Sentences with phrase «lignite coal field»

Visitors to Garzweiler, a giant openface lignite coal field near Cologne, get to see this old chart showing that renewables (the green slice of the doughnut on the right) make up 2.3 percent of the firm's power supply, compared to 44.9 percent lignite and 22.4 percent hard coal.

Not exact matches

Endowed with vast reserves in the Thar lignite field and facing a severe energy shortage, Pakistan is betting on domestic and imported coal for electricity supply in the coming years.

The two most important lignite fields in Turkey — the Afsin - Elbistan and Sivas - Kangal coal fields — are owned by TEAS and operated by private companies under contract.

Given all the external costs of coal mining and coal - fired power generation in terms of water, coal ash, air and particulate pollution, this tax increase — which affects all thermal and lignite coal used in India — will help further level that playing field for non-polluting renewables.