Sentences with phrase «conventional coal plants»

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

TRIG was designed to burn coal more cleanly by using extreme heat and pressure to gasify the coal after which more of the sulfur dioxiode and other pollutants could be scrubbed out than was possible in a conventional coal plant.

The conventional coal plants we build today will still be emitting greenhouse gases in the middle of the century.

Kingsnorth is currently considered to be a conventional coal plant but under the European Union Large Combustion Plant Directive, the plant would eventually have to be closed without the upgrade.