Sentences with phrase «fired electricity imports»
BC's natural gas exports will be hit with a big CA carbon tax, even though the BC natural gas supplies displace demand for higher - emitting oil products and coal - fired electricity imports.
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Leaving aside the Indian government's stated determination to end coal imports in the next few years (at least for the large public sector), what's happening to actual demand for coal - fired electricity.
The state also has a five - year - old law banning power companies from importing coal - fired electricity by setting steep carbon emissions standards.
They clearly can not replace the electricity from their nuclear reactors with electricity from wind and solar, so they are building new coal - fired power plants and importing coal from the US: that's the «smutzig» part.
Importing coal to produce electricity is an economic drain on states that rely heavily on coal - fired power.
The United States must change the way it produces and uses energy by shifting away from its dependence on imported oil and coal - fired electricity and by increasing the efficiency with which energy is extracted, captured, converted, and used if it is to meet the urgent challenges facing the energy system, of which climate change and energy security are the most pressing.
With the double of the coal tax, solar, wind and hydro electricity are all already now immediately competitive in the Indian electricity market against unsubsidized new imported coal - fired power generation.
Dismayingly, Eldrup said in times of low wind, electricity to recharge the Danish fleet would come from coal - fired plants (Denmark is about 20 percent wind and the rest coal and imports).
You might still have to import electricity from other regions or fire up backup power plants, but that'll happen a lot less often than if you didn't have a smart grid that could do «demand response».
Indeed, what is to keep a Dutch supply company from simply buying coal fired electricity from, say, a German coal fired plant (like the one in Bund Naturschutz, C - 115 / 09) and then import into the Netherlands to sell it to meet demand in the Netherlands?