Sentences with phrase «inefficient coal»

They are also deciding to retire old, inefficient coal plants and invest elsewhere rather than pay for retrofits in order to meet increasingly stringent pollution regulations.

As we see older, inefficient coal plants replaced in Europe and the US by new, highly efficient ones in emerging economies like China, Southeast Asia and India, this issue looks at an array of energy trends and what they mean for these economies.

Officials say cutting excess production is a priority, with inefficient coal plants and steel mills likely to be closed.

And while German emissions have gone down since the 1990s, most of that is because, after reunification, Germany closed the inefficient coal plants from East Germany.

Scores of old, inefficient coal - fired power plants were already expected to close as a result of other air pollution regulations — with gas fired plants popping up in their place.

Similarly, emission reductions in the UK power sector were largely driven by the retirement of old, inefficient coal plant during the 1990s, through sulphur regulations which meant plant owners were faced with the choice of either retrofitting stock or retiring it (Eyre, 2001).

Energy efficiency, solar, and wind are now the cheapest ways to provide for our energy needs, and in the Southeast, we could save more than a hundred million dollars per year by retiring inefficient coal plants and building wind or solar instead.

Action is being taken on this now with the government recently announcing plans to close old, inefficient coal fuelled power plants and replace them with modern high efficiency technology.

Scheduled retirements are currently concentrated among smaller, more inefficient coal plants, noted the Energy Information Administration on Friday.

Climate targets mean older inefficient coal plants will have to be phased out or replaced with new ones equipped with carbon capture and storage, the IEA says.

PJM is also promoting other actions that Panfil, Chen and others have said could keep inefficient coal and nuclear plants in the market longer.

-LSB-...] noteworthy programs have been the shutting down of old, inefficient coal - fired capacity and the Top 1000 Energy - Consuming Enterprises program.

Less commonly, countries spoke of reducing the use of inefficient coal - fired power plants, lowering methane emissions from oil and gas production, reforming fossil fuel subsidies, and carbon pricing, the report says.

«In 15 years» time, every inefficient coal plant should be phased out.

Global energy - related emissions could peak by 2020 if energy efficiency is improved; the construction of inefficient coal plants is banned; investment in renewables is increased to $ 400 billion in 2030 from $ 270 billion in 2014; methane emissions are cut in oil and gas production and fossil fuel subsidies are phased out by 2030.

«Standards that ban new traditional coal facilities» if necessary, and «cap on carbon will make it uneconomic to site traditional coal facilities and discourage the use of existing inefficient coal facilities»

Factories have been shifted to industrial parks on the outskirts of town and small, inefficient coal power plants closed in favor of larger, higher heat facilities in an effort to clear the air for visiting athletes and tourists.

And part of that plan is simply shuttering small, inefficient coal plants and replacing them with larger ones, meaning the abundance of new coal power plants will actually help clear the air somewhat.

China, she said, invested millions of dollars in closing down inefficient coal - fired power plants, a move for which the country was highly lauded.

On the supply side, IEA said governments need to develop policies that encourage the spread of offshore wind power, nuclear energy and natural gas, while discouraging the continued use of the most inefficient coal - fired technology.

Not exact matches

While Alberta has promised to end coal - fired electricity by 2030, and is building 5,000 megawatts of renewable energy capacity, it will also allow some of those coal units to convert to using inefficient fracked natural gas.

These forward - looking companies recognize that using natural gas, efficiency, and renewable energy are more profitable than retrofitting coal - fired plants — which are seen as being obsolete, inefficient, and highly polluting.

Unfortunately, around half of the new coal - fired generation capacity under development in the region still uses inefficient subcritical technologies.

Their main complaints are that the turbines are so inefficient that they actually increase carbon dioxide emissions, and so unreliable that they require constant backup from conventional coal and gas - fired stations.

«The effects of alpha - synuclein on mitochondria are like making a perfectly good coal - fueled power plant extremely inefficient, so it not only fails to make enough electricity, but also creates too much toxic pollution,» said Dr. Greenamyre.

