Sentences with phrase «displaced by natural gas»

Rather, it is largely a result of coal being displaced by natural gas, which emits less carbon dioxide when producing electricity.

He advocated for propping up coal, a dirty fossil fuel that has been displaced by natural gas as the top source of energy in the U.S. Not only that, he got the idea (or at least had it reinforced) courtesy of coal baron Bob Murray.

Not exact matches

In the middle of the nineteenth century coal began to be displaced by oil and later oil has been complemented with natural gas.

For instance, falling US emissions are being driven mostly by cheap natural gas displacing coal — something that may happen elsewhere.

As renewable energy displaces high - carbon fossil fuel generation, cleaner electricity can replace petroleum and natural gas in transportation and heating by fueling electric vehicles and heat pumps.

Using a «high - resolution electricity system planning model» of the DOE's two - year - old SunShot Initiative (meant to knock down the cost of solar electricity to market prices by 2020) alongside likely carbon - limitation policies, Kammen and company found that it's not unrealistic for solar to capture a third of the Western U.S. electricity market within 40 years, displacing currently more - attractive technologies like nuclear and natural gas.

Clean energy development produces new income streams for farm communities and, by displacing oil and natural gas imports, improves U.S energy security.

But for natural gas to truly play a bridging role, guardrails will need to be in place, for example, by ensuring that natural gas displaces coal generation (rather than merely adding to it) and supporting other measures like carbon pricing, methane regulations, and renewable portfolio standards (Lazarus et al. 2015).

Within months, the Sierra Club [led by Michael Blume, left photo] launched its «Beyond Natural Gas» campaign that claims: «Increasing reliance on natural gas displaces the market for clean energy and harms human health and the environment in places where production occurs.Natural Gas» campaign that claims: «Increasing reliance on natural gas displaces the market for clean energy and harms human health and the environment in places where production occurs.&raqGas» campaign that claims: «Increasing reliance on natural gas displaces the market for clean energy and harms human health and the environment in places where production occurs.natural gas displaces the market for clean energy and harms human health and the environment in places where production occurs.&raqgas displaces the market for clean energy and harms human health and the environment in places where production occurs.»

The one big difference relative to previous years was that natural gas and coal generation both declined year - on - year, displaced by growth in hydro, wind and solar generation.

CAVT is used in several Synapse analyses to identify and investigate coal units at risk for retirement, including two studies led by Mr. Knight for the Energy Foundation: Displacing Coal: An Analysis of Natural Gas Potential in the 2012 Electric System Dispatch (August 2013), and Forecasting Coal Unit Competitiveness: Coal Retirement Assessment Using Synapse's Coal Asset Valuation Tool (October 2013).

We're talking about a world where California gets more than 50 percent of its electricity from renewables in 2030 (up from 25 percent today), where zero - emissions vehicles are 25 percent of the fleet by 2035 (up from about 1 percent today), where high - speed rail is displacing car travel, where biofuels have replaced a significant chunk of diesel in heavy - duty trucks, where pastures are getting converted to forests, where electricity replaces natural gas in heating, and on and on.