It is owned by Canadian utility firm SaskPower and will capture 90 per cent of the emissions from a 110
megawatt coal unit that has been retrofitted with CCS technology.
Not exact matches
While Alberta has promised to end
coal - fired electricity by 2030, and is building 5,000
megawatts of renewable energy capacity, it will also allow some of those
coal units to convert to using inefficient fracked natural gas.
ZeroGen and the Callide Oxyfuel Project, which is a $ 200 million project to convert an existing 30 -
megawatt unit into a carbon capture plant, are in the heart of Australia's
coal country.
In fact, APS» 2012 purchase of Southern California Edison's share of the Four Corners
coal plant — adding 179
megawatts (MW) to APS» owned
coal capacity — was a step in the opposite direction from clean energy and for protecting ratepayers, since APS has had to spend over $ 400 million for emissions control of these
units.
On 2011/12/22 the Wall Street Journal published online the following «Guohua, a
unit of China's state - owned
coal giant Shenhua Group, is acquiring interests in the 65 -
megawatt Bluff Point and 75 -
megawatt Studland Bay wind farms.»
On Dec. 15, Epcor Inc., a utility owned by the City of Edmonton announced it would expand its
coal - fired Genesee plant by adding another 400 -
megawatt unit.
Electric power generation from
coal - fired plants reached technological maturity between the late 1950s and early 1960, with boiler - turbine
units in the 1,000 -
megawatt range.
(31) «With three
coal - fired
units (two 102
megawatts and one 124
megawatts), Whiting is considered a baseload plant, because the
units are designed to run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year....
The net summer capacity of the average retired
coal unit was 133
megawatts (MW), compared with 278 MW for the rest of the
coal units still operating.
-- The qualifying emissions for a merchant
coal unit for a given calendar year shall be the product of the number of
megawatt hours of merchant
coal unit sales generated by such
unit in such calendar year and the average carbon dioxide emissions per
megawatt hour generated by such
unit during the base period under paragraph (2), provided that the number of
megawatt hours in a given calendar year for purposes of such calculation shall be reduced in proportion to the portion of such
unit's carbon dioxide emissions that are either --
The base running costs in $ /
megawatt - hour (MWh) for each
coal unit are compared to several competitive energy resources: existing natural gas combined - cycle (NGCC) plants, * new NGCC plants, new wind power facilities, and new utility - scale solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.
For example, a 525
megawatt cogeneration
unit at a refinery might require 6 million gallons per day (MGD) of water intake, while a similar 525
megawatt coal - fired boiler could use more than 14 MGD.
The MATS rule requires that all U.S.
coal - and oil - fired power plants greater than 25
megawatts meet emission limits consistent with the average performance of the top 12 % of existing
units — known as the maximum achievable control technology (MACT).
Cape Fear Plant is a two -
unit coal fired station that generates 317
megawatts and is located near Moncure, North Carolina.