Sentences with phrase «fuel plant closures»

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State officials argued that nuclear plant closures would prompt an increase in fossil fuel generation, in conflict with Cuomo's goal to reduce carbon emmissions 40 percent by 2030.

The plant's numerous headaches and liabilities have fueled a steady chorus of calls for its closure.

The chemical plant, whose employees» pay packets help fuel the local economy in Falkirk, had been brought to the point of closure after a summer of discontent.

The glut of cheap gas and tightening regulations on air pollutants have prompted the planned closure of 175 coal - fired power plants by 2016, representing 8.5 percent of all coal - fueled electricity capacity in the country.

Shocks to ratepayers In fact, Japan's electricity prices are now among the highest in Asia, a condition created partly by high - priced renewables, but also by its heavy reliance on imported energy fuels following the closure of its nuclear plants, which provided 26 percent of the country's power before 2011.

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.»

In every recent closure of a nuclear plant, from Vermont Yankee to California's San Onofre, lost nucear power has been replaced almost exclusively by fossil - fueled power.

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

And nobody can say that there hasn't been emphasis on green energy — including the closure of many fossil fuel power plants, and much green legislation — in the UK over the last two parliamentary terms.

In flat contradiction of their stated views that climate change represents an imminent cata - strophic threat, anti-nuclear environmentalists from Germany to Illinois to California bless the burning of fossil fuels if it means they can force the closure of a nuclear power plant.

And while the President lectures us about our sins against the planet, his EPA and other agencies embark on the project to impose penance on us by forcing the closure of coal and other fossil fuel power plants, blocking pipelines, bankrupting the coal mining industry, subsidizing intermittent power sources that can't possibly run a fully operational electrical grid at reasonable cost, and multiplying our cost of electricity by an order of magnitude or so.