010, Ohio Power Co. filed an application with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for the approval of a December 2010 closure of the coal - fired Philip Sporn Power Plant unit 5, Ohio Power parent American Electric Power said in a Nov. 1 Form 10 - Q filinIn October 2010, Ohio Power Co. filed an application with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for the approval of a December 2010 closure of the coal - fired Philip Sporn Power Plant unit 5, Ohio Power parent American Electric Power said in a Nov. 1 Form 10 - Q filinin a Nov. 1 Form 10 - Q filing.

The plant's coal suppliers in 2010 included Keystone Development, the Mammoth Coal unit of Massey Energy, Mine Rite Coal, and Newtown Enecoal suppliers in 2010 included Keystone Development, the Mammoth Coal unit of Massey Energy, Mine Rite Coal, and Newtown EneCoal unit of Massey Energy, Mine Rite Coal, and Newtown EneCoal, and Newtown Energy.

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

Those units would annually generate approximately 17 terawatts (TWh) of electricity — about 3/4 % of annual electricity consumption in the UK — and produce 150 % of C02 emissions of coal generation and 300 % of gas generation.

In fact, APS» 2012 purchase of Southern California Edison's share of the Four Corners coal plant — adding 179 megawatts (MW) to APS» owned coal capacity — was a step in the opposite direction from clean energy and for protecting ratepayers, since APS has had to spend over $ 400 million for emissions control of these unitIn fact, APS» 2012 purchase of Southern California Edison's share of the Four Corners coal plant — adding 179 megawatts (MW) to APS» owned coal capacity — was a step in the opposite direction from clean energy and for protecting ratepayers, since APS has had to spend over $ 400 million for emissions control of these unitin the opposite direction from clean energy and for protecting ratepayers, since APS has had to spend over $ 400 million for emissions control of these units.

Most of this has already been announced as two Northern Ontario coal - fired generation units of provincially owned Ontario Power Generation (OPG) are in the process of conversion.

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 leasIn 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 leasin 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.

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.

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In its 2010 annual report Peabody notes that the New York Office of the Attorney General Subpoena wrote to Peabody on June 14, 2007 and referred to the company's «plans to build new coal - fired electric generating units,» and stated that the «increase in CO2 emissions from the operation of these units, in combination with Peabody Energy's other coal - fired power plants, will subject Peabody Energy to increased financial, regulatory, and litigation risks.&raquIn its 2010 annual report Peabody notes that the New York Office of the Attorney General Subpoena wrote to Peabody on June 14, 2007 and referred to the company's «plans to build new coal - fired electric generating units,» and stated that the «increase in CO2 emissions from the operation of these units, in combination with Peabody Energy's other coal - fired power plants, will subject Peabody Energy to increased financial, regulatory, and litigation risks.&raquin CO2 emissions from the operation of these units, in combination with Peabody Energy's other coal - fired power plants, will subject Peabody Energy to increased financial, regulatory, and litigation risks.&raquin combination with Peabody Energy's other coal - fired power plants, will subject Peabody Energy to increased financial, regulatory, and litigation risks.»

This is equivalent to saying that one unit of energy invested in coal power yields nine units of electricity.

In OECD countries, and especially in many emerging economies, where coal - fired power generation is set to expand in the near future, new - build coal ‑ fired power units should aim for best available efficiencies (currently, through application of supercritical or ultra-supercritical technologies), where feasible, and be designed in view of potential future CCS retrofits, if they are not equipped initially with CCIn OECD countries, and especially in many emerging economies, where coal - fired power generation is set to expand in the near future, new - build coal ‑ fired power units should aim for best available efficiencies (currently, through application of supercritical or ultra-supercritical technologies), where feasible, and be designed in view of potential future CCS retrofits, if they are not equipped initially with CCin many emerging economies, where coal - fired power generation is set to expand in the near future, new - build coal ‑ fired power units should aim for best available efficiencies (currently, through application of supercritical or ultra-supercritical technologies), where feasible, and be designed in view of potential future CCS retrofits, if they are not equipped initially with CCin the near future, new - build coal ‑ fired power units should aim for best available efficiencies (currently, through application of supercritical or ultra-supercritical technologies), where feasible, and be designed in view of potential future CCS retrofits, if they are not equipped initially with CCin view of potential future CCS retrofits, if they are not equipped initially with CCS.