Sentences with phrase «discourage coal power»
The main goal of the climate camp was to discourage coal power and show that the limits need to be respected.
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On the supply side, IEA said governments need to develop policies that encourage the spread of offshore wind power, nuclear energy and natural gas, while discouraging the continued use of the most inefficient coal - fired technology.
It was extremely discouraging to me when an official from the City of Niagara Falls seemed to promote the closing specific power generators, like this clean coal facility in Somerset, putting hundreds of hard working men and women out of work.
He also says governments in Africa and Latin America are getting in the way of off - grid solutions to their people's energy difficulties through corruption, policies that discourage entrepreneurism like tariffs on solar lamps, and a general prejudice in favor of the large coal - and gas - fired power plants they see as drivers of developed - country wealth.
It is far from clear whether Trump can do much more for coal than remove most or even all the climate - related regulations discouraging the use of coal, and this may not have a huge effect since to date the major adverse effects of the «war on coal» on raising electricity prices have not yet occurred because of the Supreme Court's stay on the so - called Clean Power Plan.
By creating a demand for this supposedly dispatchable power, the policy discourages the retirement of the very coal units that AEMO has identified as ill - suited to our needs.
Fuel switching will be discouraged and coal - fired power plants will be competitive with natural gas power plants when the price of natural gas is between $ 3.00 and $ 3.50 per million BTU.
Other provisions in the act — such as tax incentives that encourage the adoption of energy - efficient technologies, a shift to more combined heat and power generation, and the adoption of real - time pricing of electricity (a measure that will discourage optional electricity use during peak demand periods)-- would cut electricity demand enough to avoid building an additional 37 coal - fired power plants.
Second, we need to make dirty energy more expensive by calling attention to the health and economic externalities borne by the American public and using protests to discourage the construction of new coal - fired power plants.