Sentences with phrase «for older coal plants»

Though there may be a case for supporting a temporary role for older coal plants to be used as emergency reserve capacity in some countries, it says, running for just a few hours a year to ensure security of supply.

Apropos of that, the Cato Institute magazine, Regulation this month had a really neat article in it about the fallacy of «grandfathering,» as implemented for old coal plants in the Clean Air Act.

The Government is keen to see new gas plants built as a cleaner replacement for old coal plants, which it wants to shut by 2025.

Less than a year since the Paris Agreement, and with investment in renewables in the EU falling behind the US and China, the Commission thinks now is the moment to weaken key elements of the EU's renewable energy framework and open the door to subsidies for old coal plants?

Not exact matches

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.

So the owner of an old coal - fired plant or hydroelectric plant - with lower costs butthe same sale price - «practically has a printing press» for money, Norlander said.

One came for free, the result of a years - old consent agreement with National Grid as a result of problems with coal - burning power plants in Western N.Y; the other was the result of a $ 4.5 million purchase from a national land trust group.

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.

Shutting down old coal plants is good for greenhouse gas and other pollution, but may prove difficult for local economies

The cost of retrofitting an old coal plant with capture equipment, for example, could in theory run to more than $ 100 per ton.

Many of the «old coal» plants that are under the Clean Air Act grandfather clause crank out electricity for under $ 10 / MWh.

And, are you (personally) suggesting that Kansas should have permitted the new plant in question instead of renewing upcoming permits for plants of equivalent capacity, OR, in your view, should coal capacity in Kansas be increasing, i.e., in additive fashion, i.e., by approving the new and old plants?

The KDHE has denied a permit for a coal plant that would have been more efficient (read, more MWH per ton of coal and less CO2 and other pollutants per MWH) than older plants whose permits they will be renewing as a matter of course over the coming months and years.

But the coal industry has been pressuring the EPA to reconsider the standard, pushing to weaken regulations that could affect dozens of decades - old, heavily - polluting coal plants like Indianapolis» Harding Street Station, which has been in operation for 54 years.

An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in the regulations — meaning how much they would curb emissions beyond what's already happening to cut power plant carbon dioxide thanks to the natural gas boom, the shutdown of old coal - burning plants because of impending mercury - cutting rules (read the valuable Union of Concerned Scientists «Ripe for Retirement» report for more on this), improved energy efficiency and state mandates developing renewable electricity supplies.

For example, because of the latest wave of US EPA regulations having nothing to do with climate change it is estimated that 50,000 MW of old coal fired power plants will be shut down.

Wood burning is subsidized as renewable energy and also favored for use in dirty older coal plants that must meet new regulations on sulphur dioxide emissions.

One reason for the uptick in coal - fired generation in Europe has been the looming deadline for the EU's Large Combustion Plant Directive, which will require older coal plants to meet lower emission levels by the end of 2015 or be mothballed.

Last week, Arizona Corporation Commissioner Andy Tobin proposed a Settlement Agreement to keep one of the oldest, most polluting coal plants in the Western U.S., Navajo Generating Station (NGS), running for

One reason is that Arizona utilities make far more money running old, polluting coal plants that generate electricity for around 3 cents / kWh, than risking a loss of sales to solar energy.

In June 2016, APS filed for a $ 3.6 billion rate increase (Docket E-01345A-16-0036) to go into effect July 2017, including higher fixed charges, new demand charges for solar customers, lowering the rate paid for distributed solar from the retail rate (12 - 13 cents / kWh) to wholesale rate (3 cents / kWh), and spending billions of dollars to introduce fossil fuel plants, including one of the Western U.S.'s oldest and dirtiest coal plants, into rate base.

Western Balkan countries, including Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia, plan to invest billions of euros in building new coal - fired plants to meet rising demand for electricity as old plants are being phased out.

The federal law calls for the states to require energy companies to install «best available retrofit technology» on old coal - fired power plants because their sulfur and nitrogen oxides are leading contributors to the haze that obscures vistas from the Grand Canyon to the Great Smoky Mountains.

I suppose you also blame Obama for the massive development of the Bakken formation, and for the fact that many coal fired power plants are being shut down simply because they're 40 or 50 years old and no longer viable.

