Sentences with phrase «for coal power stations»

«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.

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The plan contains measures that will help Canada hit its obligations under the Paris Agreement, such as introducing carbon pricing, phasing out coal - burning power stations and boosting support for clean - energy technologies.

Bank of America Corp.'s Merrill Lynch & Co. unit increased its price forecast for Asian power - station coal.

The blockchain center for the production of cheap electricity will be launched in Australia on the basis of the Redbank coal power station closed in the Hunter Valley.

The mounting evidence for climate change, and all its tragic consequences, has provided a powerful argument against fossil fuel power stations: the burning of coal, gas and oil releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and this is almost certainly responsible for global warming.

The EU would need to convert some of their power stations to use most probably coal for a few years.

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.

Landau Colliery is one of Anglo American's thermal coal mines that supplies coal to power stations in South Africa and for export.

Protestors are campaigning against Heathrow expansion, new coal power stations, the expansion of agro-fuels and for the use of renewable energy.

There are great mounds of imported coal being loaded onto rail cars for shipment to a local power station to be burned and release thousands of tons of climate - changing carbon into the atmosphere.

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.

WHEN the wind stops blowing and turbines slow down, we have to resort to coal and gas - powered stations for our energy needs.

When Unit 3 at the Boundary Dam Power Station in Saskatchewan, Canada, switches on later this year after a lengthy refit, it will mark a historic moment for dirty coal pPower Station in Saskatchewan, Canada, switches on later this year after a lengthy refit, it will mark a historic moment for dirty coal powerpower.

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.

It is that the rise of electricity and the power - station & «clean» domestic coal 1940 - 1970 may have cut black carbon more than is presently accounted for and thus with the renewed ramp - up of SO2 emissions in that period, more readily provide the cause of the 1940 - 75 temperature «hiatus».

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.»

While a fraction of the coal - power stations that would be saved by switching to biomass will be sited on suitable geology for CO2 sequestration, the great majority are not, meaning that in every quite - developed country HP pipelines would be needed that would sum to many thousands of miles.

On top of the six points outlined above, there is the simple case that public funds should not be used to maintain the profitability of defunct coal power stations — but rather to accelerate the deployment of dispatchable renewables and the establishment of native coppice forestry for charcoal to be sequestered in farmland where it acts as a soil fertilizer and soil moisture regulator.

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.

Much of the decline was a result of the US switching from its own coal supplies to shale gas for generating electricity at power stations.

Massive coal mine in Australia for the Loy Yang Power Station.

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.

As the government floats the prospect of help for cleaner - coal power stations and attacks Labor for committing too strongly to renewables, Shorten will say that to achieve the ALP's 50 % target much more private investment in renewable generation and technology will be needed than the amount required to get to the legislated Renewable Energy Target (RET).

In New Zealand, most coal mining to date has been for the domestic market, primarily thermal power stations in the North Island and the Glenbrook Steel mill.

Even if companies could be certain they'd never have to pay for their carbon emissions, we'd still never see a new coal power station built in Australia given the current cost of renewable energy here and overseas.

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.

Canada needs to make a formal commitment to phasing out centralized nuclear power and coal stations, and assist in the orderly and just transition for power workers and their communities.

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.

SO2 is quite easily removed from coalfired power station emissions, having fallen from from 14.28 million tons to 5.5 Million tonnes in the US between 1990 and 2009, and similarly for NOx (7.1 million tons to 2.4), while coal's CO2 emissions increased by nearly 200 Billion tons over that period.

The Australian reports that Victorian wind farms, for all their hype and subsidies, have eliminated virtually zero GHGs, thanks to the need for backup coal power stations to keep running at full speed to cope with the fluctuations in wind generation:

[44] While the Global Financial Crisis undercut demand for coal from US power stations, demand for coal for both power stations and the steel industry continued to grow from both China and India.

Would it not therefor be more rational to use gas mainly for domestic heating and use coal for power station use?

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

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.

Still, coal power accounts for 39 percent of carbon emissions within the European Union's emissions trading scheme, which includes factories and power stations from all 28 member states.

