Sentences with phrase «converting coal plants»

I don't think converting coal plants to biomass is a long - term solution, but it's a good medium - term solution that will create a stable local supply chain.

We still see natural gas as an important bridge fuel and encourage converting coal plants to natural gas, but we also support full disclosure of fracking chemicals and strong environmental safeguards during production.

Not exact matches

The glut of U.S. natural gas has created a tremendous amount of downward price pressure and led U.S. power plants to convert from coal to natural gas.

This week, Gov. Cuomo announced a $ 150 million deal that will see the coal - fired power plant in Dunkirk converted to burn natural gas.

Governor Andrew Cuomo was at Fort Drum yesterday, touring a former coal plant that's being converted to a biomass facility.

Recently in Dunkirk, NRG Energy dropped plans to convert its mothballed power plant from coal to natural gas.

Under Cuomo, coal - burning power plants have been converted to natural gas, and the administration's plan to replace the potential loss of Indian Point's 2,000 megawatts of power involves new or repowered plants with natural gas.

The administration will seek to phase out the two coal plants that will be remaining at the end of this year, by converting them to natural gas or shutting them down entirely.

This week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a $ 150 million deal that will see the coal - fired power plant in Dunkirk converted to burn natural gas.

«We are also repowering and converting or closing the existing coal plants.»

«I think coal is at a very low place right now,» Barnett said in an interview, noting that coal has lost about 10 percent of its market share for electricity generation as more utilities convert their plants to burn natural gas.

Banta imagines siting bacteria farms near coal plants to convert troublesome carbon emissions into valuable fuel.

Other major TVA facilities that have announced plans in recent years to shut down include the Colbert Fossil Plant, also in Alabama, and the Paradise Fossil Plant in Kentucky, where two of three coal units were slated for closure while a third unit was to be converted to burn natural gas (ClimateWire, Nov. 15, 2013).

There are also plants that convert coal into chemicals or synthetic natural gas.

Converting from power plants from coal - to wood - fired may not deliver environmental benefits as advertised

ZeroGen and the Callide Oxyfuel Project, which is a $ 200 million project to convert an existing 30 - megawatt unit into a carbon capture plant, are in the heart of Australia's coal country.

In Oregon, Portland General Electric (PGE) is looking at ways to convert its coal - burning Boardman plant to using biomass by 2020.

Utility - grade wood pellets are used as a substitute for coal in both converted and co-fired power generation and combined heat and power plants.

Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits.

Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits or the introduction of taxes or other restrictions on fossil fuel usage or emissions of GHGs and other pollutants.

Rather than burning coal, such plants first convert coal into a combustible gas.

Power plants that convert heat into steam include coal fired, biomass fired, and waste ‐ to ‐ energy plants.

I also note that if Asia (particularly China) converts its many existing coal - fired power plants to methane (from hydrofracking) over the next few decades, then the air pollution in this part of the world will likely be reduced, which would further increase radiative forcing on the Earth.

Whether the discussion turns to replacing coal - fired power plants with wind turbines and using electric cars instead of gas - driven SUVs, converting industrial agricultural practices to organic permaculture, or reversing the decline of ocean life though international regulations, it is an article of faith in the reform movement that we know what we need to do and all that's lacking is a sufficiently visionary leader to put more planet - friendly solutions in place.

A real «clean coal» plant uses either gasification which converts the coal to purified syngas or oxygen enrichment in the boiler to eliminate excess air in the flue gases so that the carbon dioxide can be easily separated.

For a small fraction of the cost I could eliminate more greenhouse gas by converting the large Four Corners, coal - fired electric power plant in New Mexico to natural gas.

I can do a lot more at less cost by building nuclear power plants or converting coal fired generators to modern gas - fired ones.

With every roof top in America so converted, and a windmill attached to every house, supplemented by two hundred atomic energy plants, coal carbon fuel (coal) would be passé.

