Sentences with phrase «kwh than coal»

Since the 1980s, the cost per kilowatt - hour of wind has dropped 80 percent; it is approximately 2 cents cheaper per kWh than coal - powered electricity on the U.S. market as of June 2012.

Consequently, wood - fired power plants generate more CO2 per kWh than coal.

Not exact matches

The GED per kWh for natural gas is 20 to 30 times lower than for oil and coal, respectively, because its (non-carbon) emissions are so much lower (Table 5).

At a cost of less than 3 cents per kilowatt - hour, tornado energy is cheaper than burning coal (which rings up at 4 or 5 cents per kwh) and produces no additional greenhouse gases.

Power Magazine reported that, «To slash emissions,» China's NEA has stipulated that all new coal - fired power plants must use no more than 0.3 kg of coal per kWh.

Meanwhile, scientists have determined that biomass burning generates more CO2 emissions per kWh than burning coal does, and the projected rapid growth in biofuel use will only serve to «increase atmospheric CO2 for at least a century».

One reason is that Arizona utilities make far more money running old, polluting coal plants that generate electricity for around 3 cents / kWh, than risking a loss of sales to solar energy.

NG power plants cost $ 0.03 / Kwh more than coal power plants to operate.

With an estimated social cost of carbon — a damage estimate of global warming pollution — of $ 65 (far less than other estimates), the GED for coal - fired generators is 4.7 cents / kWh.

Coal is wind's real competition, and wind power costs about 3 cents / kWh more than coal poCoal is wind's real competition, and wind power costs about 3 cents / kWh more than coal pocoal power.

According to an article in today's New York Times, even without subsidies, wind power is often cheaper (as low as 3.7 cents per kWh) than coal (low of 6.6 cents per kWh) or natural gas (low of 6.1 cents per kWh).

An analysis made public on Friday showed that new onshore wind plants due to come online in 2016 will cost... far less [per kWh] than coal, biomass and other forms of energy production.

A $ 42 price per ton of CO2 equates to more than 4 cents per kWh for a 100 % coal - dependent electric utility.

In the case of South Africa, RES from PV and wind (circa RND 0.5 — 0.6 / kWh) is cheaper than elec from coal stations (RND 0.8) and the nuclear programme was cancelled — too expensive.

Skeptical Science notes that when the coal externalities of the study are included in coal's price, it increases the levalized costs to approximately 28 cents per kWh, which is more than the 2009 U.S. Energy Information Administration cost of hydroelectric, wind (onshore and offshore), geothermal, biomass, nuclear, natural gas, and solar photovoltaics, and is on par with solar thermal, although the costs of solar thermal are falling.

If we ramp up new industries without reducing other things, we could see a short term increase in fossil fuel consumption and consequent CO2 emissions (relative to BAU), but if that is the start of a larger and permanent reduction of CO2eq emissions, then it's worth it (or in other words, much better to get 100 kWh per kg coal than 3 (or whatever much smaller number it actually is) kWh per kg coal).

The GED per kWh for natural gas is 20 to 30 times lower than for oil and coal, respectively, because its (non-carbon) emissions are so much lower (Table 5).

At least in the US, there's an easy substitution with wind, which is only a couple of cents per kwh more than coal (and cheaper, if you internalize all the external costs).