Sentences with phrase «less coal consumption»

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

Not exact matches

In fact, much of the overall decrease in energy consumption can be traced to the shift from coal to gas, because modern gas - fired plants may use up to 46 percent less energy to produce the same amount of electricity.»

Keeping in mind the enormous stake that panel members ExxonMobil and Shell have in the oil, natural gas and coal industries, here is a look at the panel's take on why oil and coal have been so difficult to replace by the following alternative energy sources: Natural gas ExxonMobil favors boosting the U.S.'s consumption of natural gas, in part, because it produces at least 50 percent less greenhouse gas per hour when burned compared with coal, Nazeer Bhore, ExxonMobil senior technology advisor, said during the panel.

The United States clearly is using less coal: Domestic consumption fell by about 114 million tons, or 11 percent, largely due to a decline in the use of coal for electricity.

Note: The sum of «Production» and «Imports» less «Exports» may not equal «Consumption» due to changes in stocks, losses, unaccounted - for coal, and special arrangements such as the United States shipments of anthracite to United States Armed Forces in Europe.

Oil is especially useful due to its portability (I don't expect coal - burning cars to come on the market any time soon), so I wouldn't expect the drop in oil consumption to be made up for with other lesser fossil fuels.

However, as China continues to replace older, less efficient generators with more efficient units, China's power sector coal consumption is expected to peak as soon as 2018, at 4,800 million metric tons.

Since coal consumption has actually declined by 6 percent since its peak in 1996, however, there is reason to believe its use will either continue to drop or will increase less than projected.

Overall, the G7 countries reduced coal consumption by less than 1 % between 2009 - 2013, the Oxfam research shows.

According to the NEA, in the first three quarters of 2017, coal consumption in China reached 2.81 billion metric tons, an increase of less than 1 percent from 2016.

Even if coal consumption increased by 3 percent to 3.90 billion tons in 2017 as the Global Carbon Project report said, it is still far less than the 4 billion tons in 2015, let alone challenging the 4.24 billion tons peak in 2013.

«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.»

With less electricity consumption and increasing wind and solar power, coal - generation will tend to be pushed out of the Australian market.

The more we reduce our electricity consumption, the less coal we need to burn.

(21) The other industrial sector accounted for 8 percent of total coal consumption in 1992, slightly less than in 1980.

Key features: China would cap absolute coal consumption by 2020 at 4.2 billion tonnes, and coal's share of the mix would be reduced to less than 62 per cent by 2020, from the current level of 66 per cent.