Sentences with phrase «intensive coal electricity»

As U.S. regulations on carbon - intensive coal electricity have gotten tougher, Hawesville's rationale for aluminum began to fade.

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Coal, the most carbon - intensive of the fossil fuels, accounts for 70 percent of energy used in China today and is responsible for about three quarters of electricity generation.

Nearly half of the US's electricity is from coal, the most carbon intensive energy.

And for those concerned about carbon footprint, all that water is pumped electrically — and the biggest proportion of US electricity, nearly half of the total, is generated by the most carbon intensive method — burning coal.

She points out that wind power is actually more labour intensive than coal, and requires 2.5 time more units of labour for every MW of electricity produced.

Public policy can't make Texas more densely populated (in the short or even medium run) or cooler, but it could promote public transportation, increase gasoline and electricity prices, and shift electricity production towards less carbon intensive alternatives to coal.

These programs support emissions - intensive electricity generators and the high - emitting coal mines to transition to a lower - emissions profile and originally included a buy - out scheme for the dirtiest coal - fired power stations.

The economic restructuring towards less energy - intensive industries and the government's efforts to decarbonise electricity generation pushed coal use down.

Two basic factors contributed to lower electricity generation carbon intensity (CO2 / kilowatthour) since 2005: substitution of coal - fired generation with the less - carbon - intensive and more efficient combined - cycle natural gas - fired generation, and growth in non-carbon electricity generation, especially wind and solar.

After decades of increases, U.S. CO2 emissions from energy use (which account for 97 % of total U.S. emissions) declined by around 9 % between 2008 and 2012, largely due to a shift from coal to less CO2 - intensive natural gas for electricity production.

«The underlying energy consumption trends that resulted in these changes — mainly because more electricity has been generated from natural gas than from other fossil fuels — have helped to lower the U.S. emissions level since 2005 because natural gas is a less carbon - intensive fuel than either coal or petroleum.»

The rule is designed to speed up the retirement of the nation's fleet of coal - fired power plants — the most carbon - intensive way of creating electricity — and could more than double the rate of coal plant closures by 2040.

In fact, one key coal industry lobbying point against congressional climate action has been to warn that utilities» inevitable switch from carbon - intensive coal to natural gas would expose consumers to the risk of higher - priced electricity.

In fact, the most carbon intensive fuel (coal) is often the most available and lowest cost source of electricity.

Many aging, water - intensive coal - fired power plants are vulnerable to energy - water collisions, which can have a significant impact on electricity production.

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