Sentences with phrase «conventional coal power»

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.

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.

On a lifecycle basis, CCS + EOR produces more CO2 emissions than a conventional coal power plant.

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

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

In terms of carbon emissions, new technology coal is still around 30 per cent higher than LNG but much lower than conventional coal powered generation.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

The conversion technology is well established (the Germans used it during World War II), and liquid coal can power conventional diesel cars and trucks as well as jet engines and ships.

Coal - powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers.

Coal - powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study.

As a result, PurGen should yield substantially more income than a conventional 750 - megawatt coal power plant could.

«It's important to forecast how much renewable power will be generated, because that tells us how much conventional generation capacity — whether nuclear, gas, or coal — needs to be brought online.

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.

Dr. Hansen, like many who commented on Dot Earth after I wrote about his statements, insists that the parallels hold between the denial and passivity that allowed a human cataclysm to sweep Europe in plain sight and the denial and inaction now as the world prepares to build hundreds of conventional coal - burning power plants.

That hasn't deterred conventional hard coal — fired power plants from increasing their share of power production to 19.1 % in 2012 (jumping from 18.5 % in 2011).

The European Commission has given limited backing for gas and coal power subsidies, which will boost conventional utilities caught out by a surge in renewable power, but may undermine carbon cuts.

Since renewable power from wind and solar power is fed into the grid at the expense of gas and coal, conventional gas plants only run a faction of the time needed to make money with them.

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

Their study found that preproduction emissions «are not substantial contributors to the life cycle estimates» — making Marcellus Shale gas essentially the same as conventional natural gas, which emits about 50 percent fewer emissions than coal when used for power generation.

That's the equivalent of approximately 440 coal fired power plants6 or 484 wind farms the size of the Cape Wind project.7 On our nation's current course, a huge portion of this power will come from conventional coal, which produces 48 % of the electricity8 in the U.S. today.9

EPA - mandated emission limits on conventional sources of electricity, especially coal - fired power plants, are so restrictive that current technology can not meet their demands.

One analyst from the Bloomberg New Energy Finance research group projected that floating wind projects by 2020 could cost more than twice per megawatt than conventional offshore wind, which itself has been estimated, on average, to cost about three times more per megawatt than many new natural gas and coal power stations.

This solution replaces conventional electricity - generating technologies such as coal, oil, and natural gas power plants, and is considered a «bridge solution» to a 100 % clean, renewable energy system.

Despite the fact that Western European experience shows just how ineffective and expensive the government regulatory approach is, the CIC is now trying to bring it to the US through the so - called EPA «Clean Power Plan» and over regulation of conventional pollutants that have the effect of reducing coal use.

This is compared to a weighted average of US$ 1,923 per kilowatt for conventional technologies such as coal, natural gas, and oil power plants.

Experiences in developed nations such as Japan could provide good examples for achieving public consensus on coal use by showing how CCT uses coal more efficiently; that it is much cleaner than conventional plants; and that emissions from plants using CCT are very close to that of gas - fired power plants.

While wind and solar energy are more intermittent than conventional power plants, no power source is available 100 percent of the time, which is why even nuclear, oil, coal and natural gas power plants can be considered intermittent sources.

One such period of shortage was in the second half of January when most of the electricity was produced by conventional power sources — lignite, coal, natural gas, and nuclear.

Most of the coal production has provided electric power in conventional, Rankine - cycle steam power plants.

Along with the company's portfolio of conventional coal, nuclear and natural gas power plants, Crane began investing in the mid-2000s in large wind and solar power plants, and acquiring companies involved in rooftop solar installations, home efficiency tools and electric vehicle charging networks.

It is hard to beat conventional generation such as a coal plant for a compact foot print for the amount of power that it produces.

Here's our quick, non-technical summary: COAL is by far the worst in terms of greenhouse gases, mercury and other conventional emissions, mining's impact, dangers to workers, and the industry's power on elected officials and the media.

But while renewable energy has been making great strides, conventional power sources such as coal are going to be around for quite some time yet, despite their carbon dioxide - emitting properties.

Renewables would have to compete directly with conventional power plants, which could result in a renaissance for coal and nuclear power in Europe.

They would have to compete directly with conventional power plants, which could result in a renaissance for coal and nuclear power in Europe.

This means energy storage resources can more quickly release or absorb energy, compared to conventional generators (e.g. coal or natural gas - fired power plants) that historically have provided frequency regulation.

Earlier this year a team of University of Minnesota researchers looked at the life - cycle air quality impacts of alternatives to conventional gasoline vehicles and found that powering vehicles with corn ethanol or with coal - based or grid electricity increases «monetized environmental health impacts by 80 % or more relative to using conventional gasoline.»

«Dangerous global warming will be impossible to avoid if the conventional coal - fired power plants now on the drawing boards are completed,» said Daniel Lashof, science director of NRDC's Climate Center.

An average capacity factor of 21 percent is used for micro wind, compared to 55 percent for conventional technologies such as coal, natural gas, and oil power plants.

«The East has more coal - fired power generation than the rest of the country, and therefore sees greater benefits in reducing conventional pollutants,» explained Wiser, the lead author of the study.

The prices were supposed to balance out the hidden costs of conventional power, from pollution to decades of coal subsidies.

Nuclear power is already fully competitive with conventional coal electrical power today, and more difficult and expensive to extract sources of coal will make nuclear even more advantageous.

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In addition to conventional power technologies, CoalSwarm provides information on «clean coal» technologies including integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) and carbon capture and storage.

Thus, when people today buy electricity from coal - fired power plants, or fill their cars with conventional gasoline, they are unwittingly setting in motion damages that will strike future generations.

Utility companies retired nearly 18,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in 2015, about 80 percent of which was conventional coal - fired power plants, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said this week.

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