Sentences with phrase «for coal power»

Vattenfall 1 concerned environmental restrictions imposed on a water use permit for a coal power plant in Hamburg, resulting in a suit of over 1 billion euros.

Just like new designs for coal power plants are very green so has progress been made on cleaning up diesel emissions.

The new setback law might be subject to challenge before the European Commission, where Poland's subsidies for coal power are already at issue.

In short, if the people paying for coal power aren't aware of its full costs, then they can't take those costs into account when making decisions regarding how much to consume.

No need for coal power, which faces increasingly hostile scrutiny.

In those areas, the cost of wind - generated electricity is $ 68 per megawatt - hour compared to $ 67 a megawatt - hour for coal power and $ 56 per megawatt - hour for natural gas.

The villagers of Amasra, Bartın, Turkey woke up to their olive trees being cut to pave the way for a coal power plant.

If, however, coal with CCS has to compete with gas with CCS then the situation is more balanced, particularly in markets such as China where the capital costs for coal power plants and coal prices are relatively low compared to natural gas.

Consider how much more impressive this week's China - U.S. climate announcement would have been had the U.S. followed China's lead and announced that all banks on Wall Street — including J.P. MorganChase and Citigroup, among the top ten global lenders for coal power — would have to curb their coal loans.

The investment decisions taken in 2016, totalling a mere 40 GW globally, signal a more dramatic slowdown ahead for coal power investment once the current wave of construction comes to an end.

Primary energy chart: It compares input for coal power with output from solar?

The biggest markets in the West are shifting away from coal, and there's not a lot of slack demand for coal power; if anything, there's an excess of capacity.

The value destruction and fuel cost changes in India's power sector highlights how quickly the tide has turned for coal power.

Myllyvirta maintained that China and India are still the main drivers of the downward trend for coal power.

The daily and seasonal consumption patterns don't allow for an all coal power plant infrastructure to output 24/7 at their rated capacity.

«The European Commission has opened an in - depth investigation into Spain's state aid for coal power plants to establish whether it is in line with EU rules.»

«It includes companies whose major business is coal exploration, processing coal, producing specialized equipment for coal mining, transporting or trading coal, converting coal to oil or gas, manufacturing equipment for coal power stations and many other activities along the thermal coal value chain.

Limiting climate change to 2 °C means shutting down coal power plants — an unpopular proposition for coal power companies.

Not exact matches

The coal destined for Fraser Surrey Docks, however, will be thermal coal, to be burned in power plants to generate electricity.

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.

That does not mean that coal - fired power will resume its historically dominant position in the electricity generation mix, for several reasons.

Even in states that wish to favor coal - fired power, it will be difficult to convince ratepayers that they ought to pay more for electricity from coal than they could pay for electricity from alternative sources.

Banks says all the coal at Shotton and Highthorn can be extracted by the government's 2025 deadline for phasing out coal - fired power generation.

West Perth - based junior miner African Energy Resources has farmed out a 51 per cent stake in its Sese coal and power project in Botswana to a Vancouver - based firm for $ 8 million.

The U.K. - based bank, whose operations are increasingly concentrated in Asia, said it will make up to $ 100 billion available for financing low - carbon projects, while stopping the financing of mines that produce coal for power generation.

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.

The coal industry was interested in ensuring that the Paris deal provides a role for low - emission coal - fired power plants and financial support for carbon capture and storage technology, the officials said.

So while the impact on Climate Change of the electric car may not be all its visionaries claim, the alternative of a world powered by coal and oil is — particularly for the populations of China's and India's cities — unthinkable.

A number of coal - and oil - fired power plants will likely be retired, and while Virginia's four existing nuclear units will remain in use, plans for a fifth reactor remain shelved, for now.

At the same time, subsidies and other support for renewable energy projects have boosted competition from wind and solar power and piled pressure on coal - fired and nuclear power plants.

NEW YORK, April 1 - FirstEnergy Corp said late on Saturday its nuclear and coal power plant units filed for bankruptcy court protection as the company looks to restructure, sell assets and win government support to cope with competitors using lower - cost natural gas.

It then sells the coal at a loss to power plants to generate the real benefit for the drug company: credits that allow Mylan to lower its own tax bill.

«Even if it doesn't get that much cleaner, coal will still be a primary fuel source for power generation.»

According to the Wall Street Journal, coal power production in China was negative for the second straight month in October, bringing 2017 growth to negative 3 percent.

China has already hit peak coal, but the fossil fuel does still account for 65 % of the country's power generated by source.

New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder finds that steep declines in the use of coal for power generation over the past decade were caused largely by less expensive natural...

The electric power sector accounted for about 92.4 % of the total U.S. coal consumption in fourth — quarter 2017.

Electric power generation from coal and natural gas plants is responsible for 40 % of U.S. carbon emissions.

As China continues to choke on its own emissions, the country is starting to pump the brakes on what was once considered an insatiable appetite for coal - fired power.

While power generation can be shifted to other energy sources rather than coal, it's not so easy to find substitutes for liquid transportation fuels like petrol, diesel fuel, or jet fuel.

Environmental groups have lauded the Obama administration for its work in slashing emissions from dirty coal - fired power plants in the US.

Yussuff and one of the other task force members, Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan, were at the centre of the effort to secure McKenna's commitment to set up the task force and ensure financial support for laid - off coal miners, after the minister led the formation of the Powering Past Coal Alliance during last year's UN climate change conference in Bcoal miners, after the minister led the formation of the Powering Past Coal Alliance during last year's UN climate change conference in BCoal Alliance during last year's UN climate change conference in Bonn.

It came with a suite of complementary policies that included a low - carbon fuel regulation, a ban on coal - fired electricity and a private sector power call for clean and renewable electricity.

While India is building new coal - fired power plants, they are no guarantee that demand for U.S. coal will increase.

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

As for the Kemper Clean Coal project the company decided to scrap the project and instead decided to turn it into a natural gas powered facility.

They find that coal accounts for 95 % of GED in this sector (though it also accounts for the largest percentage of total power generation), and coal power has the highest GED per kilowatt - hour (kWh) of electricity generated (though as noted in Table 2, petroleum has a higher GED / VA ratio).

This year, for the first time ever, natural gas has surpassed coal in use for power generation in the United States.

The study also compares the figures for coal, petroleum, and natural gas power plants.

Businesses in tangential industries may also want to consider retraining their own workers — electric utilities, for example, can retrain their coal - fired power plant workers for positions involving utility - scale solar farms.