Sentences with phrase «coal usage for»

Imagine trying to get coal usage for electric power generation cut when the roads are filled with plug - in SUVs.

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Fossil fuel usage, meanwhile, is expected to hit its ceiling in 2030 at 2.93 billion tons of oil equivalent with coal expected to continue as the top energy source for China by 2050.

Winter Weatherproofing For an average home in a cold climate, reducing home energy usage by just 15 percent saves the equivalent of 500 pounds of coal a year.

For each sector, they then analyzed the current amount and source of the fuel consumed — coal, oil, gas, nuclear, renewables — and calculated the fuel demands if all fuel usage were replaced with electricity.

Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits or the introduction of taxes or other restrictions on fossil fuel usage or emissions of GHGs and other pollutants.

In the power sector, which accounts for 93 percent of coal usage in the U.S., coal consumption fell about 1 percent in 2014, and is expected to fall an additional 2.6 percent by 2016, according to the EIA.

For instance — even while usage of some resources — although not power plateaued in the US — supply of electricity from coal powered plants increased globally.

While this might not be great news for the coal industry, the decrease in coal usage takes a load off the environment.

But delivering those same services with less energy, more productively used, could shrink 2050 usage to 71 quads, eliminate the need for oil, coal, nuclear energy, and one - third of the natural gas, and save $ 5 trillion in net - present - valued cost.

Combining carbon capture technology in coal plants with the specific usage of CO2 in the oil sector means that capturing CO2 turns into a profitable business in itself while providing an effective incentive for reducing emissions.

As in the US, electricity consumption is also stagnant, so growth in renewables usage, boosted by EU climate and energy targets, are making the market environment tougher for coal utilities as well.

your link cites rising pollution from burning coal, which if anything bolsters the case for increased solar usage.

The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change had come down hard on coal - fired thermal power producers in 2015, setting a December 2017 deadline for meeting revised norms on emissions of particulate matter, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury and reduced water usage.

Coal opponents assert that such usage is not factually based and that its main purpose is to provide public support and political cover for continued expansion of coal Coal opponents assert that such usage is not factually based and that its main purpose is to provide public support and political cover for continued expansion of coal coal use.

While many in the media have sounded the death knell for coal as a power fuel source, and in the very long - term I think coal usage will gradually diminish, it will take years — perhaps even decades — for coal to be relegated to an insignificant role in power generation, but I am convinced it will occur.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

1960s — became more widely used than coal for general use, mainly because of growth in transportation and gasoline usage

The Bill already includes an 18 % reduction in the budget of the EPA but the additional measures include a rider preventing the EPA from issuing any regulation on greenhouse gases for the next year, a rider stopping the EPA from bringing in proposed fuel - efficiency standards for all automobiles (which were approved by manufacturers) a refusal to label toxic ash spill left from coal combustion as hazardous waste, a rider preventing uranium mining in the Grand Canyon and a prevention on stopping limits on mercury usage.

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In calculating electricity usage the paper used figures for all of Scandinavia and not just Sweden: Hydropower producing 61 % of the electricity, nuclear 20 %, coal & peat 8 %, natural gas 5 %, wood 4 %, oil 2 %, and wind 1 %.

Which makes unfortunate sense when you look at where the most development of renewable energy in the US has occurred — largely in places which already had low to no coal - fired generation and not in those states which are already well above the national average for coal usage.

According to the Greenpeace Union, the activities of environmental groups and, especially the launch of the «Anti-coal usage league», are some of the positive signs of the impetus for further global efforts against the use of coal.