Sentences with phrase «fired generating capacity»

Projected retirements of coal - fired generating capacity in the AEO2014 include retirements above and beyond those reported to EIA as planned by power plant owners and operators.

The total of scheduled coal - fired generating capacity retirements is split between 10.2 GW of bituminous coal and 2.8 GW of subbituminous coal.

«The Chinese will surpass the coal - fired generating capacity and the CO2 emissions of the US in the next couple of years,» Mr. McIlvaine says.

■ Some 14,000 MW of new — mostly gas combined cycle — generation has replaced older coal - and oil - fired generating capacity, a private investment of about $ 14 billion.

The oldest, smallest coal plants with few emissions controls make up an «at - risk» of closure portion that account for about 20 percent of total US coal - fired generating capacity, or 69,000 megawatts.

So far, more than 45,000 MW of coal - fired generating capacity in ISO / RTO regions have retired, and owners have announced intentions to retire an additional 17,000 MW over the next three years.

About 12 GW of coal - fired generating capacity — or about half of the region's coal - fired generating fleet — has come online since 2006.

The analysis identified 51 gigawatts (GW) of coal - fired generating capacity that is slated to retire or convert to another fuel (mostly natural gas) through 2030.

Indeed, wind energy represents 38 per cent of all new electric generation capacity installed from these sources in Canada in this period — and Canada's coal - fired generating capacity has actually fallen at the same time.

Operating cost for electric cars is $ 0.50 to $ 0.75 per mile versus $ 0.10 for gasoline powered cars once battery replacement costs are included By 2020, Chinese PER CAPITA emissions will be higher than America's Does not believe that the 0.6 degree temperature rise to date is the West's «fault,» but does believe that China is the future problem Whatever U.S. does about emissions reduction and what people do as individuals is totally trivial in face of the fact that China is adding huge amounts of coal fired generating capacity The most meaningful emissions reduction strategy today would be to convert China from coal to natural gas The claim that there are more frequent or more intense hurricanes and tornadoes as a result of AGW is not scientifically supported We can reduce emissions, but it is important that we do the RIGHT things (and NOT the WRONG ones) Not worried about «peak oil;» coal can be converted to liquid fuel

In short, their findings, based on a survey of 85 power plants consisting of 299 separate generating units across 14 provinces, accounting for some 5 % of China's coal - fired generating capacity, challenges certain long - held assumptions that outside observers have harbored about China's coal power industry.

The American Lung Association believes that the U.S. should not continue to expand its coal - fired generating capacity because of the extensive scope of health risks associated with the use of coal and the disproportionate impact on local communities.

The reports published by the US, UK and Brussels - based organisations referred to all emphasise their roles in campaigning for planned coal - fired generating capacity in the UK to be cancelled, and their success in bringing about national and EU legislation.

The power sector added a significant amount of new natural gas - fired generating capacity over the last decade, much of which was in the form of efficient combined - cycle units.

China just posted a new 5 year plan with over 200,000 MW of new coal fired generating capacity.

In the United States, two dozen entities are responsible for 70 percent of U.S. coal - fired generating capacity.

Other countries on the Asian country plan to significantly boost their coal - fired generating capacity.

China is expected to triple its coal - fired generating capacity by 2030, according to the report.

Not exact matches

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates at least 500 gigawatts of electricity - generating capacity could be harvested this way — or 1.5 times more than the entire U.S. fleet of coal - fired power plants.

Kansas is rated as the state with the 3rd best wind power potential in the U.S. Kansas currently has 364 megawatts (MW) of utility - connected power, equivalent to about 1/2 of the generating capacity of one of the proposed coal - fired plants.

When all of these wind farms are completed, Texas will have 53,000 megawatts of wind generating capacity — the equivalent of 53 coal - fired power plants.

The most recent waves of generating capacity additions include natural gas - fired units in the 2000s and renewable units, primarily wind, coming online in the late 2000s.

This single coal - fired power station has a generating capacity alone of 1400 MW and is one of the largest of more than a dozen coal - fired power stations in Queensland.

