The loss
generated by the coal plants, as well as depreciation, is tax deductible, according to tax experts.
There are lots of nasties that are
generated by a coal plant.
Amory Lovins (Scientific American, Sept 2005) said that 3 % of the electricity
generated by coal plants actually reaches an outlet, after mining, transportation, heat loss and transmission are taken into account.
Total energy
generated by coal plants in most of the state declined from about 40 percent in 2010 to about 25 percent in the first half of 2016.
In New York City, San Francisco, and at another demonstration in Toronto, protesters drew attention to the fact that companies like Apple use electricity
generated by coal plants to run their data centers — which power the cloud that is now sucking down a ballooning slice of the world's energy pie.
Not exact matches
The giant mining operations of Asia stack thousands of computers in dimly lit factory buildings powered
by cheap electricity from
coal - fed
generating plants.
Base load power, the residual power that has to be
generated day - in, day - out, came primarily from burning
coal, typically in a
plant located right at a mine site owned
by the power company.
RESOLVED: That Berkshire Hathaway Inc. («Berkshire») establish reasonable, quantitative goals for reduction of greenhouse gas and other air emissions at its energy -
generating holdings; and that Berkshire publish a report to shareholders
by January 31, 2015 (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on how it will achieve these goals — including possible plans to retrofit or retire existing
coal - burning
plants at Berkshire - held companies.
In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large,
coal - burning electric
plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered
by a predominantly native American population, but the power
generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.
In his summary of findings, Dr. Stopford stated, «Mercury is ubiquitous in the environment being
generated both
by man - made activities (such as
coal - fired power
plants) and
by natural phenomenon (such as volcanoes).
Among the surprising conclusions: the waste produced
by coal plants is actually more radioactive than that
generated by their nuclear counterparts.
But that is still small potatoes compared with the 45 percent
generated by coal - fired
plants.
Most electricity in the United States is
generated at power
plants that run on
coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming
by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.
Renewable electricity produces just 5 % to 6 % of the greenhouse gas emissions created
by coal - fired energy
plants, and 8 % to 10 % of those
generated from gas - fired
plants.
The analysis
by Yang and Jackson finds that if the gas produced
by the new
plants is used to
generate electricity, the total lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would be 36 percent to 82 percent higher than pulverized
coal - fired power.
When
coal - and natural gas — fed
plants produce ammonia, they
generate two main
by - products: heat and carbon dioxide (CO2).
This emission was «similar to the greenhouse effect of electricity
generated by coal - fired
plants» and would persist for at least 50 years.
Between 2002 and 2012, the annual electrical generation from
coal - fired
plants fell
by 2 %, while the amount of electricity
generated by natural gas
plants rose
by 37 %.
As for reducing carbon emissions, it is possible that some out - of - state
coal - fired
generating plants that currently supply electricity to Oregon may continue to operate after 2035
by rerouting their electricity elsewhere.
I think that in a sustainable energy economy of the future, most electricity will be
generated, stored and used locally, and large centralized
generating stations (which
by then will be predominantly wind turbine farms and concentrating solar thermal power
plants,
coal and nuclear having been phased out) will play a much smaller role.
(
By comparison, the average
coal - burning power
plant has a capacity of about 800 megawatts, but
generates electricity day or night.)
So if the world moves toward a system for tracking emissions, who is responsible for a particular batch of carbon dioxide — the company that mined and sold the
coal, the power
plant that burned it, the consumer who buys the exported widget made with the electricity
generated by that combustion, or...?
Warming caused
by burning
coal in a power
plant can be felt in the atmosphere within 95 days — the time it takes for the emissions released from the
plant to trap enough heat to exceed the amount
generated from the
plant itself, according to the study.
The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power
plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement
by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions
coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissi
coal - fired power
plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean
coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissi
coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao
Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissi
Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a
coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissi
coal mine in Chongqing, China, to
generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
A
coal power
plant equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology could meet the standard, but the EPA acknowledges that CCS is prohibitive, raising the cost of
generating electricity
by as much as 80 %.
Power generators are turning away from
coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to
generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created
by burning
coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use
coal plants.
The EPA would then set emissions standards — the rate of carbon emissions — for power
plants by first tallying the share of electricity
generated by coal and gas - fired
plants in each state during a set of baseline years — in the NRDC example, 2008 - 10.
