Sentences with phrase «for coal plant retirements»

One - third of those plants, among the oldest and dirtiest in the United States, were to be shuttered by the end of 2012, making it the biggest year for coal plant retirements in the nation's history.

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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.

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.

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

Washington State and Oregon have two of the cleanest energy mixes in the nation, with one coal plant each, both of which are scheduled for retirement in the next decade.

Doing so provides important context for recent coal plant retirement announcements, particularly given that some companies have attributed retirements to EPA rules that are still years away from going into force.

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.

Utilities nationwide have set retirements for 266 coal power plants since 2010 as residents reject paying the personal health costs and the expensive electricity rates needed to keep old coal plants running.

Some coal plants applied for and received one - year extensions, meaning that many of the coal retirements expected in 2016 will likely also occur in April.

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.

E3G's scorecard looks at the progress made on phasing out coal since the Paris climate conference and shows that an additional 40GW of existing coal plants have been marked for retirement over the coming years.

To date, more than a third of the nation's on - campus coal plants have been retired or are slated for retirement — including recent announcements from University of Cincinnati and Wooster College.

I helped lead a protest outside Duke headquarters a few weeks ago, and last week activists rallied at Duke's annual shareholder meeting, calling for the retirement of the Asheville plant and the cleanup of not only the Dan River spill, but all of Duke's coal ash sites in the state.

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.

Environmental regulatory requirements may have been the straw that broke a baseload's camel's back — particularly for coal plants — but it appears that most baseload plants were already burdened by the effects of low natural gas prices, eroding customer demand, and lower capacity factors before the incremental burden of new regulations tipped the balance over to retirement.»

In addition, CoalSwarm provides sortable tracking tables for proposed coal plants in the United States, coal plant retirements in the United States, and proposed coal plants in India.

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.

Given that deeper CO2 reductions would likely beget more coal plant retirements, necessitating more buildout of new infrastructure, the NERC report seems to show that more ambitious carbon cuts could be unworkable for the grid.

Back in April, DOE Secretary Perry issued a memo calling for a reliability study of U.S. power systems, expressing concerns that competitive markets, renewables, and regulations were forcing retirement of baseload (i.e. coal and nuclear) power plants critical to reliability.

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.

A longer - term scenario in the study analyses the implications of limiting global averages temperature increases to 2 ˚C, confirming the need for China to start planning the early retirement of coal plants not retrofitted with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).

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.

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.

Preparing for the retirement of a large coal plant contains the same challenges as preparing for the addition of a new large generating resource.

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.

EIA has revised its forecast for coal - fired plant retirements upward twice since November.

The stampede of new coal plant retirements speaks for itself.

In a Friday memo, Perry asked his chief of staff to undertake a 60 day inquiry into «the extent to which continued regulatory burdens, as well as mandates and tax and subsidy policies, are responsible for forcing the premature retirement of baseload power plants,» such as those fueled by coal or nuclear energy, among other grid related questions.

The 2007 agreement had required AEP to install flue gas desulfurization (FGD) technology at the plant — a more expensive technology that results in greater pollution reductions — but Sierra Club and the other parties agreed to the DSI technology in return for an earlier installation date, the other coal plant retirements, and clean energy investments.

While many other estimates exist for the number of coal plants at risk of retirement as they become financially unviable or reach the end of their expected lifespan, the majority fail to account for many of the costs of environmental compliance and for a long - term carbon emission price.

In an analysis for the Energy Information Administration, Laura Martin and Jeffrey Jones project that coal plant retirements during 2015 — 20 as a result of CPP actions may reach 61.6 GW (of a total of 326 GW in operation in 2014), with 30.4 GW in the 2020s and 7.5 GW in the 2030s.

Nevertheless, the CPP will cause states, taxpayers, and energy consumers to get stiffed with huge cost burdens, including capital - intensive, decades - long transitions needed for adding expensive and unreliable wind and solar infrastructures, coal plant retirements and upgrades, restructured transmission lines, and new natural gas pipelines.