Sentences with phrase «coal use peaked»

Even U.S. coal use peaked in 2005, and in 2005 — 10, coal lost 12 % of its share of U.S. electrical services (95 % of its market) to natural gas, efficiency, and renewables.

It turns out that coal use peaked around 1945, then declined until the 70's, when it started increasing again:

China remains a towering presence in coal markets, but our projections suggest that coal use peaked in 2013 and is set to decline by almost 15 % over the period to 2040.

«Carbon reductions won't hinder Chinese growth: Professor sees coal use peaking within next decade, emissions dropping soon after.»

Not exact matches

A skeptic might argue that this does not necessitate peak coal, because other developing countries home to billions of people are still nowhere near the level of electricity use of the Western world.

Since China and the United States together constitute more than half of global coal production, a peak of coal use in these nations can be sufficient to ensure that the peak in coal use is now behind us.

Based on a unique model that links China's energy system and economy, the study finds that China's coal use, a major source of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, should peak some time around the year 2020, while the country's overall CO2 emissions would peak around 2030, or perhaps sooner.

Coal Collapse Coal use has peaked in China, the world's largest polluter, and is falling off earlier than expected, according to a Nature Geoscience analysis.

Electricity generated using coal in the U.S. has fallen 38 percent since it peaked in 2007, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data.

Re # 5 I think there is a good chance that Peak Oil could dramatically slow coal use within the next decade.

Peaking oil and natural gas extraction is going to accelerate global warming when many desperate people use wood and coal for heating and cooking.

Britain's coal use, a significant driver of carbon dioxide emissions, reached its peak in 1956 at 221 million tonnes.

But our current fleet of power generation can't readily be used for peaking power plants, Nuclear 28 % and coal 60 %.

We are getting close to world peak production on resources like oil and natural gas, and we shouldn't be using them to dig up coal and make even more pollution delivering WY coal to Georgia.

It comes after emissions declined four out of the six years since their 2007 peak, due to efficiency gains and a shift from using coal to cleaner - burning natural gas.

If TCR / ECS are lower than assumed by IPCC experts, and if we use resource limits on oil, gas and coal (rather than using the hyper cornucopian figures used in RCP8.5), then the market, emerging technology driven by higher fossil fuel prices will reduce emissions to have concentration peak at ~ 630 ppm (that's a rough estimate).

This year, for the first time, oil major BP forecast a peak in global coal use in the early 2030s.

Since coal consumption has actually declined by 6 percent since its peak in 1996, however, there is reason to believe its use will either continue to drop or will increase less than projected.

China's leaders have said its coal use will peak in the next five years, said Leaton, but this has not been priced in.

China is aggressively embracing energy efficiency, expanding clean energy, and shuttering the dirtiest power plants to meet its planned 2020 (or sooner) peak in coal use.

For instance, global coal use would have to peak before 2020; power plants and factories would have to get a lot more efficient; things like nuclear power and renewables would have to expand at an even faster rate.

There is precedent here: South Australia's brown coal - powered Playford power plant, the dirtiest in the country, is now used only for meeting peak power needs.

Natural gas is less dirty than coal, more expensive and used for peak demand.

Without the U.S. making a serious commitment to cut emissions through the Clean Power Plan, its highly unlikely that the Chinese would have entered into an agreement to peak its coal use by midcentury and boost renewable energy growth.

In the first, peaks are dismantled, descending layer by layer, using explosives and draglines, and the coal harvested.

Other provisions in the act — such as tax incentives that encourage the adoption of energy - efficient technologies, a shift to more combined heat and power generation, and the adoption of real - time pricing of electricity (a measure that will discourage optional electricity use during peak demand periods)-- would cut electricity demand enough to avoid building an additional 37 coal - fired power plants.

Thus in all likelihood there will many more gas peaking plants using coal seam gas or LNG shipped from the North West Shelf.

There are not any valid technical reasons why we can not build a national grid connecting wind and solar power generation to replace all existing coal fired generation using OCGT as back - up and for extreme peak demand.

To follow the variable demand the power producers use a variety of «building blocks» from steady running constant load units (Nuclear, Hydroelectric) to slow load - following power plants (Gas & Coal boilers) to rapid start high demand units (Combined Cycle Gas Units) to peaking units (Gas & Diesel generators).

China followed a few months later with a Five Year Plan that majored on environmental progress and further fuelled speculation the superpower's coal use already has peaked.

At this time of high demand, gas - and coal - fired plants used to be able to achieve high returns but with solar power production also peaking around noon, conventional power plants lost this important advantage.

In fact, coal - fired generated power is primarily used during peak periods like morning and early evening, not when we turn our lights on at night.