EIA has revised its forecast for coal -
fired plant retirements upward twice since November.
Not exact matches
DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Michigan regulators on Friday cleared DTE Energy's request to build a near - $ 1 billion natural gas power
plant, the first approval of such a large facility for a regulated utility in decades and a move that coincides with the
retirement of coal -
fired plants.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry commissioned the study in April to evaluate whether «regulatory burdens» imposed by past administrations — including that of President Barack Obama — had forced the premature
retirement of baseload power
plants that provide nonstop power, like those
fired by coal and nuclear fuel.
Obama had introduced a raft of regulations intended to slash emissions of carbon dioxide blamed for climate change, a policy course that accelerated the
retirement of older coal -
fired power
plants and bolstered the nascent solar and wind sectors, which depend heavily on weather conditions for their power output.
We're seeing a lot more natural gas because of its price and the
retirement of coal -
fired power
plants.
Earthjustice's landmark court victory, which put in motion strict new limits on toxic air pollution from coal -
fired power
plants, drives the
retirement of many dirty
plants and a shift to cleaner power.
This includes support for policies that: (1) require the installation and operation of state - of - the - art air pollution control technologies and (2) encourage conversion to cleaner energy resources and / or permanent
retirement of coal -
fired power
plants.
A key factor in those
retirements is a new Environmental Protection Agency regulation on emissions of toxins from coal -
fired power
plants.
The EPA regulations call for increasing the use of state - of - the - art, natural gas -
fired power
plants in place of coal
plants; increasing renewable energy sources; avoiding
retirement of existing nuclear
plants; and supporting energy efficiency.
The net result is likely to be an acceleration of the
retirement of existing coal -
fired power
plants.
Sierra Club's Hitt noted that the
retirement of large, coal -
fired plants, many of which date back half a century or more, is already under way.
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.
But $ 20 million of that will go to workers discharged from coal mines, $ 25 million to the Appalachian communities effected, $ 6 million to economically distressed communities, and roughly $ 5 million for «brownfield» studies in communities affected by the
retirement of coal -
fired plants.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is expected to act by January 10, 2018, on the Department of Energy's notice of proposed rulemaking on «grid resiliency pricing,» which directs the commission to impose rules that would prevent early
retirement of coal and nuclear -
fired power
plants in the Eastern United States.
The rule is designed to speed up the
retirement of the nation's fleet of coal -
fired power
plants — the most carbon - intensive way of creating electricity — and could more than double the rate of coal
plant closures by 2040.
The Nevada utility has requested approval from the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada for a 100 MW solar
plant, while simultaneously requesting the early
retirement of a coal -
fired generation facility, but its previous objection to net metering lingers in the memory.
The study found that the EPA rules, combined with a recent drop in the price of natural gas, could over the next four to five years cause the utility industry to accelerate
retirement of old coal -
fired power
plants rather than spend to upgrade the
plants» emissions controls.
In addition to calling on high income countries to stop building new, unabated coal -
fired power
plants immediately and accelerate the
retirement of their existing
plants, the report also calls on middle income countries to limit new coal -
fired power
plants and begin retiring their existing fleet by 2025.
The report pulls no punches when it comes to coal, including a call for a global coal phaseout involving an immediate end to investments in new unabated coal -
fired power
plants globally and the
retirement of existing unabated coal -
fired power
plants in high income countries.
that in 2010, «Construction did not begin on a single new coal -
fired power
plant in the United States for the second straight year,» with plans for 38 new
plants dropped and even more older
plants scheduled for
retirement.
From the Daily Caller: Coal -
fired power
plants kept the lights on for millions of Americans during January's bomb cyclone, according to an Energy Department report warning future
plant retirements could imperil grid security.
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 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.
SALEM, Ore., March 24, 2014 — The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently reported that nine more coal -
fired electric power
plants have been scheduled for
retirement.