Switching to electrified vehicles and replacing
existing coal fired power stations may be a good first step.
Not exact matches
Barnaby Joyce said the government building a
coal -
fired power station would be consistent with its
existing policies.
In the short term, new gas -
fired power stations can help cut emissions, but only if they replace
existing coal -
fired power stations rather than nuclear plants or renewable energy sources.
Very roughly Electricity costs from
existing Australian
coal fired power stations might be say $ 25billion / TWh and from
existing European and US nuclear plants (Gen II) say the cost is the same, i.e. $ 25billion / TWh.
Abyd Karmali explained that the effects of the EU trading scheme and other factors had meant that no
coal -
fired power stations had been built in the EU since 2005 and financial organisations were scrambling to invest in biomass or to convert
existing power stations to use the fuel.
Yes,
coal -
fired electricity is cheap while a nation still has
existing coal -
fired power stations, but wind
power is comparable in cost with new
coal -
fired power stations (see International Energy Association paper on electricity costs).
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Coal Plant Tracker ``, which maps all proposed and
existing coal - fired power stations worldw
coal -
fired power stations worldwide.