Sentences with phrase «heavily on coal»

This is why Germany relies so heavily on Coal and Gas and will do even more so when the last 10.3 GW of reliable and clean nuclear gets shuttered to protect the goddam coal industry.

Southeast European countries still rely heavily on coal.

The dangers faced by Himalayan glaciers have been exacerbated by India's and China's huge populations and fast - growing economies, which rely heavily on coal as an energy source.

Instead, most of the emission reductions would occur in the electric utilities — specifically, those that rely heavily on coal.

Switching to a high percentage of wind power will raise domestic energy costs and make the US industries even less competitive against China / India who rely heavily on coal - based electricity.

Yes, currently we rely heavily on coal for baseload power, and gas for peak power.

China relies heavily on coal for electricity, is pushing hydro power and nuclear as major alternative sources of energy.

The «Strategic Roadmap» discussed in Warsaw and a strategic document called «RWE's Corporate Story» make it clear that the company's leadership has accepted that RWE, which has traditionally relieved heavily on its coal - fired and nuclear power production business, has decided that it needs to radically change course it if wants to survive in the new energy world created by Germany's and the EU's Energiewende.

A region that relies more heavily on coal - powered electricity generation, for example, rated worse for global warming emissions than a region using more renewable sources of energy.

The cost of importing coal is a major drain on the economies of many states that rely heavily on coal - fired power.

Importing coal to produce electricity is an economic drain on states that rely heavily on coal - fired power.

Backed by 20 countries — and predictably, opposed by countries that still rely heavily on coal (Figure 1)-- the BREF includes new emission limits, expressed as wide, ambiguous ranges, for sulfur dioxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx), mercury, and particulate matter.

But Southern, which relies heavily on coal at its other power plants in the south - east, has been outspoken in its opposition to the EPA's new regulations — and the use of its plant to sell them to a skeptical industry and public.

Even worse is that China and other developing countries rely heavily on coal for power, which is a large CO2 contributor (as well as other pollutants that China does not regulate well).

Correspondents say the final deal is a compromise between countries that rely heavily on coal, and those willing to instil greater emissions cuts.

The United States — with its advanced technology and wealth of wind resources — should be a leader in this field, but unfortunately it continues to rely heavily on coal, a nineteenth century energy source, for much of its electricity at a time when European countries are replacing coal with wind.

The burden of any plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions would have fallen most heavily on coal - burning power plants, which still account for more than 50 percent of the electricity generated in the United States.

CoalSwarm also has developed extensive resources on India, a country that relies heavily on coal for production of electricity.

The report praised Facebook, Yahoo and Google for their leadership in using renewable energy to power their data centers, but chastised Amazon, Microsoft, and especially Apple for still relying heavily on coal power.

Meanwhile, Indonesia also is poised to rely heavily on coal for its future energy growth.

He asserts, however, that coal is wrong for America and suggests exporting any new coal technologies to emerging countries like China and India, both of which depend heavily on coal - derived energy.

Siding with the EPA were several industry groups and 10 states, a number of which rely heavily on coal, electricity or motor vehicle production.

Australia relies heavily on coal for its own electricity as well, emitting more CO2 per person than any other developed country, and its agricultural emissions are among the highest per capita in the world, mainly because of the large numbers of sheep and cattle.

Donald Trump is focusing heavily on coal - industry jobs at the expense of cleaner forms of energy.

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.

Although the world remains heavily dependent on oil, coal and natural gas — which today supply around 80 percent of our primary energy needs — the industry is rapidly crumbling.

That's an impressive gain, to be sure, especially for a miner heavily reliant on coal, but to really understand that advance you have to go back to the middle of June, when the company updated its coal production guidance.

The blow would fall heavily on the states whose coal provides most of our electricity and on rural areas where electric costs have the most impact.

In its bid to industrialize, India relies heavily on energy from coal.

India, China and many other countries are poised to rely more heavily on natural gas, which has less than half the warming emissions of coal.

Pollution from coal burning, in the United States and particularly in developing countries, has big impacts on public health, and the climate impact from coal - generated carbon dioxide could be enormous if the world's still - vast reserves are heavily exploited.

Australia is the highest per capita emitter, heavily reliant on coal and resources industries have very strong political influence.

In energy systems heavily reliant on coal (as in China and India), where renewable alternatives are less readily available (notably in some industrial sectors), or where seasonal flexibility is required to integrate high shares of variable renewables, gas plays an important role.

For instance, some member states remain heavily dependent on coal for much of their energy.

Reference prices are assumed to be below observed import prices in some cases, such as steam coal in India, which relies heavily on low - quality domestic coal but imports small volumes of higher quality coal.

And the view is that carbon taxes will punish those utilities most heavily reliant on conventional coal - fired plants.

Modi, who stormed to power at May elections pledging to reform the economy, said he was determined to meet the energy needs of India, which suffers regular blackouts and is heavily reliant on polluting coal to produce electricity.

This is particularly so for resource companies that are heavily or exclusively reliant on coal like Peabody.

India remains heavily committed to burning coal and has abundant domestic reserves, although the new government of Narendra Modi has announced plans to bring electricity to 400 million rural Indians through mini-grids run on solar energy.

As the coal industry drastically cuts its workforce in the shift towards heavily mechanized mountaintop removal, it tries to lay the blame for those job cuts on the people fighting to protect their mountains.

The reason both countries, who have large readily available coal reserves are so heavily reliant on fossil fueled electricity generation is because, without carbon pricing, it's slightly cheaper than nuclear power.

Although the world remains heavily dependent on oil, coal and natural gas — which today supply around 80 percent of our primary energy needs — the industry is rapidly crumbling.

24 October 2014Last updated at 02:19 ET Poland, heavily reliant on coal, fears the cost of lower CO2 emissions will harm its economy EU leaders have reached a landmark deal to cut greenhouse emissions by 40 % by 2030, compared with 1990 levels.

It is recognised that this will be a large step for countries heavily reliant on coal, but a necessary step requiring careful management.

This would prevent disproportionate costs from falling upon consumers who live in regions heavily dependent on coal for power generation.

The slump in coal prices has driven at least two dozen coal companies into bankruptcy in the last three years alone, including major producers like James River Coal and Patriot Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavcoal prices has driven at least two dozen coal companies into bankruptcy in the last three years alone, including major producers like James River Coal and Patriot Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavcoal companies into bankruptcy in the last three years alone, including major producers like James River Coal and Patriot Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavCoal and Patriot Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavCoal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavily.

Residential customers experiencing the highest increases, and / or potential increases, are those who are heavily dependent on coal - fueled generation, as required retrofits can not economically meet existing environmental requirements — resulting in the proposed retirement of older coal - fueled plants.

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.

By giving power to states, the Obama EPA also recognized that some states, like Kentucky, rely more heavily on carbon heavy, coal - fired power.

If those people rely heavily on fossil fuels such as coal to expand the economy and raise their living standards to the level people in the rich world have enjoyed for the last 50 years, the result will be a climate catastrophe regardless of anything the United States or even China does to decrease its emissions.