Sentences with phrase «hard coal plants»

Lower emissions from natural gas turbines and lignite power plants compensated for the increase in CO2 emissions from hard coal plants.

Next up are the nation's hard coal plants — though only one deep German coal mine is still operating and is slated for shutdown next year.

Hard coal plants often buy their fuel from far away mines, while lignite plants are almost always located close to the mine.

UBS estimates that the load factor of lignite (brown coal) plants in Germany drops from 72 % to 59 %, while the load factor of hard coal plants drops from 47 % to 31 % by 2020.

Not exact matches

Many types of emissions from coal - fired plants have been reduced, but the capturing and storing of carbon dioxide, the emission that scientists say is most responsible for climate change, has been harder to accomplish on a significant scale.

They needed to stay in power, they needed to enrich themselves and they haven't been willing to take the hard steps to shut down for example, coal plants and other factories that are contributing to the problem.

A similar strategy made it harder for opponents to challenge the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for coal plants in court, Holmstead said.

That number is hard to predict, because although reactors would exploit current technologies and techniques, so will modern coal and natural gas plants.

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In a speech before the World Coal Association, which also held a conference in Warsaw this week, Figueres did take a hard line that squares with the IPCC's carbon budget when she told coal industry representatives that they will need to leave most coal reserves in the ground unless the industry comes up with ways to capture and store CO2 at every operational plCoal Association, which also held a conference in Warsaw this week, Figueres did take a hard line that squares with the IPCC's carbon budget when she told coal industry representatives that they will need to leave most coal reserves in the ground unless the industry comes up with ways to capture and store CO2 at every operational plcoal industry representatives that they will need to leave most coal reserves in the ground unless the industry comes up with ways to capture and store CO2 at every operational plcoal reserves in the ground unless the industry comes up with ways to capture and store CO2 at every operational plant.

EPA Rules Controlling Greenhouse - gas Emissions — The big day for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy should come sometime in June, when her agency is scheduled to unveil historic standards controlling carbon emissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natural gas.

That hasn't deterred conventional hard coal — fired power plants from increasing their share of power production to 19.1 % in 2012 (jumping from 18.5 % in 2011).

Germany is building and opening 10 new coal plants (7,285 MW) in the next two years bringing their hard coal generation capacity to over 32,000 MW, which is (ironically) close to the total generating capacity of all Ontario generators.

It is hard to beat conventional generation such as a coal plant for a compact foot print for the amount of power that it produces.

As to the intermittency of fossil fueled plants, an interesting event happened in Texas a few years ago in which a hard frost caused a bunch of coal and gas - fired plants to fail simultaneously while the wind turbines continued to generate electricity.

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.

Also, though it's not directly relevant to the issue of the most productive approach in terms of our own long term interests (which I think if people really understood this problem would involve a lot more fealty to moving off of FF now, and the idea of building even more coal plants — which are also responsible for most of the excess that allows bio accumulation of the serious neurological toxin mercury in our food supply, damages watersheds, mountain tops, sometimes whole communities and ecosystems, and, CC aside, is also very polluting — would be more apt to be seen as the idiocy it is), in some sense, no one has a full inherent right to anything really we as a world have built up: It has been a collective effort and you can only drive a Ferrari for instance, because of the hard work of countless others before you and along side you.

On the same day, German generator STEAG filed a legally binding notice with the German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) to permanently shutter both units at its 507 - MW Lünen hard coal — fired power plant by March 2019 (Figure 2).

The proposed rule will regulate carbon emissions from hundreds of fossil - fuel power plants across the U.S., including about 600 coal plants, which will be hit hardest by the standard.

What may have been simple choices before 2011 to retrofit a coal plant had suddenly turned a lot harder as the floor fell out of the natural gas market.

Lignite and hard coal power plants and gas plants produced 12.4 percent more power than last year.

15 Fossil Fuels: Coal Decaying plant matter, when buried under sediment, eventually forms peat (very moist, compact) Further compaction, over time, forces the moisture out of the peat — forms a layer of lignite More compression (compaction), and more moisture is removed, forming a layer of soft coal (bituminous) Higher pressure and higher temperatures cause the bituminous coal to metamorphose into hard coal (anthracite) Coal Decaying plant matter, when buried under sediment, eventually forms peat (very moist, compact) Further compaction, over time, forces the moisture out of the peat — forms a layer of lignite More compression (compaction), and more moisture is removed, forming a layer of soft coal (bituminous) Higher pressure and higher temperatures cause the bituminous coal to metamorphose into hard coal (anthracite) coal (bituminous) Higher pressure and higher temperatures cause the bituminous coal to metamorphose into hard coal (anthracite) coal to metamorphose into hard coal (anthracite) coal (anthracite) CoalCoal

Baseload plants such as coal and nuclear are hit particularly hard by reduced wholesale electricity prices as they have low fuel costs and so don't save much money by shutting down or reducing output on sunny days.

The plant is the first new hard - coal - fired generator in Europe's biggest power market since 2005.

And with every new coal - fired power plant proposed across the globe, their fight become harder.

And even if you stomp your feet hard enough and get your way and all coal mining is eliminated, then the people of rural China and India will not receive electric power from central power plants and will burn locally mined coal and wood in their homes causing horrific air pollution and deforestation.

The biggest issue apparently isn't technical but an ample supply of fuel, but once big US and Canadian coal plants invest heavily, with government subsides, no doubt, in switching to «biomass,» it will be hard to turn back.

While it is hard to give the Obama administration credit for all of these factors, it was instrumental in several of them, especially the quantum jump in CAFE standards, the development and deployment of more renewables and the ongoing pressure on coal plants by the EPA.

Coal - fired power plants provides about half the nation's electricity, but many groups are working hard to change that, and shift our focus toward clean, renewable, safe energy sources.

The full panoply of what is already being done is hard to comprehend: there are coal - fired plants that are being supplemented with solar collectors to help boil the water during daylight hours; that extends the life of the plant, and reduces coal consumption, and does so at a lower cost than shutting down the plant and building something new in its place.

His objective is to push hard on achieving a goal laid out this summer by the Group of Eight leading nations: Deploy some 20 industrial - scale carbon - capture coal plants by 2020.

In stark contrast, Holmstead claimed in a June, 2011 debate, «It is pretty hard to say that [mercury from coal - fired power plants] is a significant public health issue.»

If the wind begins to blow too hard, which can threaten the turbines, the software will automatically feather the blades, slowing them down, and direct the coal or natural gas plants to increase their output.

And once you've built the pipelines and gas - fired power plants, the sunk investment makes it that much harder to switch: Suddenly you have a bunch of gas barons who will fight as hard as the coal barons Obama is now trying to subdue.

In Kansas, communities are now celebrating a hard - fought victory to block a dirty coal plant that would have set their state back.

And the task gets all the harder if countries delay action or if they rule out certain controversial technologies, like nuclear power or carbon capture for coal plants.

The deal points to the love - hate relationship many wealthier countries have with coal: while environmental laws have made it progressively harder to build new coal - fired power plants, they do not restrict coal mining to the same extent.