Sentences with phrase «for coal fired power station»

Technological advances for coal fired power station have reduced nitrous oxides, sulphur dioxide and particulate emissions.

Here is the rocky situation for the coal fired power stations, situated 27 miles SW of Houston.

«If you combine an ETS plus this very clear policy in terms of shutting down coal - fired power stations, plus you add in unofficial restrictions on new bank lending for coal fired power stations, plus you add renewables targets for power companies and local officials, together with tax incentives and high tariffs for renewables; all of this will have an impact back in Australia,» he says.

Not exact matches

In March 2009, while Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Miliband attended the UK premiere of climate change film The Age of Stupid, where he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaite, who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal - fired power station were to be given the go - ahead by the government.

A decision on Kingsnorth will follow the consultation on CCS and an additional consultation on a new framework for coal - fired power stations, energy minister Mike O'Brien told parliament last month.

The world could cut greenhouse emissions by fracking for gas and replacing coal - fired power stations, but using gas to produce power could then lock us into a high - carbon future.

And on unusually sunny and windy days — such as on 8 May, when for about 4 hours wind and solar power generated more than 90 % of the electricity that Germany consumed — they must swiftly order coal and gas - fired power stations to reduce their output lest an influx of power «congests» the grid and increases the risk of failures.

The world could cut greenhouse emissions by fracking for gas and replacing coal - fired power stations, but use of gas could then lock us into a high - carbon future.

EUROPE»S plans for tackling global warming by driving down emissions of carbon dioxide may have backfired in Germany, where they have encouraged energy companies to build coal - fired power stations instead of gas - fired stations, which emit less CO2.

The policy document also set new targets for the closure of coal - fired heating systems as well as the installation of equipment to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions at power stations, steel mills and cement plants.

A group of politicians calling themselves the «Monash Forum» has called for the government to subsidise coal - fired power stations.

«Frankly, it can not be satisfactory for an advanced economy like the UK to be relying on polluting, carbon - intensive 50 - year - old coal - fired power stations,» Amber Rudd, the country's energy secretary, said in a statement.

«China is building coal - fired power stations but it's also closing many of the older ones down, which is why its overall coal use is declining — the more significant point is it's now building the clean energy equivalent of one coal - fired power station every week, and will do for the next 15 years.»

Billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide have been released into the atmosphere from coal - fired power stations that would never have been built if it weren't for our fear of nuclear power.

If China, India and others — and indeed Germany for that matter — build extra coal fired power stations then they will find the coal to supply them in international markets.

Plans for new coal - fired power stations confirm this.

In Australia, the last thirty years has seen a massive expansion of coal mining, predominantly for export but also for coal - fired power stations.

Weißbach et al. have analysed the EROI for a number of forms of energy production and their principal conclusion is that nuclear, hydro -, and gas and coal - fired power stations have an EROI that is much greater than wind, solar photovoltaic (PV), concentrated solar power in a desert or cultivated biomass: see Fig. 2.

I am all for making fossil fuels cleaner, and much work has already been done to make various fossil fuel devices (coal - fired power stations, internal combustion engines, etc) emit less pollution like NOx, SOx, Hg, Pb, and particulates.

First, it makes a nonsense of one of the justifications for supercritical coal - fired power stations, namely that they can be made «CCS - ready».

Besides, he said, the technology is not being developed as an alternative to the carbon capture and storage methods currently being tested for large - scale use on coal - fired power stations.

Energy giant AGL announced it will close down its coal - fired power stations in 2050 (still too slow but a strong first step from the sector), Shell is stopping drilling for oil in the Artic, and Australia's major banks are also making overarching commitments to limit global warming to 2 ℃.

For example, the study finds that 11 % of the energy generated by a coal - fired power station is offset by energy needed to build the plant and supply the fuel, as the chart below shows.

For the short term, carbon pricing and more stringent pollution control regulations may be used to reduce emissions, minimise local air pollution, and limit and ultimately phase out generation from subcritical coal - fired power stations.

