Sentences with phrase «lower than coal»

If solar or wind or any other renewable energy source costs more than grid electricity, then the company sticks with its dirty power, and if the cost is lower than coal, the company chooses alternative energy instead.

Cutting methane leakage rates from natural gas systems to less than 1 percent of total production would ensure that the climate impacts of natural gas are lower than coal or diesel fuel over any time horizon.

The regulators have also discovered some hydro projects reported a very low electricity tariff, lower than coal power plants and other hydro projects in the same province.

Usual investment criteria may not deliver the super low - cost, clean, renewable energy soon enough to avoid the worst effects of climate change,» said Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, «Google.org's hope is that by funding research on promising technologies, investing in promising new companies, and doing a lot of R&D ourselves, we may help spark a green electricity revolution that will deliver breakthrough technologies priced lower than coal.»

In fact, the risks from nuclear are orders of magnitude lower than coal, not greater.

It finds that the footprint of nuclear, wind and solar are much lower than coal and gas with CCS, as well as hydro or bioenergy, as the chart below shows.

The average operating heat rate for gas - fired power plants is about 21 % lower than coal - fired electric generation facilities, creating less CO2 emissions.

However, what the global averages with real world 2016 assumptions tell us is that already the average LCOEs for solar and wind are lower than their coal and gas competitors.

The technology of renewable energy is mature and tested, and costs of wind power are now lower than coal, and solar is getting close.

Not exact matches

Coal prices in general were driven even lower in 2016 due to low natural gas prices and warmer - than - usual winter temperatures that cut down demand for coal as an electricity generator, according to the U.S. Energy Information AdministratCoal prices in general were driven even lower in 2016 due to low natural gas prices and warmer - than - usual winter temperatures that cut down demand for coal as an electricity generator, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administratcoal as an electricity generator, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Solar power still amounts to less than 1 % of the nation's electrical - generating capacity — coal produces about 40 % — and its proportion will stay in the low single digits until it becomes cheaper than fossil fuels.

Hardest hit has been eastern Kentucky, which has endured the highs and lows of the coal marketplace for more than 100 years.

U.S. coal production during fourth — quarter 2017 totaled 193.8 million short tons, which was 1.2 % lower than the previous quarter and 2.9 % lower than fourth — quarter 2016.

Metallurgical coal exports totaled 14.8 million short tons (0.4 % lower than third — quarter 2017).

Production in the Western Region, which represented about 55.7 % of total U.S. coal production in fourth — quarter 2017, totaled about 108 million short tons (5.9 % lower than fourth — quarter 2016).

U.S. coal consumption totaled 172.7 million short tons in fourth — quarter 2017, which was 15.3 % lower than the 204 million short tons reported in third — quarter 2017 and 4.6 % lower than the 181 million short tons reported in fourth — quarter 2016.

The GED per kWh for natural gas is 20 to 30 times lower than for oil and coal, respectively, because its (non-carbon) emissions are so much lower (Table 5).

CCS really amounts to a combined GHG and natural gas hedge which, in a world of really expensive gas, allows you to maintain lower electricity prices than you perhaps otherwise would be able to as you can continue to use relatively cheap and plentiful coal while capturing and storing the emissions.

U.S. coal production «as of October 29, 2016, totaled approximately 607 MMst, 20 % lower than the comparable year - to - date coal production in 2015,» according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

«Data for the first seven months of 2016 indicate that U.S. total coal consumption is 23 % lower in 2016 than in the first seven months of 2015,» EIA reported Thursday.

It is much cheaper to mine coal in the Powder River Basin than in the Eastern U.S.. Also, the sulfur content of the coal from the Powder River Basin is much lower than Appalachian coal.

Prices for electricity would be 4 percent lower by 2033 with a transition to more wind, solar and hydroelectric power than a persistent reliance on coal and natural gas, according to a report by Calgary - based environmental research firm Pembina Institute and Clean Energy Canada, a Vancouver - based organization that promotes renewable energy.

The businesses drilling for oil and gas and mining coal enjoy effectively lower income tax rates than other American businesses because of an array of favorable provisions in the US tax code.

The national white vote followed the pattern that Henry Olsen detected in certain coal counties where Romney «won higher margins than John McCain did, on substantially lower turnout.»

• Australian hard coking coal production was 16 per cent higher than fourth quarter of 2010 and two per cent lower year on year.

In this so - called «peak coal scenario», infrastructure and energy - intensive industries represent a lower share of Chinese GDP than in the report's base case, while services and high - tech manufacturing gain momentum.

