The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, a sector trade group, reinforced the call for swift action, filing a study it commissionedy that claims the PJM market will «lose its resilience to gas outages
if coal retirements continue.»
Not exact matches
There could be as much as 2,600 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas available domestically.63 The U.S. currently uses approximately 22 tcf per year.64
If the shale deposits meet their potential, these finds will certainly help accelerate the
retirement of
coal power plants and reduce our dependence on foreign oil and our foreign exchange imbalance.
If global power sector emissions remain flat until 2025, before falling more steeply later on, then losses could reach $ 8.3 tn by 2060 and early
retirements of
coal and gas plants would climb to 2,350 GW.
If policymakers and the plant's investors restart construction, the plant would likely reduce the share of electricity the state receives from
coal from 21 percent in 2016 to 3 percent, allowing the
retirement of most or all of the remaining
coal capacity.
Now it faces new challenges:
retirement of
coal, oil, and nuclear baseload generation; the rise of renewables and how to fit them into the region - wide generating system while continuing to provide reliable service; and the potentially game - changing role of energy storage,
if it actually becomes economically competitive.