More stringent environmental rules
for aging coal plants — almost three - quarters of U.S. coal plants in operation today were built from the 1940s to the 1970s — also play a role.
Not exact matches
Utah environmental regulators on Wednesday unveiled a revised plan
for clearing the skies over the state's national parks, but to environmentalists» dismay it would do nothing to further cut emissions from
aging coal - fired power
plants.
Unfortunately they haven't come up with a good reason
for the Little Ice
Age yet since very few unfiltered
coal - burning Chinese power
plant smokestacks were extant circa 1650AD.
Finally
aging, fully - depreciated, sidelined
coal plants kept online
for peak power could provide the final backup supply.
«We can power Australia with the wind, sun, and water
for a cost similar to replacing the
ageing coal and gas
plants that are nearing the end of their lives now.
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· New Hampshire has approved emission controls
for the state's three
aging coal - fired electric generating
plants.
Considering that America has 22.1 percent of the world's proven
coal reserves, the greatest of any country and enough to last
for 381 years at current consumption rates, it is a tragedy that the U.S. can no longer build new, clean,
coal - fired power stations to replace its
aging fleet of
coal plants.Supercritical power
plants operate at very high temperatures and pressures, resulting in significantly greater efficiencies than older technologies.
Other reasons include competition from natural gas, weaker than expected demand
for electricity and
aging coal - fired
plants.
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for peaceful purposes, specifically to provide clean electricity replacing
aging and planned
coal - fired power
plants, as well as averting the need
for extensive planned
coal gasification in China, the most carbon - intensive source of electricity.14»
pg 9 «Second, the United States and China should agree to cooperate in rapid deployment to scale in China of advanced, safe nuclear power
for peaceful purposes, specifically to provide clean electricity replacing
aging and planned
coal - fired power
plants,....»
After a community bike ride from downtown Boulder, folks of all
ages planted sunflowers — known
for their use in natural soil remediation projects — on a vacant lot at the gates of the Valmont
Coal Plant.
About 1.6 million electric customers in South Carolina are paying
for the unfinished reactors that were supposed to mark a new
age of nuclear power as
coal - fired
plants were shutting down.