Sentences with phrase «decreased coal use»

Still, Denmark has in fact used its wind capacity to decrease coal use and carbon emissions.

(Although it is true that conventional pollutants may be reduced by decreasing coal use, there are much cheaper ways to control such pollutants than reducing coal use if and when there should be a need for further such controls.)

Not exact matches

The production decrease is largely attributable to lower forecasts of coal use in the electric power sector (down 4 % in 2018).

In fact, much of the overall decrease in energy consumption can be traced to the shift from coal to gas, because modern gas - fired plants may use up to 46 percent less energy to produce the same amount of electricity.»

Natural gas use increased by 3 percent to 28.3 quads while coal use decreased by 12 percent to 15.7 quads.

«Reduced emissions have been due to increased use of natural gas, and the decreased use of coal.

The scrubbers are a commonly used method for decreasing carbon emissions from industries such as coal - fired power plants, which produce more than 14 billion metric tons of carbon each year.

He added that «the decrease of coal use is decided by demand, rather than supply.

Research and development to advance coal, natural gas, oil, and other fossil energy technologies, which will help the country make greater use of our rich natural energy resources and help keep down energy costs, are funded at $ 635 million — a decrease of $ 33 million below the fiscal year 2017 enacted level and $ 355 million above the budget request.

«Since 2008, coal use has decreased, in part due to the recession but also in part due to replacement of coal with shale gas to produce electricity,» Howarth said.

The US is expected to see slower decline in its carbon emissions, from an annual 1.2 % drop over the past 10 years to a decrease of 0.4 % this year, with a return to growth in coal use, as president Donald Trump promised to rescue the coal industry.

Coal was the only fossil fuel decreasing in use recently.

Broadly stated: if you reject a lease and take a large portion of a commodity (here coal, but it could have been natural gas, tar sands, etc.) off the market, you decrease the supply, increase the cost, and, over the long term, decrease the use of that commodity.

Carbon pricing continues to reveal itself as an effective, efficient means to lower emissions; new data shows that UK's carbon price has greatly reduced local coal consumption, and may result in decreasing fracked gas use too.

Regulated emissions from coal - based electric generation have decreased by 40 percent since the 1970s, the NMA says, even as coal use has tripled during that time.

Most significant is the 24 % decrease of coal use in electric generation and the 12 % decrease in crude oil production.

However, according to James «coal death train» Hansen, the airborne fraction [AF] of CO2 man - made emissions has sharply decreased post-2000, due to «a surge of fossil fuel use, mainly coal»!

Beyond the US, the fracking that has led to much of the US decrease has not yet expanded rapidly, but given that the technology exists (and is getting further refined every day) the rest of the world will also enjoy reduced CO2 emissions by using nat gas instead of coal.

The EIA says this is «because of the decreased use of coal and the increased use of natural gas for electricity generation.»

Generating energy using coal, oil, and gas also comes at high environmental costs by decreasing air quality, impacting our water resources, and negatively affecting our health.

While US emissions are decreasing slightly — both as a result of the administration's policies on renewable energy and vehicle fuel economy standards and because of sharply lower natural gas prices that have reduced coal use for electricity generation — it is unlikely that without additional regulation or legislation that the US will meet its 2020 target.

If heat from burning the coal is used to «boil off» the water, there is a corresponding decrease in the efficiency of the power station.

But in the US this decrease occurred not through government intervention but through market - based substitution of natural gas - fired plants for coal plants because of increased use of fracking and other new techniques in finding additional natural gas.

The significant decrease in coal used to produce electricity can be attributed to three factors: overall lower electricity demand; a fuel shift to natural gas; and an offset created by more wind power production, according to Simon.

From 2010 to 2011, CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion decreased by 2.5 % due to: (1) a decrease in coal consumption, with increased natural gas consumption and a significant increase in hydropower used; (2) a decrease in transportation - related energy consumption due to higher fuel costs, improvements in fuel efficiency, and a reduction in miles travelled; and (3) relatively mild winter conditions resulting in an overall decrease in energy demand in most sectors.

No state other than West Virginia uses coal power exclusively, and the percentage decreases each year.

Most of that energy is tied directly to electricity generation and thus helps decrease the use of coal for electricity production.»

The four ranks used in most coal statistics are, in decreasing order of heating value: anthracite, bituminous, subbituminous and lignite.

For electric generation 9 % renewable (when including hydroelectric) is correct but that percentage decreases drastically when adding non-electric energy use for transportation which is nearly 100 % petroleum based, for direct residential and commercial heating, which is nearly 100 % gas and fuel oil based, for heavy industry, which is almost exclusively petroleum (petro - chem industry) and coal (steel - industry) and construction, which uses almost exclusively diesel fuels.