Sentences with phrase «getting electricity from coal»

-LSB-...] And while electricity improves our lives, getting electricity from coal cuts thousands of lives short every year.»

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In 2005, the county got 36 percent of its electricity from coal - fired generating plants and 15 percent from oil.

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

It's less costly to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels than coal - fired power plants when climate change costs and other health impacts are factored in, according to a new study published in Springer's Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.

Rather, it draws electricity from states across the U.S. West, including from coal - fired power plants as far away as Idaho — a problem that may get worse as California shuts down its own most polluting power plants.

I am not an expert, just an ordinary citizen who has followed energy issues for 40 years; but for what it's worth, I think that nuclear and coal - with - CCS are neither necessary (since we can get all the electricity we need, and more, from renewables) nor effective (since nuclear will take too long to build up to the point where it makes any significant contribution, and working CCS doesn't exist and is unlikely to exist for decades).

Thus reducing the price of CO2 emissions from coal based power plants and in the end coal - produced electricity gets (or at least looks) cheaper.

When people were asked in a national poll where they would like to get their electricity from, only 3 percent opted for coal.

Poland, which did not agree to the pledge to build no new coal plants after 2020, gets 90 percent of its electricity from coal - fired power plants.

Japan got 24 percent of its electricity from coal in 2010 and the country plans to get more than a third of its power from coal by 2040.

The country gets most of its electricity from aging, dirty coal - fired plants.

(Read about the seven states that get 70 - plus percent of their electricity from coal.)

It gets over 90 per cent of its electricity from coal though it is attempting to diversify its energy mix.

As recently as 2011, China got 80 percent of its electricity from coal.

The ACCCE website is complete with a gorgeous blue sky, pretty flowers, and assurances that ``... electricity from coal is getting even cleaner everyday...».

The country consumes approximately half of all coal used worldwide and gets roughly 66 percent of its electricity from coal, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Natural gas and increasingly renewable energy dominate in - state generation, and California gets only a tiny fraction of its electricity from coal plants inside the state's boundaries.

Last year Germany got 40 percent of its electricity from coal, 13 percent from nuclear, 12 percent from natural gas, 12 percent from wind, and six percent from solar.

Costs also suddenly could get higher when suppliers dependent on electricity from coal - burning generators are hit with a government decision to tax carbon emissions.

California has been very self - satisfied about their energy generation for decades, but get their «no coal in Cali» merit badge by importing coal generated electricity from 4 corners power plants in Ariz / NM and by importing PNW hydro power.

The island gets the bulk of its electricity from fossil fuel power plants that have to ship in coal, oil, and natural gas from off the island at high cost.

Let's start with the assumption that those US states which get significantly more than 50 % of their electricity from coal, and / or states which export, or plan to export, large amounts of coal - fired electricity to neighboring states, are at highest risk of becoming economic «losers.»

Currently South Africa gets about 93 % of its electricity from coal, 5 % from nuclear, and 2 % from power sources which these tariffs will support.

The Charlottesville Daily Progress broke the story: Letters Urged Protection of Minorities From Higher Electricity Costs Pointing out that «our state gets 56 % of its electricity from coal,» the letter urged Perriello to vote against the American Clean Energy & Security Act in order to «protect minorities and other consumers in your district from higher electricity bills.&raFrom Higher Electricity Costs Pointing out that «our state gets 56 % of its electricity from coal,» the letter urged Perriello to vote against the American Clean Energy & Security Act in order to «protect minorities and other consumers in your district from higher electricity biElectricity Costs Pointing out that «our state gets 56 % of its electricity from coal,» the letter urged Perriello to vote against the American Clean Energy & Security Act in order to «protect minorities and other consumers in your district from higher electricity bielectricity from coal,» the letter urged Perriello to vote against the American Clean Energy & Security Act in order to «protect minorities and other consumers in your district from higher electricity bills.&rafrom coal,» the letter urged Perriello to vote against the American Clean Energy & Security Act in order to «protect minorities and other consumers in your district from higher electricity bills.&rafrom higher electricity bielectricity bills.»

As Sam Bliss at Grist and David Pomerantz over at Cleantechnica have reported, Amazon's new data center is going to be located in Dublin, Ohio — a city that gets 2 / 3rds of its electricity from coal.

The ads remind us (accurately) that half the electricity in America comes from coal, then shows images of little girls getting tucked into bed at night or Little Leaguers playing ball under the lights.

Austin Energy is set to buy electricity from a solar power plant cheaper than it could have gotten from a natural gas, coal, or nuclear power plant.