In other words, the coal + CCS power plant has an «embedded option» to convert to a bio-CCS plant, which would be potentially quite valuable in a world with a high demand for CDR.

We had long been working to reveal and oppose large scale industrial and commercial scale bioenergy in various forms ranging from ethanol refineries to soy and palm oil biodiesel to coal plants converting over to burn wood.

The Sierra Club pushed for coal anyway and even forced utilities to convert nuclear plants into coal plants in Haven, Wisconsin.

Power plants that burn natural gas are also usually more efficient at converting fuel into electricity (i.e., they have a lower heat rate) than coal - fired power plants.

[1] Hence large coal plants such as DRAX in the UK are converting to burn wood pellets.

These include more efficient coal plants and converting coal to gas, which can be burned more cleanly in power stations but actually has a higher lifecycle carbon footprint than directly burning coal.

Additionally, OPG has been directed to convert the Atikokan and Thunder Bay coal generation plants to biomass and both are expected to produce marginal electricity at an inflated cost.

A glut of natural gas pushed prices down to unsustainable levels and kept them there so long that utilities chose to close coal plants or convert them to gas rather than wait.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently released the final environmental impact statement (EIS) on its proposal to contribute $ 100 million toward a new plant that will convert coal to liquid fuels.

The plant, which would convert coal into methanol, would be developed by a group that includes Peabody, Inner Mongolia Jitong Railway Group Ltd., and the Chinese government.

Converting light into electricity with no moving parts is a profoundly different enterprise than turning a turbine to make power — the technology that is at work in coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydropower plants and, most visibly to the public, at wind farms.

«The efficiency of converting coal into electricity matters: more efficient power plants use less fuel and emit less climate - damaging carbon dioxide,» wrote the authors of the International Energy Agency report on measuring coal plant performance.

Moving the current average global efficiency rate of coal - fired power plants, which supply the heat to convert water (or CO2) to steam, from today's 33 percent to 40 percent by deploying more advanced technology could cut CO2 emissions every year by 2 gigatons, which is equivalent to India's annual CO2 emissions, according to the World Coal Associatcoal - fired power plants, which supply the heat to convert water (or CO2) to steam, from today's 33 percent to 40 percent by deploying more advanced technology could cut CO2 emissions every year by 2 gigatons, which is equivalent to India's annual CO2 emissions, according to the World Coal AssociatCoal Association.

IGCC plants use a gasifier to convert coal (or other carbon - based materials) to syngas, which drives a combined cycle turbine.

Continue reading Can North America's largest coal plant convert to biomass?

My Clean Break column today takes a closer look at efforts by Ontario Power Generation to convert some of its coal - fired generating assets into biomass - burning power plants, including potentially several units at its Nanticoke Generating Station — North America's largest coal plant.

The treatment of bioenergy as «carbon neutral» extends to carbon trading schemes, providing an incentive for coal plants to convert to burning wood.

Today's budget release disrupts those commitments — instead funneling millions of dollars in tax breaks to Transalta to prevent the closure of this plant, converting it to burn fossil gas instead of coal.

It was announced that in September 2010 PGE teamed with researchers from Washington and Oregon to study how a fast - growing grass known as Arundo Donax could serve as fuel for the utility's controversial coal - fired power plant in Boardman, if the plant ended up being converted to biomass.

10 or 15 years ago, the city of Tacoma was running a small power plant that had been converted to burn a mixture of pulverized coal, hog fuel (lumber waste that was too low quality to make paper from) and RDF (refuse derived fuel, basically the lightweight plastic and paper shreds from garbage that would rise up and over in an air separator) in a fluidized bed combustor.

In a rising trend, countries, especially in the European Union and United Kingdom, are converting existing coal - fired power plants to burn wood — a renewable, albeit controversial, fuel source.

It reckons that, overall, converting its power plant from coal to wood saves 12 million tons of CO2 emissions a year, making Drax «the largest carbon - saving project in Europe,» according to its CEO Andy Koss.