You've called for installing nuclear power plants worldwide instead of coal - fired or gas - fired plants for all new or decommissioned old 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.

Hugh Wynne, an investment analyst who studies the utility industry for Sanford Bernstein, estimates that the mercury and smog regulations alone could force up to one - fifth of the nation's oldest and dirtiest coal - fired plants to retire in the next five years, largely in the Midwest and South.

Last week, Arizona Corporation Commissioner Andy Tobin proposed a Settlement Agreement to keep one of the oldest, most polluting coal plants in the Western U.S., Navajo Generating Station (NGS), running for another five years.

And because most countries don't have an end date for coal, some of that money is likely to be invested to refurbish old coal plants.

Finally, coal fired power plants in Minnesota, owned by Minnesota Power (the oldest of which is from l9l7 and all of which are over 50 years old) are seeking new coal contracts for a mine on the Northern Cheyenne reservation (Otter Creek) to be operated by Arch Ccoal fired power plants in Minnesota, owned by Minnesota Power (the oldest of which is from l9l7 and all of which are over 50 years old) are seeking new coal contracts for a mine on the Northern Cheyenne reservation (Otter Creek) to be operated by Arch Ccoal contracts for a mine on the Northern Cheyenne reservation (Otter Creek) to be operated by Arch CoalCoal.

We are looking at what other states have done too to learn from them,» said Wasserman, won the Goldman Prize for her role in shutting down two of Chicago's oldest and dirtiest coal fired power plants.

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CSE also recommends enacting CEA's plan to retire 48 GW of India's oldest coal generation by 2027, allowing cleaner distributed electricity sources to meet India's power demand while raising capacity factors for newer «cleaner» coal plants, simultaneously reducing financial risks for utilities and consumers.

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

She quelled many of the critics, though, when she told the coal reps that the industry «must change rapidly and dramatically for everyone's sake,» that all inefficient old coal plants should be shut down, that all new plants should include CCS, and that the world must «leave most existing [coal] reserves in the ground.»

It started spewing out its annual, relatively clean, 13 million tons of CO2, and other nasties, so much lower than those older dirty coal plants that would have put out 15 million tons of CO2 for the same power output.

Price spikes not only harm consumers and the economy, but can also create perverse incentives for utilities to switch back to using old and polluting coal plants.

Another area requiring immediate intensified work, Dr. Holdren and other experts say, is large - scale demonstration of systems for capturing carbon dioxide from coal burning before too many old - style plants are built.

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.

Considering that America has 22.1 percent of the world's proven coal reserves, the greatest of any country and enough to last for 381 years at current consumption rates, it is a tragedy that the U.S. can no longer build new, clean, coal - fired power stations to replace its aging fleet of coal plants.Supercritical power plants operate at very high temperatures and pressures, resulting in significantly greater efficiencies than older technologies.

Brady McCombs AP News 9/11/2017 SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-- An appeals court granted a request Monday from President Donald Trump's administration to halt a plan for new pollution controls at Utah's oldest coal - fired power plants aimed at reducing haze near national parks.

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.

As we see older, inefficient coal plants replaced in Europe and the US by new, highly efficient ones in emerging economies like China, Southeast Asia and India, this issue looks at an array of energy trends and what they mean for these economies.

Closing dirty old Massachusetts coal / oil plants like Brayton (1500 MW) and Salem Harbor (750 MW) is certainly good for Maine air.

Alabama Power, taking advantage of a drop in the price for natural gas, already has announced that it plans to convert older coal - fired units at the Shelby County plant to gas, which burns far cleaner than coal.

We applaud TVA for retiring the 55 year - old Allen facility instead of investing millions of dollars to continue operating it as a dirty coal plant.

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They are also deciding to retire old, inefficient coal plants and invest elsewhere rather than pay for retrofits in order to meet increasingly stringent pollution regulations.

«USEDA» (formerly know as the US Environmental Protection Agency) is proposing revisions to decades - old air quality regulations that will make it easier for coal - fired generation plants to obtain construction and operating permits for sites where air

And that's exactly what a group called American Clean Skies Foundation did in order to help make the case for closing down a dirty, 60 - year old coal plant in Virginia.