If, for example, a company were planning to sell the federal coal in the United States, where coal prices are low, BLM would theoretically charge it less than if the company planned to sell it in more lucrative markets.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

Even the oil sands ultimate consumption in a gasoline, diesel or jet engine only results in 500 kilograms of CO2 - equivalent per barrel of refined petroleum products, meaning total oil sands emissions from well to wheel are considerably lower than those of this nation's more than 500 power plants burning coal to generate electricity.

Eliminating this financial risk premium makes nuclear power levelized electricity cost competitive with that of coal, and it becomes lower than that of coal when a modest price on carbon dioxide emissions is imposed,» the report says.

Yang, who focuses on emerging economies, said her research also has shown that many other fast - growing developing countries have lower coal plant standards than India and China, and few incentives to build cleaner plants.

Even in a seemingly implausible accidental - release scenario in which all of a well's hydraulic fracturing fluid and untreated wastewater were discharged directly into surface waters for the lifetime of the well, shale - gas electricity had a lower lifetime human toxicity impact, or HTI, than coal electricity, according to the study.

Various statistical tests were conducted to verify the results, suggesting 90 percent confidence in the overall finding that the HTI of shale gas is lower than the HTI of coal.

Recent studies suggest that energy obtained using the technique would be cheaper than more popular methods of getting low emissions coal power, like so - called Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC), which involves gasifying coal above ground in facilities like the FutureGen project, which the Bush Administration proposed and then killed.

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.

A new study finds that methane emissions from shale gas production are nearly 50 times lower than previous estimates, improving the climate benefit of switching from coal to natural gas.

They concluded that we'd lower greenhouse gas emissions more by driving gasoline / electric hybrid cars than by driving fuel cell cars run on hydrogen from coal.

However, emission factors for Chinese coal were on average 40 per cent lower than the default levels recommended by the IPCC.

This is especially important as the world experiences an ongoing gas glut, which is a lower CO2 - emitting fuel than coal but can also compete with and push out renewable energy.

Largely thanks to a decrease in coal consumption in both countries, the analysis suggests that annual emissions from the two countries combined are on track to be about 2 billion to 3 billion tons lower in the year 2030 than previous estimates have indicated.

Spending on school operations — not including school construction or debt payments — ranges from less than $ 8,700 per student in a coal country district, one of the state's lowest - achieving, to more than $ 26,600 in a tony Philadelphia suburb.

But is has some questionable elements: an interior that fits way too tight; an interior that has a design similar to the lowest of Honda offerings (the prominent parking brake button is the same as in the Honda HR - V); an interior that is as bright as a coal mine - even with the color accents; sticker run - up with weird and over priced carbon fiber options; a cup holder than is less effective than a 911's though doesn't exhibit the effort of Porsche; no room for anything more than your wallet (the front compartment is filled with electrics / electronics).

Much lower energy density than natgas and coal.

But those who aren't so lucky certainly can can — more often than not, it's the lower - income minority communities that have to live in the shadows of coal plants and their noxious emissions.

In the absence of being able to make that policy call at this time on dangerous interference, what we're doing as an interim measure is working bottom up to see how aggressive can we be in finding a pathway to low - carbon power generation from coal, because that accounts for more than 50 percent of emissions; how aggressive can we be in transitioning to a much greater diversity of fuel supply than petroleum, and vehicle technology, and that's 20 percent of emissions; and then what can we do much more rapidly to halt deforestation, which is 20 percent of emissions.

And we know that low - cost coal - fueled electricity has helped to bring about an explosion of electrotechnologies: your coal - fueled mail delivery — e-mail — has dramatically lower emissions than traditional mail.

(Sunk capital costs are much lower for gas than for coal; the capital costs of adding CCS are much lower for gas too.)

Natural gas also plays a growing role due to lower natural gas prices and relatively low capital construction costs that make it more attractive than coal.

It might make sense to take a small portion of the aerosol that would have been dumped into the troposphere by retired dirty coal plants, and inject that directly into the stratosphere where it will restore the lost cooling effect while (hopefully) doing less harm than the old stuff dumped into the lower atmosphere.

My sense is that they take green tech seriously as a global business sector and a way, internally, to limit coal and oil demand and dependence, but I don't perceive the Chinese taking low carbon seriously as an internal policy goal (if that means a carbon intensity trajectory more than a nudge below what will happen anyway for other reasons).