Sentences with phrase «large coal utilities»

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DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Michigan regulators on Friday cleared DTE Energy's request to build a near - $ 1 billion natural gas power plant, the first approval of such a large facility for a regulated utility in decades and a move that coincides with the retirement of coal - fired plants.

The idea is that utilities generate large amounts of clean power in remote, large power plants in much the same way that natural gas, coal, and nuclear power are generated today.

Coal fell to just 27.6 % of US utility - scale power generation in December, and the spread between it and natural gas - fired generation widened to 616 basis points, the largest yet seen, Continue Reading

Inklings of such progress have already arisen, including recent word that the German utility RWE AG would build the world's largest wood - pellet plant in Georgia to supplement its coal habits.

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See, not only is Southern Co one of the nation's largest coal - burning utilities, but it creates more carbon pollution than any other utility in the country and ranks # 7 in global power company carbon emissions.

Alabama Power, the state's largest utility, has been operating some of its coal plants at significantly reduced levels to avoid raising water temperatures in the Coosa, Black Warrior and Mobile rivers.

Historically, coal power plants were the largest portion of Babcock's utility customers.

Just recently, Duke was given authority by Bush's former OMB Director, Mitch Daniels to force their customers to assume the risk for the plant even though the utility commission did not require Duke to file anything near a current construction cost estimate for the 630 Megawatt plant they are seeking to build in what is already the largest concentration of coal fired capacity in the world, SW Indiana.

asked the advertisement, which was paid for by Kansans for Affordable Energy, a group that has received financial backing from a local utility, Sunflower Electric Power, and the world's largest private coal company, Peabody Energy.

As utilities plan for the closure of large, dispatchable baseload coal and nuclear plants, Michigan's system will be forced to rely on a smaller suite of energy options — specifically natural gas, renewables, and conservation measures.

For example, in late 2004, Duke Energy, one of the country's largest utilities and most experienced builders, started planning a pair of coal - fired power plants to replace several built around the middle of the last century, at Cliffside, in western North Carolina.

In a Harrisburg Pennsylvania newspaper article the claim was made that (32) «Unfortunately, the largest contributor to the problem, the electric utility industry, continues to get a free ride on its mercury pollution... other sources are reducing emissions, not such requirements exist for coal - fired power plants.»

Like many other utilities around the country that are facing ever - tightening federal emission limits, Dominion is shifting away from coal and embracing wind power in addition to its already large stake in natural gas.

Some of that havoc is high - profile and headline - making, as in the recent requests from utilities (and attempts by the Trump administration) to bail out large coal and nuclear plants.

7) «Fossil - Dependent Electric Utility Executives & Large Shareholders» — One of the prime consumers of coal and natural gas is the electricity generation industry, which consumes almost all of the coal produced in the world, and a high percentage of the natural gas.

ACCCE members include coal mining companies, railroad companies, along with electric cooperatives and two of the largest utility companies, American Electric Power and Southern Company.

Washington, DC — The World Bank is expected to vote tomorrow, April 8, on whether to approve a $ 3.75 billion loan that would help South African utility Eskom build the 4800 MW Medupi coal - fired power plant, which would be one of the world's largest and most polluting.

Ignoring global warming issues, TXU Corp, open - pit coal mine and electric utility company, is embarking on the nation's single largest coal - oriented electric power plant construction campaign.

Michaels» web publication, World Climate Report, and its skeptical predecessors have been heavily funded by coal and electric utility industries with a large financial stake in preventing regulation of greenhouse emissions.

The lobbying campaign was initiated by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), whose membership includes electric utilities such as Southern Company and American Electric Power, two of largest air - borne mercury polluters in the country.

With COPUC approval, Xcel, the state's largest monopoly utility, plans to shift its generating portfolio from away from majority hydrocarbons (coal and natural gas) in favor of industrial wind, solar, and battery storage.

Last week we brought you the story of how the nation's largest utility holding company — and historically one of the industry's biggest coal consumers — is pivoting away from the dirtiest carbon - based fuel and focusing more on renewable generation at its regulated utilities.

The state's largest electric utilities are proposing a steadily increasing dependence on natural gas, which, while cleaner than coal, is still a fossil fuel — and not the cheapest option.

Düsseldorf's new «Block Fortuna» at the Lausward Power Plant, owned by municipal utility Stadtwerke Düsseldorf, is setting records and giving Germany's coal - fired power plants some much - needed competition for backing up the nation's large percentage of variable renewable power.

It is here that Tata, India's giant conglomerate and largest private electric utility, has been building what it hopes will be one of the largest coal power plants in the world, the 4,000 - megawatt Tata Mundra.

The current weakness in Europe, Japan and the US is thought likely to prove a temporary consequence of recession; utilities, cement companies and steelmakers are set to buy large amounts this year, although in the longer term developed countries are moving away from coal in a bid to curb global carbon emissions.

«U.S. oil and coal companies, including ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute, Koch Industries, and the world's largest coal - burning utility, Southern Company, have contributed more than $ 1 million over the past decade to his research.

«It's true that governments by and large have been politically paralyzed because the energy companies, the coal companies, the oil companies, the coal - burning utilities, they have spent enormous amounts of money and they have succeeded in many countries in paralyzing the political process,» the former vice president said.

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Many of Jeff Holmstead's current clients were recently named among the top mercury polluters in the coal utility sector, the largest source of mercury pollution in the U.S. Of the 25 companies listed as 2010's biggest mercury polluters (see Environment America report [PDF]-RRB-, at least 9 are represented by Holmstead.

All but four of those clients were coal utilities, mining companies, or trade associations (and one of those four was CSX, a railroad company that is the largest coal shipper east of the Mississippi).

While utilities in Ohio, New York and elsewhere have sought «around market» charges after affiliated coal and nuclear plants became less competitive, Germany's large utilities are charting new paths forward as that country curbs its reliance on fossil fuels.

From Germany's largest utility E.On selling off its coal and gas assets to Australia's biggest carbon polluter moving to zero emissions by 2050, the ball is well and truly rolling in terms of a transition away from fossil fuels.

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As DTE, Michigan's largest utility, laudably looks to transition away from its historic overreliance on coal - fired power plants, it has regrettably turned its eye towards natural gas, figuring it can keep building large — and expensive — power plants that look good on its balance sheets while saddling ratepayers with the costs.

Minnesota's second biggest utility, Great River Energy, has begun to significantly ramp down the output of its largest coal plant as the market has shifted to wind power and natural gas production.

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