«The DLP will push for the retention of our cheap, clean and
efficient coal fired power stations and look to a more transitional model of using coal gasification and other clean coal technologies that would be far less costly to the taxpayer, while producing a secure and solid baseline for our grid.»
Not exact matches
Indeed, notwithstanding Ontario's emphasis on green initiatives — fuel -
efficient car production, wind
power, the closing of
coal -
fired generating
stations — climate change is the great battle of the present and future, one that neither Ontario nor any other jurisdiction is doing enough to fight.
China is taking important steps to close down smaller, inefficient
power stations but it is also building large, modern and more
efficient (HELE)
coal -
fired power plants — new regulations effectively ban subcritical (non-HELE)
coal technology.
For the UK to be on track to achieve the emission reductions required by the Climate Change Act, it would have to become as carbon
efficient as France by about 2015; which magnitudinous challenge would require the equivalent of the UK constructing and putting into service about 30 new nuclear
power stations in the next five years, while retiring an equal amount of
coal -
fired generation!
However, most
coal -
fired power stations have
efficient precipitators and some have sulfur - capture technologies, so the net environmental effect of 10 % biomass substitution (on an energy basis) appears to be negligible.