Sentences with phrase «decommissioning coal»

«Fortunately, others, like China, are actually stepping up, decommissioning coal - fired power plants and flooding the global market with cheap solar panels,» Mann said.

Though coal still accounts for about a third of US electricity generation, utility companies are pivoting to cleaner natural gas to replace decommissioned coal plants.

Response: Ideally, SMRs should be readily able to slot into brownfield sites in place of decommissioned coal - fired plants, the units of which are seldom very large.

Let's say we shut down and decommissioned coal mines and coal - fired power plants, stopped new offshore drilling for oil and gas plus the development of shale oil and gas, moved away from nuclear power as too risky, spent trillions to subsidize non-viable windmills and solar panels to squeak by in avoiding a total blackout by imposing exorbitant taxes on energy in order to force people to cut back its use.

Not exact matches

Under capacity markets, utilities can bid for payments to keep their gas and coal - fired power plants available, instead of decommissioning them.

Coal and nuclear are only cheap if you ignore externialities like waste disposal, decommissioning and health costs from particulates.

Scotland's last coal power plant closed in spring 2016, and two of the largest coal plants in England were also decommissioned.

That plant would be licensed by the Utah Associate Municipal Power Systems as it decommissions some of its coal - fired power plants.

You've called for installing nuclear power plants worldwide instead of coal - fired or gas - fired plants for all new or decommissioned old plants.

On February 1, the government pledged to decommission all reactors and replace them with 45 new coal - fired power plants equipped with the latest clean coal technology.

A phase out of remaining coal plants, most of which were already due to be decommissioned under the former Harper government's legislation, and a modest carbon tax, were also included.

For the second year running, there was more coal capacity installed (2,147 megawatts) than decommissioned (840 megawatts).

Nations around the world are building coal - fired power plants at a faster rate than those being decommissioned.

And so around the world — except in Trudeau's Canada — nations are once again turning back to inexpensive coal rather than pouring more money into costly «renewables,» and coal plants are being built at five times the rate that old plants are being decommissioned.

A report out today (but already known for years) is that we will have an enormous energy gap in 4 to 8 years as our coal and nuclear stations are decommissioned.

The annual $ 7 billion figure does not include industry freebies like publicly funded infrastructure for fossil fuel development on our shared land, inadequate financial protections to pay for coal mining cleanup, or decommissioning costs for offshore drilling.