Sentences with phrase «in coal utilities»

David Vitter Owns Stock in Coal Utilities Fighting EPA Carbon Rules,» DeSmog, August 8, 2014.

Many of Jeff Holmstead's current clients were recently named among the top mercury polluters in the coal utility sector, the largest source of mercury pollution in the U.S. Of the 25 companies listed as 2010's biggest mercury polluters (see Environment America report [PDF]-RRB-, at least 9 are represented by Holmstead.

Not exact matches

Most of it will come from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without domestic customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with emissions control regulation, drove utilities in the U.S. to shut down coal - fired plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas plants.

DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Michigan regulators on Friday cleared DTE Energy's request to build a near - $ 1 billion natural gas power plant, the first approval of such a large facility for a regulated utility in decades and a move that coincides with the retirement of coal - fired plants.

The idea is that utilities generate large amounts of clean power in remote, large power plants in much the same way that natural gas, coal, and nuclear power are generated today.

Berkshire has pledged to reduce coal - power generation by 76 % in its Nevada utility company.

Former Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, now the governor, investigated five coal - burning utility companies using it, arguing that they failed to provide a complete picture of climate risks in their regulatory filings.

While there is obvious environmental pressure on miners and utilities in the coal business, the number one coal killer is an unlikely source: hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.

Businesses in tangential industries may also want to consider retraining their own workers — electric utilities, for example, can retrain their coal - fired power plant workers for positions involving utility - scale solar farms.

By: Victor Moolman 21st October 2016 Mining equipment supplier Tenova Takraf Africa is offering junior miners in the surface mining industry a tailor - made package that will help new mining operations produce State - owned power utility Eskom - grade coal.

Currently coal inventories are high in the electric power industry however recent data shows that inventories at eastern utilities is falling because of increasing domestic and international demand.

Coal fell to just 27.6 % of US utility - scale power generation in December, and the spread between it and natural gas - fired generation widened to 616 basis points, the largest yet seen, Continue Reading

The reason orders should be headed upwards include, a decreasing number of coal cars in storage, many new utilities coming online, increased coal car loadings and increased domestic and international demand.

Despite the modestly slowing rate of cost declines for utility - scale alternative energy generation, the gap between the costs of certain alternative energy technologies (e.g., utility - scale solar and onshore wind) and conventional generation technologies continues to widen as the cost profiles of such conventional generation remain flat (e.g., coal) and, in certain instances, increase (e.g., nuclear).

By: Marleny Arnoldi 25th April 2018 State - owned power utility Eskom on Wednesday said it had put measures in place to deal with the coal shortages at seven of its power stations, in Mpumalanga, and has assured the public that this would not result in load - shedding.

Cuomo personally traveled to Western New York to announce a repowering agreement for a coal - burning facility in Dunkirk that would switch it to natural gas and keep the town's revenue base intact, largely by forcing utility ratepayers o pay a little extra on their monthly bills.

Natural gas combined - cycle power plants are already heavily favored by utilities to the near exclusion of coal, said Joost de Gouw, an atmospheric scientist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

Segal said he disagrees that new coal - fired generation will become obsolete due to market forces alone, citing utilities» interest in maintaining a diverse fuel mix to hedge against price fluctuations.

And given the current cost competitiveness of natural gas, there is little reason for utilities to include coal in the planning mix for new generation assets, Barnett said.

The average cost of generating nuclear energy in the United States was less than two cents per kilowatt - hour in 2006, according to the Atlanta - based utility data provider Ventyx, which puts it on par with coal.

«I think coal is at a very low place right now,» Barnett said in an interview, noting that coal has lost about 10 percent of its market share for electricity generation as more utilities convert their plants to burn natural gas.

All told, utilities have canceled 14,000 megawatts of planned coal - fired generation and delayed an additional 32,000 megawatts, according to the latest survey by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in Pittsburgh.

Scott Segal, executive director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, which represents utility interests in Washington, said Bloomberg's findings about the effect of the new EPA rule on coal plants are «very consistent» with what his group concluded in its own review of the regulation.

Tens of thousands of gas wells are expected to be drilled in the coming decade, according to energy industry and U.S. government estimates, and much of that gas will be delivered to electric utilities as a cleaner substitute for burning coal.

MATS will help level the competitive landscape in energy by forcing coal - fired utilities to absorb the costs of cleaning up their emissions.

«We are heating the salts to more than 1,000 degrees F and that results in the same inlet conditions that utilities see today on a coal - fired or nuclear power plant,» says Terry Murphy, SolarReserve's president.

«Delaying action encourages utilities to build more coal - fired power plants in the near - term.

The coal companies and utilities are not alone in advertising: corporations from Shell to Sharp are advertising their clean energy efforts.

