Sentences with phrase «efficient coal power»

The organization claims it is responsible for shutting down proposals for 167 proposed newer and more efficient coal power plants and is working on shutting down the rest of the country's coal plants.

He managed to find a note of optimism in the more efficient coal power fleet that will remain after 68,000 MW of old capacity retires by 2020, under pressure from various regulations and competition from natural gas.

Even today's most efficient coal power plants emit 1,800 lbs CO2 / MWh on average.

Not exact matches

The natural gas plants are necessary partly because of expected load growth, partly because of the intermittent nature of solar power and partly because of the planned retirement of around 3,000 megawatts of generation powered by less efficient coal and oil plants, he said.

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.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

A slew of new coal - fired generators are coming online, he noted, and while those plants are sleeker and more efficient, they're still not nearly as clean as gas - fired turbines or renewable power sources.

«The model is capturing the fact that you have a lot of low - cost opportunities to reduce coal, from heavy - industry direct use as well as the electric power sector, from facilities using less energy - efficient technology or processes.»

According to the Alliance to Save Energy, new standards for efficient lighting could save 158 million tons of carbon emissions each year, the equivalent of the emissions from 80 coal - fired power plants.

Priority areas of focus for this Initiative may include: energy efficiency, smart grid, second - generation biofuels, and clean coal technologies including carbon capture and storage; solar energy and energy efficient building and advanced battery technologies; and sustainable transportation, wind energy, and micro-hydro power.

Replacing old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas plants could cause climate damage to increase over the next decades, unless their methane leakage rates are very low and the new power plants are very efficient.

Natural gas might still have an advantage over coal when burned to create electricity, because gas - fired power plants tend to be newer and far more efficient than older facilities that provide the bulk of the country's coal - fired generation.

Most new coal - fired power plants are more efficient than the older technologies that used to be standard equipment.

Because economic growth continues to boost the demand for energy — more coal for powering new factories, more oil for fueling new cars, more natural gas for heating new homes — carbon emissions will keep climbing despite the introduction of more energy - efficient vehicles, buildings and appliances.

The relatively low growth is linked to both the adoption of more fuel - efficient vehicles and the replacement of coal - powered electricity with renewable energy sources and relatively cleaner - burning natural gas.

You should work to remove the anticompetitive advantages that poorly - controlled, inefficient, incumbent coal - fired power plants presently enjoy over newer, cleaner, and more efficient coal - fired plants.

-- Limiting the construction and use of the least - efficient coal - fired power plants delivers more than 20 % of the emissions reduction and helps curb local air pollution.

Duke Power and Progress Energy in North Carolina are planning new coal plants, allowing them to shut down older, less efficient and dirtier plants.

Similarly, average factors probably overstate emissions from gas plants since much of the erosion in coal's base load share has come from the most efficient gas - fired power plants.

• Leads global sector public financing towards cleaner energy by calling for the end of U.S. government support for public financing of new coal - fired powers plants overseas, except for the most efficient coal technology available in the world's poorest countries, or facilities deploying carbon capture and sequestration technologies; and

The EPA has proposed a Carbon Pollution Standard for Future Power Plants, which would restrict the emission of greenhouse gases, requiring coal plants, in particular, to be more efficient and cleaner.

More efficient power plants and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology could boost prospects for coal, but the latter still faces significant regulatory, policy and technical barriers that make its deployment uncertain.

And as the English have done and as the Chinese and the Indians and etc will still do, they will use coal, lots of coal plus gas and oil for power generation until some capitalist somewhere with a very good idea on how to reduce costs and still make a fortune comes along and devises / discovers or restructures an old technology or a new power generation technology that is more efficient, lower cost, more profitable, just as reliable as fossil fueled, those coal, oil and gas generators

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Power plants that burn natural gas are also usually more efficient at converting fuel into electricity (i.e., they have a lower heat rate) than coal - fired power plPower plants that burn natural gas are also usually more efficient at converting fuel into electricity (i.e., they have a lower heat rate) than coal - fired power plpower plants.

Similarly, countries that have built nuclear power plants have tended to replace the least efficient coal - fired plants.

The vision of PACE would be that for countries choosing to use coal, the most efficient power plant technology possible is deployed.

These include more efficient coal plants and converting coal to gas, which can be burned more cleanly in power stations but actually has a higher lifecycle carbon footprint than directly burning coal.

One key concern is that these agencies will seek to continue providing support for «highly efficient coal - fired power plants».

Ok, how about assuming the battery car is fueled upon coal power and poor efficient grid?

In 1865, Jevons correctly predicted that the development of more efficient ways to harness the power of coal would lead to an increase in coal burning.

However, as China continues to replace older, less efficient generators with more efficient units, China's power sector coal consumption is expected to peak as soon as 2018, at 4,800 million metric tons.

Carbon Clampdown: Closing the gap to a Paris compliant EU - ETS, warns that, in order to put EU emissions on a path consistent with international climate targets, the price of traded carbon allowances, known as EUAs, would have to rise to levels that would make even the most efficient coal and lignite power plants unprofitable.

The options include making power plants more efficient, reducing the frequency at which coal - fired power plants supply power to the grid, and investing in more renewable, low - carbon sources of energy.

If the efficiency level of the other 49 states were raised to that of New York, the most energy - efficient state, the energy saved would be sufficient to close 80 percent of the country's coal - fired power plants.

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.

«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.»

We can't only just make our cars or coal - burning power plants a bit more efficient.

Coal fired power generation has taken over 100 years to reach its current efficiency (five times more efficient than Edison's first efforts!).

4) For nations (like USA) with large coal reserves, it makes economic sense to exploit these in a «clean» way; electrical power generation is an efficient use of this resource, which enables flue gas cleanup 5) Carbon taxes do nothing to change our planet's future climate (no tax ever did).

For the minority who use common sense, very little data is necessary to know that a «low carbon» economy is far less efficient than an economy run on fossil fuel energy [coal, preferably, because it is the least expensive power].

«The efficiency of converting coal into electricity matters: more efficient power plants use less fuel and emit less climate - damaging carbon dioxide,» wrote the authors of the International Energy Agency report on measuring coal plant performance.

The scenario combines the following elements: efficient electricity end - use; hydroelectric power; nuclear power; efficient gas turbine technologies fired with natural gas; use of coal - derived hydrogen in fuel cells; and biomass - integrated gasifier / gas turbine technologies.

The reason: Since 2012, carbon pollution from the states» traditionally coal - heavy power sectors has dropped significantly, as new gas power plants have replaced older, less efficient coal plants.

Yet even the most efficient coal - fired power plants only operate at around 44 % efficiency, meaning that 56 % of the energy content of the coal is lost.

For comparison: energy from the most efficient type of natural gas plants cost $ 42 - 78 / MWh; coal power cost at least $ 60 / MWh.

For instance, global coal use would have to peak before 2020; power plants and factories would have to get a lot more efficient; things like nuclear power and renewables would have to expand at an even faster rate.

More than half of this potential is from a handful of categories — solar and wind energy, efficient passenger cars, afforestation and halting deforestation — and requires quickly reducing reliance on, and soon phasing out, coal - fired power not equipped with carbon capture and storage.

IEA and industry experts described the current status of coal - fired power generation in general in India and the overall need to ensure that the facilities are modernised and that least - efficient plant be phased out, given the expected large role that coal will continue to play in power supply.

By then, we may even have efficient new coal power stations, like the Japanese, Chinese, Koreans and Taiwanese.