Saskatchewan Power in Canada will open a $ 1.35 billion coal -
fired electricity generating plant this year that will extract a million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year from its exhaust gases - the first carbon capture and storage plant of its type.
Today, there are 11 independent
public electricity generating plants, including the two hydro - electric generators Hernádvíz Hydro Power Ltd. (one plant) and Tiszavíz Hydro Power Ltd. (two plants).
But the dollar investment in renewables fell by 14 percent from 2012, matching a decline in investment for all types of
new electricity generating plants, perhaps as a result of slowing economic growth in some major economies.
Sustainability scientists Matthew Bartos and Mikhail Chester, of Arizona State University, report in Nature Climate Change that changes in precipitation, air and water temperature, air density and humidity could combine to create problems
for electricity generating plant in the western US.