The National Development and Reform Commission said in a work report it will
lower coal output by 150 million tons and steel capacity by around 30 million tons.
Not exact matches
The shift would reduce economic
output by between 2 - 6 percent by 2050, because of the costs of building a cleaner energy system based on
low - carbon energies that are more expensive than abundant
coal, the IPCC said.
At a plausible GHG emissions price of $ 50 / t CO2eq under a future US carbon mitigation policy, such co-production systems competing as power suppliers would be able to provide
low - GHG - emitting synthetic fuels at the same unit cost as for
coal synfuels characterized by ten times the GHG emission rate that are produced in plants having three times the synfuel
output capacity and requiring twice the total capital investment.
«This is because the average
coal plant in the West has a
lower NOx emissions rate at partial
output than at full
output,» according to NREL.
Modeling has also shown that it's relatively inexpensive to increase the reliability of the total wind
output to a level equivalent to a
coal - fired power station by adding a few
low - cost peak - load gas turbines that are opearated infrequently, to fill in the gaps when the wind farm production is
low (Diesendorf 2010).
It is displacing
coal,
lowering U.S.
output of pollution blamed for global warming.
For example, a 2009 UCS analysis found that a 25 percent by 2025 national renewable electricity standard would
lower power plant CO2 emissions 277 million metric tons annually by 2025 — the equivalent of the annual
output from 70 typical (600 MW) new
coal plants [4].
It started spewing out its annual, relatively clean, 13 million tons of CO2, and other nasties, so much
lower than those older dirty
coal plants that would have put out 15 million tons of CO2 for the same power
output.
Baseload plants such as
coal and nuclear are hit particularly hard by reduced wholesale electricity prices as they have
low fuel costs and so don't save much money by shutting down or reducing
output on sunny days.
This trend of rapid decoupling of emissions from economic
output was driven firstly by improvements in energy efficiency and secondly by
lower carbon intensities, including reduced
coal use in China and the United States and growth in
low - carbon renewables such as wind and solar in many parts of the world (Peters et al 2017).
The gas generation plants were needed to supplement
low output from wind and solar generation and shuttered
coal plants.