Sentences with phrase «conventional coal»

Their main complaints are that the turbines are so inefficient that they actually increase carbon dioxide emissions, and so unreliable that they require constant backup from conventional coal and gas - fired stations.

Much of this capacity is currently planned as conventional coal - fired technology.

And the view is that carbon taxes will punish those utilities most heavily reliant on conventional coal - fired plants.

After all, if renewable energy ramps up, but conventional coal expands even faster, emissions would rise, not fall.

With a decline in conventional coal plants, and no new coal plant proposals being forwarded by most utilities, the Crow are looking into different partnerships for non-conventional use of their coal.

(04/29/2009) In an effort to curb climate change, both Britain and Canada have announced plans to stop building new conventional coal power plants, a move long - advocated by environmentalists.

In an effort to curb climate change, both Britain and Canada have announced plans to stop building new conventional coal power plants, a move long - advocated by environmentalists.

On the contrary, these countries are not only scrabbling to extract every bit of conventional coal, oil and gas they can get their hands on, they're also tapping or planning to tap all kinds of unconventional resources, from tar sands to methane hydrates.

India is as determined as ever to sustain its economic growth and demand help from the rich world for any costly diversion from conventional coal burning to fuel that growth.

In 2017, for instance, according to the US Energy Information Administration, the levelised cost of electricity, which is a key comparator of generating effectiveness, is likely to average $ 96 / MWh for new wind plant as opposed to $ 97.4 / MWh for conventional coal.

A Washington Post article, May 14,2007, reports that the nation's rural electric cooperatives, which get 80 % of their electricity from coal, plan to spend $ 35 billion to build conventional coal plants over the next 10 years and do it with cheap government loans.

Some countries in ASEAN, particularly Thailand, have been embarking on CCTs by retiring their old conventional coal power plants and replacing them with ultra-supercritical coal power plants.

Under the plan, the EPA projects that after 2020, conventional coal use would begin to fall quickly.

Meanwhile, existing coal - fired power plants, many of which date to the 1970s or earlier, will continue to face pressure to close as other environmental regulations target conventional coal pollutants like nitrogen oxides, mercury and particulate matter.

Unlike conventional coal - fired generators, IGCC plants don't actually burn the coal itself; they convert it into gas and burn the gas.

does anyone seriously think that we will be using less conventional coal in the foreseeable future?

The outside pressures against coal - fired generation are in complete contrast with the treatment conventional coal projects have received from Freudenthal's administration and Wyoming regulators.

Plant type LCOE ($ / MWh) Conventional Coal $ 95.10 Advanced Nuclear $ 95.20 Geothermal $ 47.80 Biomass $ 100.50 Wind $ 73.60 Solar PV $ 125.30 Hydroelectric $ 83.50

It comes at a time when Americans are trying to reshape their energy policy and wean themselves from dependence on foreign oil, dwindling natural gas reserves and dirty conventional coal.

Because of the low volume of methane seeping near the coal outcroppings, it was not economical to install conventional coal - bed - methane (natural gas) production wells and collection piping.

Enviropower had proposed a 525 MW conventional coal plant in Somerset, Pennsylvania.The project now appears to have been abandoned.

So just how large is the task of replacing the current fossil fuel - based energy supply (in particular, conventional coal burning) with other non-polluting fuel sources?

His pledge came as he outlined proposals to MPs for the construction of new conventional coal - fired stations, including Kingsnorth.

The world, including China, India and other developing nations, needs affordable clean technologies now to avoid the lock - in of massive carbon emissions from conventional coal plants.

The pellets combine coal with cleaner burning biofuel ingredients, producing a fuel that is just as efficient as conventional coal, but more environmentally friendly.

Environment Minister Jim Prentice has said that any new coal plants will include CCS technology and old conventional coal plants will be phased out.

Schweitzer, quickly recovering from hopefulness and returning to the «be worried, be very worried» message, said «it's even more critical than that» because China and India are going to «put more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere with conventional coal - fired generators than all of the rest of the planet has during the last 150 years.»

Conventional coal power currently comes with around 1000 grams of CO2 - equivalents per kWh.

By 2020, conventional coal plants must be phased out because of carbon cap restrictions, and in their place, natural gas generation soars, providing half of all electric power.

And it could mean a future viable source of energy that emits no pollution or radioactivity, burns no fossil fuels, and could be no more expensive to run than conventional coal or electric power plants.

According to the Pembina Institute 63.7 % of Alberta's electricity generation now comes from burning conventional coal.

According to estimates from the Energy Information Administration, electricity generated from CCS - equipped coal plants costs almost 50 percent more to produce than conventional coal - fired generation and is roughly 100 percent more expensive that electricity produced from natural gas - fired boilers.

The report, from energy analyst Rob Barnett, posits that the new U.S. EPA rule, rolled out last month and open for public comment until June 12, will effectively ban the construction of new coal - fired power plants because the CO2 emission rates required of fossil plants are so strenuous that no conventional coal plant could meet them.

The extraordinary growth in fracking — the hydraulic fracturing of deeply buried shale rock to extract natural gas — has transformed the United States over the past 15 years, boosting energy stocks, cutting pollution from conventional coal - power plants, and creating new jobs.

There are approximately 30 billion square feet (2.8 billion square meters) of expansive, flat roofs in the U.S., an area large enough to collect the sunlight needed to power 16 million American homes, or replace 38 conventional coal - fired power plants.

This two - turbine scheme makes an IGCC plant about 15 percent more energy efficient than a conventional coal plant.

At an estimated $ 5.2 billion to construct, PurGen will be twice as expensive as a conventional coal plant.

Wheeler examined International Energy Agency data for 174 countries on investments in six low - carbon power sources (hydro, geothermal, nuclear, biomass, wind and solar) to find the incremental costs of clean power compared to a cheaper, carbon - intensive option like a conventional coal - fired power plant.

distinctly different from the conventional coal combustion power station.

In the electricity sector, estimates of the incremental costs of new coal - fired plants with C.C.S. relative to new conventional coal - fired plants typically range from $ 60 to $ 95 per [metric] ton of CO2 avoided.

[UPDATED 12:15 p.m. below fold] When former Vice President Al Gore called for civil disobedience yesterday as a means of fighting new conventional coal - burning power plants, he echoed James E. Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who testified in Britain recently on behalf of Greenpeace protesters fighting criminal charges related to climbing the smokestack of a plant (they were acquitted).

A groundbreaking study released by Architecture 2030 this week shows that an investment of just $ 21.6 billion towards building energy efficiency would replace 22.3 conventional coal - fired plants, reduce CO2 emissions by 86.7 MMT, save 204 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 10.7 million barrels of oil, save consumers $ 8.46 billion in energy bills and -LSB-...]

One thing is clear — no conventional coal power plant can meet the standard.

The American Lung Association supports the phase out of conventional coal - fired power plants as the nation transitions to a clean energy future.