My proposal is to create an artificial CO2 dome in a pristine area, for example by relocating the emission point of a coal fired power station.

«The DLP will push for the retention of our cheap, clean and efficient coal fired power stations and look to a more transitional model of using coal gasification and other clean coal technologies that would be far less costly to the taxpayer, while producing a secure and solid baseline for our grid.»

The German government has capped the capacity of wind farms and dropped a proposed levy for coal - fired power stations.

These programs support emissions - intensive electricity generators and the high - emitting coal mines to transition to a lower - emissions profile and originally included a buy - out scheme for the dirtiest coal - fired power stations.

The biggest public finance provider in the world has previously attracted criticism for backing the construction of high - carbon infrastructure, mostly in the form of coal - fired power stations.

In 2017, solar or wind power wins most competitive bids for electric supply: India just announced the closure of dozens of coal mines and the cancellation of plans for new coal - fired generating stations because the low cost of solar power was undercutting fossil fuel.

meanwhile, china builds coal - fired power stations by the week, while australia demonises coal & wants to shut down its own & give away more taxpayer money for expensive solar, wind & other unworkable, unnecessary CAGW «solutions»!

We have been contacted with requests for information and assistance by affected people living in urban as well as rural areas, and the noise and vibration sources have included coal mining, gas fired power stations, large refrigeration units with compressors and swimming pool compressors in city apartment blocks.

If it were possible for wind turbines to produce electricity more cheaply than coal - fired power stations, it wouldn't be necessary to push electricity prices up to make them «competitive».

The aim of the walk was to press for the replacement of the coal fired power stations at Port Augusta with solar thermal.

The closure of Belgium's Langerlo plant comes hot - on - the - heels of Scotland closing Britain's largest coal - fired power station, Longannet, signalling the end of an era for Scottish coal.

Yet that is exactly what the largest coal fired generator in South Australia, the 540MW Northern power station, is doing — shutting down for the winter months, when demand (and prices) are low.

Technologies are now available to improve the environmental performance of coal - fired power stations for a range of pollutants.

The Productivity Commission produces figures that show each 2kW air conditioning systems requires around $ 7,000 of added infrastructure investment — made up for $ 4,000 in distribution (in neighbourhoods), $ 1,400 in transmission (from the central coal fired power station), and $ 1,600 in generation costs (gas fired peakers).

Reports of China opening a huge new coal fired power station every week belie the reality - China is the new global powerhouse for renewable energy.

In the 1980s Greenpeace argued for a coal - fired power station to be built instead of Sizewell B even though the «greenhouse effect» was known about at the time.

In fact, new coal - fired power capacity additions in 2017 were the lowest in at least nine years (see figure, below), with official reports indicating capacity actually dropping for four consecutive months during the year, as older power stations have been retired.

This allows a graceful glide path to retirement for coal - fired power stations and their work forces while cleaner energy sources ramp up.

As this occurred, places like the Latrobe Valley could see a large influx of gas - fired power station as a medium - term baseload replacement for coal.

The European Commission has today published new standards for Europe's most polluting power plants, including many large coal - fired power stations.

This process can remove 5 pounds of carbon dioxide per kWh of electricity, the company estimated, as opposed to U.S. coal - fired power stations which emit 2 pounds of carbon dioxide for every kWh of electricity created.

It would take until 2057 for Australia's 16 remaining coal - fired power stations to reach the end of their working life, with four slated to shut in the next decade.

It must have something to do with the new coal - fired power stations that China and India are putting online every day of the week, for the past ~ 10 years and many more in the pipe.

And one reason being put forward for this is that all the pollution being chucked out by thousands of coal - fired power stations may be blocking the sun's heat from the Earth.

The take up rate would stop the natural increase in electricity generation required for increasing numbers of dwellings and in several years their would be a decline in electricity output from the coal fired power stations to equal or match that required by industry and commerce.

Nuclear power stations can be built where the power is needed, unlike, for example, coal - fired power stations that need to be close to the coal mine.