Sentences with phrase «more coal plant retirements»

Given that deeper CO2 reductions would likely beget more coal plant retirements, necessitating more buildout of new infrastructure, the NERC report seems to show that more ambitious carbon cuts could be unworkable for the grid.

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We're seeing a lot more natural gas because of its price and the retirement of coal - fired power plants.

Also, despite Perry's «sky is falling» declarations regarding coal and nuclear plant retirements, as Perry's own Department of Energy (DOE) acknowledged last summer, the grid has become more reliable in the last 15 years — notwithstanding coal and nuclear retirements.

But in less than three years the campaign has nearly doubled those predictions, securing the retirement of more than 60,000 megawatts, more than one quarter of all coal plants in the country.»

Scheduled retirements are currently concentrated among smaller, more inefficient coal plants, noted the Energy Information Administration on Friday.

The underlying analysis revealed that the average coal plant in the US is 40 years old and since 2010 more than half of US coal units have either shut down or have a planned retirement in the near future.

Sierra Club's Hitt noted that the retirement of large, coal - fired plants, many of which date back half a century or more, is already under way.

To date, more than a third of the nation's on - campus coal plants have been retired or are slated for retirement — including recent announcements from University of Cincinnati and Wooster College.

If global power sector emissions remain flat until 2025, before falling more steeply later on, then losses could reach $ 8.3 tn by 2060 and early retirements of coal and gas plants would climb to 2,350 GW.

The rule is designed to speed up the retirement of the nation's fleet of coal - fired power plants — the most carbon - intensive way of creating electricity — and could more than double the rate of coal plant closures by 2040.

that in 2010, «Construction did not begin on a single new coal - fired power plant in the United States for the second straight year,» with plans for 38 new plants dropped and even more older plants scheduled for retirement.

SALEM, Ore., March 24, 2014 — The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently reported that nine more coal - fired electric power plants have been scheduled for retirement.

The 2007 agreement had required AEP to install flue gas desulfurization (FGD) technology at the plant — a more expensive technology that results in greater pollution reductions — but Sierra Club and the other parties agreed to the DSI technology in return for an earlier installation date, the other coal plant retirements, and clean energy investments.