Sentences with phrase «covered by coal»

More than 75 % of the extra demand was covered by coal - fired power, which increased by more than 10 % relative to the same period in 2015.

Not exact matches

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.
Nationwide, 40 percent of all coal - fired burners covered by the new standards will need upgraded pollution controls, the EPA estimates.
By 350 million years ago, the coal beds laid down in the carboniferous period speak of a world covered in lush greenery, too.
Occasional purchases of out - of - state electricity after 2035 may include some that is generated by coal, especially purchases made by those providers not covered by the plan.
Exactly as tedious as Steamboy, then, and covering exactly the same ground, Howl's Moving Castle shares with Ôtomo's film, too, a giant steam - powered ball as its central image, encapsulating a vision of Victorian England in a Frankenstein's yin / yang clattering along inexorably like the Industrial Revolution while gorgeous impressionistic watercolour towns are polluted by coal smoke from a fleet of trains burning through the forests at night.
In order to become one with nature, they find their last place to stay in a bed, becoming fossils by being covered by black coal, the product of their labor.
But a paper prepared by officials from the European Commission trade department says export credits, or preferential loans to help cover exports costs, should be continued for the most modern coal plant technology.
To their credit, Nature has covered the fact that the current funding for renewable energy is miserably low, and is being sabotaged by a push to fund clean coal technology: Nature Jobs: Renewable - energy funds threatened, 2001.
However, it is rare that actual land that coal infrastructure occupied is covered by wind or solar.
Still, it would leave 50 percent of electricity demand to be covered by some combination of other low - carbon sources: hydro, nuclear, biomass, geothermal, and coal or gas with carbon sequestration.
While most coal databases used by the finance industry only cover around 100 companies, the GCEL provides key statistics on over 770 companies whose activities range from coal exploration and mining, coal trading and transport, to coal power generation and manufacturing of coal plants.
The conference took place in Brussels and covered three main themes: the opening session «Coal and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions», followed by a panel discussion on «Creating new pathways to drive deployment of technologies to reduce GHG emissions» and finally the afternoon technology session focusing on «Coal in the global energy mix — pathways to reducing GHG emissions».
Assume for each person, the carbon tax component of the new coal electricity price would be exactly covered by the rebate.
They knew it would be decades until they could harvest olives again, but their field is now covered by the same type of tree that sustained generations — and now marks the power of people against coal.
The panel covered oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear and renewables, led by wind power.
When he learned that some of the climate skeptics would be testifying — and be compelled under oath to reveal their funding sources — in St. Paul, Minnesota, where administrative judge Allan Klein was reviewing the environmental costs of coal - burning by the state's power plants, Gelbspan resolved to use his own savings to fly out to cover the hearings.
First are basic emission factors covering the various coal ranks by State of origin.
His stories for The Times have taken him to Greece, where he wrote about the country's growing ranks of nurses who aren't really nurses; Ukraine, where he covered the economic devastation caused by war; and Poland, where he followed so - called rathole miners into illegal coal pits.
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