Sentences with phrase «more coal plants»

We just need to figure out as a society that reducing energy demand is a better and more cost / environmental effective solution than building more coal plants.

China built more coal plants in 2007 than Great Britain ever built, and for every proposed plant endlessly debated and then shelved in America, China constructs another dozen.

Why don't you all direct your anger towards Europe, which is pursuing more coal plants....

More coal plant capacity was shuttered in the first 45 days of 2018 than in the entire first three years of the Obama administration, according to Sierra Club and Energy Information Administration (EIA) data.

«Whether viewed from a climate perspective, a public health perspective, or a financial perspective, the implication is clear: rather than building still more coal plants, the time has come to shift resources toward cleaner, safer, and ever cheaper alternatives.»

Over the coming decades, as more coal plants reach the ends of their lifespans and are retired, they will likely be replaced by more cost - competitive energy sources.

«Europe will need to see a lot more coal plant closures to protect its citizens» health and to respect the UN Climate Agreement struck in Paris.

But Germany is also building more coal plants while shutting down its nuclear fleet, leaving its CO2 emissions relatively flat for now.

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.

In fact, they've built more coal plants in China to «back up» intermittent wind energy infrastructure..

But in figuring that specific cost, renewables ought to be credited with what expenses are spared (e.g., the cost of building more coal plants and the spared pollution costs associated with them).

Government accused of ignoring increasingly severe water crisis as it gives green light to more coal plants in bid to tackle electricity shortages

«We expect that more coal plants will be closing and that no new ones will be built.

They can build more coal plants, driving up their prices by competing with themselves; or they can flood their electricity markets with the maximum possible volume of non-coal power, enabling their existing fleet to operate at much lower costs and weakening the price power of coal exporters.

But the longer we put this off, the harder it gets — the carbon budget gets smaller, and there are more coal plants and SUVs out there to replace.

China is currently building more coal plants than it needs and in doing so is misallocating capital at an unprecedented...

This is why in March 2018, Duke energy announced the closing of 9 more coal plants to be replaced by renewables and, alas, natural gas.

China is currently building more coal plants than it needs and in doing so is misallocating capital at an...

Government accused of ignoring increasingly severe water crisis as it gives green light to more coal plants in bid to tackle electricity shortages

More coal plant could happen in the near future as the EPA has proposed regulations would effectively ban the construction of new coal - fired power plants, unless they utilize commercially unproven carbon capture and sequestration technology.

It's possible that more coal plants will opt to retire next spring.

China is currently building more coal plants than it needs and in doing so is misallocating capital at an unprecedented rate.

According to a big report put out by the Indian government in August 2017, there are some 304 million Indians without access to electricity; and India plans to get them electricity mostly by building more coal plants:

And more coal plants are in the works, even while some in the sector are under investigation.

Emissions have gone up in Europe, and they're building more coal plants.