Sentences with phrase «less coal»

Now, this might be acceptable if high carbon countries had a clear plan to burn less coal in future.

Both have set out plans to reduce emissions, especially by using less coal in the production of electricity.

Take the growth of renewable energy: every rooftop solar panel means less coal and oil coming out of the ground.

These allow more electricity to be produced from less coal - known as improving the thermal efficiency of the power station.

That simple change allows new plants to generate the same amount of electricity with 30 percent to 40 percent less coal.

The result of the analysis is that there is probably much less coal left to be burnt than most people think.

It is expected that even less coal will be used next winter, when more gas pipes are in place for heating.

Many coal - fired power stations are burning less coal because of wind farms.

But despite the fact that they are using less coal overall, the pace at which countries built new coal plants in 2015 was faster than it has been since 2011.

We probably see less coal use and more natural gas use in coming decades.

This can have only one outcome; reduced national gas prices overall and less coal consumption.

The true fact of the matter is that utilities are burning less coal because gas is cheaper, and likely will be for some time.

Cutting emissions requires not only using more wind, solar, and nuclear power, it also requires using less coal and oil.

The decline in coal - related emissions is due mainly to utilities using less coal for electricity generation as they burned more low - priced natural gas.

Ironically, if the world burns significantly less coal, that would lessen CO2 emissions but also reduce aerosols in the atmosphere that block the sun (such as sulfate particulates), so we would have to limit CO2 to below roughly 405 ppm.

Jiang of the Energy Research Institute said that in 2014, for example, China burned less coal in total.

Allegedly that's because these new coal plants are «super-efficient» getting more power with less coal.

Supercritical (SC) and ultra - supercritical (USC) power plants require less coal per megawatt - hour, leading to lower emissions (including carbon dioxide and mercury), higher efficiency and lower fuel costs per megawatt.

Just to lay it all out, I also believe that if the anti-nuclear brigade had not caused the nuclear designers to have to over design NPPs over the past 40 years, we would now have about twice as much nuclear power as we do, a lot less coal power, nuclear would be replacing coal around the world, more of the world would be electrified, their would be less poverty.

Energy emissions have declined to lowest levels since 1991 due to lower heating demand, less coal usage, and utilization of more renewable energy sources.

Even solar is thwarted because it would mean that we might need to burn less coal since a cetain amount of energy would be produced by solar.

And a move toward less coal in Obama's «all of the above» energy policy.

Australians want more renewables and less fossil fuels; in particular, they want less coal.

The court ruled that BLM needs to rethink its analysis and consider alternative development scenarios that would make less coal available for leasing.

Examining emissions in the US after the country began burning less coal due to shale gas production, researchers at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, found that overall emissions had actually gone up.

There is some irony in the fact that while the Victorian government has made it difficult for anyone to build a wind farm in that state, many of these avoided illnesses and deaths will be in Victoria's Latrobe Valley because South Australia is importing far less coal - generated electricity from Victoria than before the spurt of wind power growth.

Halting — and ultimately ending new leases means less coal going to power plants, which means less carbon pollution going into the atmosphere and driving climate change.

The United States used significantly less coal and petroleum in 2009 than in 2008, and significantly more wind power.

But many states and regional transmission organizations and grid operators are already planning for a future with less coal, and are turning to increased transmission for wind and gas - fired power plants to demand response to meet future demand.

Sponsored by Yahoo! and Nielson, the site also provides data on how many dollars are being saved and how much less coal is burned.

Supercritical stations burn less coal per megawatt - hour produced and so benefit the environment and the electricity consumer.A modern, highly efficient, supercritical coal - fired station with stack gas cleanup is very clean indeed, essentially emitting only water vapor, carbon dioxide and nitrogen.

China may in fact be able to develop shale gas on a big scale and that means they burn a lot less coal.

Evidence from the Coal Authority to a 2001 House of Lords Select committee suggested that the UK had even less coal.

But according to EIA, «The decline in coal - related emissions is due mainly to utilities using less coal for electricity generation as they burned more low - priced natural gas» (emphasis mine).

Germany is making more electricity from less coal.

Last year the Energy Information Administration noted that the «decline in coal - related emissions is due mainly to utilities using less coal for electricity generation as they burned more low - priced natural gas.»

According to the latest figures, China burned less coal in 2014 than it did the previous year, the first such decline in decades.

China's stated ambition is to burn less coal in coming years than it has in the past.

Another hurdle for reviving coal mining in Appalachia: less coal.

Quite simply, the world will be burning less oil, less coal, and maybe even less natural gas.

If using a grill, you want a lower heat so use less coals.

Energy conservation comes first: using less coal, finding more efficient ways to use cleaner - burning fossil fuels, and taking a new look at nonfossil alternatives, everything from solar and geothermal energy to — yes, even some environmentalists are admitting it — nuclear power.

The challenge is made tougher as we use less coal.

A call for more research, less coal and a carbon price The report offers 10 policy recommendations to curb the morbidity and mortality stemming from climate change.

Even though these newer steam engines burned less coal, the proliferation of steam engines throughout the coal - fired British Empire erased any energy savings.

None of the numbers regarding openings and closings are likely to matter in the long run because electric power companies are using less and less coal to generate electricity — the primary use of coal in the U.S.