Last week, the G7 leaders pledged to eliminate «inefficient fossil fuel subsidies» but talks on phasing out a form of coal subsidy ended in stalemate.

You should work to remove the anticompetitive advantages that poorly - controlled, inefficient, incumbent coal - fired power plants presently enjoy over newer, cleaner, and more efficient coal - fired plants.

It was then used to power very big and inefficient steam engines that pumped water out of mines; when James Watt developed his steam engine that used 75 percent less coal than the Newcomen engine it replaced, the common thinking was that the increased efficiency meant that they would burn less coal.

An already inefficient system for converting coal into useful electric power will be further limited by sequestration and reconversion.

The best policy is to replace the oldest dirtiest most inefficient plants with newer plants (not «clean» coal, but cleaner coal).

In the UK our coal burning palnt is very inefficient.

Now that oil is drying up, we must shift to coal to keep our inefficient ways in full swing.

Please consider the possibility that the process will get stuck with huge inefficient plug - in cars running on coal.»

Fully contracted renewable energy projects have the least transition risk while older, inefficient merchant coal plants are likely to suffer disproportionately from the financial effects of carbon transition such as lower wholesale prices, the cost of carbon credits, lower capacity factors and increased operating or capital costs, according to the report.

At present, an estimated 2.8 million people die prematurely each year because of the smoky environments caused by burning solid biomass in inefficient stoves or from combustion of kerosene or coal for cooking.

There is no doubt that the global coal fleet is changing as older inefficient subcritical stations built decades ago in Europe and the US are being replaced by new, highly efficient plants in emerging economies like China, South and South - east Asia.

Transportation of coal is very inefficient, as is the conversion to energy.

A million small fires on inefficient, manually - fed coal, wood, paper, and dung fires for heat, cooking, light (dung much less so in the cities, but the region around the cities?

China is taking important steps to close down smaller, inefficient power stations but it is also building large, modern and more efficient (HELE) coal - fired power plants — new regulations effectively ban subcritical (non-HELE) coal technology.

A major UK government policy goal for roughly forty years has been the sustenance of the national coal industry — which by the early 1990's had grown vastly inefficient by world standards.

That coal will power a new set of highly destructive mines in northern Minnesota, and as well, likely Wisconsin and Michigan, all based on this highly inefficient economic strategy.

However, inefficient combustion of wood, coal and diesel tends to produce dark carbonaceous material (black carbon, or soot) that also absorbs radiation and warms the atmosphere.

Similar shifts from older, inefficient technology to modern high efficiency technologies can also significantly reduce emissions in other regions where coal has a significant share of the power mix, such as Southeast Asia.

The story of India shining got a rude shock... relying on highly inefficient power grids and dirty and expensive fossil fuels like coal has only lead to greater environmental risks and poor energy access for millions of Indians... Another way is possible... It's time to invest in energy efficiency and decentralized renewable energy for all.

«This new policy, along with efforts to eliminate inefficient mines, may help to ease the severe domestic oversupply» of coal, Deng said by phone from Guangzhou.

As you can see, led by the collapse of the former communist economies and the shuttering of inefficient Soviet industries, in addition to the substitution of British gas for coal, the European negotiators knew they had tremendous CO2 reductions already in their pocket, IF 1990 was chosen as a base year.

\ n. \ nThe majority of CO2 releases are attributed to inefficient energy use, but are ultimately the result of poor energy production [i.e. coal - burning power plants] and the lack of emissions control in motor vehicles.

Burning whole trees for electricity in coal installations is extremely inefficient and makes no environmental sense.

She quelled many of the critics, though, when she told the coal reps that the industry «must change rapidly and dramatically for everyone's sake,» that all inefficient old coal plants should be shut down, that all new plants should include CCS, and that the world must «leave most existing [coal] reserves in the ground.»

It makes the USE 25 look good because the concurrent de-commissioning of inefficient unionist and communist - era coal industries allowed the USE to get credit for large, relatively less painful carbon cuts.