Sentences with phrase «falling coal electricity»

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Last year, two events caused North American thermal coal — the coal used by utilities to generate electricity — to fall by about 30 %.

Literally the fuel of America's Industrial Revolution and growth, coal has fallen from providing more than half of the nation's electricity as recently as 2000 to 30 percent in 2017.

The blow would fall heavily on the states whose coal provides most of our electricity and on rural areas where electric costs have the most impact.

The International Energy Agency estimated last year that both the decline in China's coal use and falling electricity demand reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5 percent in 2014, leading to a 0.2 percent reduction in global emissions.

Though the federal government is doubling down on coal, electric power companies are embracing less - polluting natural gas, wind and solar power as the cost of generating electricity from those sources falls.

Between 2002 and 2012, the annual electrical generation from coal - fired plants fell by 2 %, while the amount of electricity generated by natural gas plants rose by 37 %.

Electricity generated using coal in the U.S. has fallen 38 percent since it peaked in 2007, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data.

Another notable finding is the influence of a big switch from coal to natural gas for electricity generation, as gas prices fell nearly 50 percent while coal prices rose 6.8 percent relative to 2008.

As a result, the proportion of electricity generated by coal fell from 16.7 per cent in the third quarter of 2015, to just 3.6 per cent over the same period in 2016.

The United States clearly is using less coal: Domestic consumption fell by about 114 million tons, or 11 percent, largely due to a decline in the use of coal for electricity.

A decade or two into the future, electricity generated through solar power is projected to fall to half the price of that from coal or natural gas.

Ontario was able to kick coal out of its portfolio in large measure because it can rely on Niagara Falls to produce lots of electricity.

The burden of any plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions would have fallen most heavily on coal - burning power plants, which still account for more than 50 percent of the electricity generated in the United States.

However, mild weather during the winter of 2011/2012 combined with falling natural gas prices dampened demand for coal - fired electricity.

In addition, the CPI analysis excluded industry front groups like ACCCE — the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity who fell outside the 501 c 6 category of trade associations.

U.S. carbon - dioxide emissions have fallen dramatically in recent years, in large part because the country is making more electricity with natural gas instead of coal.

Interestingly, despite significant demand growth, even the total amount of coal - generated electricity would fall in absolute terms.

Coal has steadily lost its share of European electricity generation in recent years, falling to just over 21 percent of the E.U.'s total generation in 2016, according to the nonprofit research group Sandbag.

Fueled largely by a switch from coal to natural gas, Europe's electricity - related emissions fell by 4.5 percent in 2016.

Indeed, coal's share of US electricity generation fell to 33 % in April 2012, the lowest level seen in decades, thanks in large part to cheap natural gas, and US CO2 emissions in the first half of 2012 were 13 % below 2005 levels.

That's consistent with the EIA's most recent Short - Term Energy Outlook, released the same day as President Obama gave his speech, which forecasts 40 % of electricity will come from coal in 2013 and 2014, with natural gas's share falling back down to an annual average of 26 % (Figure 5).

In November and December 2011, coal's share of total U.S. electricity generation fell to its lowest monthly level since 1978.

The price of renewable energy will fall significantly relative to new - build coal in coming decades, making an all - renewable electricity system more desirable, both economically and environmentally.

While prices for electricity from renewable sources have fallen sharply in recent years, coal remains the cheapest source of power, and India's coal industry has embarked on a building boom, doubling installed capacity since 2008.

The interest in natural gas combustion as a potential solution to climate change has been gaining because US ghg emissions have fallen somewhat as natural gas from hydraulic fracturing technologies has been rapidly replacing coal in electricity sector generation.

IEEFA finds India's wind and solar energy costs have fallen 50 % to as low as $ 38 per megawatt hour (MWh) over the past two years, with renewable energy bids in new auctions costing 20 % less than the cost of wholesale electricity from existing Indian coal generation, and 30 - 50 % less than the required cost to justify new imported coal or liquefied natural gas capacity.

Although natural - gas generation fell between 2016 and 2017 from 35 percent to 32 percent of total national electricity production, it remained the primary fuel for power generation for the second year in a row, surpassing coal (around 30 percent) in 2016.

Over the past 16 months, the cost of producing utility - scale solar electricity in India has fallen from 4.34 rupees per kilowatt - hour in January 2016 to 2.44 rupees (a little over 3 cents) in May 2017 — cheaper than coal.

This is a continuation of the slide that coal has been on in the United States for the last decade, with the output of electricity from coal - fired plants falling 39 % from its 2007 peak to 2016.

The trend of decreasing coal generation can be attributed to both falling natural gas prices and stagnant demand for electricity, but it can also be partially attributed to the increasing role of solar and wind generation: March 2016 set records for both the highest amount of monthly wind generation ever measured and the highest amount of monthly utility - scale solar generation ever measured.

Coal's share of total U.S. electricity generation is expected to fall to 27 percent by 2030, down from 39 percent in 2014 and more than 50 percent in 2000 — the result of the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan to limit carbon emissions from power plants.

Coal's % share of electricity production in Germany has fallen every year since 2007.

The Prosper - Haniel mine was opened in 1974, but is closing as demand of coal for electricity generation falls in the face of Germany's ambitious Energiewende transition.

Electricity demand fell in absolute terms last year, and coal continued to lose ground to alternative sources of power generation.

Canada's great needs for electricity are met through abundant energy resources: falling water, coal, natural gas and uranium.

However, coal use is already falling rapidly, supplying just 7 % of UK electricity in 2017.

The cost of electricity from renewables continues to fall in Europe and Asia as the numbers of wind and solar installations grow in both continents, cutting demand for imported gas and coal.

Over that period, it projects that electricity generators will see their emissions fall by 31 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, largely as a result of coal - fired plants giving way to natural gas - fired power.

In the decade to 2014, coal's share of U.S. electricity production fell from just under half to about 39 percent.

At the same time, these coal plants are growing older and becoming increasingly inefficient compared to the falling costs of natural gas - and renewable - powered electricity.

Another way to look at it, with the longtime fossil fuel king in mind: With coal's declining piece of the US electricity mix (from almost half in 2008 to less than 30 % in 2017), the ratio of coal to solar has fallen from more than 2000:1 to less than 16:1 (Yup, another record).