Expansion of grid supply by construction of big new coal fired power plants such as in the Hunter Valley and near Lithgow are going ahead and look to me to be intended to prevent the issue of decarbonising our energy supply getting mixed up with the issue of maintaining growth and reliability of supply; we'll have enough fossil fuel generating capacity that building low emissions capacity will remain «optional» and can be deferred another decade or two.

DTE Energy had 22 coal - fired generating stations in 2005, with 7,998 MW of capacity.

Over that same time period, nuclear generating capacity in Europe fell by 13 GW and coal - fired generation fell by 25 GW.

Planned coal - fired capacity additions from a number of countries in and around the Middle East will add 41 gigawatts (GW) of new electric generating capacity over the next decade, based on announced projects and projects currently in the permitting process.

The report estimated that regulations cutting emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides would lead to the «premature» retirements of coal - fired power plants that can generate 47.8 gigawatts of electricity, about 15 percent of coal's U.S. production capacity.

Between 2010 - 2020, rapid near - term investment in natural gas electricity - generating capacity can progressively replace Australia's dirtiest coal - fired power plants for baseload power.

Drawing on the latest technologies, including those used by oil and gas companies in drilling and in enhanced oil recovery, the team estimated that enhanced geothermal systems could be used to develop 100,000 megawatts of electrical generating capacity in the United States by 2050, a capacity equal to 250 coal - fired power plants.

In Texas, the state government is coordinating a vast expansion of wind power that could yield 23,000 megawatts of new generating capacity, an amount equal to 23 coal - fired power plants.

California installed 354 megawatts of solar thermal — generating capacity nearly 20 years ago, but with cheap fossil - fuel - fired electricity, investments in solar thermal power dried up.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 ApriCapacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 Apricapacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

-- The term «electric generation facility» means a coal - fired or natural gas - fired electric generation facility in the United States with a generating capacity that is greater than 50 megawatts.

Utility companies retired nearly 18,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in 2015, about 80 percent of which was conventional coal - fired power plants, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said this week.

[3] Each state has interim targets it must meet beginning in 2020, and the EPA proposed that states use a combination of four «building blocks» to achieve the emissions reductions: (1) improving the efficiency (heat rate) of existing coal - fired power plants; (2) switching from coal - fired power by increasing the use and capacity factor, or efficiency, of natural - gas combined - cycle power plants; (3) using less carbon - intensive generating power, such as renewable energy or nuclear power; and (4) increasing demand - side energy - efficiency measures.

Alcoa had 7 coal - fired generating stations in 2005, with 1118 MW of capacity.

E.ON had 29 coal - fired generating stations in the U.S. in 2005, with 8,347 MW of capacity.

It was designed as a coal - fired plant, with a generating capacity from four units of more than 1,500 MW.

Had conventional Gas Fired technology had been used, the full ~ 31GW generating capacity would have provided non-intermittent and wholly dispatchable electricity production generated as and when needed.

Nearly 16 GW of generating capacity is expected to retire in 2015, 81 % of which (12.9 GW) is coal - fired generation.

At least two critics have challenged the authorsí use of new coal - fired electric generating capacity as a basis for comparing their estimate of the cost of new wind energy - based generation.

Coal Fleet: How many coal - fired power plants operate around the U.S. and how much generating capacity do they provide?

note 2; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year.

To replace just 20 % of the United States» 995,000 MW of total installed generating capacity, we would need to blanket an area the size of Kansas with wind turbines, and then add nearly a thousand 600 - MW gas - fired backup generators... and thousands of miles of new high voltage transmission lines.

At the end of 2012 there were 1,308 coal - fired generating units in the United States, totaling 310 GW of capacity.

For instance, the bulk of the 580 billion yuan ($ 85 billion) to be invested in expanding the country's slowed energy industry in 2009 will go towards coal - fired generation, with nuclear and wind - powered generating capacity making up a smaller percentage.

In other words whereas 52 coal fired power stations would meet the average (scenario 2) demand, they will probably need around 200 GW of wind plus PV plus solar thermal plus biomass - gas - electrical generating capacity, when all energy costs and losses are taken into account.

Quoting two sentences: «The country built 114,000 megawatts of fossil - fuel - based generating capacity last year alone, almost all coal - fired, and is on course to complete 95,000 megawatts more this year.

Progress Energy owned 23 coal - fired generating stations in 2005, with 7,925 MW of capacity.