Each individual
coal plant, for example, can choose to meet the applicable emission rate limit (set in pounds of CO2 per megawatt - hour of electricity
generated)
by reducing its own emission rate or
by acquiring emission reduction credits.
Power producers say that the timetable is too stringent and that such a change would disproportionately hurt the Midwest, where most of the power is
generated by older
coal - fired
plants that are targets of the legislation.
The UK government announced on Friday how it expects to phase out
coal generation
by 2025 —
by making it impossible for
plants to
generate without as - yet unproven carbon capture and storage technology.
Using electricity
generated by coal - fired
plants to power the cars defeats the purpose to some extent, but what if the energy comes from the ultimate clean and renewable source — the sun itself?
Coal combustion products (CCPs) are the by - products generated from burning coal in coal - fired power pla
Coal combustion products (CCPs) are the
by - products
generated from burning
coal in coal - fired power pla
coal in
coal - fired power pla
coal - fired power
plants.
Therefore, these projects are not only reducing the volume of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, but they are also displacing electricity that would otherwise be
generated by power
plants running on fossil fuels like
coal.
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.
Expansion of grid supply
by construction of big new
coal fired power
plants such as in the Hunter Valley and near Lithgow are going ahead and look to me to be intended to prevent the issue of decarbonising our energy supply getting mixed up with the issue of maintaining growth and reliability of supply; we'll have enough fossil fuel
generating capacity that building low emissions capacity will remain «optional» and can be deferred another decade or two.
It has also partnered with the SELC and other groups pursuing new strategies to bankrupt and close
coal - fired electricity generation
plants,
by generating misplaced fear about
coal ash impoundments.
Solar power, being a fuel - free electricity source, is not subject to the price increases associated with electricity
generated by power
plants that run on gas or
coal.
China is heavily reliant on
coal burning thermal power
plants, but reportedly has set a
generating target of 20 million kilowatts from renewable energy sources such as hydropower, solar power and wind power
by 2020.
An excellent study
by Joe Wheatley of the relatively isolated all Ireland grid, EifrGrid, which has negligible hydro, negligible interconnectors to UK, no nuclear and a mix of modern CCGT,
coal, peat and CHP
plants, and 17 % of electricity
generated by wind power in 2011, found that wind was just 53 % effective at reducing CO2 emissions per MWh.
When natural carbon is brought up to the surface
by the winds, it is harder for the Southern Ocean to accommodate more human -
generated carbon, which comes from factories,
coal - fired power
plants and petroleum - powered vehicle exhaust.
The EF, in turn, is used
by EPA to justify all its climate regulations, including its ultra-expensive so - called «Clean Power Plan» (CPP -RCB- requiring that many
coal plants be replaced with wind and solar -
generated electric power at huge expense to ratepayers in terms of outlays and reductions in reliability as well as to taxpayers for government subsidies.
The researchers found that wood pellets burned in European and UK power
plants, such as the Drax facility in North Yorkshire — which has transitioned some of its
coal power generation capacity to wood pellets with the support of UK government subsidies — actually emit more CO2 per kilowatt hour than that
generated by coal.
Drawing on the latest technologies, including those used
by oil and gas companies in drilling and in enhanced oil recovery, the team estimated that enhanced geothermal systems could be used to develop 100,000 megawatts of electrical
generating capacity in the United States
by 2050, a capacity equal to 250
coal - fired power
plants.
Today, electricity
generated by a nuclear power
plant costs about 6.4 cents per kilowatt hour (kwh), as compared to 4.5 to 5 cents per kwh for
coal and 3.5 to 4 cents per kwh for natural gas, Holdren explains.
The energy harnessed
by these installations in China is equal to the electricity
generated by 54
coal - fired power
plants.
«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007;
coal - fired power
plant equivalents calculated
by assuming that an average
plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time,
generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source
by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).
My Clean Break column today takes a closer look at efforts
by Ontario Power Generation to convert some of its
coal - fired
generating assets into biomass - burning power
plants, including potentially several units at its Nanticoke
Generating Station — North America's largest
coal plant.
In our scenario guaranteeing profits to both
coal and nuclear
plants for 25 years, the amount of power
generated by natural gas declines due to more
coal and nuclear generation.
The
plant, comissioned
by local beverage company Froico SA, is expected to save around 2m tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over its projected 25 - year lifetime and reduce the French overseas territory's dependence on oil, gas and
coal, which
generate the majority of its power today.
New electricity
generated by coal - fired
plants will outstrip that which was retired in 2015 and 2016
by a factor of five.