Sentences with phrase «for coal plant closures»

The growing public concern with climate change and CO2 emissions further increases the pressure for coal plant closures.

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Utilities are increasingly switching over to natural gas for electricity generation — coal plant closures could reach a high watermark this year.

Closures of a significant number of coal - fired power plants (for which compliance is too costly) will undermine reliability of the electrical grid and increase the risk of brownouts and blackouts.

Other major TVA facilities that have announced plans in recent years to shut down include the Colbert Fossil Plant, also in Alabama, and the Paradise Fossil Plant in Kentucky, where two of three coal units were slated for closure while a third unit was to be converted to burn natural gas (ClimateWire, Nov. 15, 2013).

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.

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Lignite of the Living Dead notes that utilities may keep coal plants running at a loss for many reasons, including: hopes that governments will make capacity payments for guaranteed power supply or payments to retire plants; expectations that competitors will close plants, pushing power prices up; the clean - up costs associated with retiring plants; and opposition to closures from governments for political reasons.

In October 2010, Ohio Power Co. filed an application with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for the approval of a December 2010 closure of the coal - fired Philip Sporn Power Plant unit 5, Ohio Power parent American Electric Power said in a Nov. 1 Form 10 - Q filing.

There was some bad news for Drax recently as the UK government decided that biomass subsidies would not keep climbing as the «carbon price floor» — levied on fossil fuel production (and due to rise further)-- on electricity consumption has caused a backlash from manufacturers, consumer groups and energy suppliers who are concerned that the «tax will push up prices, make the UK uncompetitive and force the premature closure of coal - fired power plants, increasing the risk of blackouts.»

The Institute for Energy Research, for example, regularly blames the United States Environmental Protection Agency for hastening the closure of dozens of coal - fired plants.

As utilities plan for the closure of large, dispatchable baseload coal and nuclear plants, Michigan's system will be forced to rely on a smaller suite of energy options — specifically natural gas, renewables, and conservation measures.

The hole left by the failure of contracts - for - closure should be replaced with a new policy to close coal - fired power plants and replace them with renewable energy.

5 Aug: Australian: Sid Maher: Land for carbon reforestation to take big cut But if the carbon price started at $ 47 a tonne, under a more ambitious scenario, the report estimates more than 60 million tonnes of carbon could be shed through plantation forests and carbon plantings by 2021... The modelling was released as Resources Minister Martin Ferguson named three leading corporate advisory firms to help the Gillard government negotiate a billion - dollar closure of a brown - coal electricity generator as it seeks to cut carbon emissions.

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.

However, they do not make up for the number of coal plants that have been shut done or are scheduled for closure.

Campaigners are converging on Washington to press for the closure of «Congress's own coal fired power plant», marking a political turning point for the future of the fossil fuel

«It was done to encourage renewable energies when we were aiming for the closure of coal plants.»

While the EPA has provided for emissions trading programs, there will be a lot of closures of older coal plants.

This week, the Central Java Coal Power Project added to its list of failures, as continued refusal by villagers to sell their land for the proposed coal plant has forced the Indonesian government to yet again extend the deadline for financial closure of the projCoal Power Project added to its list of failures, as continued refusal by villagers to sell their land for the proposed coal plant has forced the Indonesian government to yet again extend the deadline for financial closure of the projcoal plant has forced the Indonesian government to yet again extend the deadline for financial closure of the project.

On June 28, 2010 the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality laid out three alternative options for shutting down its Boardman coal - fired power plant, all of which involved an earlier closure date or significantly more expensive pollution controls.

Nationwide, more than 230 coal - fired plants have been closed or are slated for closure — or 44 percent of the 523 U.S. coal plants that were in operation just six years ago, by the environmental group Sierra Club's count.

In October 2010 stated that the company was seeking to eliminate its «safety net» option of 2040 as a potential closure date for the Boardman coal plant.

While the war on coal in the United States has taken its toll, with the closure of over 250 coal - fired power plants, and a resulting increase in what people pay for their electricity, the price of natural gas will likely rise to where coal will be competitive.

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.

Two of the coal plants that planned to close — Eggborough and one unit at Fiddlers Ferry — have secured SBR contracts for winter 2016/17, offering stays of execution on their eventual closure.

COAL - fired power plant closures have become the order of the day for Australia's virtue - signalling and global warming theory - obsessed political class who think that destroying the country's industrial heartland, and imposing crippling energy - poverty on its citizens is a worthwhile price to pay for «saving the planet».

These problems result from the closure of a number of coal - fired electric plants in recent years in these states and the refusal of local politicians to approve new natural gas pipelines or local fracking for natural gas, in many cases for alleged climate «reasons.»

Murray blamed the plan for the closure of 411 coal - fired power plants and a freeze on new construction.

President Obama's new rules for limiting carbon pollution have effectively ruled out any new coal plant construction in the United States, and will result in many additional closures.

By Chris Chopik Ontario's proposed Green Energy Act is touting 50,000 jobs, the closure of coal fired plants and a prosperous future for Ontarians and Ontario industry.