But just how much renewables, nuclear, and gas will mix to make up for
the coming coal retirements will depend on a number of variables, including economic factors and whether the CPP goals are extended to 2040.
Not exact matches
As the rule's new effective date approaches, will he protect the
retirement savings of working people — carpenters and
coal miners, teachers and technicians, firefighters and farmers — or allow a portion of the financial sector to continue to keep their clients in the dark about whose interests
come first?
This milestone
comes only a year - and - a-half after we hit the 100th
retirement, the notorious Crawford
coal plant in Chicago.
E3G's scorecard looks at the progress made on phasing out
coal since the Paris climate conference and shows that an additional 40GW of existing
coal plants have been marked for
retirement over the
coming years.
That means that in all, the U.S. is likely looking at about 90 GW of
coal retirements, with most
coming in the next five years.
The report pulls no punches when it
comes to
coal, including a call for a global
coal phaseout involving an immediate end to investments in new unabated
coal - fired power plants globally and the
retirement of existing unabated
coal - fired power plants in high income countries.
The Allen
retirement announcement
comes on top of significant TVA
coal retirements over the past year, marking a continued move away from
coal - fired power in the Tennessee Valley.