Sentences with phrase «existing coal units»

For instance, during a Q4 earnings call last month, Jim Robo, CEO of NextEra Energy, predicted that by the early 2020s, it will be cheaper to build new renewables than to continue running existing coal units.

Not exact matches

A number of coal - and oil - fired power plants will likely be retired, and while Virginia's four existing nuclear units will remain in use, plans for a fifth reactor remain shelved, for now.

ZeroGen and the Callide Oxyfuel Project, which is a $ 200 million project to convert an existing 30 - megawatt unit into a carbon capture plant, are in the heart of Australia's coal country.

That project would include the closure of DEP's existing 379 MW Asheville 1 and 2 coal units and construction of about 752 MW of natural gas - fired generation (two 280 MW combined cycle units proposed to commence operations in 2019 and an optional 192 MW combustion turbine unit proposed to commence operations in 2023).

Gas - shift ERCs are produced by existing NGCC units that increase their output and displace coal.

* For the comparison to existing or new NGCC, UCS assumes that the NGCC unit would run at the same capacity factor as the coal unit under consideration.

The base running costs in $ / megawatt - hour (MWh) for each coal unit are compared to several competitive energy resources: existing natural gas combined - cycle (NGCC) plants, * new NGCC plants, new wind power facilities, and new utility - scale solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.

TXU also promised to cut emissions of pollutants including sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide and mercury by 20 percent, saying it would spend $ 500 million on equipment to control pollution at three of its existing coal - fired units in Texas.

Importantly, the UCS analysis represents a conservative estimate for the economic competitiveness of wind and solar resources, because it assumes that the new renewable resources would be built in the same geographic area as the existing coal fired generating units.

The figure below shows the climate impacts over time (measured in units called radiative forcing) of existing coal (the dashed black line), new high - efficient coal plants (the solid black line), and new gas plants (the green line).

Ultra-supercritical units are superior to the existing fleet of traditional coal - fired power plants that have a thermal efficiency of only 32 % HHV.

There is also no distinction made in the article between coal plants by unit age, LCOE or between new builds and existing infrastructure.

On September 27, 2016, the entire United States District Court for the District of Columbia will hear oral arguments in West Virginia, et al. v EPA, to which E&E Legal is party, challenging the EPA's «Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units» rule under section 111 (d) of the Clean Air Act, over the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) regulation that will cripple, and in many cases, shut down coal - fired power plants.

If no new coal plants are built and each existing unit is retired when it turns 40 years old, the 2 °C carbon budget will still be exhausted by 2040.

The authors have not provided their estimates of the cost of electricity from existing coal or gas - fired units.

The MATS rule requires that all U.S. coal - and oil - fired power plants greater than 25 megawatts meet emission limits consistent with the average performance of the top 12 % of existing units — known as the maximum achievable control technology (MACT).

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) forthcoming climate change regulations for new and existing electricity generating units have been appropriately labeled the «war on coal,» [1] because the proposed limits for carbon dioxide emissions would essentially prohibit the construction of new coal - fired power plants and force existing ones into early retirement.