Sentences with phrase «emission performance standard»

First, Alberta will adopt an oil sands specific emission performance standard with a $ 30 / tonne carbon price applied to any additional emissions.

Examples are emissions performance standards in Canada and the United Kingdom for power generation capacity additions as well as the carbon price support in the United Kingdom.

The decision has one down - side that the electricity market reform will have to resolve: by dropping the CCS levy on consumers and committing to taxpayer funding, it reduces the incentive of the existing power companies to engage with CCS, and reinforces the need for a strong emissions performance standard to ensure they have clarity about the low carbon direction of the electricity market.

With the federal deficit still near half - a-trillion dollars, Congress is not about to pony up lavish subsidies for CCS power plants, especially when natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) power plants easily meet a more stringent CO2 emission performance standard (79 FR 1486) at much less cost (EIA, Table 1, p. 6).

One element of the agreement was the preemption of future regulations on the Centralia plant including any «greenhouse gas emission performance standard, or other operating or financial requirement or limitation relating to greenhouse gas emissions.»

- The establishment of an emissions performance standard that will prevent coal - fired power stations being built unless they are equipped with sufficient CCS to meet the emissions performance standard.

The establishment of an emissions performance standard that will prevent coal - fired power stations being built unless they are equipped with sufficient CCS to meet the emissions performance standard.

In order to join the international community and make this announcement something civil society can embrace, KfW must follow the steps of other major institutions — like the European Investment Bank and the U.S. Export - Import Bank — and announce an Emissions Performance Standard (EPS) that restricts the carbon intensity of power plant investments.

This would assure that an emission performance standard for new plants does not simply prolong the useful life of older plants.

An emission performance standard for new coal plants should be accompanied by a cap - and - trade program for existing power plants, with the cap starting at 100 percent of emissions and progressively declining over time.

New capacity is unlikely to be approved even though there is no emissions performance standard as in the UK.

An Emissions Performance Standard (EPS) will stop new coal plants being generated that emit over 450g / kWh - which is among higher polluting levels.

DECC also points out that new coal plants in the UK would have to comply with the emissions performance standard set by the Energy Act.

«This hike in new coal power capacity highlights the urgent need for the EU to move to a 30 % greenhouse gas reduction target for 2020, to introduce an Emissions Performance Standard, and to end decades of subsidies for new coal build and its fuel,» says the EWEA report.

In a rapidly urbanizing world, plans to meet this commitment must focus on urban development and building design to meet zero emissions performance standards.

California enacted a policy in 2006 called the Emissions Performance Standard which has helped to dramatically reduce the amount of electricity California receives from individual coal plants in the West.