Chinese utility company Huaneng and U.S. company Duke Energy Corp. signed a cooperation agreement this year calling for a study to determine the feasibility of applying Huaneng's carbon capture process at Duke Energy's coal - fired power plant in Indiana.

Nevertheless, some utilities still prefer to keep coal to maintain a diversity of fuels in the electric grid.

Proponents say that today energy utilities find greater benefit in a technology that puts the financial risk up front, in the construction cost, and has little vulnerability to later swings in the price of fuel, as natural gas does, or to changes in emissions regulations, as coal faces.

Many utilities have in recent years turned away from coal toward cheaper natural gas - as well as solar and wind - contributing to a steep decline in carbon emissions.

For example, a study by Vasilis Fthenakis and Hung Chul Kim of Columbia University (2009) found that, on a life - cycle electricity - output basis — including direct and indirect land transformation — utility - scale PV in the U.S. Southwest requires less land than the average U.S. power plant using surface - mined coal.

Utility - grade wood pellets are used as a substitute for coal in both converted and co-fired power generation and combined heat and power plants.

Inklings of such progress have already arisen, including recent word that the German utility RWE AG would build the world's largest wood - pellet plant in Georgia to supplement its coal habits.

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

Holmstead was dismissed by a federal judge as an expert witness in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency against Ameren Missouri, a coal burning utility.

Not only did Big Oil punt hundreds of thousands of dollars to Soon, but Big Coal as well — specifically, the Southern Company, one of the largest coal burning electric utilities in the U.S. and in the woCoal as well — specifically, the Southern Company, one of the largest coal burning electric utilities in the U.S. and in the wocoal burning electric utilities in the U.S. and in the world.

See, not only is Southern Co one of the nation's largest coal - burning utilities, but it creates more carbon pollution than any other utility in the country and ranks # 7 in global power company carbon emissions.

Oddly, as I pointed out earlier, the Friends of Coal industry front group is not attacking the legislation's impacts on coal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utilitiCoal industry front group is not attacking the legislation's impacts on coal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal - fired utilities).

But to date there is just one carbon capture system in commercial operation at a power station, the Boundary Dam coal plant that Canada's SaskPower utility opened last year.

But negotiations between the two groups resulted in a legislative compromise — dubbed the Clean Electricity and Coal Transition Plan — that will wean the state off coal - fired electricity no later than 2030 except for one out - of - state power plant that is partly owned by an Oregon - based utilCoal Transition Plan — that will wean the state off coal - fired electricity no later than 2030 except for one out - of - state power plant that is partly owned by an Oregon - based utilcoal - fired electricity no later than 2030 except for one out - of - state power plant that is partly owned by an Oregon - based utility.

Alabama Power, the state's largest utility, has been operating some of its coal plants at significantly reduced levels to avoid raising water temperatures in the Coosa, Black Warrior and Mobile rivers.

In the last year, tons of big - cap companies, many with dividends, have hit temporary rough spots... Coal, gold and copper miners, natural gas drillers, utilities, the list goes on and on.

Southern Company, an electric utility company, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity through coal, nuclear, oil and gas, and hydro resources.

In the last few days, three online tools have been launched, showing links between utilities and Appalachian mountaintop coal mines, a list of proposed coal - burning plants and the amount of carbon dioxide emissions from thousands of power plants and utilities around the world.

In my case, I punched in my ZIP, 10524, and up came the Danskammer Generating Station, a coal - burning plant down the Hudson River, owned by Dynergy Power, which sells electricity to Central Hudson, my utilitIn my case, I punched in my ZIP, 10524, and up came the Danskammer Generating Station, a coal - burning plant down the Hudson River, owned by Dynergy Power, which sells electricity to Central Hudson, my utilitin my ZIP, 10524, and up came the Danskammer Generating Station, a coal - burning plant down the Hudson River, owned by Dynergy Power, which sells electricity to Central Hudson, my utility.

Finally, the nonprofit group Appalachian Voices has created ilovemountains.org/myconnection, which allows visitors to type in a ZIP code and find out if their utility sells electricity produced with coal mined from mountaintops in that region.

If a new administration immediately places a moratorium on new coal - fired plants until CCS works, and if it begins a carbon cap - and - trade system or carbon tax, and if it's serious about the problem, then we will finally see (I hope) the coal and utility industries begin to act much more quickly to develop CCS and work to address the problem in all ways possible.

Just recently, Duke was given authority by Bush's former OMB Director, Mitch Daniels to force their customers to assume the risk for the plant even though the utility commission did not require Duke to file anything near a current construction cost estimate for the 630 Megawatt plant they are seeking to build in what is already the largest concentration of coal fired capacity in the world, SW Indiana.