Sentences with phrase «inefficient coal plants»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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).

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

\ 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.

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.»

A significant number of US coal - fired power plants are old, inefficient, and no longer economically competitive: it simply makes no financial sense to keep them running when cheaper, cleaner alternatives are available.

This is because electricity generation at coal fired plants is inefficient (30 to 35 %), and coal has a high carbon content.

There are plenty of news articles how some small fraction of US coal exports are going to China and how it's all going to be burned in filthy inefficient Chinese coal fired plants.

«We welcome TVA's decision to retire the old, inefficient Allen coal plant.

However, investments in inefficient subcritical coal plants — which can cover consumption over a full day, but are highly polluting — were larger.

At the same time, these coal plants are growing older and becoming increasingly inefficient compared to the falling costs of natural gas - and renewable - powered electricity.

Two new federal air pollution regulations are expected to spur the closure of up to 69 aging, inefficient, coal - fired power plants, reducing both harmful air pollutants and emissions of the climate destabilizing greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), according to an AP survey of US power plant operators and a preliminary Breakthrough Institute analysis of the likely impacts on CO2 emissions.

Indeed, some of Australia's coal plants are still notoriously inefficient: Hazelwood Power Station in Victoria, for instance, has been ranked the least carbon - efficient power plant in the world.