Sentences with phrase «industrial coal demand»

And industrial coal demand posted its first gain in the past five years.

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Alberta prides itself on being the only jurisdiction in North America that demands coal - fired power plants, oilsands upgraders and other large industrial facilities reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

China's demand for resources to supply its industrial expansion has put upward pressure on prices for steel and its raw materials (iron ore, coking coal), and on the costs of shipping.

Why It Matters: The nation relies on fossil fuels to meet its residential and industrial energy demand, with coal providing about half of the electricity consumed in the United States.

The remainder of the CO2 demand (18 billion metric tons) would need to be provided by anthropogenic CO2 captured from coal - fired power plants and other industrial sources.

Power generation now accounts for 93 % of US coal consumption, as non-power commercial and industrial demand has declined.

According to company officials, the hike is needed to «comply with EPA environmental improvements to reduce polluting emissions from coal - fired plants, make up for a decline in demand for electricity from commercial and industrial users, and cover rising costs of health care for the utility's employees.»

One Friday in April, Great Britain, for the first time since the launch of the Industrial Revolution, managed to meet its power demands without burning one lump of coal.

EIA expects coal demand and related CO2 emissions, especially in China, to flatten as natural gas replaces coal in power generation and in industrial applications.

In the United States, coal's dominance in the power sector has been eroded by low gas prices; in China, coal demand has fallen due to lower use in the industrial and residential sectors linked to efforts to improve air quality; while in the United Kingdom a recently introduced carbon price floor has rung the death knell for coal use in power generation.

Outside the power sector, growth in thermal coal demand is centred in the industrial sector thanks to robust economic growth, as well as in coking coal, thanks to rising steel consumption, housing, railways and steel - intensive industries such as shipbuilding, defense and vehicle manufacturing.

The fact that fossil carbon is bad does not make wind turbines and solar panels and bird frying solar concentrators good, unless, by some miracle of modern engineering, the wind and sun that coal replaced can win back an industrial world with seven to ten times the demand for energy.

With a small internet café as his headquarters, Ramesh Agrawal organized villagers to demand their right to information about industrial development projects and succeeded in shutting down one of the largest proposed coal mines in Chhattisgarh.

Pollution is often pretty bad in the industrial areas of Northern China, but winter can be particularly awful thanks to increased energy demand and the coal used to supply it.

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