Sentences with phrase «largest coal fired power plant»

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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.

Alberta prides itself on being the only jurisdiction in North America that demands coal - fired power plants, oilsands upgraders and other large industrial facilities reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

The coal industry is booming driven by growth in export demand for coal world wide and the large number of coal - fired power plants currently scheduled to come online.

In addition to the increasing use of coal internationally, there is a large number of coal - fired power plants coming online in the next few years.

As of 2008, the company had sold 130 million bulbs; the resulting pollution reduction through energy savings is the same as that of two large coal - fired power plants.

Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, petrochemical plants, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large livestock farms (dairy cows, pigs, poultry, etc.), PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.

Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large animal farms, PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.

China opens one large coal - fired power plant a week on average to generate enough electricity to service its 1.3 billion population and fuel industries that manufacture cheap goods for the U.S. and Europe.

Beijing has closed the first of four large coal - fired power plants set to be de-commissioned as part of the city's efforts to cut air pollution, official news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday, citing the local planning agency.

There are approximately 30 billion square feet (2.8 billion square meters) of expansive, flat roofs in the U.S., an area large enough to collect the sunlight needed to power 16 million American homes, or replace 38 conventional coal - fired power plants.

«Despite the large amount of emissions produced by shipping the coal such a long distance, our analysis shows that the total emissions would drop because of the superior energy efficiency of South Korea's newer coal - fired power plants,» said Dalia Patiño - Echeverri, assistant professor of energy systems and public policy at Duke.

In terms of infrastructure, such big solar fits as comfortably as a coal - fired power plant in the traditional electricity business model, which involves large plants transmitting electricity over a grid of conducting lines through transformers and into individual homes and businesses.

The transition of the Widows Creek Fossil Plant near Stevenson, Ala., into Google's 14th global data center marks the end of an era for what was one of the nation's largest coal - fired power plants and one of the Tennessee Valley's largest emitters of carbon dioxide and other air pollution.

And if a home generating its own electricity with solar panels and batteries isn't connected to the grid, the home isn't culpable for any of the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that spew from natural gas power plants or coal - fired power plants — the globe's largest contributor to climate change.

Air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from two coal - fired power plants in the Four Corners area of northwest New Mexico, the largest point source of pollution in America, were measured remotely by a Los Alamos National Laboratory team.

And compact fluorescent bulbs actually reduce the mercury pollution from the single largest U.S. source: coal - fired power plants.

The Northwestern development could lead to new thermoelectric devices with potential applications in the automobile industry, glass - and brick - making factories, refineries, coal - and gas - fired power plants, and places where large combustion engines operate continuously (such as in large ships and tankers).

In fact, such energy - saving measures in the U.S. alone could negate the need for 66 large coal - fired power plants, according to a study by McKinsey Global Institute, an economic think tank and global consultancy.

The only issue is putting all the pieces together at one large, coal - fired power plant — which is what governments and some private companies are beginning to do.

But those smokestacks, many attached to coal - fired power plants, are the single - largest source of greenhouse gas pollution in the U.S., at two billion metric tons of CO2 per year.

He also says governments in Africa and Latin America are getting in the way of off - grid solutions to their people's energy difficulties through corruption, policies that discourage entrepreneurism like tariffs on solar lamps, and a general prejudice in favor of the large coal - and gas - fired power plants they see as drivers of developed - country wealth.

It is home to a large coal - fired electric power plant that consumed up to 3,500 tons of coal per day since it began operating in the early 1950s.

It allowed the team to explore a much wider range of what - ifs by tweaking a large number of inputs, including the energy efficiency of electrical appliances, the depreciation time of coal - fired power plants, and shifts in consumer behavior.

The rest is released by human activities, with coal - fired power plants contributing the largest source of mercury to the atmosphere.

One of its many conclusions was that «coal - fired power plants have air pollution damages larger than their value added.»

China is the world's largest SO2 emitter, mostly due to the burning of high - sulfur coal in its many coal - fired power plants, which lack the technology used in many other countries to remove sulfur from smoke stack emissions.

For a small fraction of the cost I could eliminate more greenhouse gas by converting the large Four Corners, coal - fired electric power plant in New Mexico to natural gas.

China is building one large coal - fired power plant every five days.

But even more daunting than this large amount of committed emissions, we found that total committed emissions grew by an average of 4 % between 2000 and 2012 as we built more coal - fired power plants over that period than in any previous 12 - year period.

Among their suggestions were the following: expand conservation tillage to 100 percent of cropland, stop all deforestation, drive two billion cars on ethanol, increase wind power 80-fold to make hydrogen for cars, replace 1,400 large coal - fired power plants with gas - fired ones, and cut electricity use in buildings by 25 percent.

Prior to that plan, the Bank financed some of the largest coal plants in the world, including Sasan and South Africa's 4800 - megawatt Kusile coal - fired power plant.

But «there are currently no demonstrated technologies to control CO2 emissions from large coal - fired power plants such as Scherer,» Mr. Williams notes.

India, the world's third - largest carbon emitter, is building hundreds of new coal - fired power plants.

The report says coal - fired power plants are the largest source of toxic water pollution in the country.

Coal and natural gas - fired power plants are the single largest source of GHG emissions in the US economy.

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 addition to the 2,250 MW NGS, the reservation is surrounded by four other large and toxic coal - fired power plants: the San Juan Generating Station (1,800 MW), the Four Corners Power Plant (2,040 MW), Escalate (250 MW), and Cholla Power Plant (995power plants: the San Juan Generating Station (1,800 MW), the Four Corners Power Plant (2,040 MW), Escalate (250 MW), and Cholla Power Plant (995Power Plant (2,040 MW), Escalate (250 MW), and Cholla Power Plant (995Power Plant (995 MW).

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.

Just two days before Pruitt unveiled the proposed CPP repeal, a Texas power producer announced that it was closing one of the largest coal - fired power plants in the US.

However, the failure of the United States to control its largest source of greenhouse gas emissions — coal - fired power plants — is a prime excuse used by China and other developing countries for not limiting their own emissions more strictly.

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.»

«It's our single largest source of carbon pollution in this country — our coal fired power plants — and we are in a race against time.»

General Electric, one of the world's largest suppliers of electrical power plant equipment, is all fired up about large markets for new coal - fired generation in India and China as America's shut down.

The commissioning of Petra Nova Carbon Capture project, the largest CCUS project in the world applied to a coal - fired power generation plant is an important step forward.

Ironically, Greenpeace legislators within the German parliament killed German nukes off based on Fukushima hysteria, thus forcing the largest expansion of coal - fired power plants in Germany's history!

The closure of Belgium's Langerlo plant comes hot - on - the - heels of Scotland closing Britain's largest coal - fired power station, Longannet, signalling the end of an era for Scottish coal.

Now we find ourselves celebrating an agreement where the world's largest carbon emitter, China, is permitted to increase their emissions until 2025 and to continue bringing a coal - fired power plant online every 10 days.

A Sierra Club statement about the leadership letter called PacifiCorp «the largest owner of dirty, outdated coal - fired power plants in the west.»

Australian coal - fired electricity is almost the cheapest power on the planet — rivalled only by some large hydro plants.

The potential exists at one particular Arizona mine with 10,000 acres of waste rock and tailings to produce up to 1 gigawatt of combined solar and wind power, about as much as an average coal - fired power plant, said Blair Loftis, national director of alternative and renewable energy for Kleinfelder, a large engineering consultant firm.