Sentences with phrase «nearest coal supplier»
If a coal - burning power plant has several choices in buying coal from many nearby mines, it can easily avoid contract disputes with its nearest coal supplier by reaching out to alternative mines.
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The power plant is one of the largest employers in Colstrip and is located near a coal mine, which supplies it with fuel.
Before 10,000 gallons of an obscure coal - processing chemical spilled into the Elk River near Charleston, W.Va., in January and contaminated water supplies for more than 300,000 residents, few people knew crude MCHM existed.
True, it had the potential to clean up California's air, although that may be of little consolation to people living near coal - fired power plants, which supply more than 50 percent of America's electricity.
Gail The Actuary Tverberg said History and physics suggest that economies without adequate energy supply can be expected to collapse... collapses, might occur again if we can not find energy alternatives that can be quickly scaled up to replace oil and coal in the very near term.
By the time third world countries actually build substantial additional electricity generation, the world could be nearing the limits of coal supply, especially if you factor in projected population growth and increased consumption.
We know that coal is a bad investment internationally, as projects face bankruptcy in India and storage facilities in China near capacity with unused coal supplies.
Although APS plans to reduce its coal burn from the current 35 % to 17 % by 2029, by increasing its natural gas burn from 19 % to 35 %, it will actually increase its greenhouse gas emissions in the near term, since the global warming potential from methane, which is leaked at multiple points of the natural gas supply chain, is 86 times that of carbon over 20 years, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2013 report.
Expansion of grid supply by construction of big new coal fired power plants such as in the Hunter Valley and near Lithgow are going ahead and look to me to be intended to prevent the issue of decarbonising our energy supply getting mixed up with the issue of maintaining growth and reliability of supply; we'll have enough fossil fuel generating capacity that building low emissions capacity will remain «optional» and can be deferred another decade or two.
Visitors to Garzweiler, a giant openface lignite coal field near Cologne, get to see this old chart showing that renewables (the green slice of the doughnut on the right) make up 2.3 percent of the firm's power supply, compared to 44.9 percent lignite and 22.4 percent hard coal.