Sentences with phrase «demand for coal went»
I wrote a longer post on the subject here, but the TL; DR version is: In the first decade of the 21st century, Chinese demand for coal went through the roof.
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«The majority of the capacity addition will be through thermal power plants, for which the demand of coal is going to increase in the future,» the report said.
Since they were presumably going to operate as base load as opposed to peaker power, it's likely they were intending to sign long term contracts so that their incremental addition to the demand for coal would be absorbed not by creating an additional demand on the spot market but by identifying a fixed source with a standing order and putting a few American miners to work on a full - time basis.
In June 2016, APS filed for a $ 3.6 billion rate increase (Docket E-01345A-16-0036) to go into effect July 2017, including higher fixed charges, new demand charges for solar customers, lowering the rate paid for distributed solar from the retail rate (12 - 13 cents / kWh) to wholesale rate (3 cents / kWh), and spending billions of dollars to introduce fossil fuel plants, including one of the Western U.S.'s oldest and dirtiest coal plants, into rate base.
In the meantime, with all the cancelled coal plants, how is the nation going to cope with increased demands for electricty due to economic growth?
While Trump's rolling back a policy that may have loomed over coal producers in coming decades, it's going to take more to overcome market forces and raise demand for the fossil fuel to a level that'll put miners back to work, coal executives and analysts say.
Demand for coal isn't going away in 10 years.»
According to Doug Pryor of NextEra Energy Resources, EarthEra and their renewable energy certificates helps to boost customer demand for renewable energy, which means more money going toward renewable energy facilities and away from coal power plants.
First, while our reliance on petroleum is significantly supply - limited, in fact the dominant component of the problem going forward is the coal reserves, which can supply the world's energy demands at the present rate for some centuries.