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.»

1 Executive Summary 2 Scope of the Report 3 The Case for Hydrogen 3.1 The Drive for Clean Energy 3.2 The Uniqueness of Hydrogen 3.3 Hydrogen's Safety Record 4 Hydrogen Fuel Cells 4.1 Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell 4.2 Fuel Cells and Batteries 4.3 Fuel Cell Systems Durability 4.4 Fuel Cell Vehicles 5 Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure 5.1 Hydrogen Station Hardware 5.2 Hydrogen Compression and Storage 5.3 Hydrogen Fueling 5.4 Hydrogen Station Capacity 6 Hydrogen Fueling Station Types 6.1 Retail vs. Non-Retail Stations 6.1.1 Retail Hydrogen Stations 6.1.2 Non-Retail Hydrogen Stations 6.2 Mobile Hydrogen Stations 6.2.1 Honda's Smart Hydrogen Station 6.2.2 Nel Hydrogen's RotoLyzer 6.2.3 Others 7 Hydrogen Fueling Protocols 7.1 SAE J2601 7.2 Related Standards 7.3 Fueling Protocols vs. Vehicle Charging 7.4 SAE J2601 vs. SAE J1772 7.5 Ionic Compression 8 Hydrogen Station Rollout Strategy 8.1 Traditional Approaches 8.2 Current Approach 8.3 Factors Impacting Rollouts 8.4 Production and Distribution Scenarios 8.5 Reliability Issues 9 Sources of Hydrogen 9.1 Fossil Fuels 9.2 Renewable Sources 10 Methods of Hydrogen Production 10.1 Production from Non-Renewable Sources 10.1.1 Steam Reforming of Natural Gas 10.1.2 Coal Gasification 10.2 Production from Renewable Sources 10.2.1 Electrolysis 10.2.2 Biomass Gasification 11 Hydrogen Production Scenarios 11.1 Centralized Hydrogen Production 11.2 On - Site Hydrogen Production 11.2.1 On - site Electrolysis 11.2.2 On - Site Steam Methane Reforming 12 Hydrogen Delivery 12.1 Hydrogen Tube Trailers 12.2 Tanker Trucks 12.3 Pipeline Delivery 12.4 Railcars and Barges 13 Hydrogen Stations Cost Factors 13.1 Capital Expenditures 13.2 Operating Expenditures 14 Hydrogen Station Deployments 14.1 Asia - Pacific 14.1.1 Japan 14.1.2 Korea 14.1.3 China 14.1.4 Rest of Asia - Pacific 14.2 Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) 14.2.1 Germany 14.2.2 The U.K. 14.2.3 Nordic Region 14.2.4 Rest of EMEA 14.3 Americas 14.3.1 U.S. West Coast 14.3.2 U.S. East Coast 14.3.3 Canada 14.3.4 Latin America 15 Selected Vendors 15.1 Air Liquide 15.2 Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. 15.3 Ballard Power Systems 15.4 FirstElement Fuel Inc. 15.5 FuelCell Energy, Inc. 15.6 Hydrogenics Corporation 15.7 The Linde Group 15.8 Nel Hydrogen 15.9 Nuvera Fuel Cells 15.10 Praxair 15.11 Proton OnSite / SunHydro 15.11.1 Proton Onsite 15.11.2 SunHydro 16 Market Forecasts 16.1 Overview 16.2 Global Hydrogen Station Market 16.2.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.2.2 Hydrogen Stations Capacity 16.2.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.3 Asia - Pacific Hydrogen Station Market 16.3.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.3.2 Hydrogen Stations Capacity 16.3.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.4 Europe, Middle East and Africa 16.4.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.4.2 Hydrogen Station Capacity 16.4.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.5 Americas 16.5.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.5.2 Hydrogen Station Capacity 16.5.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 17 Conclusions 17.1 Hydrogen as a Fuel 17.2 Rollout of Fuel Cell Vehicles 17.3 Hydrogen Station Deployments 17.4 Funding Requirements 17.5 Customer Experience 17.6 Other Findings